Millions of Sudanese took to the streets across the country on June 30. They demanded that the military junta make way for civilian rule. The march was led by the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), an umbrella of political parties and unions, which came together to represent the people and their revolution.
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Categories World
Pride is Political: 50 years since Stonewall
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, USA. Riots at Stonewall inn, an LGBTQ bar in NYC, began when the people inside the bar opposed police raids on June 28, 1969. That event is considered to be revolutionary in the history of LGBTQ rights. The first pride marches in the US began between 1969 to 1970 after Stonewall. Now, 50 years later, pride marchers are returning to the roots of the movement and raising political issues and matters of oppression of the community.
Categories Ecuador
Ola Bini: My fight for justice will continue
He also talked about the increasing amount of persecution of activists and journalists, and how privacy rights are essential for securing democracy as free will cannot exist under surveillance.
Categories India
Monopoly, Google style, is hit with a probe
He also analyses previous such cases in Europe and the possibilities of building alternatives to Google’s ecosystem.
Categories Honduras
Honduras: 10 years of resistance against right-wing coup
Today, June 28, 2019, marks 10 years since the coup d’état in Honduras that took democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya out of office. The coup, which was supported strategically and financially by the United States, unleashed a process of intensification of neoliberal and repressive policies in Honduras.
10 years later, the people of Honduras continue to stand up to US imperialist diktats and a violent and corrupt government in defense of their rights and their dignity.
[Editing: Vyshakh, Script: Zoe, Footage: Telesur, Al Jazeera, The Real News Network, Democracy Now, Giorgio Trucchi, Goldman Environmental Foundation]
Categories United States of America
Decoding Facebook’s Libra
He talks about how this raises serious concerns on regulation, as well as the future of global finance itself, considering the scope of Facebook.
Categories Venezuela
Explained: War on Venezuela (Part 2)
We will also talk about how Venezuela was blocked from accessing its foreign assets or even make payments many other countries in exchange for goods, after Juan Guaido declared himself interim president.
Categories Cuba | United States of America
US sanctions on Cuba explained
Peoples Dispatch takes look at the six-decade long brutal sanctions on Cuba imposed by the United States. We also explain the Helms-Burton act and its impact on the lives of Cuban people. #UnblockCuba
Categories Colombia
ELN Peace Delegation: “The future of Colombia is not war”
After Iván Duque took office, the Peace Talks between the government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) were in a state of uncertainty. This increased on January 17, after the insurgency took responsibility for the events at the General Santander Cadet School.
Brasil de Fato, Ecuador Today, Resumen Latinoamericano, Colombia Informa and Peoples Dispatch carried out an exclusive interview to the ELN Peace Delegation in Havana, Cuba.
The first part of the interview is focused on the state of the Dialogues and the Delegation in Cuba, as well as the actions taken by the Colombian government and the will for peace of the insurgency.
Categories Venezuela
The Urban Revolution: A Conversation with Hernan Vargas (Part I)
Venezuela’s cities have given birth to a powerful social movement aimed at fighting capitalism on a territorial level.
Categories Cuba | United States of America | Venezuela
Helms-Burton Act and the latest US attack on Cuba
She also talks about the latest offensive on Cuba through the invocation of Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act, and the future of Venezuela where mass mobilisation has, for now, stopped the US regime change operation in its tracks.
Categories Nepal
Unity of struggles is required to counter the global rise of the right
In the part 2 of this exclusive interview to Peoples Dispatch, former Prime Minister of Nepal and senior leader of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Madhav Kumar Nepal talks the recent historic victory of communist parties in Nepal. He also looks into the global rise of right and the ways to counter it.
