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Sharp fuel price hike in Chile triggers first protests against Kast government
Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz announced Monday that gasoline prices would rise 32% and diesel 62% starting early Thursday, after the government activated an escape clause in the fuel-price stabilization mechanism (Mepco) to bring domestic prices in line with surging international crude rates linked to the conflict in the Middle East. Officials argued that public finances could no longer absorb the cost of subsidies, estimated at roughly USD 140 million per week.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/03/29/sharp-fuel-price-hike-in-chile-triggers-first-protests-against-kast-government

Labor Court Suspends Key Articles of Reform Promoted by Argentine Government
The ruling considers that there are indications of unconstitutionality and a risk of irreparable harm if the law fully enters into force. With this decision, there are now at least four court rulings halting the implementation of Law 27,802.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/labor-court-suspends-key-articles-of-reform-promoted-by-argentine-government/

Brazil's Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro seen tied in presidential run-off, poll shows
Leftist Lula would take between 39% ​and 42% of the vote in three ​simulated first-round scenarios with different opponents. Right-wing challenger ⁠Flavio Bolsonaro, meanwhile, is seen taking between ​38% and 39% in the same scenarios.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-flavio-bolsonaro-seen-tied-presidential-run-off-poll-shows-2026-03-30/

Avi Lewis, elected to lead Canada’s New Democratic party, promises ‘NDP comeback’
A record number of members voted in the three-day NDP leadership convention, giving Lewis a first-ballot win that underscored widespread support. Lewis pledged to convert the “tremendous momentum” of the convention into an “NDP comeback”. Speaking to supporters on Sunday after his win, the 58-year-old documentary film-maker and former television host pledged to centre the party around the pursuit of equity, promising higher wealth taxes, green energy and tuition-free education.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/canada-avi-lewis-elected-new-democratic-party

Israel to advance ground operations in Lebanon after striking key bridge
The Israeli military announced Sunday it was expanding its ground campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, warning of a lengthy operation, after Beirut condemned what it called Israel's flagrant violations of Lebanese sovereignty. Israeli forces were ordered earlier Sunday to destroy bridges they said were used by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah to cross the Litani River, and Lebanese official media reported Israeli raids in the south.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-advance-offensive-lebanon-after-striking-key-bridge

Thousands of US Army paratroopers arrive in Middle East as buildup intensifies
Thousands ​of soldiers from the U.S. Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division have started arriving in the Middle East, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, as President Donald Trump weighs his next steps in the war against Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/thousands-us-army-paratroopers-arrive-middle-east-buildup-intensifies-2026-03-30/

UK pro-Palestine activist arrested weeks after being released on bail
Herfordshire Police told Al Jazeera that a 21-year-old woman was arrested and remains in custody, without naming Zuhrah. They said she was suspected of intentionally encouraging a crime and the “encouragement of terrorism”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/uk-pro-palestine-activist-arrested-weeks-after-being-released-on-bail
https://archive.ph/wmCGH

Spycop convicted of assaulting his long-term partner before manipulating activist victim
Rob Hastings was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police where he worked in the force’s covert Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) after his conviction for assaulting the mother of his three children in 2014. Mr Hastings went undercover from 2004 to 2007 as part of the SDS’s operations against tens of thousands of mainly left-wing activists for over four decades.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/spycop-convicted-assaulting-his-long-term-partner-manipulating-activist-victim

Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US
Spain has ramped up its opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran by closing its airspace to US aircraft involved in attacks, underlining its position as Europe’s leading critic of the conflict. The move, first reported by El País newspaper and confirmed by the defence minister on Monday, comes after Madrid said the US could not use jointly operated military bases in the country for operations related to the war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/spain-closes-airspace-to-us-military-over-iran-war-widening-rift-with-us

Russia: Mass layoffs, strikes amid expanding war
While media coverage of strikes and protests in Russia is slim, several strikes and protests have apparently taken place over the past year. According to a report by Solyanka Media, this year has seen strikes over the withholding of wages at several workplaces, including construction sites by Novoleks and facilities of Orgenergostroi. Since March 20, railway workers of the company SeverPut’Stroi have gone on strike in the Republic of Komi. One of the striking workers told the Moscow Times that they have received no full paycheck since December 2025.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/30/zfkn-m30.html

ICE announces death of another Mexican detainee in US immigration custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Monday that Mexican immigrant Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano was found unresponsive at a processing centre in California last week and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/ice-announces-death-of-another-mexican-detainee-in-us-immigration-custody
https://archive.ph/kiZxz

US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports
A broker for U.S. Defense ​Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted ‌to make a big investment in major ​defense companies ​in the weeks leading up ⁠to the ​U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, ​the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing three ​people familiar with ​the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-defense-secretary-hegseths-broker-looked-buy-defense-fund-before-iran-attack-2026-03-30/

Washington 'millionaires tax' poised to become law with Gov. Ferguson's signature Monday
The measure would impose a 9.9% tax on annual income above $1 million, including dual-income households. Ferguson, a Democrat, has championed the proposal and said it will affect less than one-half of 1% of Washington households. He has said the revenue would fund expansions to the Working Families Tax Credit, extending benefits to about 460,000 additional households, provide relief for some small businesses, and pay for child care and free breakfast and lunch for all K-12 students.
https://komonews.com/news/local/washington-governor-bob-ferguson-to-sign-millionaires-tax-bill-on-monday-morning-state-code-income-small-business-sports-public-services-constitutionality-debate

