Taking power in 2011 with the help of French military intervention, 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara is attempting to grab office for a fourth term by barring both main contestants from running for the upcoming election in October.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/13/tens-of-thousands-protest-in-ivory-coast-against-the-slide-into-dictatorship/

On the 99th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, we remember the revolutionary government’s support for Palestine, especially its condemnation of the genocide of the Palestinian people.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/in-1979-fidel-called-it-genocide-cubas-legacy-of-solidarity-with-palestine/

After facing popular resistance and a considerable court battle, the police in India’s major city of Mumbai have finally withdrawn its objections to a pro-Palestinian protest and granted the required permissions.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomed the court’s decision to accept the police’s revised stand, claiming it “vindicates the correctness of CPI (M) stand and nullifies court’s own earlier ill remarks and earlier anti-democratic refusal of police.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/pressure-from-progressives-forces-indian-authorities-to-allow-protest-against-israels-genocide-in-gaza/

Recent history and the US war drive make a clear case that acquiring nuclear weapons is the most rational choice for states seeking any autonomy from US domination.

Listen to Vijay Prashad, Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Dae-Han Song of the International Strategy Center and the No Cold War collective.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/13/imperialist-attacks-make-nuclear-proliferation-a-necessity/

As of August 2025, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons.

📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/the-accursed-fate-of-palestinians-in-israeli-prisons/

🇬🇷🇵🇸Greece rejects Israeli ship

Protests have been going on in several Greek ports against the Israeli cruise ship 'Crown Iris', where IOF soldiers are reportedly among the tourists on board.

At the Port of Piraeus, a mass rally was organized by leftist trade unions and political parties.

The protests called for Greece to cut all ties with Israel and recognize the state of Palestine.

Pressure on Germany is mounting from multiple fronts: the resilience of Gaza’s people and fighters, the global solidarity movement, and even Nicaragua’s lawsuit against the German government.

📲 Read the full article by Leon Wystrychowski on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/how-much-truth-is-there-in-germanys-decision-not-to-supply-weapons-to-israel/

Recent protests against Nigerians in Ghana drew condemnation amid fears of rising xenophobia.

Placards bearing the slogan, videos, and similar messages trended on social media, a development that risks inflaming xenophobic violence in a region with deep historical and cultural ties.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/socialist-movement-of-ghana-condemns-rising-xenophobia/

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun held a meeting with Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, during which they discussed reinforcing bilateral cooperation “based on mutual respect and within the limits of sovereignty and friendship.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/lebanon-criticizes-iran-as-it-prepares-to-implement-hezbollah-disarmament-plan/

The US continues to fund Israel while support from below dwindles to a mere 32%.


People in the US are rejecting Israel’s war on Gaza more than ever before, a Gallup poll revealed.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/public-support-for-israeli-military-action-in-gaza-reaches-historic-low-in-the-us/

🚨London-based university SOAS expelled a student for her pro-Palestine activism.


The school known for being a hub of radical and post-colonial activism and thinking expelled Haya Adam, of SOAS' Palestine Society on August 7.

Adam spoke with Vijay Prashad of The Tricontinental Institute, about her expulsion and the hypocrisy of the institution that teaches one set of values while practicing another. Adam also reflects on the paths forward in her struggle and the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

🎥 Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/As5RE9Es6vE

There is growing opposition to Israel from within Donald Trump’s MAGA base, where once solid support for the American-Israeli alliance is fracturing.

📲 Read the full article by Giorgio Cafiero on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/why-the-maga-movement-is-turning-against-israel/

"Black Youth Want to Live"

🏴Activists from Levante Popular da Juventude (Popular Youth Uprising) organized a "escrache" (Public Shaming Protest) in front of the house of the right-wing Governor, Cláudio Castro, in the affluent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.

The activists demanded justice for Black young people who have been assassinated in Rio de Janeiro and an end to racist police brutality. Police violence in Rio de Janeiro intensified sharply in early 2025, with state forces killing 34.4% more people in January-April than in 2024.

The Ecuadorian president has decided to confront the Constitutional Court, which has partially blocked his controversial laws, in the streets and at the polls.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/tensions-rise-in-ecuador-as-president-noboa-protests-against-the-constitutional-court/

Hundreds of plantation workers in Malaysia, under the leadership of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), marched to the parliament building in Kuala Lumpur and presented their demand for housing for all.

The police tried to prevent PSM leaders and the members of the Farm Society Support Committee (JSML) from reaching the parliament. S Arutchelvan, deputy chairman of the PSM was even pushed to the ground by the police.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/14/malaysian-plantation-workers-mobilize-to-demand-housing-rights/

As the second anniversary of the Alliance of Sahel States approaches on September 16, 2025, the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat (PAT), composed of over 70 people’s movements and organizations across Africa, has issued a call to action, urging all progressive forces across the continent and around the globe to stand in solidarity with the AES.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/16/organizations-from-the-african-continent-launch-day-of-solidarity-with-the-alliance-of-sahel-states/

Popular movements in India and Vietnam observed Cuba solidarity day on Wednesday, August 13, to mark the commencement of the centenary celebrations of Fidel Castro’s birth.

Apart from expressing solidarity with the people of Cuba and their struggles against US imperialist policies, the movements also announced the mobilization of funds to support the Cuban people.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/15/popular-movements-in-india-and-vietnam-launch-cuba-solidarity-campaigns-on-fidels-birthday/