While Ecuadorians endure daily power outages of more than 10 hours, the government proposes the installation of foreign military bases.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/18/blackouts-and-foreign-military-bases-the-neoliberal-proposals-of-ecuadors-noboa/

The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Cuba announced on Friday, October 18, that the National Electrical Energy System had faced a total blackout after the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant suffered an unexpected outage.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel responded to the news saying, “From the country’s leadership, we are dedicating absolute priority to the attention and solution of this highly sensitive energy contingency for the nation. There will be no rest until it is restored.”

The nation-wide blackout that Cuba experienced is evidence of the serious impacts that the blockade has on the entire population, and prompted many solidarity organizations to renew their calls for Biden to lift the deadly blockade.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/18/cuba-faces-nation-wide-blackout-activists-renew-calls-for-an-end-to-the-blockade/

Israeli forces shelled all three major hospitals in northern Gaza—Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and the Indonesian Hospital—on the night of October 18-19. The attacks followed a two-week siege imposed on the region by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/19/northern-gaza-hospitals-suffer-a-night-of-israeli-attacks/

Cuban journalist Laura Prada writes from Havana about the national blackout in Cuba, product of the blockade imposed on the island by the United States.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/21/cuba-in-the-dark-but-not-defeated/

Thousands of people took to the streets of Naples on October 19, demonstrating against the G7 military agenda and Italy’s proposed reforms that would limit the freedom to dissent.

Protesters, representing a host of organizations including student associations, trade unions, and community centers, rallied against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government’s policies, demanding a shift in priorities toward social needs instead of military spending.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/21/naples-protests-g7-lords-of-war/

The Shehbaz Sharif government has proposed a comprehensive constitutional amendment which, if passed, will give the government greater control over the judiciary and country’s election commission.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/21/crackdown-on-protests-over-controversial-constitutional-amendments-in-pakistan/

Activists call for an end to the criminalization of migrant women!

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Derwentside Detention Center for women in Northeast Britain to protest against the government's xenophobic and hostile policies against migrants and asylum seekers and to declare "Refugees are welcome here!"

Following a severe collapse of the national power grid on October 18, Cuba continues to make great efforts to restore electrical service to all homes and institutions on the island.

The Electric Company of the capital, Havana, reported that close to 90% of the clients in the capital have been reconnected and announced that “There will be no rest until the Electric System is fully restored.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/21/power-is-gradually-restored-in-cuba-hurricane-oscar-downgraded-to-tropical-storm/

🇵🇸Palestinians in the West Bank continue daily protest sit-ins against the ongoing Israeli genocide against their fellow compatriots in Gaza.

The daily sit-ins started when Israel began its latest genocidal campaign against Gaza. As the war expanded to other parts of the region, the activists have also been showing solidarity with people in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq.

People in the US are set to head to the ballot box on November 5 to decide their next president.

Peoples Dispatch spoke to socialist candidate Claudia De la Cruz, running with vice presidential candidate Karina Garcia on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, in an exclusive interview on her perspective on immigration, hurricane relief, US aid to Israel, and other key issues in these upcoming elections.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/18/amid-war-and-natural-disasters-capitalism-is-at-root-of-crisis-says-socialist-candidate-for-president/

Amer Qawas and Hossam Abu Ghazalah, were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) after they crossed the Jordanian border into occupied Palestine near the Dead Sea, and opened fire at Israeli soldiers.

Two IOF soldiers were injured in the attack according to Israeli media, which also reported that the two young Jordanian gunmen who launched the attack were dressed in Jordanian Army uniform.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/22/two-jordanians-killed-in-second-cross-border-attack-against-israeli-occupation-forces/

The IMF has brought about fuel price hikes for the third time this year in Egypt, deepening the cost of living crisis and eating further into household incomes at a time of growing poverty, into which increasing sections of the middle class have fast been sinking.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/22/egyptian-government-implements-third-fuel-price-hike-at-the-behest-of-the-imf/

As US presidential elections approach in the coming weeks, activists and organizers are ringing the alarm bells about the broad practice of voter suppression that still exists in the United States—including through the means of voter roll purges, laws that criminalize handing out water to voters, and felony disenfranchisement.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/22/in-the-us-voting-is-a-privilege-not-a-right/