🇨🇴🇵🇸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.
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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.

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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/

The indirect talks between Iran and the US have reached a critical point. Iranian analyst Peiman Salehi addresses the deeper chasm between the two nations and the US refusal to recognize other visions of the world.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/epistemological-divergence-challenges-in-the-us-iran-nuclear-dialogue/

During its annual discussions on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) monitoring and engagement in health support for Palestine, the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) once again confronted the devastating impact of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/global-south-reiterates-support-for-palestine-at-world-health-assembly/

Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining-affected communities together in a unified protest.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/colonial-mining-fuels-israeli-genocide-global-protests-target-glencore/

🇦🇷On May 28, thousands of scientists, academics, and students protested in Argentina against the critical situation facing the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).

The protests followed the announcement by the neoliberal government of Javier Milei to cut the state budget for scientific research (from 0.3% of GDP to 0.15%). The mobilizations took place in several cities across the South American country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/30/without-science-there-is-no-future-thousands-of-argentine-scientists-protest-mileis-neoliberal-adjustment/

🇨🇴On May 28 and 29, Colombians took part in a massive national strike in defense of the progressive government of Gustavo Petro and the popular consultation on the labor reform proposed by his government which would give workers more rights and guarantees.

Following a court hearing on Thursday, May 29, a federal judge extended an order blocking Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting 21-year-old college student Yunseo Chung.

Chung, like fellow Columbia students and graduates Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Ranjani Srinivasan, has been targeted by the Trump administration amid its broader attacks on immigrants, institutions of higher education, and the pro-Palestine movement.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/30/swell-of-support-for-pro-palestine-student-yunseo-chung-as-she-fights-deportation/

The government of Javier Milei moved forward with a controversial immigration reform it announced last week.

Broadly speaking, it greatly restricts the possibility of obtaining permanent residence in the country, as well as citizenship. It also limits foreigners from receiving care in public hospitals and accessing free university education.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/30/more-restrictions-for-immigrants-mileis-government-draws-inspiration-from-us-immigration-reform/

🇵🇦Panamanian Indigenous communities have been mobilizing for the past several weeks as part of the national strike against the right wing government’s neoliberal policies.

They have been blocking major highways in the country including the Inter-American highway a key road that connects all of Central America. Indigenous communities have been brutally repressed by Panamanian security forces. Notably their mobilizations are taking place in Darién, a southern province in Panama where the US seeks to build a military base- thanks to an agreement signed by Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.