🇨🇴 What is happening in Catatumbo?
Fighting in the region has provoked a humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands displaced and dozens killed. The roots of this current crisis are deep and the implications are serious, with Petro announcing last week that he was suspending the peace process with the ELN.
The sensitive situation in Colombia represents a threat to the wellbeing and safety of the communities of Catatumbo, which for decades have suffered the impacts of the internal armed conflict, and threatens to completely upend a peace process that is decades in the making.
Given that the situation is actively unfolding and the guns are still hot, there are many elements that are difficult to verify or know with certainty. This is some of what we know so far.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/24/colombias-fragile-peace-ruptures-in-catatumbo/
Fighting in the region has provoked a humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands displaced and dozens killed. The roots of this current crisis are deep and the implications are serious, with Petro announcing last week that he was suspending the peace process with the ELN.
The sensitive situation in Colombia represents a threat to the wellbeing and safety of the communities of Catatumbo, which for decades have suffered the impacts of the internal armed conflict, and threatens to completely upend a peace process that is decades in the making.
Given that the situation is actively unfolding and the guns are still hot, there are many elements that are difficult to verify or know with certainty. This is some of what we know so far.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/24/colombias-fragile-peace-ruptures-in-catatumbo/
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🇮🇳 VIJOO KRISHNAN speaks to Peoples Dispatch about the farmers' struggle in India.
"The defeat that the [BJP government] suffered at the hands of the united farmers movement, with the working class supporting us, they take it as an insult [and] that is conditioning many of their policies today."
Krishnan is the General Secretary of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and a Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M).
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"The defeat that the [BJP government] suffered at the hands of the united farmers movement, with the working class supporting us, they take it as an insult [and] that is conditioning many of their policies today."
Krishnan is the General Secretary of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and a Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M).
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🇮🇳 VIJOO KRISHNAN speaks to Peoples Dispatch about the farmers' struggle in India.
"The defeat that the [BJP government] suffered at the hands of the united farmers movement, with the working class supporting us, they take it as an insult [and] that is conditioning…
"The defeat that the [BJP government] suffered at the hands of the united farmers movement, with the working class supporting us, they take it as an insult [and] that is conditioning…
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Kenya has deployed another batch of 217 police officers to Haiti, adding to the 400 sent last year as part of a “multinational mission” aimed at addressing the country’s deepening crisis of gang violence.
The intervention aims to protect critical infrastructure and conduct “targeted operations” alongside the Haitian National Police, however, there are significant doubts about its effectiveness in resolving the systemic challenges plaguing Haiti.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/24/kenya-deploys-200-more-police-officers-to-haiti-as-crisis-escalates/
The intervention aims to protect critical infrastructure and conduct “targeted operations” alongside the Haitian National Police, however, there are significant doubts about its effectiveness in resolving the systemic challenges plaguing Haiti.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/24/kenya-deploys-200-more-police-officers-to-haiti-as-crisis-escalates/
Peoples Dispatch
Kenya deploys 200 more police officers to Haiti as crisis escalates
Kenya’s ongoing intervention in Haiti faces growing doubts amid escalating crisis and humanitarian challenges.
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🇵🇸 We express our total solidarity to Ali Abunimah, the executive director of the indispensable outlet Electronic Intifada who was just arrested in Zurich, Switzerland ahead of a speaking event.
Since it was founded over 20 years ago, EI has provided consistent and rigorous coverage of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and against the Israeli occupation.
Abunimah’s arrest takes place in the context of increased repression of activists and journalists in the Palestine solidarity movement across Europe. Just a few months ago, the home of EI’s associate editor, Asa Winstanley, was raided by British counterterrorism police.
As a media outlet committed to justice and true press freedom, we express our unwavering solidarity with Ali and Electronic Intifada.
Since it was founded over 20 years ago, EI has provided consistent and rigorous coverage of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and against the Israeli occupation.
Abunimah’s arrest takes place in the context of increased repression of activists and journalists in the Palestine solidarity movement across Europe. Just a few months ago, the home of EI’s associate editor, Asa Winstanley, was raided by British counterterrorism police.
As a media outlet committed to justice and true press freedom, we express our unwavering solidarity with Ali and Electronic Intifada.
