The Democratic and Republican parties have dominated electoral politics in the United States for over a century. Every election cycle, people in the US are forced to choose between whoever is the “lesser of two evils.”

In these elections, as both parties have pledged to continue the steady stream of support to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza, there have been record high levels of interest in “third parties” which seek to break through the two-party duopoly and establish a new independent political pole.

Listen to activists and political leaders talk about why they have refused to vote for mainstream parties this election cycle.

As the US election comes to a close, momentum for a third party option grows.

According to Gallup, 63% of US adults agree that both major establishment parties are doing such “such a poor job” of representing the people of the US that “a third major party is needed.”

A question on the minds of many is how the year-long movement for Palestine will shape the election, particularly for Arab and Muslim American voters who reside in swing states such as Michigan.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/05/as-the-us-election-comes-to-a-close-momentum-for-a-third-party-option-grows/

Over 200 people lost their lives in Valencia after torrential floods hit the region on October 29.

Days after the floods, Spain’s King Felipe visited the region and was confronted by angry crowds who threw mud from the floods at him, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and regional leader Carlos Mazón.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/05/widespread-anger-in-valencia-as-survivors-of-floods-grapple-with-delayed-emergency-response/

International law has never formed a tool of pressure or deterrence to Israel, which insists on massacring innocent people, including children.

Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced on Sunday, November 3, that Türkiye had sent a letter signed by 51 other countries and two organizations to the United Nations Security Council, calling for a halt of arms shipments to Israel.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/05/52-countries-led-by-turkiye-urge-the-un-to-call-for-an-arms-embargo-on-israel/

In the early hours of Wednesday, November 6, Donald Trump proclaimed his victory as next president of the United States.

“Democrats had every opportunity to win this election with ease. But instead, they chose to betray their base, to abandon the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and to align themselves with some of the darkest figures in American history—like Dick Cheney. The Democrats made their choice, and they alone are responsible for what happened last night and the consequences it will bring to this country.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/06/donald-trump-is-the-next-president-of-the-united-states/

A group of illegal Israeli settlers launched a massive arson attack in Al-Bireh city, in the central occupied West Bank in the early hours of Monday, November 4. The attackers set a number of cars parked in front of a residential building on fire as Palestinian citizens inside the building were sleeping.

For decades, illegal Israeli settlers have launched terrorist attacks against Palestinian people which have included burning children alive.
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Illegal Israeli settlers launched a massive arson attack against Palestinian people in Al-Bireh city, in the central occupied West Bank. Over a dozen cars were set on fire by settlers who regularly terrorize Palestinians across the West Bank.

🇵🇸Peoples Dispatch was on the ground in Al-Bireh to speak to the victims of this attack who affirmed that no acts of Israeli terror will drive them from their land.

Some results indicate that rejection of Harris does not equal rejection of progressive policy.

The key question is: Why would people vote for both the ultra-right candidate Trump and progressive policies on the same ballot?

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Many of Europe’s left politicians stated that Trump’s victory reaffirms the need for Europe to forge an independent path, free from US influence.

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#PeoplesHistory | On November 7, 1917 (October according to the old Russian calendar), the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overturned the interim provisional government and replaced it with a government of the people, local councils elected by bodies of workers and peasants, also known as Soviets.

Through sheer collective human efforts and the manifestation of general will for progress, the Soviet Union rapidly progressed as a world superpower with historic achievements in enhancing working class rights, women’s rights, human development, military power, science, and technology, including a space race with the US.

The October Revolution influenced liberation struggles all around the third world, and today, it continues to guide people in the fight for a better world free of oppression and exploitation.

🇨🇺 The US blockade on Cuba "is an act of war. It is a part of a hostile and aggressive policy."

Michel Rodriguez, the First Secretary of the Cuban embassy in the UK spoke at the Class and Culture conference, organised by the Communist Party of Britain in Barnsley.

The so-called traffic light coalition governing Germany over the past three years—comprising the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Greens, and the FDP—has struggled to provide concrete solutions to concerns of the working class.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/07/german-traffic-light-coalition-falls-apart/

For Hezbollah and Hamas, US Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin as they have both provided unlimited support to Israel, and sought to create a “New Middle East”.

Following the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas outlined in a televised address and a statement respectively, that they were not counting on the outcome of the elections to bring an end to the Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/07/the-resistance-responds-to-us-elections-trump-should-learn-from-bidens-mistakes/

Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker discuss key reasons why Trump won by such unexpectedly wide margins and why the Democrats were unable to mobilize their base.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/07/the-democrats-failed-to-deliver-socialists-analyze-trumps-victory/

This November, Niger is opening its doors to voices from across Africa and beyond, in a show of solidarity with the people of the Sahel, as they face one of the region’s most dynamic periods.

From November 19 to 21, Niger’s capital, Niamey, will host the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel,” a three-day event dedicated to addressing the urgent struggles and aspirations of the Sahelian people. Set in the Mahatma Gandhi International Conference Center, the conference will bring together activists, political leaders, union representatives, and members of social movements and Pan-African communities from around the world.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/08/niger-to-host-conference-in-solidarity-with-the-sahel-amid-its-anti-imperialist-upsurge/