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2022-01-31 19:02:33+00:00
Chilean protesters were attacked with water cannons and tear gas by police during a protest demanding the release of political prisoners.
174 prisoners remain in prison without a trial following the 2019 popular uprising against inequality that broke out across Chile.
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2022-01-31 17:46:24+00:00
Did you know that the U.S. police has the 3rd biggest budget of all world militaries? When compared to the rest world, the NYPD alone ranks #65 in manpower among all militaries.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/35EnRko
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2022-01-31 08:58:02+00:00
Former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, explains the colonial and historical context behind Jamaican migration to Britain.
Watch our doc. “Reparations Not Deportations”: bit.ly/3II6f5i
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2022-01-30 16:29:01+00:00
Argentina reached a deal to reschedule its $44.5B IMF loan, borrowed in 2018 by former right-wing President Mauricio Macri, and the largest IMF loan in history.
Argentinians want their government to stop paying. Watch our doc. “Argentinians vs. the IMF”: https://bit.ly/35CUgbb
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2022-01-30 14:56:01+00:00
“IMF GET OUT” is the loud message Argentinians are giving to the International Monetary Fund and its neoliberal plundering of the country.
Argentina is trapped in a $44.5B loan borrowed in 2018 by former right-wing President Mauricio Macri, the largest IMF loan in history.
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2022-01-30 10:58:01+00:00
Poland is building a $407 million anti-refugee wall on the border with Belarus.
Poland has accepted a mere 144 Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in 2020. Its actions come in line with the EU’s overarching policy of fortifying its borders against refugees.
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2022-01-30 07:58:01+00:00
The legacy of Britain’s 300-year colonization of Jamaica can be seen across the UK’s capital city – grand buildings of slave merchants, factories that stored the goods of the empire, and prestigious cultural institutions with roots in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean.
Watch our doc. “Reparations Not Deportations”: bit.ly/3II6f5i
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2022-01-29 13:50:05+00:00
Ecuador has the 2nd highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Latin America, & rape victims under 18 can legally have an abortion only up to 22 weeks of gestation.
Pro-choice activists rallied outside the National Assembly as lawmakers debated regulating abortions for rape victims.
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2022-01-29 07:58:01+00:00
Jeremy Corbyn and former deputy London Mayor Lee Jasper explain the brutality of the Windrush Scandal: how Caribbean migrants who were invited to the UK were put into detention centers and deported.
Watch our documentary “Reparations Not Deportations”: bit.ly/3II6f5i
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2022-01-28 18:59:01+00:00
Today is the birthday of Cuban freedom fighter & revolutionary José Martí, born on this day in 1853. Known as “the Apostle of the Cuban Revolution,” Martí fought for Cuba’s independence from Spanish colonizers and his legacy has inspired revolutionaries across Latin America.
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2022-01-28 18:15:51+00:00
Britain is deporting people to former colonies at an alarming rate. We followed Windrush Scandal victims, British-Jamaicans sent ‘home’ & a grandma fighting deportation.
Watch our film “Reparations Not Deportations–British Racism & The Windrush Scandal”: https://bit.ly/3II6f5i
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2022-01-28 13:11:26+00:00
If passed, the proposed UK Nationality and Borders Bill will allow the Home Secretary to strip people of their citizenship without any written notice.
Discover more about why it’s dangerous: https://bit.ly/3Halyn7
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2022-01-28 11:30:53+00:00
These far-right European anti-vaxxers have set up an exclusive colony in Paraguay for their extremist friends.
Read more about what they’re doing in Paraguay: https://bit.ly/3g2Abga
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2022-01-28 09:03:06+00:00
Riot police heavily cracked down on students who were rallying in support of striking teachers and other workers hit by the rising cost of living in France.
Learn more about the strike: https://bit.ly/3AI4aDQ
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2022-01-27 16:29:01+00:00
Born a subject of the British Empire in pre-independence Jamaica, Eulalee is still denied British citizenship despite living in the UK for 2 decades.
