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.

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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.

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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.