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.

Trump is visiting Beijing this week in the first US state visit to China in nine years.

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. The China that received him then was still learning to respond to the aggressions.

The China that receives him now has spent nine years diversifying its export markets, building supply chain autonomy, developing the technological leverage to push back, while turning towards Global South countries. Trump’s failed tariff war against China ended up hurting its own economy and people more than China’s, and Beijing’s export controls on rare earth elements ultimately forced Trump to back down. The eighteen US executives in the delegation, including Tim Cook, Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, have come because their companies cannot do without the Chinese market. The economic instruments of US containment have not produced the result Washington wanted.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/trumps-state-visit-to-beijing-and-the-new-cold-war-on-asia/

🇨🇳 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.

“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.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun reaffirmed on Wednesday, May 13, that Beijing’s position on Cuba and Venezuela remains unchanged, when asked whether the issues would be discussed at the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, who arrived in Beijing this afternoon for a two-day summit.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/china-reaffirms-support-for-cuba-and-venezuela-on-the-eve-of-the-xi-trump-summit-in-beijing/