Stay tuned for our doc. “Reparations Not Deportations: British Racism & The Windrush Scandal.”
COMING TOMORROW – AT 17:00 CET.
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2022-01-27 15:29:33+00:00
The Auschwitz concentration camp was freed by Soviet soldiers on 27 Januray 1945.
The camp had prisoners from all across Europe and eventually, resistance cells started to appear.
Read about their history: https://bit.ly/3seOKmL
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2022-01-27 14:16:16+00:00
Following the coup in Burkina Faso, many asked where the country is heading as West Africa witnesses the rise of an anti-French movement.
We spoke to Alexandre Sankara, former MP & VP of the Sankarist Party PUR for answers.
Full interview: https://bit.ly/3rOtjbO
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2022-01-27 11:37:32+00:00
This Holocaust Remembrance Day, we take a look at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where the Jewish community heroically fought back against the largest Nazi concentration camp during WWII.
Watch our documentary “Never Again: Fighting the Polish Far-Right”: https://bit.ly/3rXZhlN
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2022-01-27 09:41:34+00:00
Today marks 77 years since soldiers of the Soviet army liberated over 7,000 prisoners from the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, we share more photos of the victims in color: https://bit.ly/3AJJnzK
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2022-01-26 13:04:37+00:00
These climate activists tried to distribute unsold food that was left over by a supermarket, so German police confiscated it.
Read more about what happened: https://bit.ly/3IIMt9X
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2022-01-26 11:05:20+00:00
For decades, Palestinians spoke of a massacre whose site has been turned into an Israeli beach. They were silenced, dismissed and their claims were shelved.
The truth is only coming out now. Discover more: https://bit.ly/3fZ6RXY
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2022-01-25 18:33:23+00:00
27 years ago today, former Manchester United striker Eric Cantona kung-fu kicked racism out of football.
Learn more about the historic kick: https://bit.ly/3G1vNZe
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2022-01-25 16:30:39+00:00
Sharon is one of many children of the Windrush generation – Caribbeans invited to rebuild Britain after WWII – who’s never been allowed citizenship.
Stay tuned for our doc. “Reparations Not Deportations” to see how this nearly got her deported. Coming January 28 at 17:00 CET.
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2022-01-25 15:37:37+00:00
In this exclusive footage from our team on the ground in Ouagadougou, some supporters of the ongoing coup in Burkina Faso could be seen celebrating in the capital, and mutinying soldiers were caught outside RTB’s building, the national TV station, which they had occupied ahead of the coup.
Read more about the developing situation: https://bit.ly/3fTM1cr
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2022-01-25 13:18:34+00:00
As ISIS tried to free its militants from a Kurdish-run prison, Turkey simultaneously launched a series of attacks against the primarily Kurdish force the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3KJGaVq
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2022-01-24 20:05:57+00:00
This week marks 20 years since Ahmed Sa‘adat, the Secretary-General of the Marxists-Leninist Palestinian liberation movement the PFLP, was arrested.
New York City activists were seen calling for the freedom of Sa‘adat during an international week of solidarity actions with him.
Learn about the history of Sa‘adat’s imprisonment: https://bit.ly/3tVRAiX
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2022-01-24 18:25:15+00:00
Saudi-led coalition forces bombed northern Yemen, killing at least 60 people and wounding over 200.
The deadly bombings underlined an intense escalation in the country’s long-running war. The Saudi-led coalition, supported by the US and UK, wishes to topple the Houthi movement.
Read more about the attack: https://bit.ly/3GXWqj7
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2022-01-24 16:06:47+00:00
Meet the man who stormed a Lebanese private bank and took back his money by force.
Read his story: https://bit.ly/3ofDN39
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2022-01-24 14:04:03+00:00
French anti-fascists were attacked by police whilst protesting against the resurgence of far-right ideologies in the country.
Protesters say they are opposing far-right propaganda sweeping through France, which comes amid a wave of anti-refugee sentiments engulfing Europe.
Learn more about the attack: https://bit.ly/3H239IX
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2022-01-24 12:34:10+00:00
A coup has reportedly taken place in Burkina Faso, with President Roch Kaboré said to be under arrest by mutinying soldiers.
