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2022-06-30 16:55:06+00:00
Is this the “rules-based order” NATO leaders keep talking about?
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2022-06-30 15:26:01+00:00
“China is threatening our security,” they said.
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2022-06-30 13:55:21+00:00
Anti-NATO Greek activists marched through the capital Athens to denounce the NATO summit being held in Madrid, Spain.
“Not a single drop of blood for their capitalist interests, we don’t obey imperialism” were some of the chants heard at the demonstration. The protesters also emphasized the brotherhood between the Greek and Turkish peoples.
The governments of Greece and Turkey, both NATO members, have been at loggerheads over various territorial and maritime disputes, as well as mutual accusations of airspace violations with military exercises.
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2022-06-30 12:39:25+00:00
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was stunned and had to pause for a while when asked whether Saudi Arabia was an authoritarian regime and why the UK continues to deal with Gulf states with bad human rights records as close allies and trading partners while boycotting Russia supposedly for the same reasons.
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2022-06-30 10:38:11+00:00
Bongbong Marcos Jr., son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, is being inaugurated as the 17th President of the Philippines today. Marcos Sr. is remembered for his political repression, corruption, and crony capitalism.
We look at some of the atrocities committed by the Marcos dynasty that many fear could return today.
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2022-06-29 18:26:02+00:00
Happy birthday to Black revolutionary Kwame Ture.
Kwame Ture rose to fame during the Civil Rights Movement as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) alongside Martin Luther King Jr. However, he soon began to criticize the principles of nonviolence that were promoted by the early MLK Jr. and others, arguing that “in order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience, the United States has none.”
Instead, Ture started to identify with Malcolm X’s more militant approach to Black liberation and steered the SNCC towards the Black Power movement and he eventually became a staunch anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.
He became an Honorary Prime Minister of The Black Panther Party, but eventually split from them moving to Guinea where he married the South African artist Miriam Zenzile Makeba and became an aide to the Guinean president Ahmed Toure and a student of the exiled Pan-Africanist and socialist Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah.
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2022-06-29 16:58:02+00:00
“European values”
Art by Carlos Latuff
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2022-06-29 16:29:02+00:00
The EU is ultimately responsible for the tragedy in Melilla.
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2022-06-29 15:41:20+00:00
Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency in the Philippines began with him warning journalists they face assassination “if you’re a son of bitch.” Today, on his last day in office, one of the country’s most popular digital news sites, Rappler has been ordered to close.
This follows a weeks-long crackdown whereby his government has shut down the websites of 28 independent media and activists, including those of persecuted indigenous groups, revolutionary political organizations, and Bulatlat, the country’s longest-running online news site.
On top of the latest crackdown, a few months ago, Meta & Google once again colluded with government attacks on freedom of expression, purging the accounts of multiple members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and shutting down their gmails.
The Philippines’ revolutionary movement has been waging an armed war against the neoliberal US-backed government for more than 50 years. WATCH our documentary on the guerilla here.
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2022-06-29 12:30:45+00:00
Today is Rodrigo Duterte’s last day as Philippine’s President. The US-backed President will be remembered for his widespread human rights abuses and for revering Hitler. Here are some of his most criminal and misogynistic comments over the years.
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2022-06-29 10:39:04+00:00
Rodrigo Duterte leaves office tomorrow as the 16th President of the Philippines, with a reputation of an authoritarian leader being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for widespread human rights abuses which have left thousands dead.
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2022-06-28 19:37:18+00:00
WATCH.
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2022-06-28 15:27:02+00:00
This is what the G7 “democracies” deliver.
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2022-06-28 13:57:02+00:00
Thousands came out against the 2022 NATO Summit being held in Madrid, rejecting the organization’s destructive role and imperialist wars.
“Together for Peace and Against Imperialism” and “NATO Terrorists” were some of the banners featured in the demonstration.
In a press conference, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the summit aimed to “discuss threats and challenges from the south” and “increase the number of our highly available forces to well over 300,000.”
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2022-06-28 12:07:14+00:00
The EU’s complicity in crimes against migrants doesn’t stop at Melilla’s fence, where dozens of Africans were just recently killed.
Once in the Spanish enclave, child migrants face such extreme mistreatment that some feel safer sleeping in rubbish bins than in EU-funded centers. Watch our investigation here.
