🇻🇪🇧🇷 “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.

📲 Read the full article by Eduardo Rodríguez on our website.⬇
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/

The struggle of the Cuban people to keep their lights on is a fundamental struggle for the right of all peoples to determine their destiny, free from the coercion of an empire that confuses dominance with security and mistakes cruelty for strength. As in the past, Cubans will collectively rise to the challenge in order to not only survive, but overcome the blockade.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/31/from-blockade-to-asphyxiation-the-us-war-on-cuba-enters-its-most-brutal-phase/

“If the American side is truly seeking negotiations and genuine diplomacy it must abandon provocative and escalatory measures and demonstrate in practice its commitment to the path of dialogue,” Pezeshkian told his Pakistani counterparts, Shehbaz Sherif and Qatari Sheikh Hamad Bin Thani, during separate phone conversations.

US President Donald Trump has revived threats of military strikes on Iran reverting back to the issue of its nuclear program weeks after violent protests in the country subsided.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/31/iran-says-if-attacked-militarily-its-response-will-not-be-limited/

Europe’s militarization drive is gathering pace, with Germany leading the charge. People’s Health Dispatch spoke with Manuel Funk and Nadja Rakowitz from the Association of Democratic Doctors (Verein demokratischer Ärzt*innen, vdää*) about the consequences for the health system and for people’s right to health.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/31/militarization-is-spreading-through-germanys-health-sector/

On a cold January morning in Berlin, around 200 mourners gathered to bid farewell to Victor Grossman, the American-born socialist journalist and author who defected from the US Army in 1952 and spent the rest of his life in Germany.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/01/internationalist-victor-grossman-laid-to-rest-in-berlin/

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem warned in a televised speech that his group is concerned “to carry out all the procedures and make all the preparations to confront” the intended US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/01/hezbollah-vows-to-respond-if-iran-is-attacked/

News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be among United States institutions accompanying Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Winter Olympic Games in Italy in February has sparked indignation across the region.

Since the information was first published, the Left in the European Parliament has called for an EU-wide travel ban, while Milan’s local authorities stated that the US agency is “a militia that kills” and therefore not welcome in the city.

“The mass response we are seeing in the US, with the general strike in Minneapolis and demonstrations across the country, signals the deep crisis the ruling class is facing there, just as it is in Europe,” wrote Marta Collot of Potere al Popolo on social media.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/29/announcement-of-ice-presence-at-italys-winter-olympics-exposes-europes-own-anti-migrant-policies/

“This decisive measure follows a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice which pose a direct challenge to South Africa’s sovereignty,” said a media statement by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO).

“These violations include the repeated use of official Israeli social media platforms to launch insulting attacks against His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, and a deliberate failure to inform DIRCO of purported visits by senior Israeli officials.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/01/south-africa-expels-israeli-ambassador-israel-retaliates-by-expelling-south-africas-ambassador-to-palestine/

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva calls for Latin American unity in the face of US unilateralism. Latin America and the Caribbean today faces intensified threats of war, sanctions, and meddling by its northern neighbor, yet the countries are still unable to forge unity and confront them.

Lula was speaking at the International Economic Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean in Panama City.

For people in the United States, understanding this situation requires a break with their own government’s extreme violence towards Cuba. The fuel blockade is not a “policy disagreement.” It is an act of economic terrorism designed to foment hunger, suffering, and instability until a sovereign government abdicates. Cuba’s steadfastness, against all odds, remains a powerful testament to the fact that even the most powerful empire cannot extinguish the desire for dignity and self-determination.

📲 Read the full article by Manolo de los Santos on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/02/trumps-ultimatum-to-cuba-fuel-or-surrender/

As Thailand goes to the polls, three visions compete: one which experiments in strange new populist economics, one which critiques from the seminar room, and one paying to keep the countryside quiet. In the Thai election, scheduled for February 8, we can see the Global South’s political laboratory in microcosm.

📲 Read the full article by Kay Young on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/02/thailand-general-election-2026/

Around 50,000 people mobilized in Turin against the forced closure of the social center Askatasuna and the increasingly repressive policies of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government. Authorities deployed hundreds of police officers, who used tear gas and physical force against demonstrators during the march.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/02/partisan-turin-rises-against-militarization-and-repression/

One month after the attack, US authorities have resumed their imperialist rhetoric. Venezuelan authorities have been forced to change the historic course of the Venezuelan oil industry under threat of a second attack.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/02/one-month-after-the-attack-on-venezuela-the-resurgence-of-imperialist-diplomacy/