🚩Yugoslav partisans honored on 84th anniversary of Igman March

The traditional march pays tribute to the members of the First Proletarian Brigade and the great campaign of the People’s Liberation Army. From January 27-28, 1942, hundreds of partisan fighters crossed Mount Igman in freezing temperatures, to reach liberated territory in Foča, breaking through Nazi encirclement.

The Igman March is remembered as a crucial moment for the Yugoslav resistance in World War II and is often cited as a reminder of the determination and perseverance of the partisans.

After consolidating control over Darfur, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are pushing east into Kordofan, stepping up attacks on El Obeid – a strategic city blocking their return route to the capital, Khartoum.

​Amid the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with 14 million forced to flee their homes and crowd the camps across the country, Sudan is also in the throes of the world’s worst hunger crisis, with over half the population suffering high levels of acute food insecurity.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/03/as-attacks-intensify-in-kordofan-fighting-once-again-threatens-sudans-capital/

🇻🇪 Thousands of Venezuelans demanded "bring them home!" marking one month since the illegal US attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

Mozambique is grappling with one of its worst flood disasters in recent years after weeks of heavy rainfall, compounded by emergency dam water releases, left vast parts of the country submerged, killing several people and affecting hundreds of thousands, according to government and humanitarian agencies.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/03/mozambique-floods-affect-over-500000-as-heavy-rains-devastate-multiple-provinces/

Hundreds of people belonging to Indigenous communities in Dera Ghazi Khan, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, gathered on the banks of Taunsa Barrage on the Indus River to condemn the demolition of their homes by the local authorities and assert their rights of inhabitation.

The gathering was called a Lok Sath (People’s Tribunal), organized by the Sindhu Bachao Tarla (Save Indus Demand) and other organizations.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/03/peoples-tribunal-in-pakistan-holds-government-and-the-world-bank-equally-responsible-for-displacement-and-environmental-damage/

One month after the US attack on Venezuela, dozens of Italian cities once again took to the streets in support of the Bolivarian process, demanding the release of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.

“In response to the United States’ military action, a clear expression of its desire to reassert control over the continent, we once again stand alongside the Bolivarian Revolution […] against US imperialism and to demand the immediate release of Maduro and Flores,” the organizations Cambiare Rotta and OSA wrote on the day.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/04/new-wave-of-solidarity-with-venezuela-sweeps-across-italy/

There were a few surprises on February 1 in the Costa Rican elections. The electorate decided to give its support to right-wing Laura Fernández of the Sovereign People’s Party (PPS), the political heir to fellow right-winger Rodrigo Chaves, who has governed the Central American country for the past four years.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/04/right-wing-triumphs-in-costa-ricas-presidential-race/

“The attack on Niamey Airport amounts to an act of sabotage against Niger, given the airport’s strategic importance and its proximity, second only in security significance to the presidential residence.” Aboubakar Alassane, a Nigerien leader of the anti-imperialist West Africa People’s Organization (WAPO), told People Dispatch.

Nigerien defense and security forces said they thwarted a coordinated militant attack on Diori Hamani International Airport in the capital, Niamey, late last week. Nigerien forces killed 20 assailants, and four soldiers were wounded.

The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming that it had inflicted significant damage on the site. Nigerien authorities said the attackers attempted to infiltrate the airport and airbase, facilities that host key military installations and the headquarters of the Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali Joint Force, a regional mechanism established to combat armed groups operating across the Sahel.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/04/nigerien-forces-thwart-terror-plot-at-niamey-international-airport/

🇦🇷“They are not going to scare us.”

The police in Argentina violently repressed pensioners and their supporters once again in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Pensioners, among the most affected groups in the country, have been regularly protesting against the right-wing government of Argentina and its IMF-backed budget cuts. Many say despite working their entire lives, they now have to decide between buying food or medicine.

Another round of Iran-US talks will begin on Friday, January 6, in Muscat, Oman, confirmed Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday, amidst widespread speculations about possible US military strikes.

The new round of talks are being held amidst a large deployment of US troops to the region and repeated threats issued by US President Donald Trump of a possible military strike.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/iran-and-us-agree-to-fresh-round-of-nuclear-talks-in-oman/

Belgian political leader Peter Mertens writes on how in the US, security forces move into working-class neighborhoods – not into the villas and golf clubs of Epstein or Trump. Words like “monsters” and “death penalty” are reserved for people at the bottom, but as soon as the spotlight is turned upward, the hysteria dissipates.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/trump-ice-and-the-epstein-files/

🇨🇺Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held a press conference to detail the urgent measures being implemented by the Cuban government as the island faces one of its most challenging periods yet.

The US government has openly threatened Cuba and tightened the stranglehold on the Cuban economy with the naval blockade of Venezuela and an executive order calling Cuba a threat to US national security. Key to Cuba's resilience in this moment, detailed the president, is international cooperation, especially in the efforts to make the island energy independent.

The White House’s decisions aim to energetically destroy an island already burdened by a US economic blockade. Several politicians and experts have warned that Trump’s decision could lead to a humanitarian crisis.

Trump’s goal is clear: to overthrow the government in Havana. Following the White House announcement, Trump told the press: “It looks like it won’t be able to survive. Cuba won’t be able to survive.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/the-us-is-using-blackmail-and-coercion-to-intensify-the-blockade-says-cuba/

In a major victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, six Palestine Action activists who faced charges over a break-in at an Elbit Systems plant in Filton, near Bristol, were either acquitted or not convicted of all offenses.

“Despite government efforts to prejudice this trial, citing allegations of violence to justify treating Palestine Action as ‘terrorists,’ as if they were already proved, the jury which heard the evidence has refused to find the defendants guilty of anything, not even criminal damage,” a spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said following the verdict. “It shows how out of step this government is with public opinion, which is revulsed by the Government’s and Elbit’s complicity in genocide.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/british-palestine-solidarity-movement-hails-monumental-victory-as-jury-fails-to-convict-activists/

“We have to keep fighting because right now Haitians are living in a legal limbo and could have their immigration status changed at any point," Haitian-American organizer Rachel Domond told Peoples Dispatch.

People across Ohio, a hub of the Haitian-American community, are gearing up for coordinated statewide actions on Saturday, February 7, against ICE.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/06/haitians-in-the-us-mobilize-against-ice-and-deportation-threats/

Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, announced on Friday, February 6 that his country and the United States agreed to the continuation of talks after the new round of negotiations concluded earlier in the day in the Omani capital Muscat.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/06/araghchi-signals-positive-first-round-of-iranian-us-talks-in-muscat/