Before the sun rose at 6 am, thousands of Amazon workers in facilities across the United States launched the largest strike against the multi-billion dollar corporation in US history.
Amazon workers are hitting the company where it hurts the most—walking off the job right before the end of the year holidays, the busiest shopping season of the year.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/19/workers-launch-largest-strike-against-amazon-in-us-history/
Amazon workers are hitting the company where it hurts the most—walking off the job right before the end of the year holidays, the busiest shopping season of the year.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/19/workers-launch-largest-strike-against-amazon-in-us-history/
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Workers launch largest strike against Amazon in US history
Amazon workers across the country hit the picket line in an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike to demand union recognition and contract negotiations
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📢 In the 91st issue of People’s Health Dispatch, we highlight the ongoing struggles of Palestinian health workers under Israeli occupation, examine the fight for universal healthcare in the US, and explore how nurses in Brazil are battling super-exploitation to transform their working conditions. Click 👇🏾https://tinyurl.com/peopleshealthdisp91
People's Health Dispatch
Bulletin #91: Another year of struggle and resilience in global health
This fortnight
One year after the abduction of Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, head of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, by Israeli soldiers, his comrades are still awaiting formal updates on his whereabouts and health. His case highlights the deliberate targeting of…
One year after the abduction of Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, head of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, by Israeli soldiers, his comrades are still awaiting formal updates on his whereabouts and health. His case highlights the deliberate targeting of…
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🇸🇩 December 19 marked 5 years since the beginning of Sudan's December Revolution.
5 years ago, the brave people of Sudan rose up against the increased cost of bread, and stayed on the streets for months demanding an end to the dictatorial rule of Omar al-Bashir and a true democratization process. However, despite the demands for a democratic, civilian run government, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control and their transitional, power-sharing government collapsed in April 2023. Ever since, Sudan has been engulfed in a bloody civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF.
Last year, we spoke with Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News to discuss the significance of the December Revolution and the continued struggle of the Sudanese people for democracy.
5 years ago, the brave people of Sudan rose up against the increased cost of bread, and stayed on the streets for months demanding an end to the dictatorial rule of Omar al-Bashir and a true democratization process. However, despite the demands for a democratic, civilian run government, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control and their transitional, power-sharing government collapsed in April 2023. Ever since, Sudan has been engulfed in a bloody civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF.
Last year, we spoke with Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News to discuss the significance of the December Revolution and the continued struggle of the Sudanese people for democracy.
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At the 9th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Cuba President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for a massive march of the Cuban people to demand an end to the economic blockade that has suffocated the socialist island for more than five decades.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/19/cuban-people-to-mobilize-against-us-blockade/
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/19/cuban-people-to-mobilize-against-us-blockade/
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Cuban people to mobilize against US blockade
The call for the mobilization on December 20 was made by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel
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🇵🇸Why are the Palestinian Authority security forces attacking the Jenin refugee camp?
PA security forces have continued their siege of the Jenin refugee camp and the surrounding areas, intensifying attacks against armed resistance groups and inhabitants. The PA-led crackdown on West Bank resistance groups began last week.
Peoples Dispatch spoke to Mr. Omar Assaf, political activist, freedom fighter and former prisoner in Israeli jails, to discuss more about the crackdown launched by the PA in Jenin, its repercussions, and how it relates to the post-war Gaza governance proposal.
PA security forces have continued their siege of the Jenin refugee camp and the surrounding areas, intensifying attacks against armed resistance groups and inhabitants. The PA-led crackdown on West Bank resistance groups began last week.
Peoples Dispatch spoke to Mr. Omar Assaf, political activist, freedom fighter and former prisoner in Israeli jails, to discuss more about the crackdown launched by the PA in Jenin, its repercussions, and how it relates to the post-war Gaza governance proposal.
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“We want a union, everyday!”
Amazon workers hold the picket line on the second day of the largest strike against the billion dollar corporation in US history, pushing through the NYPD’s threats and blatant attempts to help the company keep deliveries moving through as per usual.
🎥Check out what workers had to say
Amazon workers hold the picket line on the second day of the largest strike against the billion dollar corporation in US history, pushing through the NYPD’s threats and blatant attempts to help the company keep deliveries moving through as per usual.
🎥Check out what workers had to say
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"How can anything deteriorate in Gaza? Isn’t the situation as bad as it could get, the genocidal war of the Israelis grinding on?
Israelis are not only bombing residential areas and killing unarmed civilians, but they are also preventing the injured from being rescued and the dead from an honorable burial."
Indian historian, editor, and journalist, Vijay Prashad explains the situation in Palestine after 14 months of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/the-genocide-grinds-on/
Israelis are not only bombing residential areas and killing unarmed civilians, but they are also preventing the injured from being rescued and the dead from an honorable burial."
Indian historian, editor, and journalist, Vijay Prashad explains the situation in Palestine after 14 months of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/the-genocide-grinds-on/
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The genocide grinds on
After 14 months of Israel's genocide on Gaza, conditions for the millions of displaced remain perilous and Israel's airstrikes are unrelenting.
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A first hand account from a solidarity activist and San Francisco mom putting her body on the line for Palestine: Leslie Angeline.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/a-peace-activists-hunger-strike-for-gaza/
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/a-peace-activists-hunger-strike-for-gaza/
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A peace activist’s hunger strike for Gaza
A first hand account from a solidarity activist and San Francisco mom putting her body on the line for Palestine
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember Thomas Sankara. Today, he would've turned 75.
