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El Salvador: unions versus the new Capitalism
The Bukele administration's planned labour reform will maintain a 44-hour week while compressing it into four days. In a context where the transformation of the economy has recomposed the working class, new challenges emerge for labour organising.
Brazil: When electricity is not enough
Luz para Todos has brought electricity to Indigenous communities in the Amazon. But two Baré communities show why a connection alone cannot deliver energy justice.
Brazil: The Amazon amid global conflict
Competition for critical minerals and trade routes is drawing the Amazon deeper into global struggles over resources and military power. Writing in March 2026, Bruno Malheiro examines how US imperial ambitions, trade with China, and Brazil’s political choices put Amazonian territories under pressure. He argues that defending the region requires both national sovereignty and the right of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities to determine the future of their territories.
Brazil: Babassu, the mother palm
Babassu nut breakers in Brazil’s Amazon call the palm ‘mother’: it sustains their food, livelihoods, and cultural traditions. Drawing on published research, agronomist Bernardo Tomchinsky examines the knowledge and practices of women in Pará, and their struggle for access to babassu groves, territorial protection, and recognition of their rights.
Brazil: Militias at the ballot box
Brazil's 2026 election has exposed the reach of Rio de Janeiro's criminal militias. From electoral intimidation to corrupt police relationships and diverted firearms, these groups exercise power well beyond their neighbourhoods. What would Flávio Bolsonaro's proposed security policies mean for them?
Colombia: how football is changing lives
Beyond the glitz and glamour of the world cup, football has the power to change and rescue lives in some of Colombia's poorest and most endangered communities -- especially for women, children and young people.
Brazil: the threat to democracy and the Amazon
The first round of Brazil's presidential election on 4 October gave a slim majority to right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. LAB's Brazil expert Sue Branford examines the disastrous outlook for the country, and especially for the Amazon, if Bolsonaro wins the run-off on 25 October.
Review of Sara Torres’ X Is Where I Am
A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.
A Barrister for the Earth
STOP PRESS: Mónica Feria Tinta will be speaking in London on 17 November, at the launch of LAB's new book Disputed Territories, the Rights...
The Rights of Nature: protection for us and Nature?
Peruvian lawyer and UK barrister Monica Feria Tinta talks to LAB's Linda Etchart about environmental protection and the Rights of Nature
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Review of Sara Torres’ X Is Where I Am
A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.
Film: why the focus on the dictatorship period?
As far-right governments ramp up denialist narrative, film directors in Argentina, Chile and Brazil often set their stories in the period of the dictatorships
La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today
What does it truly mean to be a feminist? La Lucha is more than just a recounting of suffering at the hands of misogyny. It is a pledge to fight, an act of struggle in the long and varied feminist canon that continues to flourish across the world and that is so often under attack.
A tumultuous plunge through repressions
Apparitions can be read as many things: a tribute to women’s sexual emancipation; a cautionary tale of the disintegration of patriarchal family structures; even a meditation on the brutality of the Catholic Church and its frenzied devotees.
Brazil’s landless: Pathways to Utopia
Sue Branford reviews Alex Ungrateeb Flynn's book Pathways to Utopia - Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil.
Brazil’s MST: Activism and Utopia
Jasmine Haniff reviews Alex Ungprateeb Flynn’s book about Brazil’s landless worker’s movement, which offers a compelling framework for understanding how a social movement can develop an alternative collective future, through decades of grassroots struggle.
The Congress of the Disappeared: An exploration of a nation’s ghosts
'What The Congress of the Disappeared ultimately shows us is that Brazil is a nation that has never truly reconciled with its past. Now...
Book Launch: The Congress of the Disappeared by Bernardo Kucinski 7...
Join LAB, Brazil Matters, and Amnesty International UK Latin America coordinators for the launch of Bernardo Kucinski's novella 'The Congress of the Disappeared', translated...
The Amazon in Times of War, an urgent call to action
‘The Amazon in Times of War’ is a powerful indictment of institutional violence against the Amazon and a tribute to the resilience and defiance...
Listening to Women Resisting Violence
On International Women's Day, LAB and King’s College London release a bonus episode of our podcast, Women Resisting Violence, discussing the power of podcasting for social change with leading audio producers from Latin America and representatives from the fearless women’s organisations featured in the podcast.
Veronica Gago on feminist power
Jelke Boesten, leader of the Gender Studies Network at King’s College London and a researcher on the Women Resisting Violence project, joins Veronica Gago of Argentina's #NiUnaMenos to discuss how to bring feminist activism into the everyday.
Step Up Migrant Women
This week's episode focuses on migrant women in the UK with insecure immigration status who are experiencing domestic abuse.
Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil
Documentary film: We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62”, 2024)Directors: Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills
Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities...
FILM: The Future is in Our Territories
In a new LAB film, environmental defenders discuss their territorial work and the Americas-wide alliance for racial and climate justice
Brazil: illegal mining pollutes Tapajós
The explosion of mining in the mid-section of the Tapajós River is most likely the cause of the change in water color in Alter...
