#PeoplesHistory | Today, on his death anniversary, we remember António Agostinho Neto Kilamba, the revolutionary leader of Angola and general secretary of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the movement that won freedom for the African country.
After the MPLA declared the independence of Angola from colonial Portugal, Neto became its first president.
Neto died in 1979 of pancreatic cancer.
After the MPLA declared the independence of Angola from colonial Portugal, Neto became its first president.
Neto died in 1979 of pancreatic cancer.
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Lenacapavir, an injectable antiretroviral drug developed by Gilead Sciences, recently made headlines after a Phase 3 clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda showed it to be 100% effective in preventing HIV among cisgender women and adolescent girls.
Yet, this case highlights a broader, systemic problem within the pharmaceutical industry, which is dominated by large transnational corporations, commonly referred to as Big Pharma.
While the production cost of this medicine could be estimated at US$40 per patient per year—including a 30% profit margin—lenacapavir is currently marketed at US$42,250 per patient per year to treat HIV infection.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/10/public-pharma-vs-abusive-prices-the-case-of-the-latest-hiv-prevention-drug/
Yet, this case highlights a broader, systemic problem within the pharmaceutical industry, which is dominated by large transnational corporations, commonly referred to as Big Pharma.
While the production cost of this medicine could be estimated at US$40 per patient per year—including a 30% profit margin—lenacapavir is currently marketed at US$42,250 per patient per year to treat HIV infection.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/10/public-pharma-vs-abusive-prices-the-case-of-the-latest-hiv-prevention-drug/
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Public Pharma vs. abusive prices: the case of the latest HIV-prevention drug
The high price tag on the HIV drug lenacapavir underscores the widespread dysfunction within Big Pharma
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Whether scholasticide or educide, the phenomenon is ghastly; it is nothing less than the attempt to erase the culture of Palestinians.
In April 2024, a group of UN special rapporteurs and other experts known as the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council accused the Israelis of “scholasticide.” They reported that the destruction of most of Gaza’s schools and universities constituted “persistent, callous attacks on educational infrastructure in Gaza.”
📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/10/the-israelis-are-conducting-scholasticide-in-occupied-palestine/
In April 2024, a group of UN special rapporteurs and other experts known as the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council accused the Israelis of “scholasticide.” They reported that the destruction of most of Gaza’s schools and universities constituted “persistent, callous attacks on educational infrastructure in Gaza.”
📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/10/the-israelis-are-conducting-scholasticide-in-occupied-palestine/
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🇯🇴Jordan held parliamentary elections on September 10 in a context of increased tensions in the country.
Initial reports indicated lower voter turnout in the elections despite recent election reforms aimed at expanding participation.
The masses in Jordan have been out on the streets for the last 11 months demanding that their government take action to stop Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and now in the West Bank.
The unprecedented attack carried out by Jordanian truck driver Maher Al-Jazi on September 8, killing 3 Israeli border guards, has further driven a wedge between the government and the people who demand an end to all cooperation with Israel. Now they demand the return of his body from Israeli occupation authorities.
Peoples Dispatch reporter Aseel Saleh reports from the ground.
Initial reports indicated lower voter turnout in the elections despite recent election reforms aimed at expanding participation.
The masses in Jordan have been out on the streets for the last 11 months demanding that their government take action to stop Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and now in the West Bank.
The unprecedented attack carried out by Jordanian truck driver Maher Al-Jazi on September 8, killing 3 Israeli border guards, has further driven a wedge between the government and the people who demand an end to all cooperation with Israel. Now they demand the return of his body from Israeli occupation authorities.
Peoples Dispatch reporter Aseel Saleh reports from the ground.
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#PeoplesHistory | This is one of the last pictures of the socialist President of Chile, Salvador Allende, taken 51 years ago on September 11, 1973.
In this picture, Allende is preparing the defense of La Moneda Presidential Palace, as the CIA-backed coup was underway to overthrow his government.
The coup plotters, led by Augusto Pinochet, installed a decades-long bloody dictatorship that imprisoned, tortured, killed, and disappeared thousands of mainly working-class, leftist and progressive people.
The far-right Chilean military and the CIA carried out the coup to destroy the socialist process that Allende was implementing in Chile, which included nationalizing key industries, providing health, housing, and schools for the working class, and taking Chile on a socialist path. This was unacceptable for imperialist powers and their local lackeys.
In this picture, Allende is preparing the defense of La Moneda Presidential Palace, as the CIA-backed coup was underway to overthrow his government.
The coup plotters, led by Augusto Pinochet, installed a decades-long bloody dictatorship that imprisoned, tortured, killed, and disappeared thousands of mainly working-class, leftist and progressive people.
The far-right Chilean military and the CIA carried out the coup to destroy the socialist process that Allende was implementing in Chile, which included nationalizing key industries, providing health, housing, and schools for the working class, and taking Chile on a socialist path. This was unacceptable for imperialist powers and their local lackeys.
