🇨🇺🇵🇸 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.

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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

Demands grow stronger for Israel to fully lift the blockade on Gaza and to allow for the distribution of aid throughout the besieged enclave.

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher warned during an interview with BBC on Tuesday, May 20, that 14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours if the trucks carrying aid do not reach the affected communities in time.

At least 500 trucks need to enter Gaza each day to meet the basic needs of its population, which is estimated at 2.1 million, according to the UN. However, Israel has allowed less than a dozen trucks to enter the enclave, and the UN teams are not able to distribute the aid due to logistical hurdles imposed by Israeli authorities.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/21/israel-maintains-aid-blockade-as-un-warns-that-14000-babies-could-die/

Thousands around the world have already signed onto an “anti-genocide pledge,” which challenges signers to “stand with Palestine – not just in words, but in action.”

In signing onto the pledge, signatories:
Denounce the genocide against the Palestinian people,
Denounce the use of starvation by Israeli forces as a weapon of war,
Support an immediate ceasefire,
Oppose Israel’s occupation of Palestine,
Affirm the right of Palestinians to return to their land,
Demand an arms embargo against Israel,
And call for the liberation of the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israeli forces.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/21/thousands-worldwide-sign-onto-anti-genocide-pledge-in-solidarity-with-palestine/

In September-October 2024, hundreds of workers led a 38-day strike at the plant under the leadership of the Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) after the management objected to its registration.

The workers of the Samsung India’s Chennai plant secured a landmark wage revision agreement after a long battle with the company management on Monday, May 19. Samsung management was forced to agree to revise the wages of all workers at the plant, increase leave, and improve the overall working conditions at the factory.
📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/21/workers-in-samsung-indias-chennai-plant-win-a-significant-pay-raise-after-a-protracted-battle-against-management/

The model the new regime seeks to implement, is a standard international recipe which includes tax cuts for corporations, and privatization of public assets.
This article by Mohammad Khansa was first published on Al Akhbar English.

📲 Read the full article on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/21/free-market-economy-in-syria-weve-seen-this-failure-before/

🇦🇷 The Argentinian security forces of far-right President Javier Milei and National Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, violently repressed pensioners, asking for better conditions and for an end to the neoliberal policies of the government.

For months, pensioners have been protesting every Wednesday against budget cuts and insufficient pension payments, which are part of the state reduction policies of Milei and have affected all impoverished people in Argentina, especially retirees.