Jordan’s General Intelligence Department (GID) announced on Tuesday, April 15 that it foiled a plot which aimed at “targeting national security, sowing chaos, sabotaging and causing material damage” within the country.

The plot is linked to a cell allegedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which a Jordanian court ordered to dissolve in 2020.

Read more ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/16/jordan-says-it-foiled-plot-that-threatened-national-security/

“The primary responsibility of the government is to improve the quality of life of the people,” claimed Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of the state, in a public function last week.

India’s southern state of Kerala has announced that by November this year, it will have eradicated extreme poverty in the state by lifting thousands of families out of destitution.

It will be the first Indian state to achieve this milestone, which the state’s communist government has hailed as a key step in Kerala’s path toward inclusive development.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/16/communist-led-kerala-soon-to-become-indias-first-state-free-of-extreme-poverty/

🇵🇸🕊️⛓️‍💥"For us, every day is the prisoner’s day, every minute and every hour."

Families of prisoners, freed prisoners, activists, and members of Palestinian organizations gathered to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners' Day in Ramallah.

PD's Aseel Saleh spoke to family members of prisoners who shared about the difficult conditions that prisoners face and called for their immediate release.

🇮🇳Donald Trumps' tariff threats reveal "extreme perversity" of US policy.

Surajit Mazumdar, Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) at India's Jawaharlal Nehru University, spoke about the economic relations between India and the US in light of the recent "reciprocal tariff" threats by Trump and why the US calculation is completely off-base.

🌾April 17 marks the International Day of Peasant Struggle, which honors the 21 rural workers murdered by the military police on this day in the 1996 Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Pará, Brazil.

The date has been adopted by international organizations like La Via Campesina to honor the struggle of peasant communities across the world for land, to produce food, and protect the environment. This year, LVC declared: "From Carajás to Gaza: Peasant Struggles Are Global — To Defend Land, Water, and Territories for Life!"

🌏 70 years since the Bandung Afro-Asia Conference, Marco Fernandes (@marcof1871) examines the pivotal role of China, namely diplomat Zhou Enlai, in advancing the unity of Global South nations in that historic moment.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/we-will-continue-to-meet-what-is-chinese-in-the-bandung-spirit/

🇸🇻What is CECOT, El Salvador's mega prison?

Salvadoran activist Marisel Ramírez says, it "is nothing more than an extermination prison for the poor."

Read more about the prison at the center of the alliance between Trump & Bukele⬇️

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/cecot-bukeles-mega-prison-where-the-only-way-out-is-in-a-coffin/

The Patriotic Movement of the AES Diaspora organized a demonstration in Naples, Italy to express support for the AES countries and their projects and to condemn media distortion.

“For too long, the people of the AES haven’t had the chance to speak for themselves. It’s as if everyone was allowed to speak about us, while we were never given a voice,” the Patriotic Movement’s secretary Bouyagui Konate told Peoples Dispatch.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/sahel-diaspora-groups-rally-in-support-of-aes-and-to-challenge-europes-media-colonialism/

Universities are facing mounting pressure from the Trump administration which has been issuing a list of ultimatums under threats of withholding funding and revoking tax status.

Harvard’s response to the demands was markedly different to Columbia’s. On April 14, Harvard’s President Alan M. Garber issued a bold response: Harvard would “not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

Harvard PSC responded to President Garber’s defiance of Trump, stating that, “Harvard has rightfully rejected Trump’s fascist, heightened demands. Now it must roll back its repression of Palestine Studies and solidarity orgs.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/18/harvard-refuses-to-comply-with-trump-admin-but-student-activists-call-for-more-bravery/