🇲🇽 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/
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/
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Mexican right finalizes presidential candidate for 2024 polls, ruling Morena to announce candidate on September 6 : Peoples Dispatch
Former senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the National Action Party (PAN) was chosen as the presidential candidate of Mexico’s right-wing opposition alliance, the Broad Front for Mexico, for the June 2024 elections
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#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.
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.
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember progressive journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was murdered on September 5, 2017.
Gauri Lankesh, the Editor of the weekly Lankesh Patrike, was a rationalist and a progressive thinker who wrote on a number of social issues and took a strong stand against Hindu right-wing forces.
For her work, Lankesh had to pay the ultimate price when three gunmen shot her seven times as she was about to enter her home.
While not conclusive, evidence from the official investigation points the finger at the Sanatan Sanstha, an extremist organization whose ideology of Hindu supremacism is in violation of India’s constitution and runs counter to the country’s long tradition of religious syncretism.
It's been six years since her murder, but justice has been delayed. The chargesheet in the case was filed in 2018, and the trial began in March 2022. Three judges have changed and only 83 of the 530 witnesses have deposed.
Gauri Lankesh, the Editor of the weekly Lankesh Patrike, was a rationalist and a progressive thinker who wrote on a number of social issues and took a strong stand against Hindu right-wing forces.
For her work, Lankesh had to pay the ultimate price when three gunmen shot her seven times as she was about to enter her home.
While not conclusive, evidence from the official investigation points the finger at the Sanatan Sanstha, an extremist organization whose ideology of Hindu supremacism is in violation of India’s constitution and runs counter to the country’s long tradition of religious syncretism.
It's been six years since her murder, but justice has been delayed. The chargesheet in the case was filed in 2018, and the trial began in March 2022. Three judges have changed and only 83 of the 530 witnesses have deposed.
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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.
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🇦🇷 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/
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/
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Widespread rejection of far-right event in Buenos Aires denying crimes of dictatorship : Peoples Dispatch
Organizations have rejected what they deem as a provocation and assert “we will not go back”
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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.
Next stop: the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in Johannesburg in October.
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#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.
Despite the six being recaptured, the prisoners and spoons became symbols of Palestinian resistance and the heroic prisoners' struggle.
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🇹🇳 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/
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/
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Former Tunisian prime minister and opposition leader released after interrogation : Peoples Dispatch
His detention and that of other Ennahda movement members come amid an escalation of repression against opposition forces in the country by President Kais Saied
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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.
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The Regional Latin America and Caribbean Dilemmas of Humanity conference just wrapped up in Santiago de Chile.
Over 200 representatives of people's movements, trade unions, and left groups, as well as intellectuals and artists, engaged in debate and exchanged ideas about the necessary task of building socialism in the region.
Here, in collaboration with Argmediosok, Barricada Tv, Brasil de Fato & El Grito del Sur we share some of the highlights.
Over 200 representatives of people's movements, trade unions, and left groups, as well as intellectuals and artists, engaged in debate and exchanged ideas about the necessary task of building socialism in the region.
Here, in collaboration with Argmediosok, Barricada Tv, Brasil de Fato & El Grito del Sur we share some of the highlights.
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Today, we have a new episode of Give The People What They Want!
Vijay Prashad, Prasanth R and Zoe Alexandra will talk about the 50th anniversary of the coup against Allende in Chile, among many other stories.
https://youtube.com/live/vRnwYAR0oxw
Vijay Prashad, Prasanth R and Zoe Alexandra will talk about the 50th anniversary of the coup against Allende in Chile, among many other stories.
https://youtube.com/live/vRnwYAR0oxw