🇨🇳🇻🇪 China condemns US attacks against Venezuela and violation of the UN Charter

Lin Jian, the spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed the country’s “grave concern” over the US bombing Venezuela and kidnapping President Maduro and his spouse.

Following the shocking invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, African states, social movements, trade unions, and political parties have responded with strong condemnation of the action, while expressing solidarity and support for the people of Venezuela.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/06/africa-voices-outrage-against-us-invasion-of-venezuela-and-kidnapping-of-president-maduro/

🇻🇪🟢🟣Venezuelan women reject US attacks in mass march

Thousands of women took to the streets of Venezuela to denounce the illegal US strikes on their country and demanded the immediate release and return of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the First Combatant, Cilia Flores. They also expressed support for the recently sworn-in acting president Delcy Rodríguez.

In their latest article, Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron analyze the aftermath of the US military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and what comes next

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/the-current-situation-in-venezuela-a-government-in-charge-a-people-resilient/

On January 7, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman in the head in a residential neighborhood in south Minneapolis, firing into her vehicle at point-blank range. The woman was later identified by authorities as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

A neighbor who saw what happened told local MPR news: “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun … and shot her in the face like three, four times.”

Witnesses said she died immediately.

Within hours, federal officials presented a starkly different account from what eyewitnesses reported.

In a tweet on his Truth Social platform, US President Donald Trump accused Good of “violently, willfully, and viciously” running over an ICE agent with her vehicle. The agent then “shot her in self-defense,” he claimed. US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the 37-year-old woman was killed after carrying out an alleged “act of domestic terrorism”.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/ice-killing-in-minneapolis-sparks-mass-outrage/

🇲🇽🇻🇪 “This is a matter of the sovereignty of the people of Venezuela.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her concern over the US aggression on Venezuela as a matter of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan People.

China has reiterated its demand for the immediate release of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, kidnapped by the US during an illegal military aggression last week.

“No country should put domestic rules above international law. China calls on the US to release president Maduro and his wife at once and ensure their personal safety,” said Mao Ning, spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a press conference.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/us-aggression-in-venezuela-seriously-destabilizes-international-order-says-china/

Left parties and rights groups condemned India’s top court on Monday, January 5, after it denied bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam even after spending more than five years in prison without trial.

Progressive groups termed the denial of bail a violation of the fundamental right of liberty, accusing the Narendra Modi-led government of persecuting opposition voices and political dissent.

Both Khalid and Imam were student activists involved in popular mobilizations against amendments in the country’s citizenship law (Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA) brought by the Hindu supremacist, ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in 2019.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/indias-top-court-under-fire-for-denying-bail-to-activists-jailed-for-5-years/

The central committee of the Workers Party of Bangladesh (WPB) has decided to withdraw from the upcoming national elections, scheduled to be held in February.

The party cited the deteriorating law and order in the country and the absence of a level playing field as the main reasons for its decision to not participate in the elections.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/workers-party-of-bangladesh-withdraws-from-upcoming-national-elections-citing-political-persecution/

The People’s Health Movement (PHM) and ALAMES, together representing hundreds of social and health collectives, have joined global calls condemning US attacks on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

“Its purpose is to appropriate the country’s oil, land, and other abundant energy resources, turn Venezuela into a neocolony, and maintain colonial and imperial domination in the region,” the organizations wrote in a joint statement

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/05/global-health-networks-stand-with-venezuela-linking-anti-imperialism-to-struggle-for-health/

​Over 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war that began in April 2023 when the SAF and the RSF, former ruling partners in the military junta, turned on each other, unleashing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the North African country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/65000-displaced-as-fighting-intensifies-in-sudans-kordofan-region/

In this piece, we review the arguments made by members of the United Nations Security Council regarding the US attack on Venezuela on January 3.

The high-level diplomatic meeting was marked by two clearly distinguishable positions: those who supported Washington’s actions and those who rejected them, claiming they violated international law and the South American country’s national sovereignty.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/majority-of-un-security-council-rejects-the-us-attack-on-venezuela/

At least 41 Palestinian students were wounded when the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed the campus of Birzeit University in the northern West Bank governorate of Ramallah and al-Bireh.

