The increase in violence comes amid the presence of foreign troops in Haiti in a process approved by the United Nations and financed by Washington.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/violence-in-haiti-worsens/

In his opening address, General Secretary of SMG Kwesi Pratt Jnr. shared some of the key achievements of the organization since its last congress in 2021.

📲 Read the full article by Kate Janse Van Rensburg on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/21/from-collectives-to-campaigns-the-socialist-movement-of-ghana-strides-forward/

With slogans of “Down with Trump”, “Down with imperialist agenda”, Swaziland’s pro-democracy activists exiled in South Africa protested outside the US embassy in Pretoria on September 19, condemning the Trump-King Mswati deportation deal.

For an alleged USD 500 million, Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III, reached a deal with US President Donald Trump allowing him to deport migrants convicted of crimes to Swaziland. The first group of five deportees, none of whom were from Africa, was flown into Swaziland (renamed eSwatini by Mswati) on June 15.

The US Department of Homeland Security’s spokesperson had described the deportees – convicted of violent crimes including murder and child rape – as “so uniquely barbaric that their home countries” in Asia and Latin America “refused to take them back.”

However, in a decision condemned as “treacherous” in Swaziland, Mswati agreed to take them in, “only because he wants more money to enjoy with his children and 15 wives”, said the president of Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO), Sakhile Nxumalo, in his address to the demonstration.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/20/exiled-swazi-activists-protest-trump-deportation-deal-outside-us-embassy-in-south-africa/

The Second World War as seen from Asia, is a different story than that one shown in Hollywood, and remembering it is fundamental to face the challenges of our time.

The official histories of the Second World War, curated by Western powers, are built upon a foundation of deliberate omissions. They typically mark the war’s beginning with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 or the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This chronological sleight of hand is a profound political act, framing the conflict as a primarily European affair and erasing a full decade of war, fascism, and resistance that had already engulfed Asia.

📲 Read the full article by Tings Chak on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/21/the-war-that-began-in-asia-revisiting-the-roots-of-the-world-anti-fascist-war/

🇮🇹🇵🇸 Italy goes on strike for Palestine and Global Sumud Flotilla, facing violent repression

Tens of thousands participated in a national strike called for by unions in Italy in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla. In cities across Italy, thousands on the streets demanded an end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, and for the safety of the humanitarians, activists, journalists, and health workers who are taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest attempt to break the blockade on Gaza. Protesters also demand that their government cut all ties with Israel and stop enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people.

“When the world stays silent, we set sail.”

Artists and musicians are onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla that is headed towards Gaza to break the blockade. Phill Campbell reflects on the power of song.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/sailing-to-break-the-siege-singing-to-break-the-silence/

🇵🇸VOICES FROM THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA!

Ayoub Habraoui, from the International People's Assembly, narrates the difficulties faced by the flotilla as drones (accused of being Israeli) are hovering ahead in an attempt to deter them from advancing forward. However, activists have reaffirmed their commitment to continue towards Gaza to break the Israeli blockade on the enclave and deliver aid.

Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío, along with Cuban diplomats from the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, gathered in Harlem alongside US-based activists and organizational leaders to commemorate the historic meeting between Fidel Castro and Malcolm X which took place 65 years ago.

“The meeting at the Hotel Theresa was not a photo-op or passing event,” said Manolo De Los Santos, the executive director of New York City-based movement incubator The People’s Forum. De Los Santos addressed the crowd gathered in the Riverside Church in Harlem. “It was a profound act of solidarity that showed the world a different way forward.”

In September 1960, Black leaders, including Malcolm X, invited revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and the rest of the Cuban delegation to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. This was after the delegation was met with hostility and state repression during their stay at the Shelburne Hotel in downtown Manhattan.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/amid-washingtons-escalated-hostilities-diplomats-and-activists-gather-to-commemorate-historic-meeting-between-fidel-and-malcolm-x/

Alaa’s release by way of a presidential pardon came after a long international solidarity campaign calling for his freedom and a 10-month hunger strike by his elderly mother.

Abd el-Fattah has been one of the most visible faces in the struggle to free the tens of thousands of political prisoners in Egypt.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah played a prominent role in the 2011 protests which brought down long-term ruler Hosni Mubarak and paved the way for democratic elections in the country. However, following the 2013 coup led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alaa faced severe state persecution for his activism. He and his family members have been in prison several times in the last decade. Alaa was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014. However, within months of his release in 2019, he was rearrested along with lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer and placed under pre-trial detention for over two years, in violation of Egypt’s own laws. In December 2021, he was again convicted by an Egyptian court to five years in prison on charges of “spreading fake news”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/egyptian-british-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-released-from-prison/

The Lebanese state accused Israel of undermining the US-brokered disarmament plan with its fresh aggression.

The IOF claimed that the purpose of the new aerial campaign is to prevent the Lebanese resistance group from restoring its capabilities in the targeted areas.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) issued a statement on Friday, denouncing the new Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon. The UNIFIL described the Israeli airstrikes as violations of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701. It further cautioned Israel against jeopardizing regional stability by launching such assaults.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/israel-escalates-aggression-on-southern-lebanon-in-new-violation-of-un-resolution-and-ceasefire-deal/

Marita, whose father was killed by Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile in 1976, sails toward Gaza to break the Israeli blockade.

María “Marita” Rodríguez is a Swedish and Chilean woman who lives in Stockholm. She spoke to us from her boat about her journey and why she was there in the first place.

The journey, Marita said, “has been unique”. There was a drone attack on the boats in Tunis harbor, but that is now behind them. They are looking forward to breaking the Israeli blockade. There are only six people on her boat.

