Nearly a month after Peru’s presidential election, the country’s electoral authority has yet to announce who will advance to the run-off election on June 7.
Peru’s run-off election is just a month away and the contestants have yet to be finalized. Electoral authorities are facing increased pressure and harassment from political actors who appear dissatisfied with the results.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/07/a-month-after-the-elections-oas-urges-peru-to-finish-vote-count/

🇨🇳 “China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security.”

Lin Jian, spokesperson of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the move by the Trump administration to further tighten the stranglehold on Cuba, imposing fresh sanctions on the already struggling island. Lin called for an end to US meddling in Cuba and in the entire Latin American and Caribbean region.

Students and teachers in over 60 localities across Italy striked on May 7 to protest education reforms presented by the Meloni government that seek to subordinate the education sector to industry interests and militarization. The measures include aligning technical and professional courses with employer needs and removing critical content from curricula, while keeping thousands of education workers in precarious positions.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/07/students-and-teachers-in-italy-strike-against-right-wing-reforms-and-militarization/

Israeli warplanes bombed Beirut’s southern suburb Dahiye on Wednesday, May 6, killing at least two people and injuring seven others in yet another clear violation of the ceasefire agreement announced last month. The Israeli attack in the densely populated area also caused massive damage to residential buildings.

At least 837 Palestinians, including 216 children, have been killed in thousands of ceasefire violations by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Gaza since October last year.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/07/israel-violates-ceasefire-in-lebanon-in-attack-reportedly-coordinated-with-the-us/

The Communist movement is an inseparable part of Kerala. If it can recognize this and regain the confidence of the people, it will continue to transform the state of Kerala while offering powerful lessons to the world.

📲 Read the full article by Nitheesh Narayanan and Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/07/keralas-red-star-still-shine

The upcoming France-Africa summit taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, appears to be not just a platform for development cooperation or business networking, but as part of a broader French strategic recalibration at a moment when its historic sphere of influence in Africa is undergoing profound strain. France’s expanding engagement with Anglophone Africa must be situated within the context of its declining influence in the Sahel.

The shift of strategy has already triggered resistance from Pan-African and progressive movements in Kenya. Progressive groups in Kenya and the continent have come together to organize the Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism (PASAI), a parallel counter-summit in Nairobi

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/08/after-setbacks-in-west-africa-france-courts-anglophone-africa/

Israel continues to strengthen its strategic relations with right-wing governments in Latin America. On May 6, President Isaac Herzog arrived in Panama, where he met with his counterpart, President José Raúl Mulino. This marks the first time an Israeli leader has visited the Central American country.

During his visit to Panama, Herzog and Panamanian President Mulino announced the strengthening of the Free Trade Agreement and a commitment to work more closely together on cybersecurity, agriculture, and technology.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/08/herzog-visits-panama-and-costa-rica-deepening-israels-foothold-in-central-america/

The recent emergence of former president and military pilot Rumen Radev as the winner of the snap election in Bulgaria signaled potential stabilization in parliamentary politics.

While for some Radev and his Progressive Bulgaria’s majority bring hope this might change, it remains to be seen whether their program actually responds to the reasons behind the quick governmental turnover.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/08/progressive-bulgaria-promises-to-fight-corruption-but-unlikely-to-stray-from-eu-playbook/

Alleging that UAE-supplied drones taking off from an Ethiopian airport have attacked Sudan four times since March 1, the Sudanese government has recalled its ambassador, and threatened an “open confrontation” with Ethiopia “if it becomes necessary.”​

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/08/as-the-war-in-sudan-continues-into-its-fourth-year-tensions-escalate-with-ethiopia/

🚩 Today, May 9, Russia marked 81 years since the defeat of fascism in WW2

Across Western and Central Europe, governments have banned displaying Soviet and Russian flags in their Victory Day commemorations, seeking to erase the contributions of the USSR in the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies. Over 26 million Soviet citizens gave their lives in the war, including millions of civilians killed in the Nazi Army’s invasion.

A growing movement in Utah is challenging the “Stratos Project,” a city-sized AI data center backed by TV personality Kevin O’Leary, over concerns about democratic oversight, water use, and environmental collapse.

“We’re not here to subsidize our own death,” Natalie Clark, a local activist and one of thousands who filed a protest, told Peoples Dispatch.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/09/a-massive-ai-data-center-transforms-rural-utah-into-a-national-flashpoint/

🇵🇸 “Our biggest concern is that the thousands upon thousands of Palestinian prisoners who are left behind.”

