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What led to Imran Khan’s arrest and the political crisis in Pakistan?

May 26, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Taimur Rahman of the Mazdoor Kisan Party explains the current political crisis in Pakistan, where mass protests have broken out following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. He talks about why Imran Khan […]
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Nkosi Mandela speaks on apartheid and the Nakba

May 25, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein
 Upholding the legacy of Malcolm X and commemorating the Palestinian Nakba, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela — grandson of Nelson Mandela — spoke to a gathering at San Francisco State University on May 19. Mandela was […]
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After years of attacking protesters, Sudan’s army and paramilitary RSF turn on each other

May 6, 2023 Pavan Kulkarni and Prasanth Radhakrishnan
More than 500 people have been killed and 4,000 injured since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15. Groups such as the Sudan […]
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Britain’s royal rip-off

May 6, 2023 Michael Roberts
Today in Britain, King Charles III will be crowned in a ‘coronation’.  All the other remaining monarchies in Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) don’t bother with a coronation, but the British monarchy has had a […]
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Ben Dupuy, the revolutionary whose vision and organizations radicalized and formed a generation in Haiti

May 6, 2023 Kim Ives
The second of two parts. (Part 1) Haiti’s Sep. 30, 1991 coup d’état was a challenge that tested and strengthened the organizations in Ben Dupuy’s revolutionary network. Ambassador-at-Large Dupuy was returning from an outreach trip […]
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Ben Dupuy, quintessential Haitian revolutionary leader, dead at 91

April 28, 2023 Kim Ives
Benjamin Dupuy, arguably Haiti’s greatest communist leader and ideologue from the 1970s to the 2010s, passed away in a Miami Beach nursing home on Apr. 23 at the age of 91. He had been extremely […]
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French workers take to the streets as Macron’s pension reform becomes law

April 17, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Spontaneous protests broke out in France on April 14, Friday, after the country’s Constitutional Council ratified the increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64, the most controversial aspect of the pension reforms pushed […]
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U.S. out of the Philippines!

April 15, 2023 Stephen Millies
 New York City’s Times Square was packed on April 10 with a protest against the U.S. military’s latest incursion on Philippine sovereignty. The Pentagon has sent over 12,000 troops to the Philippines for the […]
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Stop the massacres in Peru!

April 5, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha New York bureau
A protest in solidarity with Peru’s Indigenous and poor peoples and against the military and police massacres was held across from the United Nations headquarters in New York City on March 31. Since Peru’s elected […]
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Massive rallies across Portugal demand affordable and dignified housing

April 5, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Housing rights groups and left-wing parties in Portugal have been calling on the government to institute rent caps and fund social housing. They have also opposed the housing program introduced by the government On April […]