State repression
Four years since the double infanticide and the forced disappearance of a minor in Paraguay

Activists and relatives of the girls have complained that the Paraguayan state has taken no action to hold the perpetrators responsible for the crimes.

Socialist Party of Zambia leader Dr. Fred M’membe released after arbitrary detention

After revealing shocking corruption, socialist leader and journalist was illegally detained for “sedition” for four days

Palestinian activist in Belgium faces deportation

Samidoun activist Mohammed Khatib was summoned to a hearing at the Belgian asylum office, in the context of a procedure to revoke his refugee status

Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh states that there is conspiracy to destabilize the country

Over 160 people, including students, were killed, and hundreds of others were injured in the last two weeks after student protests turned violent on July 15

The people’s struggle will free Leonard Peltier

Peoples Dispatch speaks to Gloria La Riva, who has spent decades in the movement to free the longest-held political prisoner in the United States

University of California workers vote to authorize strike following repression of pro-Palestine students

With the strike authorization vote, UAW workers are bringing bold, political labor action back to the US labor movement

“The American people are heard,” Biden says after protesters are brutalized

The outsized police response to peaceful student protesters reveals the deep commitment of the US to its Israel policy

Hundreds of students occupy Columbia University in solidarity with Gaza

Students stage an occupation the same day as Columbia’s President appears before congress in so-called antisemitism hearing

Palestine solidarity protesters attacked by police in Toronto

During a Land Day mobilization in Toronto, protesters were brutally repressed by Canadian police on horseback

The specter of “knowledge as commons”

Prabir Purkayastha’s recently published memoir “Keeping Up the Good Fight” draws important parallels between the repression during the “Emergency” and that of today under the BJP government of Narendra Modi

After over 100 days of protests, repression intensifies against Palestine solidarity movement in NYC

Demonstrators in New York City are experiencing a new wave of repression from the NYPD though protests show no signs of stopping