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2022-06-28 10:26:02+00:00
Anti-racist activists took to the Spanish capital Madrid to protest the death of dozens of African refugees in the Spanish enclave of Melilla as they tried to cross the border from Morocco.
The demonstrators expressed their anger at the Moroccan and Spanish border police’s handling of the situation, with rights groups accusing Morocco’s security forces of using unjustified violence against the refugees who were rushing to the border fence. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez applauded Moroccan and Spanish collaboration on the border and said the incident was “an attack on the territorial integrity of our country in a violent manner.”
The demonstrators ultimately blamed the tragedy on the migration policies of the European Union. According to a study published by Spanish rights groups Iridia and Novact in 2020, Spain deported 223,463 migrants between 2010 and 2019, 92,433 of whom were deported after refusing to allow entry.
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2022-06-27 17:14:35+00:00
The National Strike in Ecuador is continuing for its 15th consecutive day. Last Saturday, President Lasso’s neoliberal government repealed the constitutional state of emergency it ordered at the beginning of the demonstrations, which has so far left at least six dead and hundreds of people injured and detained.
Negotiations between Lasso and Indigenous organizations have not yet seen fruition. On Sunday, Lasso announced a reduction of fuel price by 10 cents a dollar.
Indigenous organizations were not swayed by this measure, with a representative from Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization CONIAE saying it is an “insufficient measure, without guarantees and does not correspond to the situation of poverty faced by millions of families.”
On Monday, during a legislative plenary session, various state officials will be questioned over police and military procedures following complaints made by local and international rights organizations that reported the occurrence of serious human rights violations.
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2022-06-27 15:57:02+00:00
The Morocco-Spain border where dozens of African refugees were recently killed has one of the most fortified border walls on the planet to keep refugees out and is financed by the EU. We went to the Spanish city of Melilla to hear from the child refugees who are trapped between a wall and the sea. Watch our investigation.
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2022-06-27 14:58:13+00:00
Bad refugees vs. good refugees
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2022-06-27 13:25:02+00:00
Turkish police heavily repressed the Pride March in Istanbul which took place yesterday despite a ban by the governor’s office. Police officers in riot gear could be seen attacking journalists and activists, throwing rainbow flags in trash bins, and detaining hundreds of participants including an AFP reporter.
Pride has been taking place in Istanbul since 2003, but President Erdoğan’s conservative party has banned it in recent years. The last Istanbul Pride march to occur without a ban in 2014 attracted tens of thousands of participants.
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2022-06-27 12:06:46+00:00
At least 23 African refugees were killed while attempting to cross from Morocco to Spain’s enclave of Melilla amid international silence.
Rights groups are accusing Morocco’s security forces of using unjustified violence against the refugees who were rushing to the border fence. The Moroccan Association of Human Rights said refugees were left trapped on the ground for hours without any medical assistance, which may have led to more deaths.
The Moroccan authorities, which cooperate with and are financed by Europe to police their borders and send back refugees, said that most of the refugees died in a “stampede.” This claim has not been independently verified.
Security forces could be seen beating the refugees and shoving them around. The Moroccan Human Rights Association added that the number of people killed is higher, putting the figure at 27. The group has also decried the Moroccan authorities’ intention to bury the refugees without performing a proper investigation or autopsies.
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2022-06-26 15:27:01+00:00
The 3 dominant U.S. television networks ABC, CBS, and NBC spent more time covering the first month of the Ukraine war than all these other wars in the last 3 decades.
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2022-06-26 12:52:01+00:00
Happy birthday to the socialist Chilean President, Salvador Allende, one of Latin America’s most influential leaders who vocally challenged imperialism and its direct relationship to the underdevelopment of the Global South.
Following his election in 1970, President Allende embarked on an ambitious plan of social reforms; nationalizing natural resources, building houses for the poor, and providing access to healthcare and education. As a Latin American socialist president, Allende posed a threat to the U.S. influence in the region.
During the CIA-orchestrated coup of September 11, 1973, led by Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, Augusto Pinochet, Salvador Allende fought until his murder in the La Moneda Presidential Palace. The coup would install a military dictatorship that would last almost 2 decades, under which about 40,000 people were tortured, disappeared, or killed, and over 200,000 went into exile.
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2022-06-26 10:28:01+00:00
For once we agree with President Joe Biden.
