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  • | Students at Delhis Jawaharlal Nehru University during the attempt to screen the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Photo Aishe GhoshTwitter | MR Online

    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.

  • | Image via thulanirmaseko | MR Online

    “Assassination of Thulani Maseko has killed prospects of peaceful struggle in Swaziland”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 27, 2023 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 28, 2023)

    Activist and lawyer Thulani Maseko, who was at the forefront of Swaziland’s struggle for democracy, was gunned down hours after King Mswati’s threatening speech to pro-democracy activists. PUDEMO President Mlungisi Makhanya talks about Thulani’s struggle and what his killing means for the country.

  • | Collective punishmentInternational Court of Justice ICJIsraeli occupationPalestinian authority PAPalestinian fundsUNGA | MR Online

    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.

  • | Investigators from South Koreas National Intelligence Service and National Police Agency forcibly entered and conducted a raid at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Photo Joon KimLabor and the World via KCTU | MR Online

    Outrage mounts after Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is raided by intelligence and police

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 18, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 19, 2023)

    In a major escalation of the ongoing anti-trade union persecution in South Korea, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) was raided by the National Intelligence Service on charges of violating a Cold War-era national security law.

  • | French trade union leaders addressing media outside the Paris Labor Exchange Image via Workers Force | MR Online

    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.

  • | Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al Maliki | MR Online

    Israel imposes more repressive measures on Palestinians following UNGA vote

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

    Apart from imposing travel restrictions on Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, Israel has confiscated USD 39 million from the body which will be transferred to the ‘victims of terrorism’ fund for Israeli citizens.

  • | NUMSA General Secretary Irvin Jim | MR Online

    South Africans are fighting for crumbs: A conversation with trade union Leader Irvin Jim

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 23, 2022 by Zoe Alexandra (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    South Africa is sitting on a tinderbox, says Irvin Jim, General Secretary of the country’s largest trade union NUMSA. The solution is to foster a spirit of solidarity which will have to come from people’s struggles and movements.

  • | Photo Press Tv | MR Online

    Over 11,000 Yemeni children have been killed or injured since 2015: UNICEF

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 12, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    2015 is the year when the Saudi-led international coalition intervened in the conflict in Yemen. It has also imposed a blockade crippling land and sea blockade.

  • | Photo via Comac | MR Online

    Sander Claessens: ‘We defend a socialist society where people and the planet come first’

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 7, 2022 by Muhammed Shabeer (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2022)

    The president of the Comac student movement in Belgium spoke to Peoples Dispatch about organizing students and youth to fight against oppression and injustice

  • | EKhenana was founded as a land occupation in 2018 and has faced numerous violent and illegal evictions over the years On December 27 2019 the shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo won an interdict in the high court in Durban preventing the municipality from continuing with illegal evictions It was reaffirmed on April 20 2020 after the municipality continued to evict and destroy the occupation violating the court order and the governments Covid 19 lockdown regulations Since March this year residents have also had to contend with the regular arrests of its leaders and killings Three leaders of the Commune have been shot and killed by known suspects and at times in broad daylight Caption and Photo by Nomfundo Xolo | MR Online

    An image of hope: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s fight for dignity and land, 17 years on

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 4, 2022 by Tanupriya Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Dec 06, 2022)

    On November 17, a photo exhibition titled ‘Socialism or Death: Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Frontlines of Struggle’ opened at The Forge in Johannesburg. The work displayed chronicles the years-long struggle of South Africa’s shack dwellers movement to secure land and housing for the urban poor.

  • | European Union flag | MR Online

    The fiscal requirement of a welfare state

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 4, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    THE post-second world war period had seen a spate of welfare state measures in the advanced capitalist countries, especially in Europe, in emulation of what the Soviet Union was effecting.

  • | Manolo De Los Santos of the Peoples Forum addresses the event The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine Photo Yuwei Pan Peoples Forum | MR Online

    Activists reject escalation in Ukraine, even when it’s unpopular

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 21, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    An event hosted at New York City’s People’s Forum featured seven activists who spoke out against U.S. and NATO involvement in the war in Ukraine and called for negotiations and peace.

  • | President Cyril Ramaphosa and the International Partners Group at the JET Investment Plan meeting on the sidelines of COP27 Photo PresidencyZATwitter | MR Online

    “South Africa’s ‘Just’ transition climate deal with the west is a betrayal of the working class”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 20, 2022 by Tanupriya Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Nov 22, 2022)

    South Africa is set to implement an $8.5bn plan funded by western countries to transition from coal-based energy to renewables. The country’s biggest union NUMSA has warned this plan will only intensify privatization while burdening South Africans with debt and poverty.

  • | Student workers picketing outside of University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara Photo Ryan Dury | MR Online

    University of California workers launch largest academic strike in U.S. history

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 15, 2022 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2022)

    Workers in the U.S. continue to make waves in historically unorganized sectors such as academia and service.

  • | Photo Family Friends of Mutulu Shakur | MR Online

    U.S. political prisoner Mutulu Shakur granted parole

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 11, 2022 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Nov 14, 2022)

    After over 36 years in prison, movement elder, political prisoner, and revolutionary health worker Mutulu Shakur has been granted parole with less than six months to live.

  • | Over one million Bolivians mobilized in support of President Luis Arces government on August 25 in the face of attempts by far right opposition sectors in Santa Cruz to destabilize the national government using the Population and Housing Census as pretext Photo Luis ArceTwitter | MR Online

    Bolivian president issues warning about destabilization attempts

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 4, 2022 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    The far-right opposition in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department has been seeking to destabilize the socialist government of President Luis Arce using the Population and Housing Census as pretext.

  • | In several cities across the United States residents struggle with system wide neglect of water systems and the failure of the government to provide access to what is arguably the most essential resource | MR Online

    Environmental racism is poisoning the waters in the U.S.

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 18, 2022 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2022)

    Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.

  • | Since August 22 hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been demonstrating against chronic gang violence poverty food insecurity inflation and fuel shortages and demanding de facto President Ariel Henrys resignation Photo Radyo RezistansFacebook | MR Online

    Haitians intensify protests against foreign military intervention, while US seeks authorization for “international mission”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 18, 2022 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Oct 20, 2022)

    Citizens flooded the streets across Haiti in rejection of President Ariel Henry’s request for international military assistance, demanding that foreign powers stop interfering in Haiti

  • | Cuba in the eye of Washingtons hurricane | MR Online

    Cuba in the eye of Washington’s hurricane

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 13, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States has been at odds with the island’s independent path.

  • | Relief work in Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian Photo José Manuel CorreaGranma | MR Online

    How Cuba is dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Ian

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 5, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The day before Hurricane Ian hit Cuba, 50,000 people were evacuated and taken to 55 shelters. By October 1, less than five days after landfall, 82% of the residents of Havana had their power restored with work ongoing for the western part of the island.

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