The whereabouts of the President haven’t been confirmed but a bullet-ridden car from the presidential convoy was seen on the capital’s streets this morning.
Read more developments: https://bit.ly/33Xh8RH
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2022-01-22 13:01:32+00:00
Happy birthday, Antonio Gramsci! Gramsci was an Italian theorist, intellectual and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party who was imprisoned for speaking out and organising against the rise of Mussolini's fascist regime.
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2022-01-21 16:30:30+00:00
Our new season starts next Friday! redfish travelled to four continents and eight countries to bring you seven documentaries covering the most critical issues of our time: Capitalism, imperialism and war.
Our investigations include an exclusive expose of Germany’s indispensable role in Indonesia’s genocide of communists, a film from Niger where migrants lives are at risk after being deported by EU funded agencies, and coverage from the ground in Kashmir where the Indian government is enforcing apartheid style policies like in Occupied Palestine.
Tune in on January 28 at 1700 CET for the season premiere: “Reparations Not Deportations - British Racism & The Windrush Scandal”
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2022-01-21 13:15:03+00:00
On the anniversary of his death, we commemorate Lenin. As one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution, he contributed to Marxist theory and developed it to a new stage.
Let's look at what we can learn from him and why his theories are more relevant than ever.
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2022-01-21 11:21:28+00:00
On this day, 98 years ago Vladimir Ilyich Lenin passed away.
As one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917 he inspired millions of the exploited and oppressed around the world to unite and free themselves from the chains of capitalism.
Under Lenin's leadership the 1917 revolution created the first socialist society which changed the course of history and inspired masses of workers, peasants and the oppressed everywhere to believe that another world is possible.
One of Lenin's most important contributions to Marxist theory was his analysis of capitalism and from it, his definition of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism. Lenin's analysis of imperialism is more important today than ever before, as we live in a time where imperialist exploitation of people around the world is increasing, and pushing the planet into perpetual war and crisis.
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2022-01-20 16:30:44+00:00
Today we remember Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa's most influential socialist revolutionaries, military strategists and independence leaders, brutally killed on this day in 1973.
Cabral led the fight for the independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonialism. As a committed pan-Africanist and socialist, Cabral fought for the independence for all of Portugal’s African colonies, while aiming to build a socialist bloc by unifying Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
Read More: https://bit.ly/3fHEBZH
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2022-01-20 14:42:10+00:00
On the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral, we remember the hidden atrocities committed by Portuguese colonisers against the people of Guinea-Bissau.
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2022-01-19 18:39:19+00:00
Advisor to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, Professor Mohammad Marandi, says that the negotiations are slow and the EU and US are dragging their feet. They have tried to reverse gains made in recent weeks.
Despite verifying Iran’s compliance, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018 and slapped a maximum pressure sanctions campaign on the country, claiming he could use it to “get a better deal.”
This time, Iran is saying it is the EU and US must be verified, and Iran must be given assurances that the US won’t just withdraw on the “whim of Western leaders”.
Maximum pressure sanctions have bought the Iranian economy to its knees and continue under President Biden. Iran says the objective is to make ordinary people suffer. so that they rise up and destabilise the country so that the Americans and Europeans can get their way. And it’s not just Iran. This is a strategy Western powers use in many other countries too.
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2022-01-18 17:05:24+00:00
Sudanese security forces killed 7 anti coup protesters and injured over 100 as they violently dispersed protesters marching towards the presidential palace . Protestors were attacked with gunfire and tear gas making it one of the bloodiest days since pro-democracy groups began anti-military protests. Organisers have since announced two days of strikes and civil disobedience.
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2022-01-17 19:52:36+00:00
Salvadorians are marching against President Nayib Bukele, the first postwar leader to not publicly commemorate the signing of the 1992 accords that ended a 12-year conflict between the US-backed right-wing military dictatorship and the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador.