“We are all normal people,” she said, “who cannot stand idly by when genocide is happening before our eyes”. The morale on the boats, Marita says, is high because the people on them “know that we are on the right side of history”.

📲 Read the full article by Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/the-memory-of-chilean-resistance-sails-toward-gaza/

🇵🇸"Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the ongoing genocide in Gaza."

🇧🇷Brazilian President Lula da Silva spoke today in the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly underway in New York City to sharply condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza and call for immediate action to stop Israel's criminal actions. Lula also condemned the US veto of the decision of 150 countries to recognize Palestine as a State.

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Several European countries announced their recognition Palestinian statehood during a session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22.

However, these recognitions are likely to include caveats that undermine the officials’ stated intentions. Such disclaimers already accompanied British and Portuguese announcements.

Solidarity movements across Europe have repeatedly demanded recognition of Palestinian statehood during their campaigns over the past 23 months. Yet they stress that such announcements now come late and risk being reduced to token gestures by governments supporting genocide. During the time it took these leaders to reach a decision and draft their statements, Gaza was reduced to rubble and at least 65,000 Palestinians were killed.

Governments preparing to announce recognition also carry a record of repressing pro-Palestine movements at home. Multiple solidarity groups and activists faced legal attacks not only in Britain, but also in France and Belgium. The recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UNGA makes little sense knowing that the same administrations have attempted to punish people campaigning for peace.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/what-to-expect-from-the-european-wave-of-palestinian-statehood-recognition/

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban denied that any talks were underway to hand over Bagram Air Base back to the US, claiming “no agreement over even an inch of Afghanistan’s soil is possible,” Tolo News reported.

During a press conference, US President Donald Trump told reporters that his government is in talks with the Taliban to reoccupy the base, which US troops abandoned during their withdrawal from the country, after two decades of occupation, in August 2021.

Trump, though he refused to comment on direct military action to regain the base, nevertheless threatened the Taliban, telling reporters if they don’t hand over the base to the US “you are going to find out what I am gonna do.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/trump-threatens-taliban-after-they-declare-afghanistan-will-not-allow-us-military-base-at-bagram/

Thousands are expected to take to the streets of New York City on Friday, September 26 to protest the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the UN General Assembly. In line with the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), activists are calling for the arrest of the Israeli leader who is accused of perpetuating war crimes against the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu’s presence in the United Nations is especially contested due to Trump’s decision to revoke the visas of 80 Palestinian officials, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas will give his address via video conference call.

Friday’s protest is organized by a broad coalition of groups including the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and the People’s Forum, under the slogans “Arrest Netanyahu”, “Stop the Genocide”, and “Sanction Israel”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/netanyahu-to-face-protests-in-nyc-amid-trumps-ban-of-palestinian-leaders-at-unga/

📢 In the 107th issue of People’s Health Dispatch, we speak with health workers aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla on their mission to break the Gaza blockade, report on cholera in Sudan, and spotlight Kerala’s rights-driven approach to healthcare. Read these stories and more👇🏾
https://tinyurl.com/peopleshealthdisp107

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is locked in a conflict with the unionized workers and drivers of his Nigeria-based oil refinery. After violating an agreement with the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), signed earlier this month to end its strike, Dangote Refinery secured a court order on September 18, restraining the union from returning to strike for 7 days.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/nigerias-oil-workers-resist-monopolization-by-africas-richest-man/

One million people across Italy staged a general strike in support of Palestine and the Global Sumud Flotilla, offering a vision of solidarity sharply at odds with the one displayed by European leaders at the United Nations these days. Ports, train stations, and major junctions were shut down as workers, many of whom members of the grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), brought the country to a halt.

In Rome alone, 300,000 demonstrators occupied the city’s main railway hub before marching through the streets. “The call came from Genoa’s dockworkers, and here we are: we’ve blocked everything,” the protesters proclaimed. Among those leading the crowd were firefighters’ union representatives, who told il manifesto: “First responders will never be complicit in genocide, and we are protesting a government that is entrapping us in rearmament.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/million-strong-general-strike-blocks-italy-for-palestine/

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) announced its immediate withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday, condemning it as a tool of “imperialism”, silent about the worst crimes by the West and its allies while selectively pursuing its opponents.

Ratifying the Rome Statute in the early 2000s, its three member countries – Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – have been members of the ICC for over three decades.

“However, over time, they have come to observe that this jurisdiction has transformed into an instrument of neo-colonial repression in the hands of imperialism, thereby becoming the global example of selective justice,” states the AES communique on September 22.

“The ICC has proven incapable of addressing and prosecuting established war crimes, crimes against humanity, [and] genocide”, it added in the statement.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/aes-countries-exit-the-icc-denouncing-it-as-an-instrument-of-neo-colonial-repression/

🇵🇸VOICES FROM THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA!

"The international silence and betrayal must be stopped ... We bear no hatred towards anyone, our sole goal is to stop [Israel's] aggression against the innocent people".

A message from Marouan Ben Guettaia, of the Global Summud Flotilla Steering Committee, defying the threats and calls of "Hamas Flotilla" from the Israeli Foreign Ministry and establishment.

The Global Sumud Flotilla keeps calling on pacifists and humanitarians from across the globe to keep defying the Israeli attacks and censorship and keep calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Tune in to another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Zoe Alexandra, editor of Peoples Dispatch, and Indian journalist Prasanth R as they reflect on the ongoing session of the United Nations General Assembly in which leaders of the Global South have called for an end to the genocide in Gaza. They also discussed US attacks on the sovereignty of Brazil and Venezuela, the release of activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the second anniversary of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), and the ongoing protests in Ecuador and Peru.
https://www.youtube.com/live/LU8uD8QQ-VU?si=pLj7zM8wVeNuolOo