{"id":15949,"date":"2025-06-30T06:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=15949"},"modified":"2025-06-30T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:33:29","slug":"nationwide-strike-rocks-panama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/volume-16-number-9\/nationwide-strike-rocks-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide strike rocks Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15960\" src=\"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Panama-1a-edit-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Panama-1a-edit-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Panama-1a-edit-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Panama-1a-edit-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Panama-1a-edit.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 id=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Nationwide strike rocks Panama <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>June 24\u2014 A two-month long nationwide strike continues to roll through Panama. This, despite increasing repression. Thousands of workers who cultivate Chiquita bananas. Construction workers and school workers. They and many others walked out and marched. They have defied a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d and mass retaliatory layoffs.<br \/>\nStrikers oppose privatization of pensions. They denounce ecologically dangerous mining projects. And Panamanian politicians\u2019 capitulation to US imperialism.<br \/>\nStrikers have received mass support. From students and doctors. Indigenous groups and feminist collectives. And more.<br \/>\nTwo other mass strikes in recent years were diverted into anti-corruption campaigns and negotiations. Capitalism itself is a corrupt system! Exploitation can\u2019t be negotiated away!<br \/>\nRed Flag readers with friends or connections in Panama! Please bring revolutionary communist ideas and organizations to the rebellious and heroic Panamanian working masses!<\/p>\n<h4><a class=\"icwp-list\" href=\"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/volume-16-number-9\/\">Front page of this issue<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide strike rocks Panama June 24\u2014 A two-month long nationwide strike continues to roll through Panama. This, despite increasing repression. Thousands of workers who cultivate Chiquita bananas. Construction workers and school workers. They and many others walked out and marched. They have defied a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d and mass retaliatory layoffs. Strikers oppose privatization of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/volume-16-number-9\/nationwide-strike-rocks-panama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nationwide strike rocks Panama<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6495,"parent":15919,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15949","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15949\/revisions\/15961"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}