🇵🇸Dozens of union members, and pro-Palestine activists stood united in Newcastle city center to mark 77 years since the Nakba—the "catastrophe" that began in 1948, when Zionist forces violently displaced and massacred Palestinians to establish the foundations of Israel’s apartheid regime. Organized by Trade Unionists for Palestine and the Newcastle Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, alongside unions including the Newcastle Trades Council, Fire Brigades Union, Unison, UCU, CWU, and PCS, the demonstration honored the resilience of Palestinians and demanded an end to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

As part of a broader day of action, trade unions amplified calls for justice, liberation, and an immediate halt to the atrocities. From historic oppression to today’s crisis in Gaza, the message was clear: solidarity with Palestine is unwavering. 🕊✊ #Nakba77 #FreePalestine

US immigration officials deported a young Venezuelan mother without her 2-year-old daughter.

Yorely Bernal fought back — and her country stood with her 🇻🇪✊🏾

After relentless pressure, organizing, and the intervention of the Venezuelan government, Maikelys is finally back in her mother’s arms in Caracas.

“This victory belongs to all the people of Venezuela — but especially to the mothers and grandmothers!” — President Nicolás Maduro
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/16/they-took-her-baby-the-struggle-of-a-nation-and-a-mother-to-reunite-a-family-after-us-deportation/

The Trump administration opens a new ICE detention center in New Jersey’s biggest city and a hub for immigrant communities, earning a bold response from immigrant rights organizers.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/16/new-jersey-fights-mass-deportations-at-the-newly-minted-delaney-hall-detention-center/

🇵🇸“We will never lose our faith in the right of Palestinian people to self-determination, and triumphant return to their homeland…The liberation of Palestine is an Arab cause, whose vanguard is the Palestinian resistance.”

The Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party marked the 77 anniversary of the ongoing Nakba and denounced the complicity and betrayal of the Arab regimes in Israel’s project of colonialism and genocide

When international law is selectively enforced, when justice is sacrificed for geopolitical interests, what remains is not order – but domination.

Read the article by Peiman Salehi ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/16/palestine-and-the-collapse-of-the-rules-based-world-order/

Trade unions and campaigns focused on housing, welfare, and health rights are uniting for a mass demonstration against a new wave of austerity in Britain, set for June 7.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/16/anti-austerity-march-to-oppose-labour-government-cuts/

Dr. Saeed Dhiyab, the General-Secretary of the Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party (Wihda Party), criticized the heads of the Gulf Arab countries, who hosted Trump, noting “they did not succeed in doing the minimum to meet the national interests of the Arab people” during his visit.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/17/trumps-deals-with-gulf-leaders-are-an-explicit-act-of-feudalism-says-dr-saeed-dhiyab/

For several months now, Argentine retirees have continued a young anti-neoliberal political tradition in Argentina: they have been demonstrating in front of the National Congress every Wednesday against the economic policies of Milei’s project, which have greatly impacted their lives.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/16/argentinian-retirees-continue-their-fight-for-dignity/

“We are calling on the Dutch government to stop all political, economic, and military support to Israel as long as it continues to block humanitarian aid and commit genocide, war crimes, and systematic human rights violations in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories,” Marjon Rozema from Amnesty International stated on the day.

Approximately 100,000 people took to the streets of The Hague on Sunday, May 18, to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the Dutch government’s failure to respond to gross abuse of international law.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/19/100000-march-for-palestine-in-the-hague-as-europe-marks-nakba-day/

The attacks to prepare the way for the attempted annexation of Gaza have been ferocious. Israeli bombs have eradicated entire families of Palestinians.


📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/19/israels-final-solution-for-gaza/

🇨🇺🇵🇸 Cuban artists, students, teachers, and community members marked Nakba Day by painting a mural in the capital, Havana.


Listen to Cuban artist Enrique Lacoste Prince talk about the importance of this intervention.

The US and Iran conducted their fourth round of indirect nuclear talks on May 11 in Oman, after which Trump claimed the US had submitted a written proposal to Iran for consideration.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/19/iran-reasserts-its-right-to-maintain-peaceful-nuclear-program-as-us-talks-show-new-promise/

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei described Trump’s visit as a “performance to project strength”, condemning Washington’s pressuring of Iran under the guise of diplomacy.

Read Peiman Salehi's article ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/19/trumps-persian-gulf-visit-a-diplomatic-show-or-a-liberal-delusion/

The left media platform red. media has announced it is ceasing operations following a months-long disinformation campaign, supported by much of the German media establishment.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/20/red-media-to-shut-down-amid-anti-palestinian-repression-in-germany/