People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles ends with a bold plan for the future
Latin America Caribbean United States

People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles ends with a bold plan for the future

On the final day of the People’s Summit, organizers, volunteers, and attendees marched by the hundreds to the Summit of the Americas

Peoples Dispatch
June 13, 2022
Venezuela workers
Venezuela

Venezuelan workers march in support of govt. and reject exclusion from Summit of the Americas

The workers thanked the socialist government for the economic protection policies for workers, and reiterated their support for President Maduro in the face of US attacks

Peoples Dispatch
June 13, 2022
Bolivian court sentences Jeanine Áñez to 10 years in prison
Bolivia

Bolivian court sentences Jeanine Áñez to 10 years in prison

The First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz found Jeanine Áñez and other former police and military chiefs guilty of “breach of duties” and taking “resolutions contrary to the Constitution and the Law” following the coup d’état against then President Evo Morales in November 2019

Peoples Dispatch
June 11, 2022
The housing struggle is a national and international struggle: Kenia Alcocer
United States

The housing struggle is a national and international struggle: Kenia Alcocer

Kenia Alcocer talks about important struggles she took up as an activist, the formation of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and how the struggle for housing rights is related to other working class struggles.

Peoples Dispatch
June 11, 2022
China, Russia on North Korea
World

China, Russia blame US for stoking tensions in Korea, call to ease sanctions on DPRK

The two nations defended their earlier veto against the UN Security Council resolution to impose further sanctions on North Korea and argued that the US has played a major role in stoking tensions in the peninsula

Peoples Dispatch
June 10, 2022
Algeria-Spain relations over Western Sahara
Algeria Spain Western Sahara

Algeria to suspend friendship treaty, imports from Spain over Western Sahara

Spain, a former colonial power, decided to recognize to support Morocco’s position on Western Sahara earlier this year going against its long-held stance of backing a UN-led referendum to decide the status of the territory

Peoples Dispatch
June 9, 2022
Anti-NATO Protest - Finland 1
Finland

Progressives continue to protest Finnish bid for NATO membership 

Protests are also ongoing in various other parts of Europe, including in Italy, Greece, Norway and Czech Republic, against new military deals

Peoples Dispatch
June 8, 2022
South African communist Amos Mbedzi, who fought apartheid, dies a martyr for liberation of Swaziland
South Africa Swaziland

South African communist Amos Mbedzi, who fought apartheid, dies a martyr for liberation of Swaziland

The South African Communist Party and the Communist Party of Swaziland along with several pro-democracy groups have vowed to continue the struggle for Swaziland’s liberation from the rule of King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in Africa, for which Mbedzi paid the ultimate price

Peoples Dispatch
June 8, 2022