"Women need to organize!"

Over 60% of Abahlali baseMjondolo, or the movement of the shackdwellers, are women. The AbM women's league has managed to keep a vibrant organization and create women's power from below.

On South Africa’s National Women’s Day, August 9th, they held their Electoral Congress in Durban.

In her acceptance speech, Harris set out to differentiate herself from Republican candidate Donald Trump’s far-right political program, including the infamous Project 2025. However, her speech inadvertently highlighted several points of agreement between the establishment of the Democratic Party and the far-right in the United States.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/23/kamala-harris-accepts-nomination-from-democratic-party-national-convention/

Since Sheikh Hasina resigned, there has been a wave of targeted arrests and attacks on her party and its allies.

Vijay Prashad warns that the interim government may steer the country away from the original sentiments of the protesting students

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/24/will-bangladesh-be-another-egypt/

This Sunday August 25, tens of thousands of Venezuelans are going to the polls once again in 4,505 “communal circuits,” to vote for different communally managed projects in Venezuela’s 2nd "National Popular Consultation."

This process is part of the construction of a new “communal” state based on popular power. This was a key proposal of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez which has been assumed by current President Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people.

This is the third time that the Public Prosecutor’s Office has made a frontal attack on President Arévalo. And it is no coincidence that all these actions have been carried out by Rafael Curruchiche, head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI), who seems to want to remove Arévalo at any cost.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/25/even-as-president-guatemalas-new-leader-continues-to-face-attacks-from-attorney-general/

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah launched 320 Katyusha rockets against strategic targets in Israel in the early morning of Sunday, August 25.

A few hours after the strikes, Hezbollah said in a statement that the first phase of the announced attack to respond to the assassination of the movement’s top commander, Fuad Shukr, on July 31, has been completed.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/26/hezbollah-launches-massive-first-phase-strike-in-retaliation-for-top-commanders-assassination/

Left parties and groups in Bangladesh condemned the arrest of former member of parliament and left leader Rashed Khan Menon last week by the interim government.

The groups called the arrest a political revenge and demanded his immediate release.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/26/workers-party-of-bangladesh-claims-menons-arrest-is-political-revenge/

On August 26, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that it had received over 50,000 tons in shipments of arms and military equipment from the US since October 7.

Israel has used these shipments in carrying out a war that has been labeled by international bodies and nations as a genocide against the people of Gaza, with over 40,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces thus far. The weapons deliveries are “crucial for sustaining the IDF’s operational capabilities during the ongoing war,” claim Israeli forces.


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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/26/israeli-has-received-50000-tons-of-weapons-from-the-us-since-october-7/

On August 25, elections were held again in Venezuela. 4,500 communes of the Caribbean country went to the polls to choose from 24,000 projects related to roads, electricity, sports, drinking water, gas, housing, health, education, environment, productive units, public transportation, and many other social development initiatives, in what is known as the Second National Popular Consultation.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/27/the-2nd-national-popular-consultation-was-held-in-venezuela/

Emmanuel Macron continues to block the formation of a New Popular Front-led government, sparking outrage over his disregard for democratic processes.

The NFP emerged as the group with the largest number of parliamentary seats in the election, despite not securing an absolute majority. This lack of an absolute majority has been exploited by political opponents, ranging from Macron’s liberals to the far-right led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, who argue that there was no clear election winner and seek to block a progressive government from taking office.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/27/two-months-after-elections-macron-refuses-to-nominate-progressive-prime-minister/

One of the five tours of the Humanitarian Caravan for Life in Colombia recently came to a close in the department of Chocó.

With a delegation of more than 20 internationalists from Europe, Central America and the United States, the caravan carried out a medical mission and a cultural day with Afro and Indigenous communities.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/28/caravan-for-life-reflects-on-stakes-of-humanitarian-crisis-in-colombia/

Protests against femicide carried out by the medical professionals and left-wing activists in India’s West Bengal province have now entered their third week.

Apart from demanding justice for the victim and better security for women at the workplace, protestors have also raised the need for larger societal changes.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/28/left-led-anti-femicide-demonstrations-enter-third-week-in-indias-west-bengal/