Latin America continues to turn left. In Guatemala & Ecuador, people voted for progressive, people-based programs.
Bernardo Arévalo will be the next president of Guatemala & Luisa González of the Citizen's Revolution is headed to run-off elections vs. the son of a wealthy businessman.
Bernardo Arévalo will be the next president of Guatemala & Luisa González of the Citizen's Revolution is headed to run-off elections vs. the son of a wealthy businessman.
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🇵🇰 Former member of Pakistan’s parliament and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir and human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari were remanded to three days in detention by the country’s anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday, August 21.
Wazir and Mazari were arrested by security forces on Sunday for participating in a rally organized by the PTM on Friday demanding immediate action against extrajudicial killings and the enforced disappearance of thousands of innocent people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in the military’s so-called anti-terror operations.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/21/ali-wazir-imaan-mazari-jailed-over-terror-charges/
Wazir and Mazari were arrested by security forces on Sunday for participating in a rally organized by the PTM on Friday demanding immediate action against extrajudicial killings and the enforced disappearance of thousands of innocent people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in the military’s so-called anti-terror operations.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/21/ali-wazir-imaan-mazari-jailed-over-terror-charges/
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Pakistani rights activist Ali Wazir and lawyer Imaan Mazari jailed on terror charges : Peoples Dispatch
Wazir and Mazari were arrested by the Pakistan security forces on Sunday for participating in a rally organized by the PTM.
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Brinda Karat, of AIDWA and the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), speaks on why women are on the frontlines of resisting the right wing attacks from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent organization RSS.
She spoke at the national convention of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), where delegates made a commitment to strengthen the women's movement and organize against the attacks on democracy.
She spoke at the national convention of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), where delegates made a commitment to strengthen the women's movement and organize against the attacks on democracy.
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UPS workers, organized by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters voted by an overwhelming majority of 86.3% to ratify a contract negotiated in July.
This is the highest vote for a contract in the history of the union at UPS. The contract is the largest single-employer contract in the country, with UPS Teamsters representing 340,000 workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/22/ups-teamsters-vote-yes-on-historic-contract/
This is the highest vote for a contract in the history of the union at UPS. The contract is the largest single-employer contract in the country, with UPS Teamsters representing 340,000 workers.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/22/ups-teamsters-vote-yes-on-historic-contract/
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UPS Teamsters vote yes on historic contract : Peoples Dispatch
UPS workers vote yes on the contract negotiated in July by an overwhelming majority, enshrining major victories
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The first day of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg saw calls for a more democratic global economic order with greater participation of countries from the Global South.
The 15th BRICS summit is being held under the chairmanship of Ramaphosa on the theme ‘BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development, and inclusive multilateralism.’ Apart from the heads of states/governments of the existing BRICS members—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—over 60 other countries are participating in the summit. Certain crucial decisions are expected during the summit related to the expansion of the group and its objective of creating a non-hegemonic global economic order.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/23/brics-calls-for-global-economic-decision-making-in-the-interest-of-the-majority/
The 15th BRICS summit is being held under the chairmanship of Ramaphosa on the theme ‘BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development, and inclusive multilateralism.’ Apart from the heads of states/governments of the existing BRICS members—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—over 60 other countries are participating in the summit. Certain crucial decisions are expected during the summit related to the expansion of the group and its objective of creating a non-hegemonic global economic order.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/23/brics-calls-for-global-economic-decision-making-in-the-interest-of-the-majority/
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BRICS calls for global economic decision making in the interest of the majority : Peoples Dispatch
Policies followed by the West such as sanctions, conditionalities in loan disbursal, and dollar hegemony were at the center of attacks during speeches made by the BRICS leaders on the first day of the summit
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we celebrate the Cuban Federation of Women (FMC), one of the largest mass organizations in Cuba, dedicated to bringing equality and achieving the emancipation of women. The federation has about 4 million affiliates.
The FMC was founded on August 23, 1960, by Vilma Espín and other revolutionary women who, with the support of Fidel Castro, sought to create an organization to strengthen the role of women in the Cuban revolutionary process after defeating the US-backed military dictatorship of Batista.
The FMC was founded on August 23, 1960, by Vilma Espín and other revolutionary women who, with the support of Fidel Castro, sought to create an organization to strengthen the role of women in the Cuban revolutionary process after defeating the US-backed military dictatorship of Batista.
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The XVth BRICS summit is underway in Johannesburg and will go until August 24th. Here is everything you need to know about one of the most important South-South cooperation initiatives.
Hat tip to the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
Hat tip to the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
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