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🇨🇱 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/
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#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.
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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.
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The women of Chile remember and say NEVER AGAIN!
Hundreds of thousands of women mobilized in Santiago, Chile's capital, on the eve of the 50th anniversary against the socialist government of Salvador Allende to repudiate the atrocities of the Pinochet dictatorship. Marches of family members, social movements, and left and progressive organizations were also taken out on Sept 10 and 11 in Chile's capital.
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🇳🇪 Questioning the “sincerity” of France’s comments about the withdrawal of its troops from Niger, the transitional military government, the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), has accused the former colonizer of mobilizing for war.

CNSP spokesperson Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said on September 9 that a “hundred or so rotations of [French] military cargo planes unloaded large quantities of war material and equipment” in multiple member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/12/nigers-government-accuses-france-of-mobilizing-for-war-after-discussing-troop-withdrawal/
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#PeopleHistory | Today, we remember Steve Biko, the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who fought to build political consciousness among Black South Africans.

Biko was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement and emphasized the importance of Black South Africans achieving psychological liberation and self-reliance in order to bring about fundamental change in the country. His contributions were a key part of the movement that would eventually end the Apartheid regime in his country.

Biko suffered constant political persecution and was tortured to death by the Apartheid security forces after violating the travel ban against him. He died from brain injuries after being beaten by several members of the police during an "interrogation."
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At midnight on Thursday, the master contract for 144,000 US autoworkers employed at the three largest car manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis) will expire.

Workers have been preparing for months for this moment, using the UPS Teamsters’ historic contract win as inspiration. The United Auto Workers, which represents the 144,000 workers employed at the “Big Three” automakers, has organized grassroots actions such as practice pickets.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/12/in-two-days-144000-us-autoworkers-workers-are-set-to-strike/
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Palestinian human rights organizations have denounced that a female Palestinian prisoner was subjected to brutal torture by the Israeli prison authorities while in custody.

The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-prisoners Affairs Commission on Monday said that 41-year-old Fatima Amarneh, who hails from Jenin, told her lawyer that Israeli soldiers had beaten her until she lost consciousness while arresting her.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/12/female-palestinian-prisoner-allegedly-tortured-by-israeli-authorities/
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🇨🇱 Tens of thousands of people gathered with candles at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile on the night of September 11 to honor the victims of the military dictatorship that was installed on September 11, 1973 with the coup against the government of Salvador Allende.

This year marks 50 years since the coup against the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende. Local and national authorities in Chile, as well as social and progressive movements and organizations, have organized an array of activities to commemorate the crime.https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/13/allende-lives/
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🇨🇱📸 50 YEARS SINCE THE COUP: NEVER AGAIN!

On September 11, the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup against the socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende, tens of thousands gathered at the National Stadium in Santiago to remember the victims of the dictatorship and to reject the atrocities of the military regime. The stadium was one of the largest centers of torture and detention during the dictatorship.

During the candle-lit vigil, people displayed photos of the more than 40,000 victims of the dictatorship, including the more than 3,000 killed and 1,200 disappeared.

"Now I want to live
With my son and my brother
The spring that we all
are building every day

I am not afraid of the threat
Patterns of misery
The star of hope
Will continue to be ours"
-Victor Jara

📷 Mauricio González Kowal.
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