🇹🇳 June 25 marked two years since Tunisian President Kais Saied virtually took over the country in what has come to be called a ‘Presidential coup.’
In a statement released on the anniversary of the Saied’s takeover, the Workers’ Party of Tunisia said that two years later, “the country is on the verge of bankruptcy and is suffering from increasing dependence: very heavy indebtedness, an unprecedented trade deficit, double or close to double-digit inflation, continuous disintegration of production systems etc.” The party noted that this had led to general unemployment, extreme poverty, irregular migration, tens of thousands of people leaving the country, and the scarcity of basic materials, including bread.https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/26/on-second-anniversary-of-presidential-coup-tunisians-resolve-to-continue-resistance/

🇵🇸 On Wednesday, July 26, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders, termed as a war crime the continued attempts of the Israeli occupation to forcefully displace hundreds of Palestinian residents from Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank. It asked the international community to intervene to prevent this.

Israeli occupation forces, who want to build a firing range for military training in the area, have been using various oppressive measures to displace the 1,100 Palestinians living in over a dozen villages in the area for decades now.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/27/doctors-without-borders-call-israels-forceful-eviction-of-palestinians-from-masafer-yatta-a-war-crime/

On July 26, the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, a seminar on 'Fidel and Palestine' was held in New Delhi. It was organized by the National Committee for Solidarity with Cuba.

Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), talked about how revolutionary solidarity and internationalism were an integral part of the spirit of Moncada. The meeting was addressed by the Cuban and Palestinian ambassadors, and leaders of major left parties in India.

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🇸🇻 El Salvador’s Congress passed a reform of the Law Against Organized Crime that increases penalties for people named as leaders of criminal groups and also allows mass trials.

The law allows for provisional detention for up to 24 months without trial. The reform, proposed by President Nayib Bukele, comes in the context of the state of emergency approved in March last year in the Central American country following a wave of violence that Bukele’s government said was caused by a dispute between rival gangs.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/28/el-salvador-authorizes-mass-trials-of-up-to-900-prisoners/

On September 14, union contracts will expire for 144,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) who work at the “Big Three” auto giants Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis.

“The Big Three is our strike target,” Fain said on July 11, days before negotiations opened. “They’ve made a quarter of a trillion dollars in North American profits over the last ten years, and they can afford to make things right for our members.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/31/the-largest-industrial-union-in-the-us-enters-auto-industry-negotiations-with-a-pledge-to-take-on-ceos/

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🇹🇷 Turkish security forces brutally repressed a vigil to protect the Akbelen forest. The vigil began following a government decision on July 24 allowing the private power company YK Energy to clear the forest land for the expansion of a coal mine.
Activists claimed that the clearing of the forest resumed immediately after the police brutality. Internet connectivity has been restricted in the region. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/02/turkish-communist-party-extends-support-to-save-akbelen-forest-from-takeover-by-energy-giant/

🇧🇫 READ the speech given by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the President of Burkina Faso, at the second Russia-Africa Summit, in St. Petersburg.

Traoré declared: “a slave who cannot assume his own revolt does not deserve to be pitied. We do not feel sorry for ourselves, we do not ask anyone to feel sorry for us.” He called on Africans to take up the fight against imperialism and poverty.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/02/a-slave-who-cannot-assume-his-own-revolt-does-not-deserve-to-be-pitied-says-ibrahim-traore-of-burkina-faso/

🇳🇪 Several left and people’s organizations in West Africa have condemned the threat issued by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to militarily intervene with the backing of France and the US to restore the unpopular Mohamed Bazoum to Niger’s presidency.

The West African Peoples’ Organization (WAPO) has “vehemently opposed” the ultimatum by ECOWAS Heads of States on July 30 to “take all measures necessary,” including “the use of force,” if the ousted president and his government is not restored by Sunday, August 6.

This decision of ECOWAS is “a maneuver by colonial France and Great Britain, under the hegemony of American imperialism, to resort to armed intervention under the guise of restoring democracy and human rights in Niger,” WAPO said in a statement on Wednesday, August 2.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/03/peoples-movements-oppose-west-backed-military-intervention-by-ecowas-in-niger/

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🇵🇸 Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian child in the late hours of Tuesday, August 1. Just hours before, a 20-year-old Palestinian man was also killed by them.

The killings come amid rampant Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem earlier in the week.

Earlier in the week, Israeli forces conducted multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, with settler attacks and other acts of violence against Palestinians also being reported.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/04/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-as-raids-continue-across-occupied-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem/