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How Can Socialists Run Cities – will Mamdani show us the way?

Iain Bruce — 2026-01-13T22:30:19Z

Zohran Mamdani's election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Scotland

Uprising or Dictatorship in Ecuador

Iain Bruce — 2025-09-20T14:43:51Z

In the afternoon of Thursday, 18 September, the new, apparently right-wing leadership of CONAIE, Ecuador's powerful Indigenous movement, bowed to pressure and called an indefinite national strike - in protest at the removal of subsidies for diesel fuel, a move set to almost double the price of most basic necessities overnight.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Ecuador

Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right's plans to reform the constitution and destroy rights

Iain Bruce — 2025-05-18T15:29:27Z

Since the re-election of Daniel Noboa as President of Ecuador on 13 April, his hard-right, Trump-like administration, and most of the Ecuadorean establishment, have launched a ferocious campaign against Leonidas Iza, the President of CONAIE (the Confederation of Ecuador's Indigenous Nations), and former presidential candidate of the Indigenous and plurinational movement, Pachakutik. They see him, and the communities, movements and struggles that he represents, as the main obstacle to their plans for a radical neoliberal reform to the constitution.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecuador

General Strike in Panama – against extractivism, pension reform and the return of U.S. troops

Iain Bruce — 2025-05-05T21:51:16Z

Thousands rallied in Panama City on May Day, in the midst of a general strike against privatisation, copper mining and Donald Trump's threats to Panamanian sovereignty.

- News from around the world / Panama

Leonidas Iza: “Elections are an extension of the people's struggle”

Iain Bruce, Leonadis Iza — 2025-02-08T07:46:00Z

In conversation with Jacobin América Latina, the Ecuadorean indigenous leader and presidential candidate analyses the country's economic and political crisis, the impact of popular mobilisations and the need to articulate a project from the grassroots that combines social struggle and electoral dispute.

- IVP601- February 2025

Ecuador: Indigenous Resistance and Political Challenges – an interview with Leonidas Iza

Iain Bruce, Leonadis Iza, Martín Mosquera — 2024-04-20T18:13:55Z

In an interview with Jacobin, Leonidas Iza, president of Ecuador's CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador - Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), the country's main indigenous movement, discusses the government's repressive policy, militarization, and the expansion of drug trafficking while criticizing neoliberal policies and examining political debates within the indigenous movement and the left. The interview was conducted by Martín Mosquera and Iain Bruce.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Ecuador

Ecuador's Indigenous movement calls for an international movement against extractive industries

Iain Bruce — 2024-04-05T09:14:15Z

“Most pressingly, there is a need for immediate expressions of solidarity with Palo Quemado and other communities resisting predatory mining on their land, and facing severe repression as a result. More strategically, as the President of CONAIE, Leonidas Iza explained in the news conference at the end of the II National Gathering, they see the need to develop as soon as possible this international network against mining and extractive industries, that can bring together all those resisiting these attacks on their communities and their environment.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecuador

Yes to Life, Yes to Yasuní!

Iain Bruce — 2023-08-08T13:15:14Z

On 20 August, at the same time they elect a new president and a new National Assembly, Ecuadoreans will be voting in one of the most important environmental referendums of modern times. They are being asked if the government should leave the oil beneath the Yasuní national park in the ground, indefinitely.

- IV583 - August 2023 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecuador

Against War and Climate Change – Scotland must break with ‘net zero' and NATO

Iain Bruce — 2022-03-09T12:57:31Z

“[W]e need to seize on the connection the scientists have made between the threat of climate change and inequality.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / Scotland, NATO, Climate

Beyond Glasgow – what happened at COP26 and where we go next

Iain Bruce — 2021-12-24T11:18:31Z

It is a month since Alok Sharma as president, fighting back some tears, brought down the gavel on the 26th Conference of the Parties – the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. The initial flurry of reactions and comments has subsided. Here in Scotland we have already seen some early signs of the impact – with the beginnings of a victory against the development of a new offshore oil field at Cambo.

- Features / Scotland, Ecology and the Environment, Ecosocialism