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Donald Trump’s push to withdraw from the WHO raises budgetary concerns, but signals cautious hope for strengthening Global South voices in the forum.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/25/trump-bids-who-goodbye-what-comes-next/
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/25/trump-bids-who-goodbye-what-comes-next/
Peoples Dispatch
Trump bids WHO goodbye: what comes next?
Donald Trump’s push to withdraw from the WHO raises budgetary concerns, but signals cautious hope for strengthening Global South voices in the forum
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As Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy expire this year, one of his first orders of business as president is to order an extension.
Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) effectively allowed the ultra-wealthy to hoard USD 2 trillion in wealth.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/24/trumps-tax-cuts-on-wealthy-may-increase-the-same-budget-deficit-he-seeks-to-reduce/
Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) effectively allowed the ultra-wealthy to hoard USD 2 trillion in wealth.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/24/trumps-tax-cuts-on-wealthy-may-increase-the-same-budget-deficit-he-seeks-to-reduce/
Peoples Dispatch
Trump’s tax cuts on wealthy may increase the same budget deficit he seeks to reduce
Trump’s planned extension to his first administration’s tax cuts to the wealthy could add trillions to the federal deficit. Republicans plan to pay for this off the backs of the working class.
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On January 22, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a ruling on the disappearance, torture, and subsequent murder of four children in Guayaquil at the end of last year.
In a statement, the Court declared: “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the disappearance and subsequent murder and incineration of the bodies of 11-year-old Steven Medina and adolescents Josué Arroyo, 14, Saúl Arboleda and Ismael Arroyo, 15, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/26/iachr-condemns-the-murder-and-torture-of-the-four-children-in-guayaquil/
In a statement, the Court declared: “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the disappearance and subsequent murder and incineration of the bodies of 11-year-old Steven Medina and adolescents Josué Arroyo, 14, Saúl Arboleda and Ismael Arroyo, 15, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.”
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/26/iachr-condemns-the-murder-and-torture-of-the-four-children-in-guayaquil/
Peoples Dispatch
IACHR condemns the murder and torture of the four children in Guayaquil
The ruling calls for the urgent clarification of the crime and strongly requests that the Ecuadorian State protect the lives of all people, regardless of their social or ethnic status.
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🇵🇸 Palestinians are returning to northern Gaza following an agreement in the ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are making the journey by foot back to the north. The area was one of the hardest hit during the 15 months of Israel's genocide and during the last months before the ceasefire, the north was under a near total siege and cut off from aid and essential supplies.
Though they return to leveled buildings and destruction, the return of Palestinians to their land is hailed as a victory against attempts by the Israeli occupation to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians are making the journey by foot back to the north. The area was one of the hardest hit during the 15 months of Israel's genocide and during the last months before the ceasefire, the north was under a near total siege and cut off from aid and essential supplies.
Though they return to leveled buildings and destruction, the return of Palestinians to their land is hailed as a victory against attempts by the Israeli occupation to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
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On the afternoon of Saturday, January 25, Palestinian journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland, ahead of a speaking event.
According to a statement released by Swiss Action for Human Rights, Abunimah “was violently and forcibly taken by unidentified individuals in civilian clothing while walking on the streets of Zurich,” and is now being held in administrative detention and awaiting possible deportation on Monday, January 27.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/global-outcry-following-detention-of-palestinian-journalist-ali-abunimah/
According to a statement released by Swiss Action for Human Rights, Abunimah “was violently and forcibly taken by unidentified individuals in civilian clothing while walking on the streets of Zurich,” and is now being held in administrative detention and awaiting possible deportation on Monday, January 27.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/global-outcry-following-detention-of-palestinian-journalist-ali-abunimah/
Peoples Dispatch
Global outcry following detention of Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah
According to a human rights group, Swiss authorities may be preparing to deport Abunimah following his detention on Saturday
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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember Howard Zinn, the US historian who brought the people's perspective to the fore with his groundbreaking book "A People's History of the United States". Zinn was a prolific writer, a renowned socialist intellectual, a veteran of World War II, and popular educator.
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🇨🇩What is happening in Goma?
Media outlets have reported that the M23 forces (proxy of the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) have taken control of the border city, but the fight with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) for control of the city continues.
Congolese researcher and activist Kambale Musavuli writes on the latest developments.