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2022-06-25 15:27:01+00:00
Will Gustavo Petro live up to the expectations of the working class in Colombia? We went to the streets of the capital Bogotá to hear from members of the grassroots movements who have been protesting against the notorious special riot police units (ESMAD) for the past few years.
“I don't think the question is, do you want Petro to reform the police or remove the evil, but do you believe that the popular action will lead to the ESMAD no longer existing.”
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2022-06-25 12:56:02+00:00
On this day in 1975, Mozambique declared its independence from Portugal after a 10-year-liberation war waged by the Mozambique Liberation Front, ending 470 years of Portuguese colonial rule in the East African region.
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2022-06-25 10:24:02+00:00
Week after week, two Irish MEPs have been calling out the EU’s criminal behavior vis-à-vis Ukraine from the podium of the EU Parliament.
Watch Clare Daly and Mick Wallace here raging against “deluded narcissist” President Ursula Von Der Leyen and Ukraine being granted EU candidate status, despite rampant corruption in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government and his crackdown on the opposition.
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2022-06-24 18:18:16+00:00
Millions of women’s lives are in danger from this day on in the land of the free as the U.S. Supreme Court officially reverses Roe v. Wade and ends the constitutional right to abortion that was upheld for decades. Listen to Irish MEP Mick Wallace questioning the U.S.’ idea of “democracy.”
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2022-06-24 15:59:29+00:00
Twitter is colluding with the Indian far-right government and has banned us in India without prior notice or justification.
READ OUR FULL STATEMENT
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2022-06-24 14:26:03+00:00
The Youth Wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninists) was attacked by the police outside the country’s parliament while protesting the recent hike in fuel prices. Police in the capital Kathmandu fired tear gas and chased protesters with batons to break up the demonstration.
Protestors had marched down towards parliament with live torches in their hands and chanted anti-government slogans, demanding the resignation of the prime minister and the finance minister.
The Nepali government recently increased the prices of petrol and diesel by 12% and 16 % respectively earlier this week. Public transport fares have shot up by 7.7% as a result.
Nepal’s 29 million residents are also facing higher food and energy prices amid the country’s surging inflation, which hit a six-year high in May.
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2022-06-24 12:25:02+00:00
Hundreds of students from different universities and colleges marched in Sri Lanka’s capital city Colombo to demand the president and prime minister’s resignation over their failure to tackle the economic crisis rocking the country.
Sri Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared on Wednesday that the country’s economy has “completely collapsed,” leaving it unable to pay for essential goods such as oil and gas imports.
Sri Lankan authorities have closed schools and halted nonessential government services earlier this week in a desperate measure to prepare for an acute fuel shortage as the IMF opened talks with Colombo on “a possible bailout.”
According to the UN, nearly 22% of the population in Sri Lanka is food insecure and a striking 86% of families are “eating less or skipping meals altogether.” Food inflation has risen to a record high of 57.4% in May.
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2022-06-24 10:49:34+00:00
The UN has just announced its findings show that the bullets that killed veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh were shot by Israeli soldiers.
UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters that “All information we have gathered… is consistent with the finding that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians.”
“It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation… We have found no information suggesting that there was activity by armed Palestinians in the immediate vicinity of the journalists,” she added.
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2022-06-23 15:10:34+00:00
Thousands continue to flood the Ecuadorian capital Quito for the 10th day of demonstrations since the National Strike was launched by Indigenous organizations last week.
The capital has been nearly paralyzed since Monday with Indigenous people mobilizing en masse to exert pressure on Guillermo Lasso’s neoliberal government, which continues to reject removing the state of emergency it has imposed in 6 of the country’s 24 provinces; lifting the state of emergency is currently one of the Indigenous protestors’ preconditions to move forward with any negotiations with the government.
The government has responded with police repression which has left at least 2 people dead, 90 injured and 87 arrested, according to Ecuador’s ‘Alliance for Human Rights.’
In the Amazonian city of Puyo, the capital of Pastaza province, a local police station was reportedly plundered, and its police vehicles were set on fire in response to the death of an Indigenous protester on Tuesday night.
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2022-06-23 12:55:58+00:00
Afghanistan is reeling from a deadly earthquake that has claimed the lives of over 1,000 people while the U.S. continues to freeze billions of Afghan assets and sanctions block foreign donation transfers from reaching Afghanistan’s banks.