Move to open 401(k)s to private credit and crypto comes at awkward time
When Trump signed the executive order last summer, the $2 trillion private credit market was booming — and some early warnings at the time about loose lending have escalated into widespread investor jitters and battles for redemptions. Bitcoin at the time was trading at over $118,000. It has since fallen over 43%, to under $67,000.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/private-credit-crypto-401ks
https://archive.ph/WSmP1

US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign ‘hostility’ – with Musk’s help
The cable instructs those embassies and consulates to pursue five broad goals: countering hostile messaging, expanding access to information, exposing adversary behavior, elevating local voices who support American interests, and promoting what it calls “telling America’s story”. Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging, an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk

'Orgasmic meditation' company's founder gets 9 years in prison in forced labor case
Nicole Daedone, co-founder of OneTaste Inc., was also ordered to forfeit $12 million during the hearing in Brooklyn. That was the amount she sold the California-based company for, according to John Marzulli, spokesperson for the Office of U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/orgasmic-meditation-companys-founder-gets-9-years-prison-forced-labor-rcna265931

Communist Front (Italy): Italian communists welcome Meloni’s referendum defeat, call for broader political struggle
In a result described as a “clear political slap” to the far-right government of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s recent referendum on justice reforms has produced a decisive rejection of the proposed constitutional changes. According to the Communist Front (Italy), the outcome reflects not only opposition to a specific reform, but a wider and deepening discontent with the current political direction of the country. The organization emphasized that the victory of the “No” vote came alongside a higher-than-expected voter turnout—an element they interpret as a significant and active expression of political dissent. In their assessment, this opposition extends beyond traditional anti-government circles, encompassing a broader segment of society than the ruling coalition’s electoral base. At the heart of the referendum was a reform strongly backed by the government itself, presented as a cornerstone initiative aimed at consolidating political power ahead of future elections. The Communist Front argues that its rejection signals a failure of this strategy, describing the reform as part of a broader trajectory of “authoritarian tendencies” promoted by the executive.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/italian-communists-welcome-melonis-referendum-defeat-call-for-broader-political-struggle.html

Right-Wing Governments in Latin America Face Short Honeymoons
Chile’s new right-wing president, José Antonio Kast has just taken office and protests against the government have already begun. Thousands of high school students have taken to the streets to protest fuel price hikes and attacks on public education. The first question that comes to mind is whether these students represent a new generation of activists, foreshadowing further mobilizations. And will a workers’ movement take up the banners of struggle alongside them? This resistance will have to be built, navigating the mediating (and outdated) leadership of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, as well as the Broad Front of former president Gabriel Boric. Our comrades from the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (PTR) of Chile, who are part of our international organization, the Current for Permanent Revolution (CPR-FI), are already talking about a short honeymoon period. In the two weeks since Kast took office, he has faced environmental mobilizations against his extractivist policies, a massive pot-banging protest in Santiago, and student mobilizations (which in Chile always serve as a sounding board for deeper problems). To develop this resistance and defeat Kast’s entire program, they are proposing the need to promote and strengthen grassroots organizing and move towards a National Strike Front. But why are right-wing governments like Kast’s now facing such short honeymoons?
https://www.leftvoice.org/right-wing-governments-in-latin-america-face-short-honeymoons/

Interview With a TKP-ML TİKKO Guerrilla
Firstly, I want to ask you about an current topic. We speak about the attacks of USA and Israel against Iran and the response that Iran give. On the 2nd congress of your Party, you pointed out that the imperialists are preparing for an new imperialist war of partition and expressed as a prior duty the necessity of struggling against this danger of war. How do you evaluate firstly the occupation of the Ukraine through Russia, then the Israeli attacks on Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, where they used the attacks of the 7th October as pretext and in the end the USA-Israeli attacks against Iran?
"As you said, there are detailed clarifications about the lived process and specially about the situation of the imperialist-capitalist system in the documents of the 2nd congress of our party. The document about the situation in the country and the world is giving very clear perspective for us, as well as for the international proletariat and the people of the world. The imperialist-capitalist system is living the result of the crisis of the year 2008, that they couldn’t overcome. Because of this, they focused more to the regional wars. But these regional wars didn’t bring the solution for imperialist-capitalist system’s crisis. In this process, two blocks were bulid, on one side USA-England and the European union, on the other side China and Russia. Today we face with the war in Ukraine, as well as with the attacks to Iran, Lebanon and Palestine as a result of the competition between these two blocks. It is a “preventive” attack of the US imperialism against China, appearing as a “new and young” imperialist force on the market competition. For this purpose, the US imperialism is using the Israeli Zionism as their forward base in the Middle East and at the same time one of the reasons for these attacks is to solidify the security of the Israeli Zionism. The attacks against Iran should be understood like this. The Iranian Molla-Regime is a reactionary regime. Of course, the Iranian Molla-Regime doesn’t have the goal for liberation of exploitation, independency and democracy for the Iranian people. But at the same time the US is making propaganda that they started these attacks to bring democracy for Iranian people, which is a big lie. In response to the US attack, reaction, nationalism and chauvinism is fed in Iran. Some years ago, Iran made a longtime contract with the Chinese imperialism about the country’s underground sources, which they hid from the people. This hidden contract led to big reactions under the Iranian People, Revolutionaries and Progressivist."
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/30548/

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>>2761529
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