A proposal was recently introduced by the Karnataka state government, where India’s major IT companies are located, to increase the maximum working hours from 10 to 12, despite opposition from trade unions.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/20/unproductive-and-hazardous-it-workers-in-india-resist-increase-in-hours/

🇯🇴🇵🇸 Jordanian left leader speaks out against political persecution after release from detention.

Dr. Issam Khawaja, Deputy General Secretary of the Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party and pediatric neurologist, was released from detention earlier this week after his arrest on June 4.

In a reception held after his release, Dr. Issam confirmed that he was arrested for expressing his political stance in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people, glorifying resistance movements in the West Asia region, and demanding that the Jordanian regime cut ties and cancel agreements with Israel, including the Wadi Araba (peace treaty) and the gas deal.

Pro-Palestine activist and Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil has finally been released from ICE custody on June 20 – following over three months of detention. He was forced to languish in ICE detention over 1,000 miles away from his wife, Noor Abdalla, with immigration authorities denying his request to be by Abdalla’s side for the birth of their first child.

Upon release from the GEO Group-run ICE detention center, Khalil briefly addressed reporters. “Trump and his administration, they chose the wrong person for this,” Khalil said. But no one “should be detained for actually protesting a genocide, for protesting their university, Columbia University, that is investing in the genocide of the Palestinian people,” he told reporters.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/20/justice-will-prevail-pro-palestine-activist-mahmoud-khalil-released-from-ice-custody/

Despite the absence of any concrete evidence, the United States and the Israeli entity continuously vilified Iran’s nuclear development.


📲 Read the full article by Israa Akil, which was first published in Al-Akhbar English on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/20/israeli-strikes-on-iran-expose-international-nuclear-hypocrisy/

After more than 50 days of protests, the strike in Panama continues. The resistance of workers, doctors, teachers, students, and the population overall, has surprised many supporters of the right-wing president, José Raúl Mulino, who expected the actions of the protesters to wane after a couple of weeks.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/20/labor-wins-and-increased-repression-50-days-of-panamas-national-strike/

Iran claims IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi facilitated Israeli aggressions by preparing a “biased” report on its nuclear program. It demands IAEA end actions against Israel as per the NPT and UN principles.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/20/unsc-inaction-against-israel-may-collapse-global-nuclear-non-proliferation-system-says-iran/

Activists issue call to stand in solidarity with immigrants experience workplace raids by calling in sick to work on July 1.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/20/echoing-the-2006-day-without-an-immigrant-activists-call-for-mass-sickout-to-protest-ice-raids/

The US-NATO destruction of the Libyan state (2011) and this US-Israeli attack on Iran now proves to countries across the Global South that if they want to protect their sovereignty then building up a conventional army is insufficient.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/22/the-us-strikes-on-iran-will-increase-nuclear-weapons-proliferation/

In the wake of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Stephanie Weatherbee Brito of the International Peoples’ Assembly emphasizes the need for popular forces to take to the streets and oppose imperialist aggression in the West Asia region.

She writes: “If there is to be a defeat of US imperialism, it will come from the mobilization of people – from workers, students, peasants, and revolutionaries around the world. Anti-imperialist states may be allies, but they will not be enough to undo the unipolar order. The agency, the initiative, and the responsibility to resist lies with us. Relying on others to fight our battles is folly. Let’s organize. Let’s mobilize. The struggle is ours.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/21/war-on-iran-the-us-quest-for-regime-change-and-unipolar-hegemony/

“If capitalism doesn’t resolve the crisis, people might remember socialism,” reflected Gyula Thürmer of the Hungarian Workers’ Party during a discussion on the far right in Europe. Thürmer was speaking at the Fascism Back in Europe? conference, organized by the Zetkin Forum in Berlin from June 20-22. His comment encapsulated one of the lingering themes of the conference: how the economic crisis, corporate domination, and historical revisionism are fueling the rise of authoritarian and far-right forces across both Eastern and Western Europe.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/22/capitalism-is-feeding-the-far-right-in-east-and-west-europe/

🚩Belgian MEP Marc Botenga condemns the illegal US attack on Iran during the mass march against NATO in The Hague.

Health workers, trade unions, and activists rallied outside the European Parliament in Brussels, demanding concrete action against the daily attacks by Israeli occupation forces on Gaza's healthcare system.

"As representatives of health workers and associations active in the sector, we are outraged by what our colleagues and the Palestinian people are enduring," the unions' joint statement read.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/22/health-trade-unions-urge-eu-to-act-on-attacks-against-gazas-healthcare/

"The US bombing of Iran is a criminal act"

On Sunday, thousands rallied at The Hague to protest the upcoming NATO Summit. Protesters denounced the US bombing of Iran and called for an end to US aggression across the world. Protests and rallies have been taking place across Europe to criticize the demand by the US for member states to increase military spending and the EU's call to "rearm" Europe.

In yet another assertion of sovereignty, the government of Niger announced that it would nationalize the Somaïr uranium venture, wresting control from the multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation Orano.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/23/niger-to-nationalize-uranium-to-wrest-control-over-its-resource-from-france/

🇵🇸“Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian who refused to remain silent”

Two days after being released from ICE custody, pro-Palestine activist and Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil was back on the streets outside of the University, surrounded by a crowd of hundreds of supporters.2

"The Israeli-US war on Iran is not merely a battle between states; it is a confrontation between two visions of world order."

📲 Read the full article by Peiman Salehi on our website⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/23/clash-of-two-world-orders-hegemony-vs-sovereignty/

“The world has completely forgotten the crisis in Sudan” where “a slow death” has become the plight of millions, decried Adam Rojal, spokesperson of the General Coordination of Darfur Displaced People and Refugees.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/23/now-in-its-third-year-war-in-sudan-is-is-far-from-over/

On Monday afternoon, US President Donald Trump posted a confusing message on his social media platform, Truth Social, claiming that a ceasefire had been agreed to by Israel and Iran.

The ceasefire announcement came less than 48 hours after the US joined Israel’s unprovoked aggression on Iran, striking its nuclear sites.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/24/trump-announces-ceasefire-after-irans-retaliatory-attack-on-largest-us-military-base-in-west-asia/