Recent polling indicates that US President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, involving brutal ICE raids and plans to deport up to 20 million people, have lost ground among people in the US.

55% of respondents believe that Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants earlier in July, as compared to 45% in early February.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/21/public-support-for-trumps-immigration-agenda-plummets-since-inauguration/

“To protect both immigrant families and the freedoms of every Coloradan, we must dismantle this surveillance system,” say organizers.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/21/colorado-activists-fight-to-disable-cameras-aiding-ice-arrests/

Hardly any member state was pleased with the decision to increase military spending to 5% of GDP over the next decade, rammed through by Washington. It’s no wonder some now say NATO stands for North Atlantic Trump’s Organization.

📲 Read the full article by Biljana Vankovska on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/21/the-first-crack-in-natos-fortress-slovenia-opens-the-referendum-conundrum/

On July 19, 2025, Saúl Méndez, the top leader of the Single National Union of Workers in the Construction and Similar Industries (SUNTRACS), fled from Panama to Bolivia.

Since April 2025, unions of teachers, workers, agricultural workers, students, and others, began a national strike in rejection of Mulino’s neoliberal policies, including:

- A pension system reform (Law 462) that reduces pensions and opens the way for the privatization of social security.
- The military agreements between Washington and Panama, signed in April 2025, that propose the installation of US military bases in Panamanian territory.
- The plan to reopen a copper mine that the Supreme Court of Justice ordered closed in 2023, following massive protests.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/panamas-top-union-leader-goes-into-exile-in-bolivia/

⚒️"The Labour Party has abandoned the working people and now works for, well let's face it, big lobbyists."

Since 1871, the Durham Miners' Gala has celebrated community, international solidarity, and working-class life – a living movement demanding a better future for all. In this year's edition, over 200,000 trade unionists and workers gathered and denounced the rightward turn of the Labour Party and its role in suppressing progressives and the movement for Palestine.

"The imperialist-capitalist system today is experiencing a comprehensive structural crisis, which is not limited to the cyclical nature of economic crises, but extends to the very structure of the system, in terms of the mode of production, mechanisms of distribution, the form of the state and the function of organized violence."

Osamah Al-Abdulrahim is Secretary General Of The Kuwaiti Progressive Movement and Chief Editor of Taqadoom Platform.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/the-global-situation-from-the-perspective-of-the-kuwaiti-progressives/

On Tuesday last week, two Yemenis failed in their lawsuit against the German Federal Republic before Germany’s highest court. The verdict is a testimony of imperialist arrogance.

📲 Read the full article by Leon Wystrychowski on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/top-german-court-us-drone-terror-not-contrary-to-international-law/

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) published an open letter to Brazilian society on Monday July 21.

The movement denounces the paralysis of Agrarian Reform and demands effective commitment from the government.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/mst-releases-letter-to-brazilian-society-lula-where-is-the-agrarian-reform/

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has officially confirmed his candidacy for the 2025 presidential election, surprising many by seeking an eighth term in office.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/at-92-paul-biya-declares-eighth-presidential-bid-to-lead-cameroon/

Almost 22 months into its genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip, Israel has carried out all types of massacres on the population of the besieged enclave, including deadly airstrikes, starvation, and the targeted killing of aid seekers.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/23/being-bombed-starved-to-death-or-killed-while-seeking-food-israels-options-for-palestinians-in-gaza/

Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa’s largest grassroots movement of shack dwellers, led a powerful demonstration last week in solidarity with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), following an aggressive march by the far-right, anti-migrant group Operation Dudula on the legal aid group’s Braamfontein offices.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/22/abahlali-basemjondolo-protests-xenophobia-and-defends-legal-aid-group-after-far-right-threats/

Filipino diaspora activists staged protests outside of the White House each day of Filipino President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s visit with US President Donald Trump.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/23/filipino-diaspora-activists-denounce-marcos-white-house-visit/

Tune in for another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Zoe Alexandra, Indian journalist Prasanth R, and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they reflect on two years since the coup and popular uprising in Niger, the Doha agreement between DR Congo government and M23 militias, the return of Venezuelan migrants home from El Salvador, the climate crisis and its relationship with soaring food prices, Abahlali baseMjondolo's against xenophobia, as well as the new Freedom Flotilla, Handala, which set sail recently.
https://youtube.com/live/WKTW3H3m9is

Tariffs against China reached 145% and are now being reduced; China’s policies to boost domestic consumption yielded results

📲 Read the full article by Mauro Ramos on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/23/despite-trumps-steep-tariffs-china-exported-triple-what-it-imported-from-the-us-in-2025-so-far/

Peoples Dispatch speaks to Ju-Hyun Park, a leader in the Korean diaspora organization Nodutdol and an organizer of the upcoming “People’s Summit for Korea.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/23/the-peoples-summit-for-korea-brings-together-diaspora-and-the-homeland-in-the-fight-against-an-empire-in-overdrive/

In what could become a landmark ruling, a Belgian judge recently ordered the Flemish government to halt the transit of goods that could be used to continue or expand the genocide in Gaza.

The decision follows a joint campaign by four organizations – Intal, Vredesactie (Peace Action), 11.11.11, and the Human Rights League – which was triggered by the discovery of containers in the port of Antwerp addressed to Israeli company Ashot Ashkelon Industries.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/23/belgian-court-bans-military-shipments-to-israel-in-activist-victory/

After a close vote, Vargas defeated Leonidas Iza, former presidential candidate and current president of CONAIE, the country’s most powerful grassroots organization.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/