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/

Japan is heading for a snap general election on Sunday, February 8 less than two years since the last elections were held in October 2024 with polls predicting an easy win for the incumbent conservative alliance led by Sanae Takaichi.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/06/trump-endorses-right-wing-takaichi-as-japan-heads-to-the-polls-on-february-8/

On Sunday, February 8, Pakistan will observe a rare national strike in opposition to the policies of the Shehbaz Sharif-led government and to demand the immediate release of former prime minister Imran Khan.

The strike is called by Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan (Movement for the Protection of the Constitution of Pakistan or TTAP), an alliance of various parties led by the country’s main opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI).

The strike will coincide with the second anniversary of the 2024 National Assembly elections which PTI and others claim were rigged against PTI.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/04/pakistan-prepares-for-national-strike-in-defense-of-democratic-rights-and-for-release-of-imran-khan/

Three weeks after the Trump administration had announced the launch of phase two of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza continues.

At least 24 Palestinians, including seven children, were killed in multiple assaults waged by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in different parts of the Gaza Strip.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/israel-continues-to-violate-gaza-ceasefire-after-the-us-announced-the-launch-of-phase-two/

Unlike social democratic projects in the West, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has set out to fundamentally transform society and build a socialist project rooted in class struggle and run by its people.

That means that the social advances are also tied to a process of raising consciousness among the population, whereby people become the protagonists of their own struggle in a process that ultimately seeks to give them the power and tools to run the country, replacing the bourgeois state with a communal one.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/how-venezuela-poses-an-unusual-and-extraordinary-threat-to-the-us-agenda/