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About Peoples Dispatch

Peoples Dispatch, formerly The Dawn News, is an international media organization with the mission of bringing to you voices from people’s movements and organizations across the globe. Since its establishment three years ago, it has sought to ensure that the coverage of news from around the world is not restricted to the rhetoric of politicians and the fortunes of big companies but encompasses the richness and diversity of mobilizations from around the world. Peoples Dispatch also seeks to bring to you breaking news from a perspective widely different from that of the mainstream media. We invite people’s movements and political organizations everywhere to send us information and news from their countries. The information can be in Spanish, Portuguese, English or Hindi.
  • Officers from the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs raiding Toko Buku Rakyat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

    Books are not a crime! Solidarity with Toko Buku Rakyat in Malaysia

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 20, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The International Union of Left Publishers expresses solidarity with the Toko Buku Rakyat bookstore that suffered a raid by officers looking for “The Communist Manifesto”

  • Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

    2023 is already the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in occupied West Bank, says UN envoy

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 22, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The UN’s Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, said over 200 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank this year. He blamed “unilateral acts” by Israel, including increased settlement expansion, demolition of Palestinian homes and other structures, and settler violence

  • Lahaina post-wildfire devastation (Photo: Master Sgt. Andrew Jackson)

    Maui wildfire devastation exposes the legacy of colonialism

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 17, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The worst natural disaster in Hawaiian history is still blazing, where Indigenous residents are being pushed out of their homes.

  • Daniel Ellsberg in 1973.

    Legendary whistleblower and anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg passes at 92

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 16, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The U.S. anti-war movement fondly remembers the former government employee who contributed to the end of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam

  • Protest by Die Linke. (Photo via Dei Linke/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

    Anti-war activists in Germany protest NATO’s ‘Air Defender 23’ military exercise

    Peoples Dispatch

    Around 10,000 military personnel and 250 aircraft from 25 countries are participating in NATO’s ‘Air Defender 23’ exercise scheduled from June 12-23. Anti-war groups have called it a provocation.

  • Protesters, led by Stella Assange and Kristin Hrafnsson, demand the release of Julian Assange in Westminster, London, UK, February 11, 2023 (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images via RT)

    Julian Assange prepares for last-ditch legal appeal after UK High Court dismisses plea against extradition

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 9, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    As the Wikileaks founder is brought “dangerously close” to being extradited to the U.S., Assange and his family will attempt a last-ditch effort with a renewed appeal to the UK High Court.

  • In the Atalaia, Alagoas, the Carlos Marighella Brigade of the MST, organized tree planting next to the Paraíba River. Photo: Mykesio Max

    What’s behind the attack against Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement?

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on May 11, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Brazil’s largest social organization and a major force for land reform, is under attack from the country’s conservative forces in the parliament and the mass media.

  • Around800,000 people are believed to have been displaced during the Nakba in 1948.

    “Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 11, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The International People’s Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians’ continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel

  • Service workers on strike in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo: USSW)

    87% of service workers in the U.S. South were injured on the job last year

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 5, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Southern service workers allege that South Carolina’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration discriminates against Black workers.

  • US politicians have insisted that, unlike the 2008 bank bailouts that generated waves of popular movements from Occupy Wall Street to the Bernie Sanders campaign, no taxpayer money will be spent towards SVB or Signature. (Photo: Michael Fleshman)

    Yes, the U.S. gov’t did bailout the banks. What would a people’s bailout look like?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 15, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The U.S. is divesting from working people and investing in banks and venture capitalists, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

  • Leftists campaign for cantonal elections. (Photo: via Communist Party of Switzerland)

    Leftist parties intensify campaign to maintain Swiss neutrality

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 14, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The Communist Party and the Swiss Party of Labor (PST-POP) have made neutrality a key plank of their campaign in the upcoming elections. The political leadership of the country is being accused of compromising the policy of neutrality under the influence of NATO and EU.

  • Atlanta police arrest protesters in Welaunee Forest on the night of March 5 (Photo: Humanizing Through Story)

    At least 23 Cop City protesters charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 8, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    At least 23 people, including a legal observer, have been charged with domestic terrorism as protests against massive police training facility continue.

  • Art works gathered by the Young Socialist Artists collective.

    Red Books Day 2023: Fight the rise of the right, read a red book

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 21, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The day is celebrated in dozens of countries to mark the anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto and to collectively stand up against the rise of the right

  • (Photo: SANA)

    Syria just suffered a devastating earthquake but Israeli bombing does not stop

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 20, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Israeli attacks on Syria continue even as Syria struggles with the aftermath of the February 6 earthquake, in which over 5,800 were killed.

  • Mobilization at the Christiansborg Palace Square on February 5, 2023. (Photo: via Red- Green Alliance)

    Danish working class opposes government’s bid to abolish public holiday to raise money for arms

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 8, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The government’s decision to add an extra working day is part of its plan to raise an extra 3 billion kroner (USD 0.43 billion) for the rearmament of the country.

  • The Syrian Arab Red Crescent demanded Western countries to lift sanctions on Syria to help with rescue and relief work, February 7, 2023. (Photo: SANA)

    Sanctions imposed by U.S. and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 7, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday.

  • Photo: Party for Socialism and Liberation

    Socialism is increasingly popular in the U.S. So the House of Representatives denounces it

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 4, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Conservatives in the House of Representatives passed a resolution “denouncing the horrors of socialism” and opposing the implementation of socialist policies.

  • Students at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University during the attempt to screen the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Aishe Ghosh/Twitter

    In the face of censorship, Indian students organize screenings of BBC documentary on PM Modi

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 31, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    A recent BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi, which has been censored by the government, is being screened by students’ organizations in various parts of the country.

  • Collective punishmentInternational Court of Justice (ICJ)Israeli occupationPalestinian authority (PA)Palestinian fundsUNGA

    Over 100 countries condemn Israel’s punitive measures against Palestinians following UNGA vote

    Peoples Dispatch

    Following the UNGA resolution, Israel announced withholding of USD 39 million of Palestinian money, which is likely to cause further suffering and impact basic services delivery in the occupied territories.

  • French trade union leaders addressing media outside the Paris Labor Exchange (Image via Workers’ Force)

    The French working class organizes to defeat Macron’s pension reforms

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 12, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The Macron-led government is making a new bid to push controversial pension reforms, calling to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.

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