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Vijay Prashad, Prasanth R, and Zoe Alexandra bring you the latest working-class developments from the week.
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🇵🇸 “Those who think that peace can prevail in the Middle East without the Palestinian people enjoying their full and legitimate national rights would be mistaken,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/22/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-demands-renewal-of-peace-process-full-un-membership/

Organizers gathered for the #LetCubaLive demonstration in solidarity with Cuba, to demand president Joe Biden remove the island nation from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. The SSoT designation has far-reaching consequences that contribute to shortages of daily necessities such as fuel and medicine, inhibit humanitarian aid, and discourage financial transactions and trade.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel surprised the demonstrators with a visit and thanked the people of the US for their solidarity.

While threatening war on #Niger ostensibly to restore democracy, #France continues to back #Chad's military junta, holding on to power after killing at least 128 pro-democracy protesters. But popular resentment threatens the junta and its colonial backer. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/23/under-french-backed-military-ruler-mahamat-deby-chad-is-a-pressure-cooker-waiting-to-explode/

“We’re not gonna wait around forever for a fair contract at the Big Three,” said United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain in an update today on the ongoing strike of auto workers against the “Big Three” largest automakers in the country.

This latest escalation targets all of the parts distribution centers (PDCs) at Big Three corporations Stellantis and General Motors. PDCs are highly profitable for the Big Three. Ford, the other Big Three car company, has agreed to five of the central UAW demands. As a result, the union has decided to play the companies off of each other and ramp up the pressure against Stellantis and GM.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/22/uaw-mobilizes-thousands-more-to-join-stand-up-strike/

Cuba’s embassy in the US capital of Washington DC was the target of a violent attack late on Sunday, September 24.

In a statement shared on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that an individual had thrown two Molotov cocktails at the embassy building.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/25/cuban-embassy-in-washington-dc-faces-another-terrorist-attack-activists-express-solidarity/

🇮🇳 A bizarre and ominous situation prevails in India’s foodgrain scenario.

How has this shocking mess occurred? More importantly, what can the government do to bring down retail prices while ensuring that farmers get at least the minimum support prices fixed?
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/25/despite-record-harvests-why-are-prices-of-wheat-and-rice-so-high-in-india/

After withdrawing from #Mali and #BurkinaFaso, and now on the way out from #Niger, #Chad is the last of the now practically defunct #G5Sahel country to host a permanent base of #France. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/25/french-decision-to-withdraw-troops-from-niger-is-a-testimony-to-the-determination-and-will-of-the-nigerien-people/

🇨🇺 “Pessimism is not the nature of revolutionaries. That is not an option for those of us who believe a better world is possible. It is not an option for those of us who have the belief that it is worth it to fight for that better world,” Díaz-Canel told the gathered North Americans.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/25/cuban-president-exchanges-with-us-revolutionaries-on-unga-visit/

🇬🇭 Ghana’s capital city, Accra, witnessed a three-day protest against worsening economic conditions and lack of accountability and mismanagement by the government.

There were several reports of police officers assaulting protesters. At least 49 people were arrested, including some journalists whose recording devices were also reportedly seized.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/26/ghana-witnesses-fresh-protests-against-rising-cost-of-living/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa rural school for teachers who, according to reports, were abducted by Mexican security forces nine years ago.

The students' families, with social and human rights organizations, have been tirelessly fighting to know the truth of what happened that day. The disappearance happened during the right-wing government of Enrique Peña Nieto, which hid the facts and tried to blame the students as part of an alleged cartel.

The progressive AMLO government has made progress in the investigations. However, the army's role in this event hasn't been clarified and the student's relatives continue to protest to know what happened to their children.

On Friday, Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota declared Yaroslav Hunka, an elderly Ukrainian immigrant living in Canada, a “Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero.” “We thank him for all his service,” he said, adding beforehand that he was “proud” that the man lived in his electoral district.

Following numerous calls for his resignation, Rota stepped down on September 26.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/26/nazi-ss-veteran-receives-standing-ovation-in-canadian-parliament/

🇬🇷 The festival hosted concerts and performances by over 300 artists on five stages over the three days.

Important discussions were held on issues including solidarity against persecution, women’s rights, technology and the state, cinema of the 21st century, and the KKE’s initiative for the upcoming local and regional elections in Greece.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/26/49th-odigits-festival-in-greece-reinforces-working-class-solidarity/

🇮🇶 Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners kept in US detention centers in Iraq, including the largest facility Abu Ghraib, endured various forms of torture and abuse by the US armed forces between 2003 and 2009.

However, even after two decades, none of these Iraqis have been given any kind of redressal or compensation.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/27/us-refuses-to-acknowledge-systemic-use-of-torture-by-its-armed-forces-in-iraq/

🇬🇾/🇻🇪 Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro has called upon neighboring Guyana to resume “face-to-face and direct dialogue” to resolve an ongoing territorial dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region on the border of Venezuela and Guyana.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/27/venezuela-urges-diplomatic-resolution-to-essequibo-dispute-with-guyana-condemns-us-attempts-to-militarize-region/

🇮🇹/🇵🇸 Progressive youth and student groups in Italy have intensified their campaign for the immediate release of Khaled El Qaisi, a Italian-Palestinian student and activist, from Israeli custody.

Khaled is a Italian-Palestinian researcher and student of the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the founder of the Palestinian Documentation Center and an activist of the Giovani Palestinesi d’Italia (Palestinian Youth of Italy) group.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/27/youth-groups-intensify-campaign-for-release-of-italian-palestinian-activist-khaled-el-qaisi/

We caught up with Sônia Guajajara, the Minister of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, on the sidelines of the #UNGA. She told us about some of the the key proposals of the Indigenous delegations in the discussions around climate justice.

Your weekly movement news-roundup comes to you with a fresh episode with hosts Vijay Prashad, Prasanth R, and Zoe Alexandra, bringing you the latest developments.
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Over 2,500 people died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe by September this year, stated the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a huge jump from last year’s figure from the same period of 1,680.

UNHCR Director Ruven Menikdiwela told the UN Security Council in a briefing on Thursday, September 28, that despite the increased number of deaths and accidents, migrants inflow into Europe did not slow down and there is no reason to believe that it will in the near future.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/29/over-2500-migrants-died-or-went-missing-while-trying-to-reach-europe-via-the-mediterranean-this-year-unhcr/

Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is facing serious corruption charges of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes—in cash, gold bars, furniture and luxury cars—to pass deals benefiting the Egyptian regime and businessmen of his home state of New Jersey.

This time, the smoking guns in his 39-page indictment are too big for Menendez’s colleagues, even close allies, to ignore, let alone Menendez’s constituents in the state of New Jersey.

With his future uncertain, Calla Walsh of CODEPINK looks at his legacy of anti-Cuba policies and raises the question of how a possible resignation could impact US-Cuba relations.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/28/sanctioner-in-chief-bob-menendez-indicted-on-corruption-charges/

Public health experts with a commitment to left and people-centered approaches find themselves increasingly facing maltreatment and persecution.

While violence against health workers in occupied territories and under authoritarian regimes has long been a difficult reality, a newer threat has emerged in the form of corporate influence over universities
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/29/critical-public-health-experts-face-rising-maltreatment-and-corporate-intrusion/