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This article by Mireya Cuéllar originally appeared in the April 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

San Quintín, Baja California. It’s barely 3:30 in the morning, but two old buses are already parked in front of the Alejandra market, next to the Transpeninsular Highway. At the wheel of the buses, the driver makes the offer in monosyllables: “To Rosario, to the pea!”, “leaving and paying.”

The cold air of the semi-desert goes unnoticed by the men and women who wear something similar to a uniform that only leaves their eyes visible.

Few take advantage of the offer. The crew slowly fills up, though on the sidewalk, a few meters from the road, some 50 men and women wrapped in pants and leggings, hoodies, bandanas and/or face masks, and baseball caps wait silently. It’s still dark; some go to the coffee and burrito cart on the corner. But not a word.

Everyone seems to know that this harvest is one of the hardest; you have to bend down a lot, and the patterns are very delicate. So when you leave the furrow to go to the table with the bucket and they select the peas, “you end up losing a lot” because they don’t want them stained, small, “ugly.” And the pay is 4 or 5 pesos per pound.

The first piece of advice I received from a seasoned farmworker, whom I told the day before I was going to work, was: “Don’t go to El Rosario, it’s far away and there are snakes.” It’s a little over an hour by public transport to get to the fields.

Day laborers from San Quintín near Lázaro Cárdenas Park, on La Paz Avenue, where foremen offer work. Photo: Édgar Lima

If few respond to the offer to go to El Rosario, we must heed the advice. Gloria, a woman from Sinaloa who has been living in San Quintín for two years, has only her eyes visible between her hood and face mask. Unlike the Indigenous people from Oaxaca and Guerrero, she is open to conversation.

She shares her experience with peas and recounts a more distant one, in the turnip fields; where the root has to be washed after picking it, so “my legs and shoes would end up all wet. One day I was splashed with very cold water for so many hours that when I came back from the field I couldn’t feel my feet inside my sneakers.”

She doesn’t want to go to El Rosario either. She’s waiting for one of the trucks to recruit workers for “blackberry or raspberry picking” because you don’t have to bend over much to pick the fruit, and you work under the shade netting, protected from the sun and the dust devils that the strong winds raise this time of year.

The strawberry harvest is underway in some fields, but it’s done under the blazing sun, by piecework, and requires bending over to reach the fruit. “You can earn very well if you’re quick at picking, but it’s incredibly hard work.” So Gloria isn’t keen to get on the truck either, even though the foreman/driver offers: “It’s very close, just leaving and paying.”

Some fields that use this payment system do so per day; it’s 470 pesos, with a minimum of 12 boxes containing 13 baskets of raspberries (berry baskets, which are called basketes in the fields). The so-called “champions” of the fields can earn up to 1,500 pesos a day. Others work in pairs.

It’s a sprint, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. –with half an hour for lunch-, where hands must fill boxes and boxes of red fruits or berries, the generic term to refer to strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries… a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of the state, on the border with Baja California Sur.

Gloria is waiting for a daily wage offer, but it’s already 5:30 and none meet her expectations. Around 6:00, she decides to go home; she’ll try again the next day. Most of the Sinaloans who come to San Quintín go to the packing plant, not the harvest, I’m told later. Her departure leaves the impression that the law of supply and demand prevails here.

The uncle, a stout man who bears little resemblance to the thin, short farmworkers of Oaxaca and Guerrero, overheard the conversation with Gloria. “They don’t like anything, what do they know how to do? Wash clothes?” he sneers. But he, too, is waiting for the foreman who drives the truck from a nearby ranch and recruits workers to harvest raspberries. He’s been working there for several days, “leaving and paying,” because at the very least he earns a wage of 490 pesos, he admits.

In San Quintín, there are several ways to get hired for work in the “leaving and paying” modality. Some arrive in their own vehicle at the agricultural fields, others are picked up and distributed at the end of the day by drivers who already have an agreement with the companies, but the vast majority arrive in the early morning at Lázaro Cárdenas Park, in the neighborhood of the same name.

That’s where the drivers park their rickety bus, designed for schoolchildren. The park is under renovation—fenced off with black plastic—so the job market has moved a few meters, to the sidewalk in front of Alejandra, an old supermarket in town.

It’s the off-season—the harvest hasn’t even started on some ranches—so there are no more than 150 farmworkers milling about, coming and going. Eight or ten get on one bus; twelve on another. Each foreman indicates how many workers he needs, so a recruiter who arrived in a pickup truck only takes three, even though several others crowd around him.

During peak season, there can be more than 300 people looking for work, says El Tío, while we’re in line to board the bus to the raspberry fields. He explains that he’d like to be hired (with pay) by the week—a bit more formal—but he can’t find anything. He’s not young anymore, and here, what matters is hard work.

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BUEA, Cameroon — To his fishing peers, Ojah Alfred, 45, is a fisher like they are. But to Cameroon’s scientific community, he is also a scientist — a citizen scientist. For eight years, Alfred, alongside more than 80 other fishers across Cameroon’s three coastal regions, has been collecting data on marine species brought to landing sites and caught out at sea, using the Siren app, a citizen science platform. “I never imagined that the pictures I take every day of fish with the Sirens app would lead to the publication of this ‘big book,’” Alfred told Mongabay, referring to a study published in December in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. Two daisy stingrays (Dasyatis margarita) and a critically endangered blackchin guitarfish (Glaucostegus cemiculus) displayed for sale at Youpwè Fish Market, Cameroon’s largest fish market, in Douala. Image by Shuimo Trust Dohyee for Mongabay. The “big book” is the first detailed snapshot of shark and ray diversity in the country, helping fill a major knowledge gap that has long hindered conservation and fisheries management. Many of the species being caught in Cameroon’s fisheries are already at risk of extinction worldwide, and the country has no specific laws protecting sharks and rays, according to Ghofrane Labyedh, the study’s lead researcher. The fishers’ data, along with fish market surveys, recorded 45 species of sharks and rays in Cameroon’s waters, of which 36 are considered threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), including 13 classified as critically endangered. Alarmingly, most…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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New York City sent a sharp rebuke to Donald Trump from his hometown on Saturday for the third “No Kings” march, exactly one month after the start of the imperialist war in Iran. Hundreds of thousands of people marched from Central Park to Times Square in outrage over the war, Trump’s reactionary attacks on democratic rights, and anti-immigrant attacks and ICE terror. Many also condemned imperialist aggression abroad as Trump contemplated a ground invasion in Iran, continued to threaten Cuba, and the kidnapped president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro remains in custody in Brooklyn.

New Yorkers joined millions of people in thousands of actions across the country. In all fifty states, in big cities and small towns alike, organizers from 50501 and Indivisible estimated that over eight million people mobilized in the United States on Saturday.

In New York, protesters from unions, schools, and social and political organizations joined families and New Yorkers from across the five boroughs to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian overreach as he imposes policies that are opposed by significant majorities of the U.S. population. It was also a sharp denunciation of the political class that Trump represents: one that is complicit in the systematic abuse of women and children orchestrated by Jeffrey Epstein and that rakes in profits as ever-wider sectors of the population struggle to make ends meet or get access to healthcare and education.

A clear theme in the march was solidarity with the over 3.1 million immigrants estimated to live and work in New York City (accounting for nearly 40 percent of the city’s population) and a loud call to end ICE operations in the five boroughs. Chants of “fuck ICE” and “chinga la migra” reverberated down Broadway for blocks, accompanied by signs with anti-ICE slogans and rebukes of Trump’s xenophobic policies. The urgency of these demands were palpable in the city, as raids and deportations continue to terrorize immigrant communities, with ICE agents patrolling airports and lurking outside courthouses. But rather than relying on city hall and the courts to defend immigrants, New Yorkers are mobilizing to abolish ICE and are joining anti-ICE trainings across the city, following in the footsteps of the resistance in Minneapolis.

