🇮🇪 Peace groups and leftists in Ireland organized a protest outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin to denounce the country’s involvement in the ongoing war in Ukraine.

According to the Irish Times, Irish troops are to provide weapons training to the new recruits of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is despite the government’s repeated assurances on maintaining Irish neutrality and providing only ‘non-lethal’ assistance to Ukraine.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/24/peace-groups-protest-irelands-involvement-in-ukraine-war/

Shawn Fain, who was elected President of the UAW in March of this year, has led the union thus far with unprecedented militancy, calling for radical demands such as a 32-hour workweek and pay raises in conjunction with inflation. He has been mobilizing rank-and-file UAW members to fight for the new contract for the first time in living memory.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/24/the-united-auto-workers-are-redefining-what-is-possible-for-us-labor/

Welcome to our new series, Voices of Dilemmas, where we bring you key perspectives and debates from different organizations, leaders, and intellectuals trying to find new paths towards socialism as part of the Dilemmas of Humanity process.

In the first article of this series, Blanca Eekhout, a lawmaker of the National Assembly of Venezuela and the president of the Commission on Building Communes, writes about the path of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.

"The Bolivarian Revolution continues to exist despite relentless imperialist aggression. It has faced over 900 coercive measures, assassination attempts, an attempted invasion coordinated by mercenary gangs, criminal actions and terrorist actions such as the guarimbas — in short, all manner of terrible things.

It has been terrible, but in spite of the thousands of adverse circumstances we have faced, we have been building something extraordinary and this has never stopped. This is the construction of a new power, a different power, people’s power."

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/24/blanca-eekhout-venezuelas-experience-of-building-democracy-under-siege/

Remember, today we come back with a new episode of Give The People What They Want!

Join Vijay Prashad, Zoe Alexandra and Prasanth R for the most relevant working-class news of the week.
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The BRICS is expanding!

In January 2024, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are set to join the South-South cooperation initiative.

🇿🇦 Hundreds of people, including shack-dwellers, trade unionists, pan-Africanists and rights activists, commemorated Lindokuhle Mnguni, a leader of South Africa’s militant shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), a year after his assassination on August 20, 2022.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/24/a-year-after-the-assassination-of-its-leaders-south-africas-abahlali-basemjondolo-continues-to-advance/

We bring you some of the highlights of the XV BRICS summit that just concluded in South Africa. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke about the importance of cooperation and partnership, and the perils of the Cold War Mentality.

Social movement organizers and leaders from across the US will gather in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 2, for the International People’s Assembly-North America conference titled “Dilemmas of Humanity: A Socialist Horizon”.

This conference will take place in the context of dire financial hardships for the people of the US. The US Census reports that out of over 230 million people surveyed, nearly 70% struggle to pay basic weekly living expenses. Wage stagnation has plagued the US working class since the inauguration of the neoliberal era in the early 1970s, and workers today are still enduring poor working conditions brought about by deindustrialization and the decimation of unionized labor.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/25/organizers-to-converge-in-atlanta-georgia-to-discuss-what-will-a-new-society-run-by-workers-look-like/

🇱🇾 Libya is experiencing more political turmoil with rare popular demonstrations witnessed in different parts of the country on Sunday, August 27, following reports that the Tripoli-based Government of Nation Unity (GNU) was attempting to normalize relations with Israel.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/28/protests-break-out-in-libya-over-rumors-of-normalization-with-israel/

Fires that began on August 8 have devastated the landscape of Maui, Hawaii, taking the lives of at least 115 people and leaving thousands displaced and thousands of residences burned to the ground.

Native Hawaiians, who are already the most impoverished populations in Hawaii and are falling victim to rapid gentrification, are expected to be hit the hardest by the long and short-term effects of the fires. To add insult to injury, a group of Native Hawaiian farmers are witnessing a coordinated attempt by the government and land developers to shift the blame of the fires away from the root causes of colonialism, and on to Indigenous water rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/28/several-weeks-after-devastating-wildfires-native-hawaiian-farmers-resist-attempt-to-shift-blame/

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This week Vijay Prashad, Prasanth R & Zoe Alexandra talked mainly about the BRICS Summit.
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🇨🇺 In his latest article, Luis De Jesus Reyes of Claridad Puerto Rico, writes on how the Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío criticized the Biden administration on its lack of political will to improve the relations with the island.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/30/us-unwilling-to-improve-relations-with-cuba/

🇵🇸 Israeli occupation forces killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy at a train station in the Bab al-Amoud area of occupied East Jerusalem by shooting him at point blank range on Wednesday, August 30.

According to eyewitnesses, Khaled Samer al-Zaneen was first assaulted by illegal settlers. He was then shot by the Israeli forces who were called on the scene by the people who assaulted and left him to bleed on the ground.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/31/palestinian-minor-shot-dead-by-israeli-occupation-forces-in-occupied-jerusalem/

Don't forget, there's a new episode of Give The People What They Want today!

On your weekly round-up of working-class news, Vijay Prashad, Zoe Alexandra and Prasanth R, will talk about what's going on in Gabon, among many other stories.
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The Latin America and Caribbean Dilemmas of Humanity conference will take place in the Chilean capital from September 2-4. The conference seeks to provoke debate and discussion about building socialism and finding solutions to address the major crises generated by capitalism.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/01/50-years-after-the-coup-against-allende-movements-and-intellectuals-converge-in-chile-to-discuss-building-socialism-in-latin-america/

🇨🇺 US-based airline JetBlue announced that it has suspended all flights to Cuba, effective September 17.
“Demand for travel to the island has been significantly affected by changes to the regulatory landscape and restrictions on our customers’ ability to enter Cuba,” stated the airline. “We look forward to resuming our service to Havana and continuing to pursue opportunities within Cuba should travel become more accessible in the future.”https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/01/jetblue-suspends-all-flights-to-cuba/