On Thursday, June 12, news broke that the remaining eight activists from the Freedom Flotilla who were detained on Monday, June 9, were being deported back to their home countries. Their deportation took place after reports emerged that two activists had been placed in solitary confinement and started hunger strikes.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/freedom-flotilla-activists-deported-after-waging-hunger-strikes-and-facing-solitary-confinement/

Shipping giant Maersk faces growing pressure as reports highlight its role in supply of F-35 parts to Israel.

On June 11, hundreds of activists from Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) occupied the lobby of shipping giant Maersk’s headquarters in New York to protest the company’s ongoing involvement in, and support for, Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/maersk-faces-growing-pressure-for-supporting-israels-genocide-in-gaza/

🇵🇸"My message to Israel is: you can jail us, you can send us away, you can give me a 100 year ban, but you will never exist so long that I will not see the face of Palestine again."

Yasmine Acar, a member of the Madleen 12, just arrived in Germany after being illegally detained by Israel and has pledged to continue the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and to end the siege on Gaza.

Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in the early hours of Friday, June 13, which targeted dozens of sites allegedly related to Iran’s nuclear program across the country, including in the capital Tehran.

Shortly after the aggression was launched, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video, announcing that the strikes are part of “Operation Rising Lion”, which aims at “rolling back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival.”

“This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat,” Netanyahu added.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/israel-launches-comprehensive-airstrikes-against-iran-warns-operation-will-last-days/

Israel’s unprovoked attacks on Iran have been met with global condemnation.

Several top Iranian military officials, nuclear scientists, and civilians were killed in large scale military strikes. More than 70 were killed in the attacks according to local sources.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/13/iran-announces-imminent-retaliation-to-israeli-aggression-claims-us-is-equally-responsible/

The military operation against so-called Maoist groups in the mineral rich central India is widely seen as a move to clear all forms of opposition to colonization and resource grabbing in the region.

Accusing the armed forces of misusing their powers and acting outside the law in the name of fighting insurgents, the left parties also demanded that all alleged Maoist leaders in custody be brought before a court and tried according to the rule of law.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/indian-state-accused-of-extrajudicial-killings-and-aiding-resource-plunder-under-pretense-of-anti-maoist-crackdown

🇵🇸"We don't need heroes in today's world. We need solidarity, courage, affection, love, and humanity."


Thiago Ávila, one of the Madleen 12, arrived back to Brazil after being detained when Israel intercepted the Freedom Flotilla. During his detention, he placed in solitary confinement by Israel and embarked on a hunger strike against conditions in the prison.

Ávila and others who have been deported have declared that the struggle against Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza continues.

📚✏️Hundreds march in Newcastle in defense of public education

The University and College Union organized a massive national demonstration in response to Newcastle University management’s threat to cut hundreds of jobs.

📹Watch the full report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9k4UTpTSc

The Trump administration is refusing to release detained pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil – despite a court order blocking his detention.

Instead of releasing Khalil on Friday, the Trump administration shifted their rationale for his continued detention. Khalil’s detention is now based on “other grounds,” relating more specifically to Khalil’s immigration status. These allegations were added by the Trump administration more than a week after Khalil’s detention.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/14/trump-administration-refuses-to-release-mahmoud-khalil/

🇨🇺As enemies of Cuba try to drum up momentum for regime change, Cuba's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Cossio asks the question: Could any country do what Cuba has done to sustain itself, advance social development, achieve justice for all, ensure public peace, and even practice solidarity while under a suffocating blockade?

"The recent shock among many countries at the US government’s tariff measures provides a very faint and comparatively insignificant signal of the damaging effect that that country’s coercive measures can have." de Cossio notes.

Read his full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/13/could-any-nation-survive-what-cuba-endures/