Colombia Workers Risk Lives for Better Future

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Colombia Workers Risk Lives for Better Future

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Defying violent state repression, a diverse coalition of Colombian workers and their unions, Black and Indigenous communities, environmentalists, young people and rural workers made big gains in defeating proposed laws that benefiting the rich at the expense of working people.

Francisco Maltés, president of the Unitary Workers Center (CUT), describes how they did it—and where they go from here.

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• Unitary Workers Center (CUT)
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• Confrontation in Colombia: Protesters Have Demanded Not Just the Rejection of a Tax Bill but a Whole New Society.
• Families of Protesters Killed in Colombia Face Long Wait for Justice
• Amnesty International Report: Colombia: Violent repression, paramilitarism, illegal detention and torture of peaceful protesters in Cali