#PeoplesHistory | 🚩Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818 (May 5, 1818). Marx was a revolutionary German philosopher, economist, journalist, and organizer whose incisive critique of capitalism forever transformed the struggle for a better world.
📚⚒️ Marx’s groundbreaking theories: historical dialectical materialism, class struggle, and surplus value, unveiled the exploitative engine driving capitalist societies. Through works like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, he, along with his close collaborator Friedrich Engels, dissected how capitalism alienates labor, concentrates wealth, and perpetuates inequality, urging humanity to envision a world beyond profit.
🌍✊🏽 By exposing the contradictions of bourgeois society and championing the revolutionary potential of the working class, Marx’s legacy endures as a beacon. His timeless call, “Workers of the world, unite!” remains a rallying cry for collective liberation, reminding us that another world is not only possible - it is necessary.
📚⚒️ Marx’s groundbreaking theories: historical dialectical materialism, class struggle, and surplus value, unveiled the exploitative engine driving capitalist societies. Through works like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, he, along with his close collaborator Friedrich Engels, dissected how capitalism alienates labor, concentrates wealth, and perpetuates inequality, urging humanity to envision a world beyond profit.
🌍✊🏽 By exposing the contradictions of bourgeois society and championing the revolutionary potential of the working class, Marx’s legacy endures as a beacon. His timeless call, “Workers of the world, unite!” remains a rallying cry for collective liberation, reminding us that another world is not only possible - it is necessary.
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NYU law students secure the right to take final exams following university’s repression of peaceful protests.
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NYU law students refused to sign away their right to protest – and won
NYU law students secure the right to take final exams following university’s repression of peaceful protests
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The Ansar Allah-led Yemeni Armed Forces announced on Sunday, May 4, the launch of a comprehensive aerial blockade on Israel, following the Israeli government’s approval earlier that day of a plan to expand the military operation in the besieged Gaza strip.
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Yemen’s Ansar Allah announces comprehensive aerial blockade on Israel
The Yemeni group's blockade was announced in response to Israel’s plans to expand its military operations in Gaza.
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Listen to Laura Pidcock of Declassified UK talk about how the Labour government seeks to wash its hands of war crimes, all while supporting the production of the weapons being used to bomb children and civilians in Gaza. She criticizes the sinister decoupling of war with the weapons industry and calls for an end to the genocide and an end to the UK's complicity.
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Tens of thousands of Panamanian students march in Panama City to demand right-wing President José Raúl Mulino respect university autonomy and the country's national sovereignty.
They criticize that Mulino's government conceded to threats from the Trump administration by hindering Chinese business operations in Panama, increasing US influence in the control of the Panama Canal, and installing US military bases in national territory.
The student protest takes place amid an indefinite national strike of tens of thousands of workers.
Workers from different economic sectors have been on strike since April 28 and show no signs of letting up despite intimidation and repression.
They criticize that Mulino's government conceded to threats from the Trump administration by hindering Chinese business operations in Panama, increasing US influence in the control of the Panama Canal, and installing US military bases in national territory.
The student protest takes place amid an indefinite national strike of tens of thousands of workers.
Workers from different economic sectors have been on strike since April 28 and show no signs of letting up despite intimidation and repression.
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🇮🇳🇵🇰India's attacks against Pakistan have provoked fears that the simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed powers could escalate, with many urging that the nations exercise restraint.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/pakistan-calls-indias-attacks-unprovoked-and-blatant-act-of-war/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/pakistan-calls-indias-attacks-unprovoked-and-blatant-act-of-war/
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Pakistan calls India’s attacks “unprovoked and blatant act of war”
The attack has provoked fears that the simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed powers could escalate, with many urging that the nations exercise restraint.
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The Israeli security cabinet unanimously approved on Monday, May 5, a plan to seize control of the entire Gaza Strip and maintain its presence there through an expanded military operation called “Gideon’s Chariots.”
According to an Israeli defense official, Israel will move forward with the new military operation in the war-torn enclave if no deal regarding the release of Israeli captives is reached with Hamas by the end of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the West Asia region next week.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/06/israeli-security-cabinet-approves-plans-to-seize-entire-gaza-strip-and-control-delivery-of-humanitarian-aid/
According to an Israeli defense official, Israel will move forward with the new military operation in the war-torn enclave if no deal regarding the release of Israeli captives is reached with Hamas by the end of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the West Asia region next week.
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Israeli security cabinet approves plans to seize entire Gaza Strip and control delivery of humanitarian aid
By doing so, Israel appears to be pushing Palestinians in Gaza toward a desperate exodus from their homeland, leaving them with no viable means of survival.
