Peoples Dispatch

🇵🇸 Today is Nakba Day, marking the anniversary of the process of genocide, displacement, and ethnic cleansing carried out for the illegal founding of the state of Israel, marking a new chapter in the Palestinian people's struggle for national liberation. Generations of Palestinians have continued the struggle for liberation in the face of the US-backed Israeli apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza. ➡️ Swipe for a non-exhaustive list of influential Palestinian figures.

🇰🇪BOOKER OMOLE: “The Communists of this country have been charged on organizing street protests to defend the poorest of the poorest. On May 13, 2026, Booker Omole attended a court hearing in Nairobi on a case linked to an earlier arrest and abduction. During the proceedings, the court adjourned the matter and scheduled the next hearing for May 27, 2026. Reports from supporters and observers described the case as politically charged, with growing criticism over the circumstances surrounding his arrest and detention.

The threat of the far right in Britain has turned into a reality. All the marches, speeches, and left column inches have failed to halt the electoral advance of the far right. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/far…

“What Emmanuel Macron is demonstrating in Nairobi is not “economic cooperation”, but the familiar arrogance of imperial management dressed in diplomatic language.” 📲 Read the full article by Muhemsi Mwakihwelo ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/fra…

On May 8, 45,000 students joined a school strike against conscription and militarization in 150 cities across the country. The strike was held on the 81st anniversary of Victory Day, which brought peace to Europe at the end of World War II. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/15/ger…

Iran dismissed Kuwait’s accusations as “utterly baseless” and said that four Iranian personnel entered Kuwaiti territorial waters accidentally due to a navigational system malfunction. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/ira…

Nepal’s Supreme Court issued an interim stay on the move by the newly-elected government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, to ban and dissolve party-affiliated trade unions for government employees. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/14/nep…

Following a controversial legal process, the Bolivian justice system has issued an arrest warrant against former leftist President Evo Morales, who governed Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/bol…

For several weeks now, anti-immigrant protests have taken place across different cities in South Africa, a country grappling with deep economic and historical contradictions rooted in its apartheid past and uneven post-liberation transformation. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/14/ant…

For the 15th time in 18 months, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against reforms proposed by Belgium’s Arizona government seeking to reduce pension rights, introduce harsher working conditions, and cut social budgets to finance war and armament. peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/bru…

“The apparent widespread popularity of Nayib Bukele’s government (regime) acts as a sophisticated media smokescreen. Under the guise of effectiveness lies the deliberate dismantling of the rule of law and the deepening of social precariousness that the regime attempts to render invisible.” 📲 An article by Carmen Navas Reyes⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/the…

#PeoplesHistory | On his birthday, we remember Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton. “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone.” Dalton was not only one of Latin America’s most important poets, but also a committed revolutionary who dedicated his life to the struggles of workers, peasants, students, and oppressed people across Central America. Through his travels across Chile, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and Cuba, Dalton deepened both his political consciousness and his commitment to revolutionary internationalism. His writing fused poetry, humor, tenderness, and militant critique of imperialism and oligarchic power. He was imprisoned and sentenced to death more than once for organizing and encouraging popular struggle against injustice in El Salvador. Both times, he escaped. Later, during the Salvadoran revolutionary process, Dalton joined the ERP (Revolutionary People’s Army). Political disagreements ultimately led to his assassination in 1975 — a crime that remains unpunished. Half a century later, Roque Dalton’s words continue to accompany popular struggles across Latin America.

“China’s position on the issue of Cuba is consistent, clear, and unchanged. On the issue of Venezuela, China’s position is equally consistent,” Guo stated during the ministry’s press conference. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/chi…

🇨🇳 The Trump-Xi Summit has kicked off in Beijing’s Great Hall. The leaders are expected to discuss a variety issues and major agreements on trade and tariffs are expected, as the US delegation has the participation of over a dozen CEOs from the country’s largest firms.

The last US state visit to Chinese soil was Trump’s own, in November 2017 – at the start of the US-imposed trade war that would deepen under Biden and intensify in his second presidency. 📲Read the full article by @t_ings ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/tru…

🌍Pan-African activists organize France-Africa counter summit in Nairobi PD’s Nicholas Mwangi reports from the Pan-Africanist Summit Against Imperialism in Kenya. The summit was organized by progressive movements in Kenya and from across the world to protest the France-Africa summit held in Nairobi from May 11-12. The France-Africa summit was presided over by French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President William Ruto, and seen by many as an attempt by France to reorganize its colonial interests in Africa after being expelled from the Sahel region.

The decision aims to enable 99.5% of debtors to settle or restructure debts that had become impossible to pay and were being used by lawyers to extort farmers and small producers. Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/she…

For the Left this cannot be merely an act of remembrance,” wrote the European Left Party. “It is a call to continue the struggle for a peaceful and antifascist Europe.” Read more ⬇ peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/vic…

🇦🇷 Hundreds of thousands hit the streets of Argentina in defense of public education in Argentina. Students, teachers, and university staff, joined by left movements and trade unions, took to the streets of Buenos Aires and cities across Argentina on May 12 to demand that Milei fund public universities. University workers and professors denounce that with their salary they are unable to afford basic necessities to survive. This new round of protests comes amid a crisis in the popularity of the self-proclaimed “anarchocapitalist” president, Javier Milei, due to recent scandals of misappropriated funds by his chief of staff, Manuel Adorni. Polls show that 63% of Argentines disapprove of the far-right leader’s performance.