#PeoplesHistory | 🇨🇱Today we remember the Chilean "riot dog" who became "patron" of the Chilean student movement, Negro Matapacos (Black Dog Cop Killer).

Matapacos was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago who started joining protests in 2010, and was a prominent figure of one of the largest protest movements since the fall of the dictatorship, the student revolts fighting for free education and against the neoliberal reforms to the education system.

Matapacos was frequently seen defying tear gas, water cannons, and biting police officers. He hung out with students at different campuses and became a symbol of resistance against violent authority.

The stray dog died of old age. Matapacos spent his last days with people who took him in and crowdfunded for his care and that of other dogs. After his death, his image became a widespread symbol of the 2019 social protests, appearing on signs and murals wearing his iconic red bandana.

Rather than poverty reduction stemming from economic growth, it has been achieved through a redistribution of resources.

📲 Read the full article by Tallis Boerne Marcus on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/26/how-mexico-lifted-13-4-million-out-of-poverty-in-six-years/

China claims that unlike the US, which has tried to hegemonize their politics and economic decision making for decades, Beijing enjoys friendly and mutually respectful relations with the countries in the South American region.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/26/china-rejects-us-accusations-of-incursion-in-latin-america-citing-washingtons-own-economic-and-military-interference/

Katrina, as well as the events that unfolded in the aftermath, left a permanent mark on the United States. The storm exposed systemic government unpreparedness as well as how Black communities in the region were left to suffer the deepest losses, revealing the deadly cost of racial inequality in America.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/26/twenty-years-since-hurricane-katrina-a-storm-that-exposed-the-system/

The bold and historic revolutionary project in the Sahel continues to gain momentum despite external challenges and security needs.

At a recent lecture convened by Pan Africanism Today, The Forge, the International Peoples’ Assembly, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and the Anti-Fascist International (South Africa Chapter), speakers, including Kwesi Pratt Jnr, General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, and Mikaela Erskog of Tricontinental, with facilitation by NUMSA’s head of education Vuyolwethu Toli, examined the roots of this defiance and its implications for Africa and the wider world. The event grappled with crucial questions: Why have the Sahel’s military coups enjoyed mass support? What role have grassroots movements played? And why should Pan-Africanists everywhere see the AES as a beacon of sovereignty?

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/26/sahels-continued-defiance-the-aes-states-and-the-struggle-for-sovereignty/

The decision highlights the tension between freedom of expression and the state’s role in shaping historical memory at former concentration camps.

📲 Read the full article by Leon Wystrychowski on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/26/german-court-sides-with-buchenwald-memorial-in-controversial-keffiyeh-ban/

"We will never be in favor of intervention by a foreign country."

🇲🇽In her daily morning press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to a question by a journalist about a possible US military intervention in Venezuela.

Heated political debates regarding the US plan to disarm resistance groups in Lebanon have emerged in the last couple of days following inflammatory statements of US officials, which were preceded by a strongly-worded speech of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/27/lebanese-government-faces-mounting-us-pressure-to-advance-resistance-disarmament/

Prime Minister François Bayrou will face a confidence vote as anger grows over France’s proposed 2026 austerity budget.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/27/will-another-french-prime-minister-fall-over-the-austerity-budget/

The Narendra Modi-led government withdrew tariffs on cotton imports. The decision is expected to affect millions of cotton growers in the country who have already been struggling for fair prices for decades now.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/27/farmers-accuse-indian-government-of-sacrificing-their-future-under-us-pressure-and-call-for-mass-resistance/

Despite the hope from a peace deal signed in June and continued mediation efforts, violence in eastern DRC has intensified. A fresh wave of atrocities indicates the war is far from over.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/27/peace-deal-holds-no-water-as-mass-killings-persist-in-congo/

In a major escalation, the IOF stormed Ramallah city center at rush hour in the afternoon, shooting at passersby and a journalist’s vehicle. Eyewitnesses and media workers reported the use of live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas canisters during the raid.

The offensive is considered a major escalation as it took place in Ramallah, the political and administrative hub of the Palestinian Authority.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/iof-storms-ramallah-city-center-wounding-58-civilians-including-a-child/

Global Sumud Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocidal war waged on Palestinians.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/the-global-sumud-flotilla-over-50-ships-will-set-sail-for-gaza/

"I Have a Dream"


62 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr., gave his renowned “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington DC, calling for an end to racism and segregation.

As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade.


📲 Read the full article by Biljana Vankovska, produced by Globetrotter, on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/a-black-hole-in-collective-memory-china-and-ww-ii/

Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States, a Category 5 monster that exposed the raw nerves of inequality, racism, and governmental neglect in the United States.

📲 Read the full article by Manolo De Los Santos on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/20-years-since-katrina-how-the-us-refused-cuban-doctors-as-new-orleans-drowned/

From Chicago to Oakland, local leaders and civil rights groups denounce the president’s plan to deploy federal forces beyond DC.

Upon the first announcement earlier this month of the federal takeover of law enforcement in US capital Washington, DC, Trump already leveled threats against several other cities – specifically naming Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland and New York.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/28/following-trumps-threats-against-democrat-run-cities-voices-around-the-country-unite-in-opposition/