Meanwhile, local news network Alersal reported that Palestinian journalists Kareem Khamayeseh and Mutasem Saqf al-Hait were subjected to physical assault by Israeli soldiers during the raid.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/iof-storms-west-banks-birzeit-university-wounding-dozens-of-students/

🇻🇪 “You will never rule us.”

People from Venezuela's commune movement marched in Caracas, Venezuela, on day 5 of the constant mobilizations to reject the US military attack on Venezuela and to demand the immediate return of their president, Nicolás Maduro, and first combatant, Cilia Flores. There are thousands of communal councils organized into communes in states across Venezuela that are responsible for sovereign agricultural production, textile production, and community organization. In the months prior to his kidnapping, Venezuela's government had reiterated the need to strengthen the communes as a necessary step in the transition to socialism.

On January 5, Delcy Rodríguez assumed the presidency of Venezuela. The former vice president swore before parliament that she would uphold the constitution and the sovereignty of the nation after the US attack on January 3, in which the US military took President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores prisoner.

Rodríguez also promised to ensure an administration that guarantees peace for Venezuelans: “[We will build] a government that provides social happiness, political stability, and political security. [I ask all sectors of Venezuelan society to] move Venezuela forward in these terrible times of threat to the stability and peace of the nation.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/08/delcy-rodriguez-swears-to-uphold-sovereignty-of-the-nation-as-acting-president-of-venezuela/

Prime ministers and chancellors across Europe appear increasingly worried that the United States could soon move to occupy Greenland in one form or another, following fresh statements by US President Donald Trump about the territory’s importance to national and international security – code, many agree, for US strategic interests.

“If European leaders apply international law selectively – tough on rivals, permissive toward allies – they undermine the only shield that protects small countries, including themselves,” Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA), warned. “The result is predictable: more blackmail, more sanctions, and more violence as a method of negotiation. Greenland is the next announced victim of this submission.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/fears-persist-in-europe-over-potential-us-move-on-greenland/

A viral AFCON moment featuring a DRC Congo Patrice Lumumba look-alike, has captivated the tournament and brought back memories of Congo’s first revolutionary prime minister

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/08/patrice-lumumba-look-alike-at-afcon-revives-the-revolutionary-icons-legacy/

Several weeks have passed since the right-wing government of Rodrigo Paz announced the end of hydrocarbon subsidies in Bolivia. The measure, implemented through Decree 5503, has sparked protests across the country demanding an end to a measure that they believe will make life more expensive.:

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/07/the-bolivian-proletariat-resists/

The longstanding Gulf allies clashed over one decade since they began their direct military intervention in Yemen, in a bid to eliminate Ansar Allah.

The past few days saw a crucial development in the complex conflict in Yemen after clashes erupted between the Saudi-backed government, known as the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), and the UAE-supported Southern Transitional Council (STC), apparently over territorial control.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/08/tensions-in-yemen-are-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae-becoming-frenemies/

Less than one year after the Syrian interim government announced that it had reached an agreement to integrate Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the state’s institutions, infighting between the two parties re-erupted in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo.

The director of Media at the Aleppo Health Directorate stated on Thursday, January 8, that at least nine people were killed and dozens others wounded as clashes between the SDF and the Syrian government forces continue. The Syrian authorities also reported the displacement of 140,000 people as a result of the unrest, which officials described as the fiercest confrontations between the two sides since they reached the integration agreement in March 2025.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/08/conflict-between-syrias-interim-government-and-sdf-comes-to-the-fore-with-renewed-clashes-in-aleppo/

🇻🇪 “We are fighting against one of the most powerful empires in the history of humanity.”

The people of Venezuela took to the streets of Caracas and other cities for the 6th day in a row in a continuing display of support for the government of the Bolivarian Revolution and to condemn the illegal US attacks and the illegal kidnapping of their President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.