 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Around the World in 8 Minutes, a show by People's Dispatch. In this show, we bring you stories from around the world of people resisting capitalism and imperialism and struggling for a better life and a better society. Our first story is from India, where a massive farmer's agitation has put the right-wing government of Narendra Modi on the back foot. The protests which began on November 26th took place on the same day as in all India's strike by trade unions. On that day, tens of thousands of farmers from states neighboring India's capital New Delhi began marching to the city. They were demanding the withdrawal of three recently passed laws that will affect the prices they get for the produce and which they fear will lead to greater corporate entry into agriculture. The police and the authorities over the days tried to stop the farmers with barricades and blockades but to no avail as the farmers continued to march ahead to the borders of Delhi. The central government which controls Delhi's law and order tried to get the farmers to occupy a ground in the corner of the city but the farmers refused and said that they would stay put on the borders and would not return home until these laws were repealed. The government was forced to concede to early talks and the third round of discussions is being held on Saturday, December 5th as we recall this program. News click spoke to one of the farmers who has come to the border of Delhi. My name is Jughandar Singh and I am from Subhapradana Parthikshan. We have been working in Punjab for 15 years now. Now we are going to Kumbh Gala every day and we have a lot of work to do. We have been working for almost 8 to 10 lakhs. There are about 1 lakhs of people here. Yes, there are about 1 lakhs of people with us. And we have around 8000 people here. Do you have women farmers with you? More than 100,000 women farmers are with us. We have about 26,000 women farmers who have just returned. 26,000 women farmers are with us. We know that it is very difficult to run a business for 2 to 3 months. We have been working for 15 years now. We have been working for 15 years now. There has never been a bigger problem than the people in the history of the world. Their decision cannot be taken by the courts or the courts. We also spoke to Ashok Dhavalli, the President of the All India Kisan Sabha or the All India Farmers Association. This is the largest leftist farmers organization in the country. An interesting part of this movement has been the United Stand by farmers organizations across India. Together, hundreds of organizations have told the government in clear terms that they will not retreat from their demands. All the farmers bodies had given a call for an All India road blockade on the 26th of November. Now, this happened in several thousands of places all over the country. Not only in Haryana and Punjab, but all over the country, there was huge upsurge of farmers against these three farm acts. So, therefore, that is one major point that must be understood. Not only that, you see now after that, we had given a call for intensification of the agitation all over the country. So, right from 1st December, we are seeing all over the country, huge actions are taking place. We had all given a joint call for big agitation. So, there in Maharashtra and all over the country, thousands and thousands of farmers came on the streets even on the 3rd of December. So, this is a nationwide struggle. The protest has also received a great amount of solidarity from across the country. Trade unions, student movements and youth organizations have staged rallies across India. On December 8th, a country-wide strike has been called in support of the agitation. India's people are clearly out to demand justice and an end to the free hand that is being given to corporates. In our next story, we go to South Africa, where on December 3rd, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, that's NUMSA, and the South Africa Cabin Crew Association, picketed the SAA Airways Park. They were demanding the payment of the employees of South African Airways, who have not been paid salaries for 8 months now. The next day, the unions met with the airline management and representatives of the Department of Public Enterprises to resolve the issue. There is no update yet about the outcome of this meeting. The two unions had previously issued a statement, saying that the Treasury had allocated money to the airline last month, but the workers have still not been paid, and the business rescue practitioners or the BRPs continue to earn millions in fees. The national airline was placed under the charge of the BRPs in December 2019, as it was thought to be on the verge of insolvency. However, the unions complained that it was because the corruption and theft that took place between 2016 and 2020, under the watch of the SAA board and the executives, that the airline's financial condition plummeted. 3,000 to the 5,000 workers had to opt for voluntary severance packages as part of the business rescue plan in order to keep the airline afloat. The management at SAA is also attempting to unilaterally change the conditions of employment under threat of dismissal, the union's alleged. Pakamele Khlubi Majola, the national spokesperson of NUMSA, tells us more about the conditions at the airline and the demands of the workers. The burning issue of why our members were protesting today is because they have not been paid. As most people know in October, the Minister of Finance allocated 10.5 billion rand of the budget to SAA. To date, our members have not been paid their salaries. We've been told that as of Monday, the Department of Public Enterprises gave the BRPs an amount of a billion rand, 1.5 billion rand. And the BRPs have said to us that the reason that money has not been paid, or the salaries have not been paid, is because the Minister is the one that's blocking it. They say that the Department of Public Enterprises has placed conditions on how this money must be allocated. And in their view, what the department is doing is in violation of the Companies Act and the Labor Relations Act. Now as NUMSA and SAACA, we don't know what these conditions are. No one has advised us or told us what they are. But if it's true, if what the BRPs are saying is true, then we have to say that we condemn the Minister in the strongest terms possible because it would mean that what he's doing is unlawful. And not only is it unlawful, but it is also unfair. And on top of that, our members have gone for eight months and counting with no income whatsoever. They don't even know what kind of December holidays they're going to have as we speak right now. And it is completely unfair that they should not be receiving a salary because of what DPE is alleged to be doing. And finally, we go to Palestine where Mayor Zabug Hosh, a 22-year-old activist, was released after being imprisoned by Israel for 15 months. And what was the crime of this student of Berzate University? It was belonging to the Democratic Progressive Student Poll, a left-wing student organization. Just last month, this group was declared a terrorist organization by Israel. Mayor Zabug Hosh was accused of other charges too, including communicating with the enemy, which came from taking part in a seminar and contributing to a news organization linked to Hezbollah. For these so-called crimes, this young student was in jail since August 2019. During her time in prison, she faced physical and psychological torture, including being slapped and forced into stress positions. According to media reports, she was also forced to listen to the screams of other prisoners being tortured. Her family was also persecuted. Despite all this, Mayor Zabug Hosh came out defiant, pointing out that Israeli authorities do not care about the health of women prisoners, especially during the cold. She said that nonetheless, the spirit of female prisoners is very high and added that many of them continued with their education, despite repression by Israeli authorities. 40 of the 4,500 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel are women, including prominent leaders such as Khalida Jarar and Khitan Safin. Their struggles against the brutal occupation of Israel continue. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back next week with more stories of struggle from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.