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Florian Hasek

Peruvian truckers stage protest; Walkout by Argentine agricultural technology institute employees

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Transport workers held a protest in front of Peru’s transport ministry last week while employees of Argentina’s agricultural technology institute employees staged a walkout November 17 to demand salary increases.

Reggae innovator Lee “Scratch” Perry dead at 85

Perry’s recording and performing career lasted more than six decades. He was best known for his behind-the-scenes work as a pioneering record producer and audio engineer and for being one of the musical creators of the “dub” reggae sound.

James Vega

Argentine bus drivers strike to demand payment of yearly bonus; lockout of refinery workers in Beaumont enters second month

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Bus drivers in Argentina’s northern city of Corrientes began a strike June 30 to demand the full payment of their end-of-year bonus and parity with the national wage for transportation workers.

Jamaica state of siege: Scores dead, hundreds detained

Scores have been killed or wounded and hundreds arrested in what critics describe as indiscriminate violence by Jamaican security forces besieging the impoverished Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens.

Bill Van Auken