April 2022 : Page 12 of 15 : Peoples Dispatch

India

Amit Sengupta’s reflections on the effects of globalization on healt …

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 by Amit Sengupta

Multilateral and bilateral institutions as well private philanthropy have had an outsized role in shaping the global health policy agenda. In this piece, Amit Sengupta traces the changes globalization has brought to global health governance.

India

CPI(M)’s Party Congress kicks off in Kerala

April 8, 2022April 7, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

The Party Congress of India’s largest communist party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) began on the April 6. The Congress will formulate strategies on combating the growing rightward shift in Indian politics as well as on strengthening campaigns highlighting socialism as the only real alternative to capitalism. The meeting attended by over 800 delegates from across the country, will also elect the Party leadership for the next three years.

Palestine

“Our decision is freedom”: Palestinians fight against administrati …

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

For over 90 days now, 490 Palestinian administrative detainees have continued their collective boycott of Israeli military courts. The mass protest action was launched in January 2022 under the slogan “Our Decision is Freedom, No to Administrative Detention”. Palestinian detainees have boycotted Israeli military courts at all levels, including the courts of the first instance, appellate courts, and the civil High Court. They have refused to appear for hearings at courts, and have barred their attorneys from representing them in absentia until Israel stops the use of this policy.

Palestinians have been resisting their unlawful and arbitrary detention through means of protest including hunger strikes and boycotts.

Bahrain

Opposition movement in Bahrain demands disbanding of US naval base, wi …

April 7, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

Bahrain, ruled by the Al-Khalifa dynasty, is one of the closest allies of the US in the Persian Gulf region. It hosts the Fifth Fleet of the US Navy since 1995 and has developed close relations with Israel despite popular opposition

Tunisia

Tunisian president announces changes to electoral system in yet anothe …

April 7, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

Several opposition parties have already indicated that they will not participate in any constitutional referendum or elections based on a new set of rules drawn up unilaterally by the president

World

Health activism is now more important than ever

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 by Fran Baum

On World Health Day, the People’s Health Movement reflects on the role health activism will play in protecting the right to health after the COVID-19 pandemic

Israel

Naftali Bennett’s government in Israel loses parliamentary major …

April 4, 2024April 7, 2022 by Abdul Rahman

The resignation of Idit Silman, whip of the Yamina party, has led to a tie in the 120-member Knesset between the eight-party ruling alliance led by Bennett and the opposition

China | Latin America Caribbean

Washington watches as China and Latin America deepen their ties

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 by Marco Fernandes

Foreign policy experts in the US have alerted to the growing economic relationship between Latin America and China, a trend only expected to increase in the coming period

Italy

Police raid on USB union headquarters in Italy sparks outrage

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

The union has been at the forefront of the working class struggles against the anti-people policies of the Mario Draghi government in Italy. Progressive groups have extended solidarity with the USB and denounced the raid as a ploy to discredit and villainize the union.

World

“Weapons are not tools for peace”: feminists against wars and NATO

April 19, 2022April 6, 2022 by Capire

In the lead-up to the Peace Summit against NATO, women build a feminist agenda against war and towards peace

Daily Round-up

Report: poor and marginalized especially hit by US COVID-19 death toll …

April 7, 2022April 6, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we look at a report by the Poor People’s Campaign on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on working class and marginalized communities in the US; a hunger strike launched by prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah to protest the brutal conditions of his imprisonment; a rising food crisis affecting tens of millions of people in West Africa driven by drought, floods, conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic; and the detention and deportation of Rohingya refugees in India.

Peru