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🇨🇱"Eternal Glory for Salvador Allende ... The Chilean people will crush fascism!" - Fidel Castro.
On September 28, 1973, just 17 days after the CIA-backed coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende, Commander Fidel Castro addressed the revolutionary masses of Cuba in the Plaza of the Revolution to explain what had happened in the South American country and the heroic actions of Allende who died defending the La Moneda presidential palace.
On September 28, 1973, just 17 days after the CIA-backed coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende, Commander Fidel Castro addressed the revolutionary masses of Cuba in the Plaza of the Revolution to explain what had happened in the South American country and the heroic actions of Allende who died defending the La Moneda presidential palace.
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At least 40 Palestinians have been killed and more than 65 others injured in Israeli airstrikes that targeted a tent encampment located in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza strip on Tuesday, September 10.
The heavy aerial assault also created two massive, nine-meter deep craters, which has led many to allege that Israel used US-manufactured 2,000 pound bombs in the attack.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/11/israel-carries-out-new-massacre-in-humanitarian-safe-zone-in-khan-younis/
The heavy aerial assault also created two massive, nine-meter deep craters, which has led many to allege that Israel used US-manufactured 2,000 pound bombs in the attack.
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Israel carries out new massacre in “humanitarian safe zone” in Khan Younis
The Israel Occupation Forces have systematically struck areas already designated as “humanitarian safe zones” during its one-year genocide in Gaza, including Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis
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Jordan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced in a press conference on Wednesday, September 11, the endorsement of the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections that took place on Tuesday.
The results indicate the clear victory of Jordan’s largest opposition party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/11/muslim-brotherhood-gains-majority-of-votes-in-jordans-parliamentary-elections/
The results indicate the clear victory of Jordan’s largest opposition party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/11/muslim-brotherhood-gains-majority-of-votes-in-jordans-parliamentary-elections/
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Muslim Brotherhood gains majority of votes in Jordan’s parliamentary elections
Jordan’s national politics has always been impacted by the situation in occupied Palestine given the strong relations between the two peoples, and their lengthy joint struggle against the Zionist interests in the region.
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🚩Red Salute Sitaram Yechury!
🇮🇳The veteran Indian communist leader and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, passed away today, September 12, 2024, in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Yechury was a lifelong communist leader. His clarity on uniting India's working class and overcoming deep divisions of caste, gender, religion, and geography, made him one of India's most important political voices. For the general elections held this year, Yechury was central to forging broad unity and building the secular and democratic opposition alliance INDIA. Comrade Sitaram carried forward the left's legacy of anti-imperialism and internationalism with his constant solidarity with popular movements across the globe, such as the Palestinian movement for liberation and popular movements in Latin America. He was also a lifelong friend of China and rejected Cold War fear mongering by the Indian government.
🚩Rest in power Sitaram!
🇮🇳The veteran Indian communist leader and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, passed away today, September 12, 2024, in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Yechury was a lifelong communist leader. His clarity on uniting India's working class and overcoming deep divisions of caste, gender, religion, and geography, made him one of India's most important political voices. For the general elections held this year, Yechury was central to forging broad unity and building the secular and democratic opposition alliance INDIA. Comrade Sitaram carried forward the left's legacy of anti-imperialism and internationalism with his constant solidarity with popular movements across the globe, such as the Palestinian movement for liberation and popular movements in Latin America. He was also a lifelong friend of China and rejected Cold War fear mongering by the Indian government.
🚩Rest in power Sitaram!
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In the early morning of September 11, Mexico’s Senate approved the Judicial Reform with 86 votes in favor and 41 against. The constitutional reform was achieved despite fierce opposition from business groups, high-ranking judges, foreign embassies, and right-wing law students
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/mexicos-senate-approves-judicial-reform/
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Mexico’s Senate approves Judicial Reform
The Mexican head of state achieved his goal of passing the Judicial Reform before leaving office on October 1.
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, 100 years ago, the revolutionary anti-colonial leader Amilcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau.
Cabral was an agricultural engineer, organizer, and political leader who fought against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. He became one of the most essential Pan-Africanist thinkers and anti-colonial revolutionaries in history.
Cabral, forced into exile by Portuguese colonial powers, helped create the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and later on would go to create the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).
Cabral was assassinated on January 20, 1973 before Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde won their independence in a plot backed and supported by the Portuguese.
His contributions to National Liberation Marxism continue to inform movements and inspire millions today.
Cabral was an agricultural engineer, organizer, and political leader who fought against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. He became one of the most essential Pan-Africanist thinkers and anti-colonial revolutionaries in history.
Cabral, forced into exile by Portuguese colonial powers, helped create the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and later on would go to create the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).
Cabral was assassinated on January 20, 1973 before Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde won their independence in a plot backed and supported by the Portuguese.
His contributions to National Liberation Marxism continue to inform movements and inspire millions today.
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An infamous “Red Scare” case is being re-litigated in the public after the release of a newly declassified document from August 22, 1950 that reveals that the United States government knew that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy long before her trial.
Ethel and her husband Julius Rosenberg were executed by electric chair in 1953 after being convicted for spying for the Soviet Union during the height of the Red Scare.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/newly-declassified-document-reveals-that-us-knew-that-ethel-rosenberg-was-not-a-spy-long-before-her-execution/
Ethel and her husband Julius Rosenberg were executed by electric chair in 1953 after being convicted for spying for the Soviet Union during the height of the Red Scare.
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Newly declassified document reveals that US knew that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy long before her execution
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair in 1953 after being convicted for spying for the Soviet Union during the height of the Red Scare
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On 12 October 1904, Ding Ling (née Jiang Bingzhi) was born into a gentry family in Linli, in the Hunan province during the late Qing Dynasty.
If twentieth century China was a century of revolutions, then legendary Chinese writer Ding Ling was forged out of those revolutions
📲 Read Tings Chak's full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/ding-ling-a-revolutionary-writer-in-a-revolutionary-century/
If twentieth century China was a century of revolutions, then legendary Chinese writer Ding Ling was forged out of those revolutions
📲 Read Tings Chak's full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/ding-ling-a-revolutionary-writer-in-a-revolutionary-century/
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Ding Ling: a revolutionary writer in a revolutionary century
If twentieth century China was a century of revolutions, then legendary Chinese writer Ding Ling was forged out of those revolutions
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#PeopleHistory | Today, on the anniversary of his assassination, we remember the South African anti-apartheid activist and Black revolutionary Steve Biko.
Biko was a socialist and freedom fighter who fiercely opposed the South African apartheid regime. He led the Black Consciousness Movement, popularized the now-famous slogan "Black is beautiful," and took an essential role in the Soweto uprising, where over 20,000 high school students took to the streets and were violently repressed by the Apartheid repression forces.
In 1977, Biko was tortured and killed by the Apartheid South African police at age 30, a murder that was “the spark that lit a veld fire across South Africa,” as Mandela said.
Biko was a socialist and freedom fighter who fiercely opposed the South African apartheid regime. He led the Black Consciousness Movement, popularized the now-famous slogan "Black is beautiful," and took an essential role in the Soweto uprising, where over 20,000 high school students took to the streets and were violently repressed by the Apartheid repression forces.
In 1977, Biko was tortured and killed by the Apartheid South African police at age 30, a murder that was “the spark that lit a veld fire across South Africa,” as Mandela said.
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Israel continues to provoke regional war despite Iran’s and Hezbollah’s long-awaited retaliation to the assassination of top regional resistance leaders Haniyeh and Shukr.
Israeli media sources published unconfirmed reports on Thursday, September 12 that Israeli special forces carried out a raid on a weapons facility run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Masyaf area, in the Syrian central governorate of Hama earlier this week
Refuting Israeli media reports about the attack, Iran’s state-run Tasnim News Agency quoted a source on Wednesday, September 12, saying, “Basically, no Iranian force has been present in Syria in that claimed location [Masyaf], while that region was the location of presence of the Syrian Army. Therefore, the subsequent claim, namely harm to Iranian forces or them being captured, is a complete lie.”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/iran-denies-that-israeli-attacks-in-syria-harmed-iranian-forces/
Israeli media sources published unconfirmed reports on Thursday, September 12 that Israeli special forces carried out a raid on a weapons facility run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Masyaf area, in the Syrian central governorate of Hama earlier this week
Refuting Israeli media reports about the attack, Iran’s state-run Tasnim News Agency quoted a source on Wednesday, September 12, saying, “Basically, no Iranian force has been present in Syria in that claimed location [Masyaf], while that region was the location of presence of the Syrian Army. Therefore, the subsequent claim, namely harm to Iranian forces or them being captured, is a complete lie.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/12/iran-denies-that-israeli-attacks-in-syria-harmed-iranian-forces/
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Iran denies that Israeli attacks in Syria harmed Iranian forces
Israel continues to provoke regional war despite Iran’s and Hezbollah’s long-awaited retaliation to the assassination of top regional resistance leaders Haniyeh and Shukr
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🚩 Workers of the world, unite!
Peoples Dispatch teamed up with Intal, a Belgian organization promoting internationalist solidarity, to create the "Exhibit of People's Struggles from Across the World" at ManiFiesta 2024.
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Peoples Dispatch teamed up with Intal, a Belgian organization promoting internationalist solidarity, to create the "Exhibit of People's Struggles from Across the World" at ManiFiesta 2024.
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, on his death anniversary, we remember Tupac Shakur. The rapper and son of a Black Panther understood perfectly how war is an inherent part of the capitalist system.
As said by Vladimir Lenin: “Imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.”
As said by Vladimir Lenin: “Imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.”
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