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/

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/

🇵🇰🇮🇳"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.

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.

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/

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/

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/

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/

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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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/ecuadors-globetrotting-president-positions-himself-as-israels-key-latin-american-ally/

🚩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.

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/

🇮🇳🇵🇰"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.

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/

“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/

The 2025 International Workers’ Day celebrations in Benin were disrupted after the police stormed a peaceful workers’ assembly organized by the Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs du Bénin (CSTB), arresting the union’s leadership in what has been widely condemned as a brutal and arbitrary crackdown on trade union rights.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trade-unions-in-benin-condemn-police-crackdown-on-labor-movement/

Neo-fascism merely adapted, disguised, and reshaped itself according to the times. In some states, we now see historical revisionism – and even glorification of local fascist or Nazi collaborators.

Read Biljana Vankovska's article ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/eighty-years-on-remembering-the-defeat-of-fascism-or-witnessing-its-return/

🚩🇷🇺 Russian authorities and dignitaries from across the world marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

While no Western European leaders attended the commemoration, key leaders of the Global South like Chinese President Xi Jinping, Burkinabé President Ibrahim Traoré, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, among others, were present in Moscow.