Saif Abukeshek, member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was released after 10 days in Israeli detention. When he returned home to Barcelona, he spoke about the rampant torture, abuse, and brutality Palestinian prisoners are subjected to and called for the people to keep mobilizing to demand all Palestinian prisoners are freed.

A recent announcement by the Trump administration that it plans to withdraw at least 5,000 US troops from Germany and halt the planned deployment of long-range US missiles has triggered contradictory reactions in the European country.

📲 Read the full article by the Zetkin Forum for Social Research on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/11/trump-administration-ponders-withdrawing-5000-troops-from-germany-a-reason-for-celebration/

#PeoplesHistory | Four years ago today, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, was assassinated by Israeli Occupation Forces while clearly identified as press and covering a military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in Jenin.

Four years later, Israel has continued killing journalists and media workers with total impunity. Since October 2023, Israel has killed over 235 Palestinian journalists, making Israel's genocide in Gaza the most deadly place for journalists in the world.

On May 9, thousands of Malians in various cities mobilized to express their support for the national armed forces and the sovereigntist popular military government defending the country from attacks by multiple foreign-backed terror groups.​

In the capital, Bamako – one of the six cities attacked on April 25 – citizens packed the Mamadou Konaté Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 5,500, to attend a gathering themed “For a Mali standing tall, united, at peace and secure”.​ Addressing the gathering, Ibrahim Cissé, president of the National Youth Council of Mali (CNJ), called on the young Malians to join the armed forces in ever greater numbers in the fight against terror groups, insisting, “We refuse to be a youth of spectators.”​

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/11/thousands-of-malians-demonstrate-in-support-of-the-governments-fight-against-terror-groups/

Following several scandals and problems during his administration, the popularity of Javier Milei’s libertarian government has plummeted. The British newspaper Financial Times published a poll showing that 63% of Argentines disapprove of the far-right leader’s performance.

Argentina is currently in the midst of a prolonged economic crisis that shows no signs of ending. The libertarian government had promised that reducing the deficit and slowing the depreciation of the Argentine peso against the dollar, along with a radical downsizing of the state, would lead to rapid economic improvement.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/11/mileis-approval-collapses-under-corruption-scandals-and-prolonged-economic-crisis/

Within hours after its submission on Sunday, May 10, US President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s fresh proposal for peace in the Middle East, calling it “totally unacceptable.”

According to reports in Iranian media, the latest Iranian peace proposal to end the US-Israeli war of aggression included most of the original demands made since the beginning of the ceasefire in April.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/11/trump-rejects-irans-latest-proposal-to-end-the-war-oil-prices-spike/

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday, May 9, the arrest of 41 individuals affiliated with an organization allegedly linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and the ideology of Wilayat al-Faqih.

The ideology is based on a Shia religious doctrine that gives Iran’s Supreme Leader the ultimate authority over all governmental institutions, including the military.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/11/bahrain-arrests-41-individuals-allegedly-linked-to-irgc/

🇰🇪“After its defeat in the Sahel region, France is trying to reposition itself in the East African region ... we don’t want military bases here in Kenya.”

PD's Nicholas Mwangi reports from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, where a demonstration was held against the France-Africa Summit. Progressive groups in Kenya and across the African continent organized a counter summit, criticizing the Macron and Ruto-led summit as an attempt by France to reconfigure its influence and strategic interests in Africa at a time when the Sahel is increasingly slipping from its traditional sphere of control.

Tuesday's protest was repressed by Kenyan police who tear gassed the procession and arrested 13 people, including several activists from different parts of the world.

Kenyan police brutally repressed a protest in Nairobi on May 12 against the ongoing France-Africa Summit, which progressive groups from Kenya and the African continent have described as an imperialist maneuver aimed at reasserting French influence on the African continent.

Tuesday’s protest marked the culmination of a two-day counter-summit organized in opposition to the official “Africa Forward Summit”, bringing together activists, intellectuals, trade unionists, students, and anti-imperialist organizers from Kenya and internationally. Participants at the Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism criticized the role of France in Africa, raising concerns around militarization, economic domination, debt dependency, resource extraction, and continued neo-colonial influence across the continent.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/police-tear-gas-and-arrest-protesters-at-france-africa-counter-summit-in-nairobi/