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/

Following ICE arrests of 14 farm workers on May 2, the United Farm Workers labor union has sprung into action to demand the release of the detained workers.

According to UFW, ICE “had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/20/united-farm-workers-union-protests-ice-arrests-of-farm-laborers-involved-in-union-drive/

🇹🇿 As Tanzania heads toward the general elections scheduled for October 28, 2025, the political climate signals not a moment of renewal, but of a tightening grip on power, cracking down on dissent, and escalating public disillusionment.


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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/20/tanzanias-2025-elections-democracy-in-crisis-amid-repression-and-public-discontent/

Trade union leaders denounce the recent war frenzy whipped up by the ultra-right-wing government in the country, calling it a diversionary tactic. They declared their support for peace in the region.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/20/indian-workers-demand-withdrawal-of-pro-corporate-labor-codes-prepare-for-a-national-strike-on-july-9/

Israel's brutal genocide in Gaza reached new disastrous levels, and some European governments have taken a slight shift in tone of their support of Israel. Tune in for another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Zoe Alexandra, Indian journalist Prasanth R and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they dig into this story and more. They discuss the ground invasion of Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Forces, talks between Iran and the United States, an update on the situation in DRC, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's calls for the establishment of a pan-Eurasian platform, the arrest of human rights defender Ruth Eleonora López in El Salvador as well as the upcoming elections in Venezuela.
https://youtube.com/live/JnTvwq4StiE