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/

A protester told BreakThrough News that Trump’s takeover is “an outright war on poor people.”

“We are now seeing federal troops combining forces to harass and detain, follow and surveil, Black, Brown, working class, poor, unhoused people in DC. What else could that be but war?”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/15/dc-residents-decry-trumps-war-on-poor-people-amid-federal-takeover-of-citys-law-enforcement/

Carlos Treviño, former director of the Mexican state oil company Pemex (2017-2018), was arrested in the United States.

Mexican authorities allege that Treviño received bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht. The arrest and possible extradition come during the Pemex rescue plan announced in August by President Sheinbaum.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/15/former-pemex-director-arrested-in-the-us-on-corruption-charges/

Despite the rise in cost of living in Pakistan and a law fixing the minimum wage at just 140 US dollars per month, many factory owners have slashed wages, citing global market troubles.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/15/workers-in-pakistans-punjab-fight-for-their-basic-rights/

“It’s time for us to wake up and see that our tax dollars are causing genocide.”

Peoples Dispatch interviewed attendees of the “March for Humanity” that took place in New York City on Saturday, where tens of thousands marched against Israel’s deliberate mass starvation of Gaza and called for an end to Israel's genocide.

A recent controversial TV interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked outrage in Arab nations and grassroots movements over his remarks about the 'Greater Israel' project.

The “Greater Israel” vision is an expansionist project, by which Israel aims to spread its control throughout the territories extending from the Nile to the Euphrates. The project, which is based on biblical myths, encompasses the territories of six Arab countries in addition to occupied Palestine, including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.

The foreign ministers of 31 Arab countries, including Syria, along with the secretary-generals of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) issued a joint statement on Friday, strongly condemning the provocative remarks of the Israeli premier.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/netanyahus-greater-israel-vision-provokes-the-ire-of-arab-nations/

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Midtown Manhattan, voicing their opposition to the mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.

Columbia graduate and Palestinian organizer Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for months by Trump’s immigration agents in what many view as a violation of his free speech rights, addressed the crowd of tens of thousands on the front steps of the flagship building of the New York Public Library.

“Every person here has a choice,” Khalil declared. “Stay quiet and normalize our killing, or rise, and demand liberation.”

📷 by Micah Fong (butchcamera on Instagram).
📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/tens-of-thousands-march-against-gaza-starvation-in-new-york-city/

Pakistan is yet again facing heavy casualties and massive destruction due to unusual heavy rains and floods across the country this year.

The flash floods in mostly the northeastern parts of the country have also displaced hundreds of thousands with scores still reported missing.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/heavy-rain-and-floods-affect-millions-in-pakistan-over-650-killed-since-late-june/

🇵🇸"The Palestinian woman is the base of resistance"

Feminist and social movements in Venezuela organized a rally on Saturday, August 16, in Caracas, to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially women, amid the 22nd month of Israel's genocide in Gaza. They demanded international action to put pressure on Israel to end its genocide.