PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
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Indigenous Bolivian women are organising against the right
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Protesters march to the Education Ministry in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, March 20, 2023
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ON my recent visit to Bolivia, I had the great pleasure of talking with Flora Aguilar, top executive of the National Confederation of Native Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia — Bartolina Sisa.
She is a woman of firm conviction who represents the people well and, most importantly, she knows how to communicate.
The CNMCIOB-BS or “Bartolinas” was founded in January 1980. It bears the name of our Aymara heroine Bartolina Sisa, who fought alongside our hero Tupak Katari against the Spanish invaders centuries ago and was viciously tortured and murdered.
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