The 5.9 magnitude earthquake is Afghanistan’s deadliest in 20 years. Access to remote provinces such as Paktika and Khost is proving difficult due to poor infrastructure that has been left in ruins after decades of the US’ so-called “War on Terror.”
Afghanistan was already experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis in decades. According to the United Nations, Afghanistan is now the country with the highest number of people in a food crisis, with more than 95% of the population without sufficient means to feed themselves.
The Biden administration plans to use $3.5 billion of frozen Afghanistan central bank assets to pay “judgment debts to the families of 9/11 victims.”
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2022-06-23 11:30:46+00:00
redfish is on the ground in Kenya, investigating multinational flower farms that operate in the country. Kenya is one of the biggest exporters of flowers to the world. But things are far from rosy for flower farm workers, who are paid low wages and allege poor treatment.
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2022-06-23 10:30:50+00:00
The second day of the UK’s rail strike is underway today after talks between the RMT union and railway employers broke down. The strike is described as the largest in over 30 years.
More than 40,000 railway workers walked out on Tuesday, leaving several parts of the country with no rail service. The striking workers are demanding a pay rise of at least 7% to counterweigh the cost of living with inflation hitting 9.1% and expectations to reach 11% by the fall.
Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), told reporters that “RMT members are leading the way for all workers in this country who are sick and tired of having their pay and conditions slashed by a mixture of big business profits and government policy.” He added, “Our campaign will run for as long as it needs to run.” Another walkout is scheduled to happen on Saturday.
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2022-06-22 16:26:01+00:00
Indigenous and human rights organizations in Ecuador have reported the first death in the ongoing protests against Guillermo Lasso’s neoliberal government.
The deceased is reportedly a 22-year-old Quichua community member – the aboriginal people of South America – named Guido Guatatoca, who died as a result of injuries caused by a heavy fall. According to Ecuador’s ‘Alliance for Human Rights,’ the victim fell while fleeing security forces’ tear gas.
Since last week, several social and indigenous organizations have called for a national strike demanding the right to self-determination, reducing fuel prices, and a price freeze on agricultural products.
Negotiations with the government have failed to materialize. Leonidas Iza, a representative of Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization, mentioned on social media that Indigenous leaders have not been able to review the government’s response due to the permanent presence of a police contingent on the square where they gather.
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2022-06-22 14:25:35+00:00
Today is Windrush Day, a day that celebrates the sacrifices and mass contributions made by the women and men who came from the Caribbean by ship to rebuild post-WWII Britain. But how is the UK repaying them and their British-born children?
Sharon is one of many children of the Windrush generation caught up in the Windrush scandal. All of her siblings have British citizenship but because she was born on a British Army base when her dad was stationed overseas, she’s never been allowed citizenship.
White British citizens born on army bases have had no issues getting theirs, so Sharon believes that the problem is her skin color.
Watch our documentary “Reparations Not Deportations: British Racism & The Windrush Scandal” on Odysee to see how this issue caused her to lose her job as a nurse and nearly got her deported.
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2022-06-22 12:35:31+00:00
On this day in 1941, the Nazi regime invaded the Soviet Union under the so-called ‘Operation Barbarossa,’ an invasion that led to the death of around 27 million people in the Soviet Union alone.
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2022-06-22 12:20:36+00:00
The Israeli government has declared the Masafer Yatta region as a firing zone and training area for its military as a pretext to launch the largest forced displacement of Palestinians from their land since 1948. Declaring Palestinian land as military training zones is one of Israel’s main land-grabbing strategies.
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2022-06-22 12:19:56+00:00
While Ursula von der Leyen visits Israel to deepen the EU’s bilateral partnership, Israel is planning to destroy an entire Palestinian village called Khallet ad-Dhabe‘ in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank, which is sponsored by EU humanitarian aid funds, i.e. European taxpayer money.
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2022-06-22 11:02:58+00:00
Today marks 74 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship carrying women and men from the Caribbean, known as the Windrush Generation, to help build post-WWII Britain. But Britain has been deporting people back to its former colonies at an alarming rate. In recent years, the British state introduced a set of policies intended to create a ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants.
The policies have been called racist for their impact on Britain’s Black communities, and have even led to deportations and harassment of the Windrush generation and even their British-born children.
Watch our documentary “Reparations Not Deportations: British Racism & The Windrush Scandal” on Odysee.
