Congolese researcher and activist Kambale Musavuli writes on the need to reclaim the revolutionary origins and present of African Liberation Day

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/25/why-we-must-reclaim-african-liberation-day-a-call-to-revolutionary-panafricanism/

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi cautioned the international community of Israel’s plans to attack its nuclear facilities and demanded them to take effective measures to prevent any such possibility.

Araghchi warned that in the absence of effective international measures to prevent Israel, “the Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate to forcefully respond to any transgression and will stop at nothing to protect its interests and people.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/25/following-leaks-of-fresh-israeli-threats-iran-warns-of-retaliation-to-any-provocation/

🚩African Liberation Day: a day of continued anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggle!

Revolutionary organizations across the African continent mobilized for African Liberation Day to declare that the fight for sovereignty and independence from imperialist and colonial threats continues. Many groups expressed support for the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which has taken bold steps to combat imperialist meddling.

#PeoplesHistory | Today, in 1824, 102 women and girls organized the first factory strike in the United States at Pawtucket’s Slater Mill, a textile factory in Rhode Island. After owners slashed their pay 25% and added unpaid hours (calling their wages “extravagant”), women fought back.

🚩The strike grew into a fiery revolt. The girls and women were joined by other working-class sectors and the bosses were forced to finally negotiate. Their defiance ignited a wave of worker uprisings.

In Naples and Rome, Italian organizers were joined by European political leaders to coordinate resistance to militarization and outline a shared vision for a Europe of peace.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/26/disarming-europe-movements-take-steps-towards-building-a-continent-of-peace/

As inequality deepens in countries across the globe, the Indian state of Kerala has emerged as a beacon of hope. By November 2025, Kerala is set to become India’s first state to entirely eradicate extreme poverty.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/26/communist-led-kerala-is-eradicating-extreme-poverty/

Amid a series of attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern border state of Borno, its governor, Babagana Zulum, sounded an alarm that only one of the over 300 towns and villages in its Marte Local Government Area (LGA) remains under government control.

Meanwhile, the federal government led by President Bola Tinubu has been in a state of denial, with its Information Minister Mohammed Idris dismissing the seriousness of Zulum’s warning.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/26/nigerian-government-losing-ground-to-a-resurgent-boko-haram-and-its-is-affiliated-splinter/

🇮🇹🚩Italian left party Potere al Popolo announced on May 27 that for the last 10 months, a police officer had infiltrated its Naples chapter. The group's spokesperson Giuliano Granato condemned the action as part of a larger campaign of repression of the left and progressive forces in Italy under far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

🇨🇴🇵🇸Colombian President Gustavo Petro appointed the first Colombian ambassador to Palestine on May 26.

Petro’s decision comes a year after Bogotá broke off relations with Israel. The Colombian president has been one of the most vocal critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/27/colombia-appoints-first-ambassador-to-palestine/

The Italian left political party Potere al Popolo announced that it uncovered that for approximately 10 months, a 21-year-old officer had infiltrated the party.

Potere al Popolo and other progressive groups denounced the incident as a troubling sign of the growing authoritarianism of Giorgia Meloni’s government and the state structures aligned with her ministers. “The situation, if we start connecting the dots, becomes increasingly disturbing,” the party wrote in a statement.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/27/police-targets-potere-al-popolo-in-undercover-operation/

Asif Sakhi, vice president of the left-wing Awami Workers Party (AWP) Gilgit-Baltistan, was arrested by Pakistan’s security forces.

Sakhi has been a part of the movement against the land grabbing in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and was a candidate for the provincial legislative assembly from the AWP in the last elections. He has been arrested for his activism in the past as well.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/27/yet-another-left-activist-is-arrested-in-pakistan-as-state-crackdown-on-dissent-intensifies/

“NATO says more wars, we say no wars!”

Anti-imperialist organizations hold “People’s Assembly for Peace and Justice” in opposition to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/27/hundreds-mobilized-against-nato-in-dayton/

Defying major disinformation and boycott campaigns by the right-wing opposition in Venezuela, 42.5% of the Venezuelan electorate went to the polls on Sunday, May 25, to elect members of the National Assembly, governors, and mayors.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/28/chavismo-sweeps-regional-and-legislative-elections-in-venezuela/

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 discuss African Liberation Day, one month of workers’ strike in Panama, the ASEAN-GCC-China summit, meeting between US and South African presidents, developments in the Russia- Ukraine war and the austerity measures introduced by Donald Trump.
https://youtube.com/live/W93Th6JT1-c?feature=share

Prasanth R. slams the “sheer contempt” of the west towards the Global South exemplified by Donald Trump in the US-South African bilateral meeting in Washington last week.

Watch the whole episode of Give The People What They Want! on our YouTube.
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European hospitals and research centers have a chance to make CAR-T cancer therapies more accessible — the question is whether they’ll take it

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/28/against-the-normalization-of-limited-access-to-car-t-cell-therapies/

Peace will not be achieved by surrendering to the dogma of militarization and today’s military fetishes. It requires building new power structures. Peace is not inevitable – it is the result of struggle.

History teaches us: Wars and arms races are not stopped from above. Those in power halt militarization and war only when pressured from below. It is the people who pay the price – with their livelihoods, their futures, their children – who can make the difference. If the labor and peace movements join hands and unite, much becomes possible.

Read the article by Peter Mertens⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/28/tanks-dont-fill-lunchboxes/

On May 28 and 29, Colombian social and student organizations, political parties, and labor unions are partaking in a national strike. The strike is to mobilize support for the popular consultation proposed by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, to approve his government’s labor reform bill.

Petro’s bill seeks to improve the situation of Colombian workers and address historic inequality. Among some of the key points of Petro’s reform are:

- Definition of contracts for an indefinite term as a general rule. Other contracts must be justified on a case-by-case basis and for limited periods.
- Progressive reduction of the work week from 48 to 42 hours without affecting salaries, and adherence to the 8 hour work day
- Progressive increase in pay for work on mandatory rest days and holidays.
- Guarantee social security affiliation for digital platform workers, in addition to a guaranteed minimum wage.
- Facilitate the creation of unions and strengthen existing ones.
- Introduce measures that make unjustified dismissals more difficult.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/colombians-are-on-strike-against-the-ruling-class-boycott-of-the-labor-reform-referendum/

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 discuss African Liberation Day, one month of workers’ strike in Panama, the ASEAN-GCC-China summit, meeting between US and South African presidents, developments in the Russia- Ukraine war and the austerity measures introduced by Donald Trump.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7eZD8FXpz7VTSA1uJ6PgaB?si=ddad043ed46a45f8

🇵🇸 On Wednesday, May 28, the Palestinian political and resistance movement Hamas announced its acceptance of a new ceasefire deal presented by President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.

Though Israel had rejected an earlier version of the deal just two days prior, Witkoff expressed hope on Wednesday that the updated “terms sheet” would be acceptable to all the parties. Reports in Israeli media on Thursday, May 29, indicated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the Witkoff deal the green light.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/reports-indicate-israel-and-hamas-likely-to-accept-witkoff-ceasefire-proposal/

“Israel openly invites people to invest in genocide.”

On May 28, representatives of conservative parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, part of the current Irish government, voted down a proposal brought forward by Sinn Féin that would have granted the Minister for Finance the authority to restrict the sale of Israeli bonds.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/irish-conservatives-block-proposal-by-sinn-fein-to-restrict-israeli-war-bonds/