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Attack helicopters bombed the only functional hospital in Fangak county in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, leaving “a catchment of over 100,000 people” with no access to critical medical care, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“The pharmacy was destroyed. All medical supplies lost,” said Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has been operating this facility since 2014.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/06/ethnic-profiling-and-attacks-on-hospitals-as-south-sudan-hurtles-back-into-civil-war/
“The pharmacy was destroyed. All medical supplies lost,” said Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has been operating this facility since 2014.
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Ethnic profiling and attacks on hospitals as South Sudan hurtles back into civil war
The government has profiled the country’s second-largest ethnic community, splitting the counties where they are dominant into “friendly” and “hostile”.
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🇵🇰🇮🇳"For the working peoples of India and Pakistan, whose histories, languages, and struggles are shared, this war only brings death, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, inflation, and nothing else."
Pakistani intellectual and political activist Dr. Taimur Rahman issues an urgent appeal for peace and de-escalation on the subcontinent in the wake of India's attacks on Pakistan on May 7, 2025.
Pakistani intellectual and political activist Dr. Taimur Rahman issues an urgent appeal for peace and de-escalation on the subcontinent in the wake of India's attacks on Pakistan on May 7, 2025.
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Tune in for an episode with Zoe Alexandra, Indian journalist Prasanth R and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they discuss the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, Israel's promise to expand the war on Gaza, the conflict in Haiti, resurgence of Reform UK in council elections, the protests against social security reforms in Pananma as well as the 80th anniversary of Victory Day.
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#PeoplesHistory | 67 Days That Toppled an Empire 🇻🇳
On May 7, 1954, the Viet Minh - a force of farmers, workers, and guerrilla fighters, led by Ho Chi Minh - defeated French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu.
From March 13 to May 7, 1954, the Viet Minh’s relentless fight at Dien Bien Phu delivered a crushing blow to French colonialism. This victory didn’t just end decades of imperial, colonial rule - it ignited hope for liberation struggles worldwide.
Just a year later, the Vietnamese people would continue their struggle for full liberation of their homeland from imperialist designs, and on April 30, 1975 defeated the US and its proxy force.
On May 7, 1954, the Viet Minh - a force of farmers, workers, and guerrilla fighters, led by Ho Chi Minh - defeated French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu.
From March 13 to May 7, 1954, the Viet Minh’s relentless fight at Dien Bien Phu delivered a crushing blow to French colonialism. This victory didn’t just end decades of imperial, colonial rule - it ignited hope for liberation struggles worldwide.
Just a year later, the Vietnamese people would continue their struggle for full liberation of their homeland from imperialist designs, and on April 30, 1975 defeated the US and its proxy force.
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Early high-level events marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany are underway in Russia, where the traditional Victory Parade on Friday, May 9, will welcome a host of world leaders and other guests to commemorate the Red Army’s role in the liberation of Europe.
According to Russian authorities, 29 countries have confirmed their leaders will attend the event, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and Vietnam, while the EU remains absent.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/global-south-leaders-join-victory-day-events-in-moscow-as-europe-stays-away/
According to Russian authorities, 29 countries have confirmed their leaders will attend the event, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and Vietnam, while the EU remains absent.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/global-south-leaders-join-victory-day-events-in-moscow-as-europe-stays-away/
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Global South leaders join Victory Day events in Moscow as Europe stays away
Marking the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Global South leaders are gathering in Moscow, while EU remains absent
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Port-au-Prince remains under siege from armed gangs, who have launched a coordinated campaign to seize control of the city.
The US State Department announced that it was declaring Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/as-haitis-crisis-escalates-us-designates-two-gangs-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations/
The US State Department announced that it was declaring Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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As Haiti’s crisis escalates, US designates two gangs as foreign terrorist organizations
The United States has formally designated the two Haitian criminal groups – the Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grif gang – as terrorist organizations.
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As the civilian casualty toll rises in the fallout of India’s strikes against Pakistan on May 7, many have called for the nuclear-armed nations to de-escalate and engage in dialogue.