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2022-06-21 16:56:04+00:00
Indigenous people are mobilizing en masse towards the Ecuadorian capital Quito, climbing up on trucks and forming long convoys. As part of the ongoing national strike against Guillermo Lasso’s neoliberal government, Indigenous people have also been blocking roads and clashing with police in a show of resistance to repression.
The national strike in the Andean country continues with over 50 organizations mass mobilizing to demand social and economic reforms. The government has responded with police brutality and a state of emergency, policies that are causing a “human rights crisis” according to international human rights organizations.
The national strike, which started earlier last week, was instigated following several failed negotiation rounds between Indigenous organizations and Lasso’s government over a list of demands that include the right to self-determination, reducing fuel prices, and a price freeze on agricultural products.
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2022-06-21 14:24:45+00:00
Indigenous Mapuche communities from the Galvarino and Cholchol towns in the Araucanía Region in present-day Chile stormed the Galvarino city hall with war cries to deliver a letter to the city mayor, demanding the cancelation of three dams that would flood the Mapuche’s ancestral territories.
One of the project’s owners is Juan Sutil, a businessman and spokesperson of the Chilean ‘Confederation of Production and Trade,’ an association that groups businessmen from the commerce, agriculture, mining, construction, and banking industries. Sutil is notorious in Chile for his open calls to privatize ancestral Mapuche territories.
The Chilean state has long discriminated against the Mapuche people, the country’s largest Indigenous group and the earliest inhabitants of parts of Chile who have fought colonizers for centuries.
WATCH “Chile: From Dictatorship to Democracy”
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2022-06-21 11:39:59+00:00
70,000 Belgian workers marched through Brussels and brought the capital to a near-standstill with strikes at the airport and transport networks nationwide.
The workers are demanding government action to tackle the sharp increase in living costs while working conditions and wages continue to deteriorate.
Rising energy prices have led to a rapid increase in the prices of goods during the past few months. Inflation hit 9% in Belgium this month, the highest since 1983.
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2022-06-20 18:16:46+00:00
Gustavo Petro, described as the country’s “first left-wing president,” has won Colombia’s presidential elections.
We spoke to the Colombian Communist Party about what the victory of the former guerrilla member means for Colombia, and what they expect out of Petro in terms of upholding progressive values in Colombian society, implementing the peace deal that never materialized, and breaking ties with colonial diplomatic relations.
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2022-06-20 14:42:03+00:00
It looks like journalists are so threatening to Israeli soldiers that two military helicopters started hovering above us in addition to a Humvee with IDF soldiers stopping & monitoring us while filming in Masafer Yatta, the Occupied West Bank.
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2022-06-20 13:25:45+00:00
Anti-capitalist and anti-racist LGBTQ+ individuals and allies took to the streets of Paris to hold the annual ‘Radical Pride March’ yesterday, carrying Palestinian and ‘Black LGBTQ+ Lives Matter’ flags.
The yearly march objects to “superficial representations and the instrumentalization of [LGBTQ+] struggles.” In a statement, the organizers said that “there has been a commercial takeover of Pride.” Their march emphasizes the intersectionality of all struggles and protests police violence against marginalized groups such as refugees, sex workers as well as people from the LGBTQ+ community.
More than 50 anti-racist and anti-capitalist LGBTQ+ groups in France took part in the ‘Radical Pride March’ this year.
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2022-06-20 11:36:04+00:00
Marxist feminist theorist Clara Zetkin died in exile in the Soviet Union on this day in 1933.
Zetkin co-founded the International Socialist Women’s Congress, edited the Socialist women’s paper “Die Gleichheit” in Germany between 1892 and 1917, and was elected to the executive committee of the Third International in 1921.
During World War I, she co-founded the Spartacus League alongside Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, amongst others. The League transformed into the German Communist Party, where Zetkin played an instrumental role as part of the central committee and by taking her seat in the German parliament (Reichstag) from 1920.
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2022-06-19 16:24:01+00:00
“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
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2022-06-19 14:54:01+00:00
Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the United States than any other race.
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2022-06-19 13:26:02+00:00
Colombians are headed to vote in a heated presidential election today, with former left-wing guerilla Gustavo Petro competing against the ‘Colombian Bolsonaro’ Rodolfo Hernández, who has described himself as a “follower of Adolf Hitler.”