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3AeUGzx
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2022-01-17 16:50:55+00:00
Mahmoud Salhiyah has threatened to set himself on fire to resist the forced removal of the 40 individuals who live in his family home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Jerusalem, where they have lived since the 1950s.
Find out more about the situation: https://bit.ly/3nysXEG
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2022-01-17 12:26:58+00:00
The UK’s House of Lords is set to vote on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill today, a bill that allows the home secretary to outlaw demonstrations deemed too “noisy” or “disruptive.”
“Kill the Bill” protests are being held all over the UK to denounce the bill.
Read more about the bill: https://bit.ly/3FwYOMh
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2022-01-16 15:59:51+00:00
As Malians continue to express their outrage at US & EU backed sanctions on their country by west African bloc ECOWAS, historian and President on the Pan-African League-UMOJA, Amzat Boukari-Yabara explains what is behind the current crisis.
On Friday, Malians took to the streets across their country to protest against the sanctions which ECOWAS imposed after Mali's transitional government announced it would postpone elections initially slated for February 2022. Yabara says the real pretext for the sanctions is a result of anger from Paris and Washington that Mali's transitional leadership allegedly requested the assistance of Russian paramilitary group Wagner in it's fight against insurgents, after France's 10-year military efforts failed to restore stability.
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2022-01-16 14:38:01+00:00
Israeli forces continue their brutal rampage in the Negev desert, attacking Palestinian Bedouins resisting a settler project on their lands.
Under the guise of “forestation”, The Jewish National Fund plans to build trees over expansive areas of occupied Palestinian land.
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2022-01-16 12:30:09+00:00
Malians filled the streets of the capital Bamako for kilometres yesterday in a massive show of support for Mali's transitional government and opposition to US-EU backed sanctions imposed by west African bloc ECOWAS.
Anti-French feeling was rife on the streets across the country, as protesters also came out from Koutiala in the south to Timbuktu in the north, and were even joined by Senegalese demonstrators on Senegal's border with Mali.
Red More: https://bit.ly/3nuNqdO
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2022-01-15 18:58:01+00:00
“Our nation’s summer of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay.” Martin Luther King’s words ring especially true today.
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2022-01-15 15:59:01+00:00
Today would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday. This quote captures the fierce anti-capitalist legacy he left behind that the mainstream media and politicians like to forget.
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2022-01-15 14:31:01+00:00
103 years have passed since German revolution leader Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by a gang of right-wing army officers.
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2022-01-15 13:18:45+00:00
On this day 103 years ago, revolutionary socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were tortured and murdered in Germany.
Learn more about the history of this day: https://bit.ly/3KeEkeJ
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2022-01-14 16:30:27+00:00
Sub-Saharan refugees pushed back against Catalan police as they forcibly evicted them from an abandoned warehouse.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3FmMXjW
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2022-01-14 11:39:18+00:00
French teachers and students were met by riot police teargas while striking over the lack of resources from the government.
Find out more about the teachers’ nationwide strike: https://bit.ly/3GwfODH
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2022-01-13 21:54:38+00:00
Ravil Mingazov spent 15 years at Guantánamo Bay without charge or committing a crime. Then the U.S. sent him to the UAE without legal documentation.
As a result, he’s been in UAE prison for 4 more years and faces the threat of forced repatriation to Russia.
Find out more about Mingazov’s story: https://bit.ly/3zZ6fup
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2022-01-13 18:17:25+00:00
Guantánamo Bay, the illegal Muslim torture camp the U.S. operates on stolen land in southern Cuba, turns 20 this week.
Read more about what has happened since: https://bit.ly/3KbgksY
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2022-01-13 17:07:50+00:00
Israel is deploying horse-mounted security forces to brutally arrest and quell Palestinian Bedouins who are resisting the takeover of their lands under the guise of a “forestation project” in the Negev desert.
More updates here: https://bit.ly/3flEcMA
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2022-01-13 13:58:12+00:00
The entrance to the Serbian Government building in Belgrade was blocked by activists who have been rallying for months against the Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto, which is planning a $2.4 billion mining project to extract lithium in the fertile Jadar Valley.
Read more about Rio Tinto’s plans in Serbia: https://bit.ly/3niAHe7
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2022-01-13 11:21:13+00:00
Villagers living nearby an ExxonMobil gas plant in Indonesia are demanding justice for crimes committed by Indonesian soldiers hired by ExxonMobil.
Learn more about the lawsuit: https://bit.ly/33xm67j
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2022-01-12 21:23:02+00:00
Ask any of the 80+ countries currently occupied by the U.S. Military, and they’ll tell you—once the Americans enter your house, it’s very difficult to get them to leave.
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2022-01-12 19:32:30+00:00
Alexander Tekle’s death is the tragic end result of systemic xenophobia in the UK, which fails asylum-seekers at every turn.
Tekle entered the U.K. as an unaccompanied minor, and suffered immense trauma from his experiences migrating that went largely ignored by U.K.’s social workers.
Find out more about his story: https://bit.ly/3Gp9ZYP
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2022-01-12 18:25:05+00:00
Ivorian reggae star Alpha Blondy slammed the newly-imposed sanctions on Mali by the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS], which he said were a reflection of the bloc’s “incapacity to deal with an African problem.”
The US State Department and France, Mali’s former colonial power, have both publicly expressed support for the ECOWAS sanctions. A French-drafted United Nations Security Council statement endorsing the sanctions was not approved yesterday following a veto by Russia and China.
Read more about the escalating situation in Mali: https://bit.ly/33ezDB9
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2022-01-11 18:43:16+00:00
“Austerity is killing hospitals” and “The hospital is not for sale” are some of the slogans that thousands of healthcare workers carried throughout France today.
Led by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), 9 organizations mobilized thousands of workers in various French cities today to demand more public spending dedicated to the health sector.
Learn more about the challenges facing the French health sector: https://bit.ly/31MVbnE
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2022-01-11 16:21:31+00:00
Israeli-owned weapons factory Elbit Ferranti in Oldham, Greater Manchester has been shut down following over 18 months of direct-action campaigns by Palestine supporters from the “Palestine Action” group.
The factory produced drones and pilotless aircraft components for the Israeli military, which the activists say have been used in assaults on Gaza.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3JWYzhb
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2022-01-11 11:58:18+00:00
Undercover Israeli forces stormed into Birzeit University in the West Bank and fired live bullets at Palestinian students on campus—kidnapping 5 of them in an unmarked van.
At least one student has been hospitalized from a gunshot wound, and four others were arrested.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3fhpfL6
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2022-01-09 15:59:01+00:00
Protesters rejecting a sharp increase in bus fares were attacked and brutally repressed by Colombian police forces in Usme.
Bogota’s TransMilenio bus system announced that they will be doubling the prices of bus fares beginning January 11, an unjust policy that has outraged low-income workers.
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2022-01-09 13:05:18+00:00
Japan has the most U.S. overseas military bases of any country in the world—and 70% of those are located in Okinawa.
Okinawa’s daily COVID-19 caseloads have hit record highs, and locals blame U.S. troops who have refused to take the most basic of precautions.
Learn more about the U.S. military’s link to the COVID surge: https://bit.ly/3zDwtCC
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2022-01-08 18:58:01+00:00
As China pursues a “zero COVID strategy” that has kept its infection rate well below 1% of the population, the U.S. has embraced a strategy of mass infection and mass death – setting a grim global record of 1 million new cases in the U.S. in a single day.
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2022-01-08 17:03:33+00:00
The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has surpassed 836,000—more deaths than any other country in the world.
Meanwhile in China, a country of 1.4 billion people, a total of 4,636 people have died of COVID-19.
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2022-01-08 12:04:21+00:00
Three anti-coup protesters were killed and thousands violently dispersed with tear gas by police, in the latest uprisings against the Sudanese military power-grab.
Protesters gathered by the tens of thousands in Khartoum, fueled by the resignation of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok this week.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3zBn4LQ
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2022-01-07 18:08:55+00:00
The family of Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash, who suspended his 141-day hunger strike this week, is demanding his relocation to a Palestinian hospital citing threats to his life by Israeli settlers after they broke into the Israeli hospital he’s staying in.
Read more about their demands: https://bit.ly/3q12NfE
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2022-01-07 15:40:46+00:00
Kazakhstan’s President Tokayev said today he had ordered security personnel to open fire on protestors without warning.
The upheaval began last weekend, triggered by the Kazakh government lifting its price controls on Liquid Petroleum Gas, which soon turned into anti-govt riots.
More updates on the situation: https://bit.ly/3HNIZm7
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2022-01-06 19:42:07+00:00
Brought over as colonial subjects over 100 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forced to work in slave-like conditions in Imperial Japan.
North Koreans are the most oppressed ethnic group in Japan, and many of them still profess loyalty to the DPRK.
Our doc. “Homegrown Outcasts” follows North Koreans faced with widespread discrimination amidst rising Japanese nationalism.
Watch it here: https://bit.ly/3r1jO8W
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2022-01-06 16:49:13+00:00
Up to 200,000 women across Imperial Japan’s many occupied territories in Asia were forced into Japanese military sex-slave camps as “comfort women.”
Activists and former “comfort women” are seeking more than just an apology from the Japanese government & a proper investigation.
More about the history of “comfort women” here: https://bit.ly/3HFYbBt
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2022-01-06 13:03:47+00:00
Today is the death anniversary of Joe Slovo, the South African communist and icon in the resistance against Apartheid.
Slovo was a long-time comrade of Nelson Mandela. He dedicated his life to the struggle against Apartheid and racism while advocating for a socialist revolution to end racial and class inequality in South Africa. He was also an advocate of Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Read more about his life: https://bit.ly/3zxTqr5
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2022-01-06 11:04:53+00:00
Watch our report about the racist Dutch tradition of wearing Blackface every year in the lead up to Christmas: https://youtu.be/ZwaXtNNHo78
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2022-01-06 11:04:13+00:00
Hundreds of Spanish teenagers donned offensive Blackface as part of the annual “Three Kings Parade” tradition last night.
Despite massive backlash from Spain’s Afro-Spaniard community, the racist practice of Blackface remains widely accepted by the country’s leadership.
Find out more about the racist practice: https://bit.ly/3eYV8YZ
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2022-01-05 19:57:02+00:00
A corporate offshore oil exploration project in the Argentine Sea that is certain to kill marine wildlife and set the stage for a disastrous oil spill was just approved by the Argentinian government.
Three oil megacorporations, including British ‘Shell’ and Norwegian ‘Equinor,’ were given the green light to exploit Argentina’s massive shale and oil deposits, which sit roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles) off the Atlantic Coast.
Environmentalists along with thousands of Argentinians are sounding off the alarm that this project is an invitation for more environmental catastrophe and ecocide.
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2022-01-05 17:58:27+00:00
Internet misogynists built an app to target Muslim women in India who are publicly critical of the Hindu nationalist policies of the Modi government.
More about the case: https://bit.ly/3zvxlcI
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2022-01-05 16:11:43+00:00
Workers at the NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh, Cambodia have been on strike since December after the company made over 1,300 employees redundant.
Authorities cracked down on the strikers earlier this week, leading to the arrest of more than two dozen activists.
Find out more about their demands: https://bit.ly/3pUXRZx
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2022-01-05 13:20:44+00:00
Today would have been the 23rd birthday of Berkin Elvan, a 14-year-old boy who joined the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in 2013 to fight against injustice and for a better life.
During the protest, Turkish police shot Berkin in the head with a tear-gas canister.
Read more about Berkin’s case: https://bit.ly/336tO8f
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2022-01-05 11:25:51+00:00
Kazakh protesters are chasing away police water cannon trucks and destroying cop cars.
Demonstrations began after authorities in the oil-rich nation lifted price caps on liquefied petroleum gas used for vehicles, causing consumer prices to surge.
