A popular referendum began in Brazil on July 1, with the aim of mobilizing the Brazilian population to vote on two issues central to the lives of workers:
Ending the 6×1 scale (six days of work and one day of rest)
Taxing the super-rich

📲 Read the full article by Brasil de Fato on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/06/popular-referendum-in-brazil-launches-vote-for-taxing-the-super-rich-and-reducing-working-hours/

🌍Historic speech by MST leader at the BRICS Summit

João Pedro Stedile, leader of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), delivered a landmark address at the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro — the first time that there was civil society participation in a heads-of-state session in the summit’s history.

Speaking on behalf of the BRICS Civil Council — referred to in Brazil as the “Popular Council” — Stedile presented policy proposals developed by seven thematic working groups focused on health, education, ecology, culture, finance, digital sovereignty, and human rights. Over 120 organizations contributed to the process, with key demands compiled into a document submitted to BRICS leaders.

The MST leader warned that the world is facing a serious crisis of Western-led global governance, threatening democracy and national sovereignty. “If we are to save human civilization,” Stedile stated, “we must build new mechanisms of international cooperation.”

📲 Read more about the BRICS Summit on our website

Heads of state from the BRICS countries gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 6-7 for their 17th summit.

At the summit, BRICS countries denounced the attempts by the United States to undermine global trade by waging a tariff war. They called for strengthening multilateral forums and international laws to create a more equitable global order, in a joint declaration adopted during the summit.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/in-17th-brics-summit-members-reiterate-commitments-to-multilateralism-and-international-law/

In recent years, the Israel Prison Service (also known as Shabas) has used severe torture and deliberate medical neglect as repressive measures against Palestinian prisoners.

Another Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli jails, raising the death toll to 73, while the freedom of released prisoners has been restrained by regular persecution campaigns.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/israel-escalates-crackdown-on-palestinian-prisoners-movement/

On the day the proscription of the direct action group Palestine Action took effect in Britain, Counter Terrorism police in London arrested 27 people during a peaceful protest.

Demonstrators held signs reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action,” in front of a monument to non-violent resistance figure Mahatma Gandhi. Among those arrested were an 80-year-old priest and several public services workers, fueling widespread disbelief at Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s intensifying crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/london-police-arrest-peaceful-protesters-as-palestine-action-ban-takes-effect/

In Bangkok, there were familiar scenes as Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suspended on 1 July by the kingdom’s Constitutional Court in what many interpret as yet another judicial coup against the party which forms the beating heart of Thailand’s long-running Red Shirt Movement.

📲 Read the full article by Kay Young on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/more-shakeups-in-the-thai-government/

From “economy of occupation” to “economy of genocide”

The United Nations published a report exposing the involvement of over 60 multinational companies in Israel’s illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the ongoing genocide in the besieged Gaza strip.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/the-genocide-industry-un-rapporteur-exposes-over-60-companies-complicit-in-israels-crimes-against-palestinians/

With over 100 confirmed fatalities, including 28 children, from a massive flash flood in central Texas, the state is reeling from one of the deadliest flooding disasters in the last century.

“The reality is that information just did not get disseminated in a way that communicated any sort of urgency to the people on the ground,” said Brianna Griffith, a community organizer based in Texas, who is coordinating a community-based response network to fill in gaps in the state and federal government response.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/every-man-for-himself-texas-reels-in-wake-flash-floods-and-90-death-toll-as-trump-plans-to-slash-federal-disaster-response/

🇧🇷 Brazilian President and co-founder of BRICS, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spoke at the 17th BRICS summit to promote a new development paradigm that comes from the Global South and avoids the current capitalist system that, as Marx said, "tends to destroy its two sources of wealth: nature and human beings."

A new wave of tensions has emerged between Bogotá and Washington. Both Petro and Trump have announced that they are withdrawing their respective chargé d’affaires in each other’s countries in the aftermath of reports of a possible coup plot against Gustavo Petro.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/new-tensions-between-bogota-and-washington-over-coup-plot-reveal/

🇵🇸 Ghassan Kanafani on class struggle and why the Palestinian people continue to fight for their liberation.

On this day in 1972, Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut.

As trash piles up on the streets of Philadelphia, nearly 10,000 city workers in Philly’s largest union have more than proven how essential they are to making their city run.

The slogan of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District 33 (AFSCME DC 33), which is leading the strike, is “Philadelphia works because we do”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/philadelphia-works-because-we-do-one-week-into-strike-philly-city-workers-flex-collective-power/

Ten new countries joined the grouping as “observers” despite US President Donald Trump calling BRICS “anti-American” and threatening 10% additional tariffs on those aligning with it.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/brics-warns-unilateral-tariffs-harm-global-development-as-trump-threatens-economic-bloc/

Economist says UN statement is ”scaremongering” to pave the way for a new military intervention in the Caribbean country.

📲 Read the full article by Rodrigo Durão on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/gangs-dont-control-areas-in-port-au-prince-they-attack-and-leave-says-haitian-economist/

Under the cover of industrial development, the Karnataka state government is forcibly acquiring thousands of fertile acres of farmland for real estate profiteering, farmer leader Yashavantha told Peoples Dispatch.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/farmers-near-victory-after-almost-2000-days-of-protest-against-land-acquisition-in-southern-india/

Thousands of people across Serbia continue to take to the streets, demanding snap elections, an end to police harassment, and the release of activists arrested and detained over the past week.

Their demands stem from the deadly collapse of a railway canopy in Novi Sad that killed over a dozen people – and from the structural failings that made the disaster possible.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/protests-persist-in-serbia-in-face-of-police-repression/

Israeli Prime Minister supports Trump’s plan for mass displacement of Palestinians and nominates US leader for Nobel Peace Prize.

The controversial visit has been met with protests from pro-Palestine and anti-imperialist organizations in Washington DC.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/israeli-pm-netanyahu-back-in-the-us-capital-defying-icc-arrest-warrant/