🇮🇳 At least 275 people have died following a horrific train accident in the Balasore district of the Indian State of Odisha.

Over 1,000 people were also injured in what is being called the worst rail accident in 20 years. As the country recovers from the shock, questions are being asked about the government’s policies towards the railways.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/05/horrific-crash-that-killed-275-people-exposes-structural-issues-in-indian-railways/

🇦🇷 On June 3, 2015, the movement called for massive mobilizations across the country to condemn patriarchal violence and demand justice for all victims of this violence.

Hundreds of thousands of women in 80 cities flooded the streets and squares to say enough is enough. In the capital Buenos Aires, around 200,000 people mobilized to express their condemnation, making it the largest march rejecting violence against women in the history of Argentina.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/05/eight-years-since-ni-una-menos-the-struggle-against-gender-based-violence-in-argentina-continues/

🇨🇴 Colombia’s trade unions will take to the streets on Wednesday, June 7, to declare support for the social reforms proposed by the government of Gustavo Petro.

The mobilizations will take place at a moment of crisis for the government, which is under heavy attack by right-wing forces.

The proposed reforms in health care, labor, and pensions are currently being discussed in the Congress and if passed, will radically transform access to the rights to health, dignified jobs, and dignified retirement.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/07/colombias-opposition-and-right-wing-media-intensifies-destabilization-campaign-against-gustavo-petro-government/

Colombians are on the streets in support of the government of Gustavo Petro & the proposed social reforms. The right-wing & mainstream media have launched a coordinated attack on the government, which 400+ political leaders globally have deemed a "soft coup attempt".
📹 La Direkta.

Here is what you need to know about what is happening in Colombia right now.
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🇨🇴 Thousands took to the streets across Colombia in support of the labor, pension, and healthcare reforms proposed by the Gustavo Petro government.

Juan Carlos Quintero, a member of the Peasant Association of Catatumbo and the National Coordination of Marcha Patriótica, told Peoples Dispatch that, “The demonstrations have been massive, in support of the current government of Gustavo Petro and the reaffirmation of popular support for a government that in its government program proposed change for Colombian society.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/07/we-will-not-give-in-to-blackmail-colombians-defend-government-and-progressive-reforms/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the #PeoplesVictory of the London School of Economics’ cleaners. In 2017, after ten months of campaign, they won their battle and forced LSE to end the practice of outsourcing cleaners.

On this day in 2017, LSE’s cleaning workforce, made up entirely of migrants, along with students and staff, and organizers with the union United Voices of the World, succeeded in the first ever outsourced workforce in the UK to be brought in-house by a university.

Their struggle for rights which included strikes and occupations began in 2016 and lasted for ten months. The all-migrant workforce demanded they be made direct employees of the university and for an end to the stark disparities in pay, sick and paid leave, maternity leave and pensions.
📷 United Voices of the World & Justice4Cleaners