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/

🇨🇺“Unity is what gives us strength.”

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke on Thursday, February 5, in a press conference to present the necessary measures that the Cuban revolutionary government is implementing to face the newest round of attacks by the Trump administration. Díaz-Canel expressed the need for unity and debate in the Cuban society and the fundamental necessity of marching together to expose the US attacks on the Caribbean island.

On February 6, dockworkers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports went on strike against war, militarization, and port privatization.

Unionists involved in preparing the action described it as the result of a long and complex process, built on dockworkers’ solidarity with Palestine and their struggles for dignified working conditions at home.

The impact of the strike was felt even before it fully unfolded on February 6, as reports emerged of ships – vessels that regularly transport military cargo to Israel – disrupting their itineraries due to the actions.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/06/mediterranean-dockworkers-launch-historic-international-strike/

Speakers at the 2026 Igman March stressed that resistance to the far right must be unified and universal, conducted on all fronts and confronting the repressive agendas pursued by many governments in the region.

“Today, we take away the lesson of how to recognize fascism, how to identify the threat it poses – so that we can act against it,” said Mirsad Ćatić, president of SABNOR Sarajevo. “As we honor those who fought with weapons in hand against fascism, we also seek inspiration from their spirit of freedom. The Proletarians, the Partisans of that time, understood that the word ‘freedom’ remains just a word unless it is made real – unless it is liberated.”

“We are here not only to learn from the evils of the past, but also to draw inspiration from the freedom-loving spirit of our wise ancestors, and to confront this growing fascism with our own wisdom today,” he added.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/08/thousands-mark-igman-march-anniversary-as-new-fascism-spreads-around-former-yugoslav-republics/

Western leaders are beginning to speak the language of anti-colonialism, despite continuing colonialism at home, as the illusion of the rules-based order continues to crack.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/08/the-hypocrisy-of-a-rules-based-world/

“That’s fascism. It’s driven by the United States, and implemented by Milei in Argentina.”

Argentinians took to the streets to protest against the right-wing government of Javier Milei and its closest ally, the Trump administration in the US. The Argentine people resoundingly rejected Milei's offer to the US to occupy the Ushuaia port in the Argentinian Patagonia and demanded the country's sovereignty be defended.

After months of tense political and diplomatic relations, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, met in Washington on February 3. The threats of military intervention and sarcastic taunting on social media were replaced with expressions of mutual admiration and the exchange of gifts.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/06/petros-visit-to-the-white-house/