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Soldiers assaulted students of William Pitcher College in Manzini city who were protesting not being refunded fees paid for hostel facilities that were not used during lockdown

Ang Kiukok (Philippines), Harvest, 2004. On 1 October, the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA), a network of over 200 social and political movements, had its public launch. The IPA owes its origin to a meeting held in Brazil in 2015 where movement leaders gathered to talk about the perilous situation facing the world. At this meeting […]

You are referring to the now gone Alexander Cockburn who advised young colleagues to “keep your hatred pure.” Of course he said that back in an era of Panglossian High Broderism when many leading pundits saw bipartisanship as the essence of politics and a way to keep the country humming. Now MSM journalism is nothing but hatred be it of Putin or the deplorables. The real left–the people he was talking to–seem to be out of the picture. All of which is a way of saying that herd mentality...

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by Vijay Prashad / April 15th, 2021 Colectivo Culturas Vivas, Senderos latinos / Latino paths, Honduras, 2019 On a Sunday night on 21 March 2021, gunmen stopped Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante (age 41) as he walked from this mother’s home to his own in the village of Nueva Granada near San Antonio de Cortés (Honduras). The gunmen opened fire in front of a catholic church, killing this leader of United Communities in front of his children. Forty bullets were found at the scene. Jorge Vásquez o...

New Delhi: Many national and international media organizations including Press Club of India (PCI), Editors Guild of India (EGI) and Peoples Dispatch

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Resistance in the face of repression: India’s striking farmers share their stories December 16, 2020 10:27 AM CDT By Pavan Kulkarni Protesting farmers face police attacks while attempting to move towards Delhi, at the border between Delhi and Haryana state. The farmers have fa...

Pavan Kulkarni is a journalist with Peoples Dispatch who covers labor struggles and progressive social movements, mainly on the African continent, but also in India. He has also written articles on international trade and geopolitics, some of which have been republished in the Monthly Review. He is the author of a series of in-depth articles on the history of India’s Hindu far-right and its ideology, which have appeared in the Wire. World