Two years after declaring an internal armed conflict, the results of Noboa’s government have not been as expected. Faced with this reality, the executive branch promises a new plan to alleviate violence in the country

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http://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/29/noboa-promises-a-new-security-plan-after-the-most-violent-year-in-ecuadors-history/

🇻🇪🇧🇷 “Freedom now for Maduro and Cilia.”

Brazilians took to the streets to demonstrate against the US role in Latin America and especially against the illegal US attack on Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores were captured. Brazilian social movements also demanded that the US stop the destabilization attempts throughout the subcontinent.

“Minnesota showed the country how to respond to these attacks. Now it’s time to spread the spirit of resistance across the country,” said Ibrahim Sugelleh, a Somali community organizer.

Minnesota calls for a nationwide shutdown as organizers cite escalating ICE repression, recent killings, and growing support for a national general strike.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/we-are-winning-minnesota-calls-on-the-country-to-join-january-30-national-shutdown/

“If we don’t take this step, all our other demands will be crushed under war,” Francesco Staccioli of the Italian union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) warned.

Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on February 6 to oppose the growing militarization of transport infrastructure, as well as port management’s and governments’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/dockworkers-in-mediterranean-ports-announce-coordinated-action-against-war/

Less than two weeks after clashes re-erupted between Syria’s interim government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a 14-point ceasefire and full integration deal between both sides was reached.

The repercussions of the infighting between the two parties has once again exposed US foreign policy, which shifts alliances based on temporary interests.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/29/reached-but-breached-the-ceasefire-between-syrias-interim-government-and-sdf/

Puerto Rico’s remilitarization reveals the island’s colonial role in Washington’s war on Venezuela. A legacy that extends through a century of militarism, constitutional colonialism, and resistance.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/puerto-rico-venezuela-and-weaponized-colonialism/

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expressed its firm rejection of the country’s free trade agreement with the European Union (EU). The party called the deal a “wholesale surrender of India’s economic interest to the EU.”

Both the EU and India see the deal as a significant relief in the context of economic pressure from the Donald Trump administration in the US, in the form of the arbitrary use of tariff and trade wars.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/indian-left-opposes-free-trade-agreement-with-eu-calls-it-wholesale-surrender-of-countrys-economic-interests/

Imaam Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, were sentenced to 17 years in prison last week for their social media posts condemning enforced disappearances and false blasphemy accusations in the country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/30/widespread-condemnation-and-protests-against-the-absurd-conviction-of-human-rights-lawyers-in-pakistan/