Sankara was the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987 and a revolutionary Marxist pan-Africanist. His foreign and economic policies were centered on anti-imperialism, rejecting foreign aid and policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and nationalizing all land and mineral wealth.
Sankara, famously known as Africa’s Che, introduced various progressive policies, including ones that advanced the empowerment and status of women, as well as massive education, and self-reliance programs to address the structural underdevelopment of the Burkinabé people under colonialism and neocolonial leaders.
On October 15, 1987, the Burkinabé revolutionary Sankara was brutally assassinated in Ouagadougou at the age of 37 with the help of imperialist Western powers.
Sankara was the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987 and a revolutionary Marxist pan-Africanist. His foreign and economic policies were centered on anti-imperialism, rejecting foreign aid and policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and nationalizing all land and mineral wealth.
Sankara, famously known as Africa’s Che, introduced various progressive policies, including ones that advanced the empowerment and status of women, as well as massive education, and self-reliance programs to address the structural underdevelopment of the Burkinabé people under colonialism and neocolonial leaders.
On October 15, 1987, the Burkinabé revolutionary Sankara was brutally assassinated in Ouagadougou at the age of 37 with the help of imperialist Western powers.
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We sat down with the Secretary General of the Workers Party of Belgium Peter Mertens to discuss his latest book "Mutiny", the state of global class struggle, and how to stop the surge of the far-right.
"Fascism is a reaction towards the power of people’s movements. It’s the same in Europe.
This counter-power, that’s called “mutiny” in the book, at least in Europe, is not very politicized. It’s not very class conscious. It’s not already a class force. It’s not a class aware of its class interest. It is a spontaneous first level struggle. But it is big. And if we work very well among these first level movements against inflation, against the cost of living, etc., we can orient these movements towards socialist or democratic goals, and not leave them for the far right".
📲 Read the full article on our website:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/peter-mertens-where-there-is-a-working-class-there-will-always-be-hope/
"Fascism is a reaction towards the power of people’s movements. It’s the same in Europe.
This counter-power, that’s called “mutiny” in the book, at least in Europe, is not very politicized. It’s not very class conscious. It’s not already a class force. It’s not a class aware of its class interest. It is a spontaneous first level struggle. But it is big. And if we work very well among these first level movements against inflation, against the cost of living, etc., we can orient these movements towards socialist or democratic goals, and not leave them for the far right".
📲 Read the full article on our website:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/20/peter-mertens-where-there-is-a-working-class-there-will-always-be-hope/
Peoples Dispatch
Peter Mertens: “Where there is a working class, there will always be hope”
The Belgian political leader spoke to Peoples Dispatch about his book Mutiny and what this moment of mass discontent and major geopolitical shifts means for working class struggle.
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“President Biden, take Cuba off the infamous list!” exclaimed the over half a million Cubans who marched on Havana’s malecón to the US Embassy. The mass march was called for by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel earlier this week to demonstrate the absolute and total rejection of the Cuban people to the six-decade US-imposed blockade on the island as well as the inclusion of Cuba to the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list (SSoT) which together have wreaked havoc on the island’s economy.
In his address to the mass mobilization, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared, “If the United States persists in its determination to undermine our sovereignty, our independence, our socialism, it will only find rebellion and intransigence! Every administration that has tried has been outlived by the Cuban Revolution, and it will continue to be so. This is a march, yes, a very anti-imperialist march! Against US imperialism and its pretension to impose itself in Cuba by force or seduction, we will march now and always!”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/21/cubans-march-against-the-us-blockade/
In his address to the mass mobilization, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared, “If the United States persists in its determination to undermine our sovereignty, our independence, our socialism, it will only find rebellion and intransigence! Every administration that has tried has been outlived by the Cuban Revolution, and it will continue to be so. This is a march, yes, a very anti-imperialist march! Against US imperialism and its pretension to impose itself in Cuba by force or seduction, we will march now and always!”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/21/cubans-march-against-the-us-blockade/
Peoples Dispatch
Cubans march against the US blockade
Hundreds of thousands of Cuban people participated in the mass demonstration against the six-decade US blockade of Cuba and the inclusion of Cuba on the US state sponsors of terrorism list.
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How Qatar is maneuvering today has much to do with its desire to maintain its position as a middleman between the region and the West.
GiorgioCafiero of Gulf State Analytics writes for Peoples Dispatch.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/21/qatars-position-in-post-assad-syria/
GiorgioCafiero of Gulf State Analytics writes for Peoples Dispatch.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/21/qatars-position-in-post-assad-syria/
Peoples Dispatch
Qatar’s position in post-Assad Syria
How the Gulf country is maneuvering today has much to do with its desire to maintain its position as a middleman between the region and the West.
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The outsized response of the state to, on one hand, vilify the man suspected of killing a health insurance CEO, and on the other, repress a workers’ strike against Amazon, has shed light on solidarity among the ruling class
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/21/in-the-us-only-ceos-and-corporations-are-protected-by-the-state/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/12/21/in-the-us-only-ceos-and-corporations-are-protected-by-the-state/
Peoples Dispatch
In the US, only CEOs and corporations are protected by the state
The outsized response of the state to, on one hand, vilify the man suspected of killing a health insurance CEO, and on the other, repress a workers’ strike against Amazon, has shed light on solidarity among the ruling class
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