Read more on our website
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/the-battle-for-control-of-goma-continues/
Media outlets have reported that the M23 forces (proxy of the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) have taken control of the border city, but the fight with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) for control of the city continues.
Congolese researcher and activist Kambale Musavuli writes on the latest developments.
Read more on our website
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/the-battle-for-control-of-goma-continues/
Peoples Dispatch
The battle for control of Goma continues
Multiple media reports have stated that the entirety of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, has been taken over by M23, yet the fighting continues as does the war of narratives.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and other farmers’ groups carried out tractor parades in areas across India on the country’s Republic Day.
Their national mobilization was in an effort to continue putting pressure on the central government to respond to their demands.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/farmers-organize-tractor-rallies-across-india-and-issue-ultimatum-to-the-government/
Their national mobilization was in an effort to continue putting pressure on the central government to respond to their demands.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/farmers-organize-tractor-rallies-across-india-and-issue-ultimatum-to-the-government/
Peoples Dispatch
Farmers organize tractor rallies across India and issue ultimatum to the government
In recent months farmers have intensified their struggle against the central government and its policies which favor corporations over the millions of small farmers in India.
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By refusing to acknowledge the full history of Nazism’s defeat in 1945—especially the contributions of the Red Army and communist movements—Europe only fuels the rise of the far-right.
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/european-leaders-rewrite-wwii-history-on-auschwitz-liberation-anniversary/
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/27/european-leaders-rewrite-wwii-history-on-auschwitz-liberation-anniversary/
Peoples Dispatch
European leaders rewrite WWII history on Auschwitz liberation anniversary
As European leaders gathered at Auschwitz to commemorate 80 years since its liberation, they upheld a revisionist narrative that downplays the role of the Red Army in defeating Nazism
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🇨🇴Colombian nationals arrived this morning to Colombia without handcuffs and on a Colombian Air Force plane.
The deportation flight back to Colombia proceeded after President Gustavo Petro had on Sunday refused to receive a flight full of deportees in protest of the inhumane conditions they were subjected to on the US military aircraft. Following this move, US President Donald Trump had threatened to impose high tariffs on Colombia and sanctions on Colombian officials, to which Petro responded that he would do the same. Late on Sunday, the Colombian and US governments announced that they had resolved the diplomatic impasse and the deportation flights would resume, but with better conditions for migrants.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFYH_g3Pjm_/
The deportation flight back to Colombia proceeded after President Gustavo Petro had on Sunday refused to receive a flight full of deportees in protest of the inhumane conditions they were subjected to on the US military aircraft. Following this move, US President Donald Trump had threatened to impose high tariffs on Colombia and sanctions on Colombian officials, to which Petro responded that he would do the same. Late on Sunday, the Colombian and US governments announced that they had resolved the diplomatic impasse and the deportation flights would resume, but with better conditions for migrants.
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The film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’État' explores Belgian colonialism, the CIA and US imperialism, and Pan-Africanist figures such as Nkrumah, Andrée Blouin, and Malcolm X. It captures the spirit of Bandung and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.
Peter Mertens of PTB was in dialogue with the film's director Johan Grimonprez about the film and the historical moment it is focused on.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/28/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat-neocolonialism-and-resistance/
Peter Mertens of PTB was in dialogue with the film's director Johan Grimonprez about the film and the historical moment it is focused on.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/28/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat-neocolonialism-and-resistance/
Peoples Dispatch
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État: neocolonialism and resistance
Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, his powerful exploration of Congo’s decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader and author of Mutiny.
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#PeoplesHistory | Today we remember the Cuban independence leader and writer José Martí, who was born in 1853.
Martí was Cuban poet, thinker and an important figure in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain. Through his writings, he became a symbol of liberation and independence for all Latin Americans, reaching the heights of Simón Bolivar and Augusto Sandino. Martí coined the concept of "Our America", a political, social, cultural, and economic alternative to the America subjugated by US imperialism.
Martí was Cuban poet, thinker and an important figure in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain. Through his writings, he became a symbol of liberation and independence for all Latin Americans, reaching the heights of Simón Bolivar and Augusto Sandino. Martí coined the concept of "Our America", a political, social, cultural, and economic alternative to the America subjugated by US imperialism.
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