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/

Last week, the online newspaper El Faro reported that the government of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele froze the bank account and a property belonging to two partners of Trípode S.A., the company that founded and supports El Faro. According to the Ministry of Finance, the measure functions as collateral for alleged debts related to tax evasion.

However, the media outlet’s partners and journalists assert that this is yet another attempt to intimidate the press that has been critical of the Bukele administration and that, at its core, seeks to silence those who expose the right-wing government’s alleged acts of corruption.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/bukele-escalates-crackdown-on-independent-media-after-documentary-exposes-his-alleged-gang-deals/

Hundreds of thousands of workers took to streets all across India on Tuesday, May 12, in solidarity with the unorganized workers facing state repression in various parts of the country, particularly in the National Capital Regions (NCR).

A joint platform made up of the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and several independent sectoral federations made the call for the protest, calling May 12 “National Demands Day.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/indian-trade-unions-mobilize-in-solidarity-with-low-wage-workers/

The Israeli parliament (known as the Knesset) passed a law on Monday, May 11, to establish livestreamed special military tribunals and impose death penalty for Hamas detainees, who were allegedly involved in the October 7 attacks. The law would also prohibit their release as part of prisoner swap deals.

For its part, Hamas issued a statement on Tuesday, May 12, denouncing the law as “fascist and racist”. The Palestinian resistance movement also emphasized that the legislation constitutes “a dangerous escalation and a new crime to be added to the enemy’s track record of war crimes and systematic violations against Palestinians.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/knesset-passes-law-to-publicly-try-and-execute-hamas-fighters-allegedly-involved-in-october-7-attacks/

🇦🇷 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.

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.”

On May 8 and 9, left and progressive movements in Europe marked Victory Day – the 81st anniversary of fascism’s defeat in World War II. “

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/12/victory-day-in-europe-eu-revisionism-continues-while-left-honors-resistance-and-soviet-contributions/

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, announced a government program that seeks to settle, in many cases, and significantly reduce, in others, the debts owed by small-scale farmers, small producers, and fishermen to the government.

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.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/sheinbaum-to-forgive-debts-for-tens-of-thousands-of-small-farmers/

🌍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.