🇵🇸 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.
👉https://www.youtube.com/live/JUdCCgwvjtg?si=K5hEuTvenR7gSILQ

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/

Eugene Puryear, journalist with BreakThrough News and a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, spoke at the Socialist Horizon Conference in Atlanta, Georgia about what a society run by workers would look like. “Everyone would have the right to control their own workday, workers would control their own workplace,” he says.

The debate on the position of Latin America and the Caribbean within the global context was central on the first day of the Regional Dilemmas of Humanity Conference, which seeks to be “a platform for discussion and consensus…on the urgent strategies to overcome the civilizational crisis we are currently going through, and to build socialism as our emancipatory horizon.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/03/imperialism-has-nothing-to-offer-us-only-threats-dilemmas-of-humanity-conference-in-santiago/

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This week Vijayprashad Prasad, Prasanth R & Zoe Alexandra discussed about what's happening in Gabon and West Africa, among many other working-class news.

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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we commemorate the Little Rock Nine - a group of nine African American students who courageously enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

On September 4, 1957, the governor of Arkansas ordered the deployment of the Arkansas National Guard to "preserve the peace" and prevent Black students from entering the school. The governor claimed that there was an "imminent danger of tumult, riot, and breach of peace" due to the integration. A mob of white segregationists was also present and prevented the Black students' entry.

On September 23, 1957, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730 to federalize the Arkansas National Guard and deploy them to support the integration as they protected African American students.

🇲🇽 On Sunday, September 3, former Senator Xóchitl Gálvez was formally announced as the presidential candidate of Mexico’s right-wing opposition alliance, the Frente Amplio por México (FAM) or the Broad Front for Mexico, for the June 2024 elections.

The FAM is an alliance of the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

After formally being declared the candidate, Gálvez addressed the supporters of the three parties. She acknowledged that national opinion polls suggested that the ruling progressive MORENA would win the upcoming elections. However, she claimed that they still had a shot.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/05/mexican-right-finalizes-presidential-candidate-for-2024-polls-ruling-morena-to-announce-candidate-on-september-6/

#PeoplesHistory | Happy Birthday to Claudette Colvin!

On March 2, 1955, 9 months before the Rosa Parks’ catalyzing act of defiance, 15-year-old Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.

Speaking at the Latin American Dilemmas for Humanity conference, Vijay Prashad of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explains how US Imperialism and neoliberalism are the "real monsters" and how the left needs to unite the working class and peasantry to defeat them.

🇦🇷 Human rights organizations, trade unions, and peoples’ movements in Argentina rallied in Buenos Aires on September 4 to reject a dictatorship-denial event organized by Victoria Villarruel, running mate of far-right libertarian Javier Milei.

Villarruel and others claimed to fight for “truth and justice” for those killed by militant guerrilla groups the Montoneros and the Revolutionary People’s Army (ERP) during the 1970s. They also pledge to fight against the “lie” “promoted” by the majority of Argentine society and backed up by rigorous archives, testimonies, and research regarding the 30,000 people detained and disappeared by the military junta and the other human rights violations.

In response to the event, the historic human rights organization Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which fought throughout the dictatorship to demand truth and justice for their disappeared children and relatives declared, “We will not leave our daughters and sons alone.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/05/widespread-rejection-of-far-right-event-in-buenos-aires-denying-crimes-of-dictatorship/

The regional Latin American and the Caribbean Dilemmas of Humanity Conference just wrapped up in Santiago where over 200 representatives of movements, trade unions, and left parties discussed what it means to build socialism in the 21st century.

Next stop: the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in Johannesburg in October.

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the six Palestinian prisoners who escaped the high-security Gilboa Prison through a tunnel carved with a spoon.

Despite the six being recaptured, the prisoners and spoons became symbols of Palestinian resistance and the heroic prisoners' struggle.

🇹🇳 Opposition leader Hamadi Jebali was detained and interrogated by the Tunisian security forces for several hours on Tuesday, September 5. His detention came hours after Mondher Ounissi, interim president of the Ennahda movement was arrested by the Tunisian security forces.

The former secretary general of the Ennahda movement Hamadi Jebali was elected prime minister of Tunisia in the first general elections held following the Tunisian revolution and ouster of authoritarian ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Jebali served as prime minister from December 2011 to March 2013.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/06/former-tunisian-prime-minister-and-opposition-leader-released-after-interrogation/

Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum has been chosen as the presidential candidate of the progressive ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party. The former head of government of Mexico City has vowed to continue the Fourth Transformation process initiated by current President AMLO.