Also central to the march was a sharp condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and calls to end U.S. aggression abroad. Small protests against the war in Iran have taken place across the city since Trump and Netanyahu launched their first bombs in February, but anti-war signs and chants during the march were an expression of growing anger against the war, as the possibility of another drawn-out conflict looms large. “1, 2, 3, 4! We don’t want your fucking war!” was a constant refrain throughout the day, shouted by high schoolers lining the streets and protesters marching behind anti-war banners. Signs dotted the crowd condemning U.S. intervention in Iran, with particular outrage directed at the murder of over 100 school children after the United States bombed a girls school in Minab. This show of force in the streets was a reflection of anti-war sentiment touching wider sectors of the masses; a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 61 percent of people in the United States oppose the war.

The outrage at the war in the Middle East led by the United States and Israel is in no small part grounded in continued opposition to the Trump administration’s ongoing support for Netanyahu’s attempts to extend Israel’s borders into Lebanon and add fuel to its ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Palestinian flags could be seen at every street corner as wave after wave of protesters marched by, connecting the current offensive in Iran to the genocide. One high school student told Left Voice that as a Jewish person she felt it was important to march against Trump’s continued support for the genocide in Palestine.

Students of all ages played an important role in the protests, coming out in large numbers with their families or with friends. Young people dotted the crowd, taking up chants against ICE, the police, the war in Iran, and even the blockade against Cuba. The participation of high school and middle school students in the march on Saturday signals a notable expansion of the No Kings actions, drawing different and wider sectors into the streets against the Trump administration. It builds on the waves of students walking out of their schools across the country in protest of ICE operations in their schools and communities.

The protests drew larger numbers than previous No Kings marches in New York City, despite the overall lack of participation by organized labor in the national day of action. Unions were largely absent from the columns of marchers or the lists of endorsers. A notable exception, PSC-CUNY — the union representing faculty and staff working across the City University of New York — brought together hundreds of members in red hats to the mobilization.

Millions in the Streets Showed There’s Energy to Fight. All Out for May Day!

Left Voice marched in No Kings with the banners “Down with the Imperialist War in Iran. No Trust in Democrats or Congress. Workers and Students Strike Against the War” and “Abolish ICE. Full Rights for All Immigrants.” We marched alongside PSC-CUNY in solidarity with the Fired Fourth and against the repression of the Palestine movement and attacks against free speech and the right to protest. In a moment when anger at the Trump administration unifies hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, it is imperative to unite our struggles in a massive fighting force that transforms the power of these mobilizations into active organization in our workplaces, unions, schools, and communities.

The resistance against ICE in Minneapolis — from the massive economic blackout on January 23 to the daily acts of solidarity by teachers organizing within their workplaces and communities — showed a small fraction of the power of the working class. If this power were mobilized in full, it could be decisive in the national scenario and in fighting back against the reactionary politics of the Far Right. Minneapolis showed that unions have a special role to play to foster the organization of workers and lend resources to the fight for immigrants rights. It’s a fundamental logic within the labor movement, one written time and again in the lessons of class struggle, that “we’re stronger together” — stronger to face the attempts of the bosses (whether they sit in the factory or in Washington) to divide the working class. But the fight for full rights for all immigrants — for the right to vote, to work and unionize, for free speech and assembly — is essential for unifyung the working class at a moment when the Trump administration continues to attack democratic rights.

The fight to abolish ICE has showed new ways of organizing among the working class in the United States; but taking the struggle forward — forcing a real defeat for the Trump administration — means uniting that struggle with a real force against the imperialist war in Iran and for an end to U.S. intervention in Latin America. An anti-imperialist struggle in the heart of the empire, calling for the defeat of United States and Israel in its war against Iran, would set the foundations to fight for more against the Far Right, the bosses, and the wealthy.

