🇦🇷 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.

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

🇳🇬 The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) of Nigeria has dismissed all petitions challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the elections held on February 25.
The presidential election saw a record low voter turnout of only 29% of the total 93.4 million eligible voters.https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/08/nigerian-bola-tinubu-weathers-challenge-to-electoral-victory-but-faces-resistance-from-labor/

300 visionaries including organizers, community leaders, and workers met in the Dilemmas of Humanity: A Socialist Horizon conference in Atlanta to discuss how the existing social movements in the US can seize the energy of the class struggle to stand with the masses of people and drive revolutionary change.

Manolo De Los Santos, co-executive director of the People’s Forum in New York City and researcher at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, outlines six fundamental conclusions emerging from these discussions.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/08/manolo-de-los-santos-a-socialist-horizon-is-where-the-impossible-meets-the-possible/

🇨🇱 In their latest article, Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad spoke to the Communist Party’s General Secretary Lautaro Carmona about, among other things, the need in Chile for a communist path, what has happened in the 50 years since the coup against Allende and the attack on communism by the right-wing.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/08/chile-needs-a-communist-party-an-interview-with-lautaro-carmona-general-secretary-of-the-communist-party-of-chile/

#PeoplesHistory | This is among the last pictures of the socialist President of Chile, Salvador Allende, taken 50 years ago.

This picture is when Allende was assessing the situation and preparing the defense of La Moneda presidential palace, on September 11, 1973, as the CIA-backed coup was underway to overthrow his government. Allende was killed and the coup installed a decades-long bloody dictatorship that imprisoned, tortured, killed and disappeared thousands of mainly working-class, leftist and progressive people.

This is the last speech of Chilean Socialist President Salvador Allende. Allende spoke to the people through Radio Magallanes as the CIA-backed coup was underway. He pledged that he would not resign and would give his life to repay the support of the working class.