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Political Education In Latin American Social Movements

November 21, 2025 Juan Reardon and Nils McCune, Resumen English. , , ,
Across a vast Latin American landscape, the imperialist project of past and present runs up against a plurality of organized resistance. Be they extractive mining conglomerates and the dams they need built, corporate agribusiness and its endless expansion of the agricultural frontier, or the financial capital behind it all, the incursions of capital into Latin America – with the collaboration of corrupt local elites – are almost always met by an extraordinary diversity of worker-, student-, peasant-, Indigenous-, Black-, LGBTQIAPN+- and women-led movements defending their lived, lands, waters, territories, peoples, histories, and horizons.

Philadelphia’s Peoplehood Celebrates 25th Anniversary

November 11, 2025 Betsey Piette, Workers.org. , , ,
Participating in the annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant in Philadelphia is an amazing experience, not to be missed. It gets better every year. Since 2000, these fall festivals, organized by Spiral Q Puppet Theatre, are a people-powered collective celebration of solidarity, creativity and movement courage. They involve giant puppets, creative banners, a range of visual arts, performers and speakers that in Spiral Q’s own words provide a tool to “help educate people with visuals that give voice to struggles and narratives that our culture renders invisible. … Peoplehood allows us to see the breadth of our resistance.”

Third Social Summit Of Peoples Of Latin America And Caribbean Concludes

November 10, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. , , , , , ,
The city of Santa Marta, Colombia, became the epicenter of social and political dialogue in the region this weekend with the Third Social Summit of the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean that concluded today with grassroots representatives from all over the continent. The event, which brought together more than 1,500 local delegates and featured more than 200 international delegates, opened nine thematic tables dedicated to political dialogue, adhering to the common agenda of the peoples, with a central focus on sovereignty and on condemnation of the interventionist stance of the United States in the region. The summit, which began Saturday, had the fundamental purpose of fostering discussion among civil society to address common challenges affecting nations, with special attention to critical issues such as migration and the need for deeper integration.

Resistance Grows To Europe’s 2026 Budget Plans

October 31, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
It’s the peak of the 2026 budget season in Europe, and military and arms spending are dominating the debate. Under the European Union’s militarization drive and national commitments to meet higher NATO contributions, draft budgets circulating across the bloc allocate billions of euros to so-called defense at the expense of public services and workers’ rights. While trade unions and social movements in some countries are already mobilizing against this trend, others are still working to make clear that rearmament plans will only worsen the social and economic crises faced by Europe’s working class.

Pro-Palestine Movement Vows To Continue Struggle For Lasting Peace

October 13, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , ,
Scenes of Palestinian emergency workers, journalists, displaced refugees, and children in Gaza celebrating on the streets widely circulated following the announcement of a ceasefire deal. In the United States, Israel’s most powerful ally, people involved in the Palestine solidarity movement met the moment with a similar sense of both mourning and cautious optimism.  The Palestinian Youth Movement, a Palestinian diaspora organization that has played a key role in organizing mass demonstrations in the United States since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, joins “our people in welcoming the prospect of a durable ceasefire agreement,” according to a statement released October 9.

Be Careful Out There!

October 9, 2025 Leonard Eiger. , , ,
There has been some media coverage of the U.S. government’s surveillance of (mostly nonviolent) dissent, resistance and protest. Little attention is given to the historical, covert use of disinformation, infiltration and counterprotestors in the government’s toolbox of techniques aimed at discrediting, and disrupting domestic activists and political groups. You can be sure that the current regime is working overtime using its own versions of tactics used by Federal agencies in the bad old days (particularly from 1956 and into the 1970s). These tactics include discrediting people through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and violence.

Arab Grassroots Decry Israel’s Flagrant ‘Piracy’ Against Flotilla

October 3, 2025 Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , ,
Day after day, Israel grows more and more audacious in its quest to impose its hegemony not only over the West Asia region, but also over the entire world, violating land, air, and international waters alike. Hundreds of peaceful international activists aboard over 40 civilian vessels were subjected to a brutal act of piracy on the high seas, just 75 miles away from the Gaza coast. Their boats were loaded with life-saving humanitarian aid for the forcibly-starved two-million-person population in the Gaza Strip. The activists were kidnapped and the ships were forcibly steered towards Israeli ports. Few governments took any action to prevent the mass abduction from happening. The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla is a grave crime, which revealed that many Western countries are indifferent to the lives of their citizens when the offender is Israel.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister To Speak At New York City Event

