 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Around the World in 8 Minutes, a show from People's Dispatch. In this show, we bring you stories of resistance and defiance from across the world, as the collective strength of the people fights back against the horrors of capitalism and imperialism, and strives for a better world. We begin with a major breakthrough in Sudan, where the leadership of the civilian protest movement has reached an agreement with the military junta. An agreement was signed between the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces, the DFCF, representing the civilian protesters, and the Transitional Military Council, which is governing the country. It lays down the path for the country's future. As for the agreement, a civilian-dominated transitional government will govern the country for 39 months, after which elections will be held. This government will comprise three bodies, namely the Presidential Council, the Cabinet and the Legislative Council. The Presidential Council will be composed of eleven members, five of whom will be civilians chosen by the DFCF, and five others appointed by the Transitional Military Council. The one remaining member will be a civilian with a military background who is agreeable to both sides. The country's president will be a military officer for the first 21 months of the transitional period, and a civilian appointed by the DFCF will hold the post for the remaining 18 months. The DFCF will also form the Cabinet, and will choose 67% of the members of the Legislative Council. The remaining seats in the council will be taken by other political parties who are not part of the government or form a president or moral basheer. The failure of talks over the composition of the Presidential Council had led to the junta, letting loose a notorious militia, which on June 3rd committed a massacre while evicting protesters in Khartoum. Over 100 people were killed and hundreds were injured in this. Following this, the protest movement brought the country to a halt for multiple days through civil disobedience and political strikes. However, resistance on the streets which were mostly in the control of the militiamen had remained minimal. This changed by the end of the month with the number of night-time marches culminating in the march of the millions on June 30th. These actions demonstrated that the ability of the protesters to reclaim the streets had not been diluted after the massacre. A mass civil disobedience campaign was also planned for July 14th. It was in the context of all this that the TMC on July 3rd agreed to release all political prisoners, including those from armed tribal groups. In return, the DFCF agreed to resume negotiations. The two sides have also resolved on a mechanism to investigate human rights abuses and war crimes committed by the regime since April. The DFCF appointed cabinet will appoint an independent national committee which will investigate the human rights violations and the war crimes. Sudan is at a threshold today. It remains to be seen if the military, which is a history of breaking promises, will stick to the deal. But the protesters on the streets of Sudan are watchful. They are determined that unlike other countries where the promise of the Arab Spring was betrayed, Sudan will protect the potential of the revolution. On July 3rd, under the banner of stop separating families, thousands of migrants demonstrated outside the office of the National Migration Directorate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The demonstration was held to demand the abolition of the anti-immigration decree DNU 70 bar 2017, as well as an end to the persecution ill treatment in arbitrary expulsion of migrants. The demonstration was organized by a national campaign called Migration is not a crime. The DNU 70 bar 2017, approved by the government of President Mauricio Macri in January 2017, regulates the entry and stay of foreigners in Argentine territory. It allows the National Immigration Office to cancel the residents of any immigrant and order their expulsion if they have been convicted or jailed in Argentina or abroad for a wide range of crimes. The list of these crimes is so huge that even someone who has been imprisoned for a so-called crime like street wedding could be deported from Argentina under the law. The migrants and organizations supporting them are also demanding an end to xenophobia, stigmatization and criminalization of migrants, as well as a recognition of their contribution to Argentine society. They also seek a reduction in the migration process charges, withdrawal of a new online filing system called RADX, as well as a return of Vanessa Gomez-Cuevas. Vanessa is a Peruvian migrant who is arbitrarily deported with a two-year-old son in the month of February, while other sons will have stranded. The campaign called for mobilizations after receiving no response to their demands presented during a march held on March 13th. As President Donald Trump had the tanks roll out and planes flying for his salute to America parade in the capital, U.S. citizens across the country staged massive protests on the 4th of July. This day is a national holiday for the United States, commemorating the Declaration of Independence of 1776, when the 13 colonies in North America broke away from the British Empire. 4th of July celebrations are generally criticized by left-wing activists for being jingoistic commemorations of the establishment of a genocidal slave-holding settler colony. The independence in 1776 was a selective one for a white elite, exemplified by the fact that many who signed the Declaration were slave holders and supported the genocide of the indigenous population. Since Trump took on the presidency in January 2017, the commemorations in several parts of the country have been platforms used by many of his opponents to criticize and call out his administration's policies. This year, though, the protests were organized to call out the festivities planned by the president that were decried by many for the high level of militarization and nationalism. The Salute to America parade featured military tanks and fighter planes of each arm of the U.S. military flying in a choreographed formation in a display of the country's military might. Trump then went on to talk about several achievements of each of the services of the U.S. armed forces, eventually making the whole event about the military. The expenses ran into a couple of millions of dollars, with the fireworks itself reported to have cost around U.S. dollars 700,000. The government has deflected questions about the necessity of having a military parade in the heart of the capital. Anti-war group CodePink brought the famous Trump Baby Blimp, a 20-foot giant balloon in the shape of an infant-like caricature of the president that wears a diaper to protest the militarization of July 4th. The balloon became famous in a massive protest that erupted in London in the United Kingdom during an official visit by Trump in 2018. CodePink decided to bring the balloon into what they called the Big Baby Festival. Authorities restricted the use of helium in the area without giving any reason, which meant that they could not fly the massive balloon, but it was inflated nonetheless. There was also a 16-foot Trump robot sitting on a toilet with a cell phone. This caricature was used as an entertainment protest piece, with stand-up open mics for participants and even a dance performance. Elsewhere, protest focused on some of the more recent policy decisions of the Trump administration. In Detroit, over 150 workers came out in protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in the city with placards that red abolish ICE and close the USA concentration camps now. There were differently ICE detention camps that are reported to have held immigrant children in subhuman conditions in veritable cages. In Philadelphia, over 300 people protested the immigration policies and detention camps, first with the demonstration outside the ICE office in the city and then by interrupting the city's 4th of July parade. Over three dozen of the participants were arrested for the interruption. The protest was organized by the progressive Jewish people and allies who were part of the Never Again and Jews Against ICE campaigns. Speaking to the city-based public radio station Y, Sara Gishkin, who helped organize the protest said, This is the Jewish community basically getting together to say Never Again. It is something we usually say about the Holocaust, but Never Again is now. We end with another Independence Day celebration, this time in Venezuela. Thousands of people marched down the streets of the country on Friday, declaring their support to the legitimately elected government of Nicolas Maduro. Maduro himself joined the rally in southwestern Caracas and reiterated calls for peace and unity. This year's rallies were very important as they come after the coup attempt launched by self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó. Guaidó won support from the US and its allies, but the people of Venezuela, on the other hand, have rejected his coup attempt and have strongly rallied in support of their elected government. This is clear from the hundreds of rallies that have taken place in support of Maduro since. On July 5th, the anniversary of the day when the National Constitution Congress of Venezuela passed the country's Declaration of Independence, the people of Venezuela once again announced that they would not bow down before imperialism and its lackeys. That's all we have time for today. To read more about these stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for watching. Thank you very much.