The International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA) wrote in a statement, “We are alarmed by the growing belligerence and the latest strikes carried out by Indian defense forces. In a context where both India and Pakistan are nuclear armed nations, any escalation risks catastrophic consequences not just for the two countries, but for the entire South Asian region. The people of South Asia – already burdened with poverty, unemployment, environmental crises, and deepening inequalities – cannot afford the horrors of another war.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/calls-for-peace-grow-as-threat-of-all-out-war-looms-over-south-asia/
The International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA) wrote in a statement, “We are alarmed by the growing belligerence and the latest strikes carried out by Indian defense forces. In a context where both India and Pakistan are nuclear armed nations, any escalation risks catastrophic consequences not just for the two countries, but for the entire South Asian region. The people of South Asia – already burdened with poverty, unemployment, environmental crises, and deepening inequalities – cannot afford the horrors of another war.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/calls-for-peace-grow-as-threat-of-all-out-war-looms-over-south-asia/
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Calls for peace grow as threat of all-out war looms over South Asia
As the civilian casualty toll rises in the fallout of India’s strikes against Pakistan on May 7, many have called for the nuclear-armed nations to de-escalate and engage in dialogue
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Hundreds of millions of Indian workers are ready to strike on May 20 to demand higher minimum wages and a rollback of the BJP’s anti-worker policies.
📲 Read Vijay Prashad's full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/workers-in-india-are-on-the-march/
📲 Read Vijay Prashad's full article on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/07/workers-in-india-are-on-the-march/
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Workers in India are on the march
Hundreds of million Indian workers are ready to strike on May 20 to demand higher minimum wages and a rollback of BJP's anti-worker policies
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As part of his 15-day international tour, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa traveled to Israel for a two-day visit with a delegation of Ecuadorian officials.
Noboa’s visit comes amid an intensified Israeli blockade on Gaza and its publicly stated plans to expand military operations in order to fully occupy the Strip.
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Noboa’s visit comes amid an intensified Israeli blockade on Gaza and its publicly stated plans to expand military operations in order to fully occupy the Strip.
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Ecuador’s globetrotting president positions himself as Israel’s key Latin American ally
During one of his numerous trips, President Daniel Noboa strengthened his alliance with the Netanyahu government in Israel.
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🚩Leaders of the Global South have arrived to Russia for the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. The day marks the definitive victory over fascism and the defeat of Nazi Germany and axis powers.
Despite attempts by the US and Western Europe to rewrite history and minimize the efforts and sacrifice of the USSR and attempts to politically isolate Russia, major leaders have traveled for the festivities including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Burkinabe leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Despite attempts by the US and Western Europe to rewrite history and minimize the efforts and sacrifice of the USSR and attempts to politically isolate Russia, major leaders have traveled for the festivities including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Burkinabe leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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What is behind Trump's aggressive campaign to gain access and control over land and minerals in regions across the world?
Some analysts suggest that Trump’s recent foreign and domestic policy moves concerning critical mineral wealth seem to be driven by growing competition with China’s control of key industries.
“There is a method to Trump’s foreign policy madness,” according to journalist Amanda Yee, host of “The China Report” on BreakThrough News. “That throughline across all the chaos is China, and the wish to decouple from China and weaken it economically.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trump-administration-ruthlessly-pursues-of-mineral-wealth-in-growing-competition-with-china/
Some analysts suggest that Trump’s recent foreign and domestic policy moves concerning critical mineral wealth seem to be driven by growing competition with China’s control of key industries.
“There is a method to Trump’s foreign policy madness,” according to journalist Amanda Yee, host of “The China Report” on BreakThrough News. “That throughline across all the chaos is China, and the wish to decouple from China and weaken it economically.”
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trump-administration-ruthlessly-pursues-of-mineral-wealth-in-growing-competition-with-china/
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Trump administration ruthlessly pursues of mineral wealth in growing competition with China
The US aims to undermine Chinese dominance of the market for critical minerals are the “method to Trump’s foreign policy madness”
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🇮🇳🇵🇰"Both the elites in India and Pakistan use this kind of dispute to shore up their own shallow legitimacy. They would rather the poor go to die, then solve their own country's problems."
Vijay Prashad, Indian historian and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaks about the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan and the need for de-escalation and peace.
Vijay Prashad, Indian historian and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaks about the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan and the need for de-escalation and peace.
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Economic sanctions are often described as “peaceful” alternatives to war. Yet for millions in countries like Iran and Venezuela, they feel like war by other means.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/sanctions-as-civilizational-warfare-the-human-cost-of-us-economic-pressure/
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Sanctions as civilizational warfare: The human cost of US economic pressure
Sanctions must be recognized for what they are: economic warfare. And like all wars, their victims deserve justice.
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“Every day we are witnessing attacks on our communities, the expansion of war, and a deepening economic crisis,” reads a statement on the The People’s Agenda website.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/faith-labor-and-community-leaders-to-convene-in-chicago-for-peoples-agenda-gathering/
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Faith, labor, and community leaders to convene in Chicago for People’s Agenda gathering
The gathering is sponsored by a diverse array of grassroots and political groups including Mexico’s MORENA party
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