1/ Hundreds protested in Damascus today for a secular state. One of the reasons for the protest was an interview an HTS official gave to a TV on women's rights. Below I’ll translate the interview. It gives clues about the ideas of the new leaders of Syria

✊🏿🚩The people of the Sahel are rising up against imperialism! We must amplify voices from the ground. "[France] created the conditions to control us. We said NO. We took destiny into our own hands." 🌍🎥 Listen to speeches from the Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of

Left parties of West Africa warn that announcements by #France-backed regimes in its former #African colonies about the withdrawal of its troops is an attempt to deceive the anti-imperialist movement by hiding its military presence from public view. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/11/a-n…

Dozens of miners starved and dehydrated to death by the #SouthAfrican police which had trapped them underground without supplies since last August. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/22/78-… Mining Affected Communities United in Action GIWUSA

A comprehensive report on France’s manoeuvres in the Sahel, where governments face demands for the former colonial power’s complete expulsion Pavan Kulkarni Pavan Kulkarni A new military strategy of French neo-colonialism in Africa: reorganising under the cover of retreat

Budget crisis exposes the contradictions in South Africa’s Government of National Unity. SACP SAFTU NUMSA @COSATU Today peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/01/bud…

Mobilized from the cross-section of #Karnataka’s working class, over 30,000 took part in the the five-days long agitation in #Bangalore led by CITU CENTRE against anti-labor policies. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/ten…

Geopolitical morality 101: When the US wages a war on the Devil, you support the Devil.

Europeans to pack their bags for a three-day high school outing, just in case there is a war. "Don't forget the matches and of course the lighter," says the European Commissioner for Crisis Management. And plenty cigarettes, needless to say! youtube.com/shorts/A5rCEb1… via YouTube

World Press Freedom Day. Started in Windhoek (Namibia) as the Windhoek Declaration in 1991. A very great group of people shaped that declaration, including Colleen Lowe Morna, Fred M'membe, Félicien M’boulé, Fernando Lima, Methaetsile Leepile, Catherine Gicheru, Rafiq Rohan, Al Osman,

“Terrorism we are witnessing today comes from imperialism”, Burkina Faso’s President #IbrahimTraore tells #Putin. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/12/ter…

Africa celebrates Victory Day, deepens ties with Russia peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/16/afr…

Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, & genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists & mining-affected communities together in a unified protest peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/col…

"...the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed... the skill to manipulate it as a weapon... to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the cunning to spread the truth among such persons." - Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties

After causing widespread hunger in #Nigeria by furthering #IMF-prescribed neoliberal reforms, President #BolaTinubu’s agriculture ministry organizes prayer and fasting for food security. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/17/hun…

Under the cover of industrial development, the #Karnataka state government is forcibly acquiring thousands of fertile acres of farmland for real estate profiteering, said farmer leader Yashavantha. AIKS peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/far…

The nearly 1,200 days-long resistance to forced land-acquisition by India’s Karnataka state yielded victory on July 15, with the chief minister scrapping notices sent to farmers, recognizing their struggle as “historic”. AIKS peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/19/the…

King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in Africa who survived an insurrection by using the army against the pro-democracy movement, has further weakened his position by caving to the US pressure to accept its deportees. #Swaziland peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/21/us-…

Under siege by #France’s monetary strangulation and a war against their state by armed groups, Nigeriens marked the second anniversary of the July 26 revolution against French #neocolonialism. #Niger AES-Confédération des États du Sahel peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/30/on-…

Lying over blankets spread out on the dirt in isolation centers thatched up with mud and straw, thousands, many visibly malnourished, suffer cholera with no medical care in #Sudan’s western region of #Darfur. #ElFasher peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/tho…