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.

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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.

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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/

Only weeks after the crew of the boat Madleen was intercepted and abducted in international waters by Israeli occupation forces, the Freedom Flotilla coalition is preparing to set sail again. The Handala, carrying essential supplies including food and medicines, will begin its voyage from Italy on July 13, with 18 crew members on board, including trade unionists and parliamentarians such as US labor organizer Christian Smalls, French MEP Emma Fourreau, and MP Gabrielle Cathala.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/12/freedom-flotilla-to-sail-again-with-new-mission/

The “Big Beautiful Bill”, recently passed by the US Congress, allocates USD 45 billion towards immigrant detention centers.

Records recently obtained by an ACLU Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit reveal that the Trump administration plans to expand ICE detention in six potential locations in Colorado, including many facilities which have been out of commission for several years.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/14/trump-admin-eyes-colorado-for-new-ice-detention-centers/

“The ship Ever Golden arrived without the war material intended to be used to continue the massacre in the Gaza Strip,” the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) stated.

A successful mobilization led by dockworkers at the port of Piraeus in Athens has prevented the transport of military cargo bound for Israel on the ship Ever Golden.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/14/athens-dockworkers-obstruct-military-cargo-shipment-to-israel/

#PeoplesHistory | Today marks one of history's most pivotal events: the storming of the Bastille fortress in Paris on July 14, 1789. A crowd of Parisians stormed this notorious prison, a powerful symbol of the absolute monarchy's tyranny, in a dramatic display of public anger and discontent.

This attack marked, for many, the explosive start of the French Revolution. Reflecting on that revolution, the young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called it “the most colossal revolution that history has ever known,” noting it “gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order” and ultimately “gave rise to the communist idea, the idea of the new world order.”

Disastrous flash flooding in Central Texas in the beginning of July left at least 121 people dead. The floods now rank among the deadliest natural disasters for children in the US in recent decades.

Organizers in Texas have raised over 14,000 dollars for relief efforts and condemned local officials for failing to implement measures to prepare and warn residents of flooding

Peoples Dispatch spoke to one of these socialist organizers in Texas, Rachel Domond, who described why she is not afraid to attach the label “socialist” to disaster relief efforts. “This is conservative Trump country we’re talking about, but it’s in situations like these in which we have a real opportunity to be on the ground with people across race and political affiliation. We can’t leave these moments to the Charlie Kirks of the world, who want to blame DEI, rather than the whole system, for this devastation.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/14/texas-residents-launch-grassroots-efforts-for-post-flood-disaster-relief/

Liberian lawmakers and civil society groups are demanding that the government reveal details of the agreement secretly signed with the US-based mining company Ivanhoe Atlantic before President Joseph Boakai’s meeting with Donald Trump on July 9.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/14/liberians-kept-in-dark-about-their-governments-agreement-with-us-mining-company/

In a series of quiet diplomatic overtures, the US has approached governments across the continent with proposals to host deportees, including individuals with alleged criminal convictions.

The Trump administration has opened a new front in its hardline immigration policy, pushing several African countries to accept deported migrants from the United States, many of whom are not nationals of the countries they would be sent to.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/14/trump-administration-targets-africa-with-deportation-deals/

🇵🇸 The people of Belgium block weapons shipments to Israel

Human Rights and pro-Palestine activists from Belgium are engaged in a struggle to block an arms shipment from Antwerp to Israel. The shipment includes parts of tanks and vehicles that would have been used to continue perpetrating the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank.

NGOs and activists are taking the Flemish government to court to stop arms exports to Israel. As part of the Genocide Convention, states are obliged to take any actions necessary to prevent genocide, which has been ongoing in Gaza for over 20 months now.