September 24, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
New York City – This Thursday, September 25, lucky people are gathering in Manhattan for a historic evening to recognize the global struggle for peace and liberation. Two high-profile speakers from Venezuela will present their political views: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil and Blanca Eekhart, president of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples. Both will be attending a meeting at the United Nations that week, as well as the Riverside event. There will also be guest representatives from Cuba and Nicaragua, and a special speaker from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network. This exciting event, hosted by the Anti-War Action Network, will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 25 at The Riverside Church

France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement Could Point The Way For Europe

September 16, 2025 Emiliano Brancaccio, il manifesto global. , , , ,
“Due to social unrest, the Musée d'Orsay is closed,” a sign might have read on Wednesday, when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would have surely looked on with sympathy at this shutdown laden with irony, and at the movement that paralyzed Paris on Wednesday with the rallying cry of “let’s block everything.” There were some thoughtless vandals, to be sure. But the protesters were mostly young people, very many women, many immigrants, and red banners were everywhere. Some say the movement originated among the sovereignist right, active on social media. Although that is possible, there was little sign of them on the streets on Wednesday.

The Peoples Conference For Palestine: Another Step Forward

September 8, 2025 Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance. , , , , ,
The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought over 4600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors. The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless US-Israeli slaughter of civilians were honored throughout the three days that included over 20 sessions and plenaries, exhibits, including Palestinian cultural performances, a grand vendor fair and art exhibits.  It was made clear that Israel is the US garrison state in the Middle East, out to break the Palestinian people’s resistance.

People’s Conference For Palestine Draws Thousands Against Genocide

August 31, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , ,
The second annual People’s Conference for Palestine opened Friday afternoon, August 29, bringing together thousands of people of conscience in Detroit, Michigan. “Through this conference, I invite all of you to take part in the rich revolutionary tradition of Detroit,” said Nelson Garay, a member of Detroit’s People’s Assembly, a grassroots coalition fighting back against Trump’s policies. “In one voice, let us declare that we will not stand for the dehumanization of the Palestinian people, and we will not stand for anything less than their true liberation from a genocidal, apartheid state.” Taher Dahleh, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and an activist in the labor movement through his membership in the Communication Workers of America, opened the conference by describing the major milestones in the Palestine solidarity movement since last year.

Friends Of The Hague Group Statement: Principles And Initial Objectives

August 8, 2025 Friends of the Hague Group, ICSGP.org. , , , ,
Friends of The Hague Group (FoTHG) launched in Bogotá on July 17, 2025, to support multilateral efforts like that of The Hague Group (THG) to end the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, and to ensure that all such efforts be grounded in the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including: the right to self-determination; the right of return for all Palestinian refugees and deportees forcibly displaced since 1948; and the right to full reparation, including restitution, compensation, satisfaction, and guarantees of non-repetition. FoTHG is guided by the demands of Palestinian Civil Society convening organizations, and prioritizes the leadership of FoTHG founding international organizations based in the Global South.

ManiFiesta 2025 To Emphasize Resistance And Internationalism

August 6, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Left organizations in Belgium are using the typically slower European summer to gear up for ManiFiesta, the annual festival of solidarity that many recognize as the launchpad for a new cycle of political activities in the region. This year’s edition, set to take place on September 13 and 14 in the coastal city of Ostend, aims to reflect the country’s current political climate while capturing a broader spirit of resistance. “Right now in Belgium, we’re seeing two major movements of resistance: one against the new government’s policies, and the other in solidarity with Palestine,” says Matilde De Cooman from Viva Salud. “These two are also connected because the new government has reached an agreement that will see big investments in the military, but not in public services.”

20 Years Of BDS: Interview With Omar Barghouti, A Movement Co-Founder

July 10, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , ,
July 9, 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the nonviolent Palestinian-led campaign aimed at holding Israel accountable under international law. “This day will be remembered in history as the start of a principled, strategic, and creative process that has isolated Israel’s 77-year-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and military occupation at the grassroots and institutional level,” said the BDS National Committee in a statement. “It has redefined the meaning of solidarity with our struggle as starting with ending the complicity of states, corporations and institutions with this regime.”

Movements Need To Learn To Fly Like Bees And Thread Like Spiders

July 4, 2025 John Paul Lederach, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
The first months of the Trump administration — with its rapid and sweeping turn toward autocratic rule — have rightly led to calls for collective and national resistance. Leading civil resistance scholars Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks have described the need for a “large-scale, multiracial, cross-class, pro-democracy front.” And Maria Stephan, writing for Just Security, called this a critical moment for taking up the “journey from individual angst to collective action, from siloed work to big-tent formations.” Creating such a collective response, however, requires a great deal of creativity and focus, particularly — as these authors suggest — when it comes to relating to different groups and building unexpected connections.
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