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2022-06-19 11:54:01+00:00
On this Juneteenth, a reminder of the likelihood of imprisonment in the U.S. by race and gender.
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2022-06-19 10:25:06+00:00
Juneteenth is a holiday marking the end of slavery, but did it really end? An exception in the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution still allows slavery as punishment for crime, subjecting incarcerated people who are disproportionately Black and brown to work for little to no pay.
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2022-06-18 15:26:01+00:00
This Pride Month, meet Willem Arondeus, the Dutch artist, author, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter who started an underground movement against the Nazis in WWII.
Arondeus was forced to leave home at the age of 17 as his parents could not accept his choice to live openly gay.
When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Arondeus and his friend, lesbian cellist Frieda Belinfante, were among the first to join the Dutch resistance movement.
Arondeus used his artistic skills to forge documents and create false identity papers for Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo, but the Nazis were still able to check the documents against public records.
In 1943, Arondeus and his comrades bombed the Public Records Office in Amsterdam and succeeded in destroying thousands of records of Jews and others whose movements were being tracked by the Nazis.
Weeks later, Arondeus was sentenced to death. Having been openly gay his entire life, his final words were “Tell the people that homosexuals can be brave!”
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2022-06-18 12:57:01+00:00
On this day in 1954, the CIA executed a coup d’état in Guatemala that overthrew democratically-elected leader Jacobo Árbenz, putting an end to his progressive reforms that had stopped the exploitative practices of the U.S.’ multinational United Fruit Company.
At the height of that conflict, the CIA-trained army committed one of the bloodiest massacres in Guatemala against the guerilla’s social base, primarily Indigenous Maya civilians that were viewed as subhuman.
WATCH “Guatemala: CIA’s Permanent Backyard”.
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2022-06-18 10:25:10+00:00
A young Sudanese man has reportedly been shot and killed by the police in the capital Khartoum as anti-military coup protests enter their ninth month next week.
Protesters could be seen throwing gas canisters back at the security forces. The October 25 coup, which removed a joint civilian and military-led government from power, has kept the country in political deadlock, without a prime minister, and exacerbated its economic crisis despite several meetings between military leaders and the former ruling civilian coalition, the latest being last week.
One-third of the Sudanese people face acute food insecurity today, according to the World Food Programme. Since last year’s coup, a crackdown on protesters has killed at least 104 people and injured thousands, according to the ‘Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors.’
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2022-06-17 18:01:01+00:00
Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, southern West Bank, are forced to live in actual caves as a result of Israel’s occupation and ongoing annexation policy, while Israeli settlers enjoy running water, fertile land, and modern housing.
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2022-06-17 15:23:01+00:00
Nancy Pelosi appears to have forgotten who Juan Guaidó is.
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2022-06-17 13:25:05+00:00
For the third day in a row, the heated national strike protests mobilized by Indigenous organizations have been shaking Ecuador.
More than 80 streets have reportedly been closed by protesters. Mass protests erupted in three different cities, and in central Quito, police attacked a peaceful student protest of around 3,000 people with tear gas, which provoked clashes.
Addressing the protests, banker president Guillermo Lasso wrote on Twitter: “Those who commit acts of vandalism will be brought to justice.”
Meanwhile, Indigenous protest leader Leonidas Iza responded in an interview, “We’re worried about economic survival, you’re worried about profit.”
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2022-06-17 11:31:58+00:00
The UK has just approved the extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to the United States, whose intelligence service plotted to murder/kidnap him in London, according to 30 former U.S. officials. Assange could now face 175 years in U.S. prison over several charges under the Espionage Act.
Earlier last year, a British judge had ruled that Assange might commit suicide if sent to the U.S. to face charges due to mental health concerns.
Why is the U.S. empire so scared of the Wikileaks founder? He exposed their war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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2022-06-17 10:34:26+00:00
“To achieve our freedom we must adhere to the armed struggle […] we are the oppressed therefore it’s legitimate to take up arms against the oppressor.”
– Hani Al-Thuabta
Member of the PFLP Political Office / Gaza Strip
Interview for @redfishstream
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2022-06-16 17:27:01+00:00
On his birthday, listen to Tupac summarize the history of the Black liberation struggle in less than 60 seconds.