Read more updates: https://bit.ly/32RLaWT
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2022-01-04 20:56:02+00:00
Today would’ve been the birthday of Afro-Trinidadian socialist, historian, and writer C. L. R. James, best known for his seminal books “World Revolution” and “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.”
Here he is passing on some timeless advice for revolutionaries the world over.
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2022-01-04 18:41:51+00:00
Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash has suspended his 141-day hunger strike following Israeli acceptance not to renew his detention next month.
Abu Hawash’s hunger strike is the longest by a Palestinian prisoner since 2013. Abu Hawash, a father of five, has been held in “administrative detention” since October 2020.
Read more about his situation: https://bit.ly/3zygpCk
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2022-01-04 17:40:13+00:00
One of the main intersections in Novi Sad, Serbia was blocked in protest against Rio Tinto’s planned mining project.
The Anglo-Australian mining group’s project had been put on hold, but demonstrators took to the streets again after the Serbian president announced that it would not be completely shut down.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3ESlxCk
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2022-01-04 12:01:29+00:00
Neo-nazis and ultra-nationalists held a torchlight parade in Kyiv to honor WWII Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.
Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose men perpetrated the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Jews and Poles, including women and children, while fighting alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Red Army.
Last week, the Ternopil State Regional Council building in NATO-backed Ukraine was decorated with a large banner of Bandera. Another banner celebrating Bandera was also spotted at the entrance of a shopping mall in Khmelnytskyi, west Ukraine.
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2022-01-03 18:52:06+00:00
14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta died in her mother’s arms in a dressing room 2 days before Christmas when she was shot by a police bullet.
The LAPD police officer who shot her, 42-year-old William Dorsey Jones Jr., was reportedly trying to take down an unarmed suspect assaulting customers inside a crowded store packed with holiday shoppers.
Valentina’s death was one of 5 killings by the LAPD during a nine-day period last month. In 2021, LAPD shot 38 people, killing 18 of them.
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2022-01-03 16:00:27+00:00
Bikers and cyclists from Boyton Beach, Florida’s Black community gathered in a rally to honor and demand justice for 13-year-old Stanley Davis Jr., who died in a crash as police officers chased him in an attempted traffic stop last week, according to the police.
Read more about Davis’ case: https://bit.ly/31oid48
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2022-01-03 11:50:11+00:00
Turkish police arrested demonstrators outside the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Istanbul. Protesters gathered following a knife attack on the HDP office last week that left three wounded.
The attack on the HDP office is the second major attack targeting the party in only six months. In June, a female employee named Deniz Poyraz was killed at the HDP İzmir Provincial Organization.
The Turkish government has led a years-long crackdown on the HDP, Turkey’s second-largest opposition party in parliament.
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2022-01-02 13:11:33+00:00
The war in Ethiopia has forced some 2 million people to flee their homes and left hundreds of thousands of people in famine-like conditions.
We spoke to Filmon Zerai, ‘Horn of Africa Leftists’ creator, about the Abiy government, the history of the TPLF, and the U.S.’ role in the conflict.
Full interview: https://bit.ly/32YWPTC
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2022-01-01 21:03:02+00:00
28 years ago today, the Zapatista Uprising began when the EZLN declared war on the Mexican government from the Lacandona Jungle in Chiapas, Mexico.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/3pInEEn
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2022-01-01 17:53:02+00:00
A reminder by Fidel Castro on the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution:
“It is really impressive what a filthy system capitalism is, that can’t guarantee its own people employment, nor health, nor adequate education.
Capitalism has become an abysmal obstacle to the progress of humanity.”
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2022-01-01 14:55:05+00:00
On this day in 1804, Haiti declared its independence after a slave uprising turned into a revolution that crushed the French colonizers.
General Toussaint L’Ouverture led the revolution that would defeat the colonizers and established the first free, Black republic.
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2022-01-01 11:53:02+00:00
Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, when a rebel army led by Fidel Castro overthrew the US-backed Batista dictatorship.
The revolution was an important defeat for US imperialism and became an enduring symbol of resistance against colonialism and capitalism.