But doing so means building antibodies against the attempts of the Democratic Party and their allies to contain this discontent, including union leaders who are content with statements against Trump’s policies but refuse to actively mobilize their members to defend and fight for the full rights of their immigrant class siblings. Taking up the fight for full rights for immigrants and against the war in Iran will require a sharp struggle from within our workplaces and even among the Left to challenge chauvinism with the unity and self-organization of our class.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which boasts over 13,000 members in NYC, organizes massive outrage at the cost of living and the quality of life for the working class in the financial capital of the world. That outrage was present but relatively small in the columns of No Kings on Saturday, with a focus on the slogan “Tax the Rich” that was also the key issue at a rally hosting Bernie Sanders the following day. In fact, the DSA’s own Mayor Mamdani was not even present in the marches nor did he attend the rally the day after. But DSA members are also outraged over the war in Iran, the anti-immigrant offensive, and the Epstein files, with a deep well of anger at a system that puts profit over life; and they’re eager to mobilize. Far from diluting the struggle, taking up these demands from the rank and file and mobilizing thousands of members to the streets with an independent program that does not tie its fate to the imperialist politics of the Democratic Party would yield more unity in the movement against the Trump administration. This could set the foundations for a struggle that continues beyond just a single day of collective catharsis every three months.

Large protests are being called again for May Day, when the labor movement and the fight against ICE will once again overlap on the streets. The protests in NYC this weekend showed that there is a thirst to mobilize in the here and now; and with Trump threatening to send troops to Iran, the stakes couldn’t be higher. The workers, students, and communities who mobilized on Saturday for No Kings must organize a plan of action toward May Day, finding ways to discuss the path forward, including strikes and work stoppages in defense of full rights for immigrants and for a stop to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

As May 1 approaches, we must take up the lessons we learned in the grassroots resistance of Minneapolis that was able to coordinate across different sectors to shut down the city for a day and to force a drawdown of Operation Metro Surge. But building on that experience and taking it forward means creating broad, democratic spaces for organization and discussion. It means organizing assemblies, broad meetings, and gatherings in our workplaces, schools, and communities to organize a major day of action and nationwide steikes on May Day as a demonstration of our strength.

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Football in Italy is experiencing one of its darkest periods after the national team failed to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, missing the tournament for the third consecutive time. This has been described by international media reports as an unprecedented ‘historic collapse’ for one of the pillars of the game.

According to Reuters, the latest elimination has sparked grief and anger in Italy, with reports of ‘tears and national shock.’ The Associated Press, meanwhile, considers this a ‘new normal’ for a team that was once the world’s dominant force.

Italy face a deepening crisis

Italy’s failure is no longer a passing event, but rather a continuous decline since their 2006 World Cup victory. They were eliminated in the group stage in 2010 and 2014, before failing to qualify for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, culminating in their third consecutive absence in 2026.

This downward trajectory has prompted major Italian media outlets to use harsh descriptions, with local newspapers speaking of a ‘footballing disgrace’ and a ‘systemic collapse,’ arguing that the problem has transcended mere results and reached the very core of the country’s football structure.

The greatest paradox lies in the fact that this decline comes after Italy’s Euro 2020 triumph, which analytical reports have deemed a:

clear disconnect between momentary success and the absence of a long-term project.

Just when the Italian national team seemed poised to reclaim its continental glory, it encountered a different reality on the world stage, repeatedly failing to advance through the qualifiers and playoffs.

Structural flaws and a decline in talent

International reports suggest that the Italian crisis has deeper dimensions than just technical ones, pointing to a range of factors.

Most notably, there has been a decline in the country’s player development system and an increasing reliance on foreign players for Italian clubs, which has negatively impacted opportunities for developing local talent.

The reports also highlighted the lack of administrative and technical stability, along with the national team’s lack of leadership figures capable of handling the pressure in crucial matches – a deficiency clearly demonstrated by the successive failures during the qualifying rounds.

The recent elimination sparked widespread criticism within Italian sporting circles, with calls growing for a comprehensive review of the football system, from the national federation to the league structure and youth development programs.

In this context, reports quoted officials and former players confirming that “Italy is no longer just losing matches, but losing its footballing identity,” indicating the depth of the crisis the Azzurri are experiencing.

An uncertain future and open questions

Amid this situation, the Italian national team faces a real challenge to regain its historical standing, especially as it is one of the most decorated teams in World Cup history.

However, the repeated failures raise serious questions about Italy’s ability to break what has become known in the media as the “World Cup curse” and return to the global stage after years of absence and decline.

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A federal judge ruled Tuesday Arkansas must remove a Ten Commandments monument from state Capitol grounds, but put her order on hold so officials can appeal the decision.

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