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2022-06-16 15:56:01+00:00
Happy birthday, Tupac Shakur! The revolutionary artist and son of a Black Panther would’ve turned 51 today.
Whereas other artists were silent on the oppression of Black communities, Tupac hit the nail on the head rapping against racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration, embracing the politics of the Black Power movement in his lyrics.
Tupac was the son of a Black Panther Party leading member of the chapter in Harlem, Afeni Shakur, who named him after Peruvian revolutionary Túpac Amaru II.
Tupac was shot six times in Las Vegas and died six days later on September 13, 1996; he was only 25 years old. His music continues to inspire millions around the world.
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2022-06-16 14:24:02+00:00
On this day in 1948, communist guerillas waged a war of independence against the British Empire for 12 consecutive years in today’s Malaysia. The British committed countless atrocities and used a scorched-earth policy against those rejecting British colonial rule. The British also refused to acknowledge they are involved in a war, and instead referred to it as the “Malayan Emergency.” Can you guess why?
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2022-06-16 12:25:09+00:00
On this day in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space. Boarding the Vostok 6 spacecraft, the Soviet cosmonaut orbited the Earth 48 times, covering more flight time than all American astronauts combined up to that date. She remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.
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2022-06-16 10:22:02+00:00
Is the U.S. a functioning democracy? “The Americans couldn’t spell democracy.” Left MEP Mick Wallace calls out the EU Parliament for not daring to question the U.S.
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2022-06-16 09:04:34+00:00
Listening to the Palestinian adaptation of the resistance anthem “Bella Ciao” in Gaza played on the Oud by Prof. Ismail Dawoud of the National Conservatory of Music in the Gaza Strip. “A weapon is resistance, a pen is resistance, but music is also resistance.”
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2022-06-15 15:54:01+00:00
Bad occupation
vs.
Good occupation
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2022-06-15 14:24:00+00:00
Vast parts of Ecuador have been paralyzed for the past 2 days by an Indigenous-led national strike against the neoliberal government of President Guillermo Lasso.
Over 50 organizations have called for mass mobilizations, and roads have been blocked in at least 16 of the country’s 24 provinces, according to Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization CONAIE. Disillusioned by talks with the government, Indigenous social leaders are now mobilizing to the streets.
Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza was arrested on the second day of the national strike. He was illegally detained at the Latacunga military base. However, violent protests against the arrest forced the prosecutor’s office to temporarily release Leonidas.
Indigenous organizations are pressuring the government to meet their list of demands, which include the right to self-determination, reducing fuel prices, and a price freeze on agricultural products.
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2022-06-15 12:23:01+00:00
TikTok has censored these 3 videos from our page for supposedly violating its “community guidelines”:
1. A historical speech by sports icon Muhammad Ali
2. An explainer of the Palestinian Nakba
3. How the U.S. made Afghanistan the least happy place on Earth
Read our full statement.
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2022-06-15 11:30:14+00:00
8 years ago, Israeli strikes killed 4 Palestinian children as they played football on this Gaza beach to escape the daily realities of the war. Israel claimed it was an "accident". Today, kids of the same age are back playing on the same beach for the first time in many years.
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2022-06-15 10:25:00+00:00
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of New Delhi after Indian authorities bulldozed the house of Muslim activist Afreen Fatima. The bulldozing is one of many recent attacks by the Indian government against the country’s Muslim minority.
Protesters carried hammer and sickle flags and signs reading “Stop bulldozing Muslim lives!” and “Stand with the family of Afreen Fatima!” The right-wing government accuses the young Muslim activist Fatima of being the “mastermind” of rising protests against the oppression of Muslims.
This year, bulldozing against the Muslim minority or political dissidents has become a symbol of Hindu nationalism. Hindu nationalist politicians are being given nicknames such as ‘Bulldozer Guru’ or ‘Bulldozer Uncle’ by their supporters.
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2022-06-15 09:59:34+00:00
We are on the ground in Gaza investigating the new power dynamics in Palestine one year since Israel’s brutal bombing of the strip, and as its attacks on Al Aqsa continue. Stay tuned...
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2022-06-14 16:23:01+00:00
One of Latin America’s most influential Marxist thinkers and defenders of Indo-American socialism, José Carlos Mariátegui, was born on a day like today in 1894.
