Tune in for another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Indian journalist Prasanth R and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they reflect on the recently concluded BRICS summit in Brazil, the resumption of attacks by Ansar Allah on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea, possibilities of a peace deal in Palestine, crackdown on pro-Palestine activists in the UK, and the national strike in India in defense of workers' rights.

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The threat of annihilation of countries by imperialism makes the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe an inevitable reality.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/the-us-makes-most-compelling-case-for-nuclear-proliferation/

🇮🇳250 million went on strike in India!

Workers went on strike answering the call by the Central Trade Unions to protest far-right Modi’s 2020 anti-worker labor codes.

Farmers, students, teachers, and other professionals joined the call, resulting in a major disruption to Indian industries. The 2020 labor codes, propelled by the BJP, strip workers of their rights and directly attack unionization and collective bargaining.

The specter of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/ethnic-cleansing-awaits-north-darfurs-besieged-starving-population-in-war-torn-sudan/

Despite creating waves of disagreement and rifts within Donald Trump’s coalition, the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” appears to have gone as planned.

But while the Trump administration does its victory lap, Republican Party leadership is planning for a potential backlash to the new law, which remains largely unpopular due to proposed cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, as well as the injection of billions of dollars towards expanding ICE detention and immigration enforcement arrests.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/us-republicans-brace-for-voter-rebellion-over-big-beautiful-bill/

Millions took to the streets all over India on Wednesday, July 9, to observe a national strike call made by Central Trade Unions (CTU). They are striking against the anti-worker policies adopted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/

The move is seen as an incentive by the Trump administration for Syria’s interim government to sign a normalization agreement with Israel.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/us-delists-syrias-hts-as-foreign-terrorist-organization/

On July 9, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese.

The announced sanctions on Albanese come just weeks after she released a groundbreaking report titled “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/marco-rubio-sanctions-un-rapporteur-for-criticism-of-israel/

Israel has recruited a number of local gangs to loot aid convoys and incite infighting in Gaza after “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” was frustrated by the Palestinian resistance.

The local armed gang Abu Shabab was branded “traitors for hire” in a statement from the Joint Operations Room of the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/palestinian-resistance-factions-in-gaza-brand-local-abu-shabab-gang-as-traitors-for-hire/

US envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack said that the Hezbollah disarmament issue is “a Lebanese problem”, referring to Hezbollah as both a “political” and a “terrorist” party.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/us-envoy-says-disarmament-issue-is-a-lebanese-problem/

On July 5, nearly 800 people from 17 countries signed a letter addressed to the president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, calling for international observation due to the increasing repression of protests in Panama.

The document, signed by academics, artists, activists, workers, and trade unionists, also points out that the Central American country is witnessing growing criminalization of political dissent, which, according to the document, is reminiscent of the darkest years in its national history. Furthermore, the letter adds that the government is demonstrating an “authoritarian drift”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/repression-of-protests-continues-in-panama/

Since Tuesday, July 1, China and its Hong Kong Administrative Region have been holding celebrations for the 28th anniversary of the island’s return to the Asian giant.

📲 Read the full article by Mauro Ramos on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/hong-kongs-return-is-part-of-a-much-larger-struggle-that-isnt-over-yet-says-chinese-researcher/

“As workers in the aviation sector, we categorically refuse to participate, directly or indirectly, in logistical operations that could contribute to the crimes currently being committed in Gaza,” SUD Aérien stated.

A growing number of logistics and transport workers, along with trade unions across Europe, are taking action against military shipments to Israel as it continues its genocide in the Gaza Strip.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/workers-in-europe-refuse-cargo-to-israel-our-solidarity-is-with-the-oppressed-not-with-war-criminals/

With several African nations now part of the bloc, the BRICS summit presents an opportunity for a continent that has long been sidelined in the global geopolitical order.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/11/brics-summit-2025-big-opportunities-for-africa-on-reform-and-global-south-solidarity/

The current government in Pakistan has been accused of cracking down on all forms of dissent and political opposition in the country by misusing state institutions.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/rights-groups-say-the-ban-of-youtube-channels-in-pakistan-is-an-attack-on-press-freedom/

🇧🇷One day after Trump threatened Brazil with 50% tariffs on all goods and condemned the “persecution” of disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian people were out on the streets.

The mobilization demanded that the government tax the rich, end the 6 day work week, and that Brazil’s sovereignty be respected.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, residents of Mexico City’s central Roma and Condesa neighborhoods began to observe a curious phenomenon: hundreds of foreigners, above all US citizens, began to inhabit these upper-middle-class neighborhoods.

Many of them call themselves “digital nomads”, that is, digital platform workers who do remote work and, therefore, decide to migrate to countries where their salary allows them to have a higher standard of living.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/11/mexico-city-embroiled-in-debate-over-gentrification/

🇧🇷 “Brazil is sovereign!”

At the mass mobilization in São Paulo against billionaires and threats from Trump, Erika Hilton, a member of the Brazilian National Chamber of Deputies, condemned the US economic attacks and sanctions on Brazil. She also denounced the Bolsonaro family and allies who are calling for further sanctions on Brazil and for more US intervention in the South American country.

The Donald Trump administration has reportedly been pressuring South Korea to join its policy of blocking Chinese growth in the international shipbuilding industry by offering South Korea relief from higher tariffs under the “reciprocal tariff” regime of the US.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/11/beijing-denounces-trumps-use-of-coercive-tariffs-to-pressure-global-south-to-isolate-china/

Katz’s scheme aims to gradually confine all Palestinians in Gaza to a proposed zone in the Al-Mawasi area, where an initial 600,000 already-displaced people will be held, after undergoing security screening.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/11/israel-to-confine-gazas-entire-population-in-concentration-camp-atop-rafahs-ruins/

The two strategic operations are part of an escalation by the Yemeni resistance group against the Israeli occupation, in response to its continued genocide in Gaza.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/11/yemens-ansar-allah-sinks-two-ships-bound-for-israel-in-the-red-sea/