🇻🇪 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at BRICS Summit in Russia.

"Where is the International Court of Justice? Or was it only created to persecute the countries of the Global South?"

In his speech at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, President Maduro condemned the inaction of international institutions in holding imperialist nations accountable for their crimes. He joined dozens of other world leaders in calling for urgent reforms of the United Nations in order to face the threat of the rise of fascism and to build a better world.

As the Cuban people continue to struggle under sweeping blackouts and a hurricane that has resulted in six deaths, the US continues its stranglehold on the socialist state in the form of drastic sanctions.
US-based organizations, which include the New York City-based People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Hatuey Project, have launched a donation campaign to get urgently needed humanitarian supplies, including food and generators, onto the island.
These organizers also recently published an open letter in the New York Times, urging US President Biden to reverse devastating Trump-era sanctions on Cuba, including by removing Cuba off of the US’s “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list.
Manolo De Los Santos, Executive Director of the People’s Forum, spoke to Peoples Dispatch regarding the cruel blockade and the responsibilities the people of the US have towards their neighbors.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/23/as-cubans-face-blackouts-us-based-activists-organize-material-solidarity/

The people of one of the world’s wealthiest countries in terms of natural resources have been condemned to violence and poverty by US-backed foreign interventions to secure mineral wealth for corporations.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/23/congo-week-draws-attention-to-the-congolese-struggle-in-the-face-of-conflict/

The UK Labour government is considering increasing the role of private healthcare providers, weakening NHS capacities.

The Labour Party is considering a major expansion of the private sector’s involvement in the National Health Service (NHS) as it attempts to reduce waiting lists in the United Kingdom. Recently, the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) wrote to Keir Starmer’s government, stating that private providers are ready to spend £1 billion to accommodate more NHS patients—if the government guarantees them long-term work.

While the offer has been welcomed by officials from the Department of Health, health activists have raised alarms over the plan. The We Own It campaign warned that a resurgence of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) policy, as essentially proposed by the private sector, would lead to higher debt, staffing shortages, and diminished NHS training capacities.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/24/labour-considers-expanding-private-sector-role-in-nhs-undermining-the-already-fragile-public-health-system/

On October 20, 2024, Kenya marked the 61 commemoration of Mashujaa Day, also known as Heroes Day, which was established to honor the heroes of the nation’s struggle for independence and those who continue to contribute to post-independence development.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/24/kenyan-activists-honor-protesters-killed-by-police-on-mashujaa-day/

The world’s richest man has successfully adopted media, political, and economic strategies that allow him to be an influential figure inside and outside the United States.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/25/how-billionaire-elon-musk-is-trying-to-buy-political-influence-across-the-americas/

Suffering a loss of real incomes over the last five years, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) picketed the corporate office of South Africa’s largest defense industry, demanding wage hike and reinstatement of benefits.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/25/workers-picket-the-office-of-south-africas-largest-defense-industry/

It has been one month since Israel announced the expansion of its aggression on Lebanon as part of what it called “Operation Arrows of the North”.

The operation’s stated goals according to Israel, are to destroy the capabilities of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, to secure Israel’s northern border, and to ensure a safe return of Israeli settlers to the north.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/26/one-month-into-the-expansion-of-israels-war-on-lebanon/

In the early hours of Friday, October 25, an Israeli warplane targeted a guesthouse allocated for media crews in Lebanon’s southern town of Hasabaya, while journalists were still asleep.

Three journalists were killed in the deadly aerial attack, who were identified as Wissam Qassem, who worked for Al-Manar news network as a cameraman, Ghassan Najjar, a camera operator of Al Mayadeen Media Network and his co-worker, broadcast engineer Mohamed Reda.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/27/three-lebanese-journalists-killed-in-israeli-airstrike/

A year after the beginning of the genocide against Gaza, Peter Mertens takes stock, reflecting on Hayat, born amidst the bombs, watermelons, Israel’s status as an international pariah, language, student occupations, and labor union actions.
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“Today showed a massive display of unity against far-right racist thugs,” said Sabby Dhalu from Stand Up to Racism. “We will continue to mobilize until we drive the fascists off our streets.”

Tens of thousands joined an anti-fascist, anti-racist march organized by Stand Up to Racism and trade unions in London responding to a rise in far-right mobilizations across Britain. This surge, led by figures like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson), was accompanied by a wave of racist violence in recent months.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/28/thousands-of-workers-challenge-far-right-in-london-march/

The people of Ecuador are now facing 14-hour daily power cuts. The Secretary of Environment and Energy, Inés Manzano that instead of decreasing the length of the ongoing eight-hour cuts, they would be increased by six hours.

Left and progressive figures have vehemently condemned the government’s lack of answers and lack of solutions in the face of the massive electricity crisis.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/28/ecuador-in-the-dark-daniel-noboa-increases-power-cuts-to-14-hours-a-day/

The people of Uruguay will head to a second round of elections on November 24 to choose who will be their next president.

The run-off election will be between the candidate of Uruguay’s Broad Front, history professor Yamandú Orsi, and veterinarian Álvaro Delgado, candidate of the right-wing National Party and political “heir” of current President Lacalle Pou.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/28/uruguays-broad-front-obtains-significant-electoral-victory-in-first-round-of-presidential-race/

With just one week until the people of the US head to the polls to decide their next president, the economy and inflation continues to be the top issue for voters by far as working people continue to suffer under financial strain.

Do any of the establishment candidates offer real solutions to the economic devastation experienced by people in the US?

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/28/working-people-place-cost-of-living-as-top-concern-in-us-elections/

For over two decades, US-led sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe in retaliation to its land reforms have tolled the toiling farmers and workers of the southern African country.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has condemned the US-imposed unilateral sanctions on Zimbabwe as “illegal” and a violation of the “basic human rights of ordinary Zimbabweans”. It has also once again called for their “immediate and unconditional removal.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/29/sadc-reiterates-call-for-unconditional-lifting-of-illegal-us-sanctions-on-zimbabwe/