In this episode of Around the world in 8 minutes, your bi-weekly working class and people’s movement news capsule, Peoples Dispatch takes a look into the Argentinian feminist movement for legal abortion and the victory of Kurdish hunger strikers. Also, we report on the teachers’ strike in New Zealand.
Month: May 2019
Military junta’s threats fail as civilian strike brings Sudan to …
The two-day strike was called for by the Sudanese Professionals Association in order to pressurize the military junta to make way for civilian rule
As Modi’s second term begins, violence against minorities, left …
With the announcement of election results, various reports of BJP members inciting violence against minority groups and members of left parties have come to light.
Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, protesting illegal detention b …
Their health condition is worsening after more than 50 days of no food.
Moroccans demand release of political prisoners from Rif movement
38 people are still being held in prison for participating in the protests in the Rif region against economic neglect, unemployment and state oppression
Brazil’s fight for education
Tomorrow on May 30, thousands of students, professors and trade union activists will mobilize across Brazil to protest against regressive education reforms. Since the election of far-right wing President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil has witnessed series of anti-people and anti-working class measures pushing the country towards privatization.
Belgian elections: advantage the left, the right and the Greens
The center-right coalition government suffered reverses even as the left-wing Workers’ Party of Belgium and the Flemish-nationalist right-wing party, Vlaams Belang, made significant gains
50,000 teachers take part in New Zealand’s largest education strike
Unions say that low pay and lack of equity are significant contributors to the escalating teacher shortage and increasing class sizes.
Kurdish hunger strike ends in victory
After successfully breaking the isolation of political prisoner Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish activists have ended their hunger strike
Argentine feminist groups begin fresh struggle for legal abortion
The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion will present – for the eighth time – a fresh draft of the bill for the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (IVE) before the House of Representatives
Soldiers who massacred Rohingyas freed from prison
The gross human rights violations committed by the Myanmar military on the pretext of national security and counter-insurgency operations has forced over 730,000 Rohingyas to flee the country.
UN General Assembly demands an end to British administration in the Ch …
African and the Non-aligned countries, except Maldives, unitedly backed Mauritius’ claim for sovereignty over the Chagos. Australia, Hungary, Israel, Maldives, United Kingdom, and United States voted against the resolution.