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British union celebrates minimum wage extension to maritime workers

Peoples Dispatch / June 14, 2019

The RMT is celebrating a victory as offshore workers will finally be covered by the National Minimum Wage Act and gain rights and protections

8-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot by Israeli forces is in a critical condition
Thousands march in Germany against warmongers at Munich Security Conference 2020
Portuguese women protests rise in violence against women
Saudi airstrikes in Yemen kill 31 civilians, including women and children
LARCO workers in Greece protest against anti-worker bill

Around the World

Ep 85: Protests against discriminatory citizenship law in India and more..

Around the world ep 84_VENEZUELA _ LEBANON _ EGYPT

Ep 84: Venezuelans protest against the US sanctions on Conviasa, and more

Movement Dispatches

PEOPLE’S HISTORY

NAZI GERMANY_Arrest of white roses group members_Sophie and Hans Scholl_

Arrest of anti-Nazi ‘White Rose’ group members

1951 New Zealand waterfront strike

1951 New Zealand waterfront strike

Mandela released from jail_

Mandela released from jail

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New Delhi/ 17 Feb 2020/ JNU students protest against discriminatory citizenship law in India and state crackdown on political activist and protesters. (Photo: Surangya/ Peoples Dispatch)

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Dock workers' strike

On February 13, 1951, New Zealand witnessed the largest industrial action in its history, when waterfront workers (dockworkers) went on a strike against financial hardships and poor working conditions. They also demanded same 15% pay increase that all industrial workers had been awarded by the Arbitration Court in January 1951. The National government, led by Sidney Holland, in an attempt to break the strike, implemented harsh measures including censoring the press from reporting on the strike and making it illegal to provide food and money to the striking workers and their families. The strike, which lasted for 151 days received widespread support from working class across New Zealand and thousands more joined the strike in solidarity.

#peopleshistory #peoplesdispatch #dockworkers #dockworkersstrike #newzealand

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On February 11,1990, Nelson Mandela, leader of the South African movement to end apartheid, was released from prison – 27 years after he was put behind bars.

#peopleshistory #peoplesdispatch #nelsonmandela #southafrica #apartheid #workingclasshero

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Yugoslav partisan Lepa Radić executed by Nazis

On February 8, 1943, Bosnian member of Yugoslav partisans, Lepa Svetozara Radić was executed at the age of 17 by the Nazis during World War II. She was part of the 7th partisan company of the 2nd Krajiški Detachment, and took part in Kozara Offensive and Battle of Neretva before she was captured by the Nazis. After failing to extract any information from her about the partisans, she was sentenced to death by hanging.

With the noose around her neck, she cried out: “Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!” Nazi troops offered her a way out of the gallows by revealing her comrades’ and leaders’ identities. She responded that she was not a traitor and that they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.

She was posthumously awarded the Order of the People’s Hero on 20 December 1951, for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers—becoming the youngest recipient at the time.

#peopleshistory
#peoplesdispatch #leparadić #wwii #worldwar2 #communism #workingclasshero #redpartisans

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Viva Sao Sepé!
On February 7, 1756, Guarani leader Sepé Tiaraju died in combat while resisting the Spanish and Portuguese colonial invaders in the municipality of São Gabriel, in the present-day state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In that conquest, thousands of Guaranis lost their territory and the majority of the population had to flee to the other side of the Uruguay River, which is now the province of Misiones in Argentina and Paraguay, whose population to this day is mostly Guarani.

#peopleshistory #peoplesdispatch #SepéTiaraju #mst #guarani #misiones

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Assassination of Gustavo Salgado Delgado

On February 3, 2015, in Mexico, Revolutionary Popular Front (FPR) leader Gustavo Alejandro Salgado Delgado went missing from the municipality of Villa de Ayala, Morelos State, and the next day, his mutilated corpse was found in the countryside. The president of the FPR declared his death a political crime. The FPR is the grassroots wing of the Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist). Throughout his life, Gustavo had organized vulnerable groups such as youth, students, peasants, workers, women, and indigenous communities to defend the most fundamental rights of the peoples of Mexico.

Text in photo: Those who fight for a dignified life like comrade Gustavo Salado Delgado never die.

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#peoplesdispatch
#gustavodelgado #workingclass #workingclasshero #latinamerica #fpr #communistpartyofmexico #communism #humanrightsdefenders

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Angolan War of Independence

On February 4,1961, the Angolan War of Independence, led by the revolutionary forces in the country against the Portuguese Colonial authority began. The war ended when a leftist military coup in Lisbon in April 1974 overthrew Portugal's Estado Novo regime. The new regime immediately stopped all military action in the African colonies, declaring its intention to grant them independence without delay.

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#peopleshistory
#angolanwarofindependence #ospaaal #worldsocialforum #angola

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Formation of the Communist Party of Vietnam

On February 3, 1930, the Communist Party of Vietnam was founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong, under the leadership of comrade Ho Chi Minh.

#peopleshistory #peoplesdispatch #communistpartyofvietnam #hochiminh #communism #saigon #hanoi

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Justice for Randy Malayao!

On January 30, 2019, 49-year-old Felix Randy Malayao, a publicly known peace consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) was murdered while he was asleep inside a bus in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines . The assassination led to massive protests in Philippines against the witch-hunting of communist and peace activists by right wing Rodrigo Duterte regime.

#randymalayao #peopleshistory #peoplesdispatch #rodrigoduterte

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