Mariátegui was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and socialist activist. Despite his physical disabilities and early death, and even though his contributions are not well known on other continents, Mariátegui’s Marxist interpretation of the “Peruvian Reality” incorporated Indigenous people and land issues as pillars to change society, and has become paramount for revolutionaries all over Latin America.
For his application of Marxist analysis to Latin American realities, the founding of the Peruvian Communist Party, and his role in organizing the first conference of communist parties in Latin America, Mariátegui is considered by many the pioneer of socialism and communism on the continent.
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2022-06-14 14:56:01+00:00
On this day 22 years ago, 39-year-old Mozambican man Alberto Adriano was viciously beaten and killed by three neo-Nazis just outside his home in the German city of Dessau.
Adriano had come to the GDR in 1988 as a contract worker from Mozambique, where he stayed after reunification, got married, and had three children. On the night of June 11, 2000, he encountered a trio of drunken neo-Nazis who ambushed him. After several blows and kicks, he was lying unconscious on the ground. His attackers then crushed his skull.
Adriano died three days later in a coma of serious head injuries.
His three murderers were respectively sentenced to life and nine years in juvenile prison. “Remorse,” said the presiding judge at the time, had “not been shown by any of the defendants to any serious degree.”
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2022-06-14 13:23:01+00:00
Happy birthday to Argentinian Marxist and revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, born on a day like today in 1928 in Rosario.
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2022-06-14 11:57:01+00:00
Today marks the 5th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, an avoidable tragedy resulting directly from neoliberal politics of austerity that claimed 72 lives.
The affected community is still seeking justice, as no one responsible for the inferno has been yet persecuted, and the court case is dragging on. We remember those who have lost their lives, their loved ones, and those who continue to fight for justice.
Watch our 3-part award-winning film “Failed by the State” on the topic here:
PART 1: https://bit.ly/3QjyU5i
PART 2: https://bit.ly/3MNv95i
PART 3: https://bit.ly/3OfsG4w
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2022-06-14 10:31:32+00:00
The UK’s first deportation flight to Rwanda is scheduled to leave today for Kigali. Hundreds have taken to the streets of London to protest their deportation.
“I applaud all those that have welcomed Ukrainian refugees. Every other refugee should be welcomed and treated in the same way,” said former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was present at the protest.
Initially, over 30 asylum-seekers were scheduled to be deported on today’s flight, but the charity Care4Calais has said many of the deportees had their tickets canceled and only seven remain on the flight.
A UK High Court judge dismissed an injunction to stop the deportation on Friday. Yesterday, another three judges on the Court of Appeal ruled that the flight could continue as scheduled. The UN refugee chief has described the situation as “catastrophic.”
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2022-06-13 16:59:01+00:00
On this day 42 years ago, anti-imperialist, socialist, and Pan-Africanist intellectual and activist Walter Rodney was assassinated.
Widely known today for his influential book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,” Rodney was one of the most renowned intellectuals of Pan-Africanism, looking to build unity among African and Afro-descendant peoples while connecting their struggles to the working-class struggle to overthrow capitalism.
Rodney developed a Marxism in which Black Power was central, developing historical analyses of slavery and colonialism and convinced that only “under the banner of socialism and through the leadership of the working classes” Africans could break from imperialism and colonialism.
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2022-06-13 15:43:48+00:00
In the latest of a series of attacks on India’s Muslim minority, the Indian authorities bulldozed and completely demolished the house of student activist Afreen Fatima on Sunday.
We spoke to Fatima about being a vocal Muslim woman in today’s India under the BJP’s rule.
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2022-06-13 11:22:01+00:00
Turkish police tried to block pro-Kurdish protesters who were denouncing the solitary confinement of PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan, captured more than 23 years ago. Huge crowds of people were able to break through.
The protests were headed to the port city of Gemlik, where ships sail to the prison island of Imrali and where Öcalan is imprisoned.
At least 50 protesters, including journalists and high-ranking Kurdish politicians, were arrested by Turkish police according to local reports.
In a statement, the various participating Kurdish and women’s organizations described Öcalan’s solitary imprisonment as “the mother of all problems.”
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2022-06-12 13:57:01+00:00
This Pride Month, we remember Amelio Robles Ávila, a Zapatista colonel in the Mexican revolution who was assigned female at birth but lived openly as a man from the age of 24 until his death at 95. Robles fought many battles during the revolution and was awarded the Mexican Legion of Honor.
He served with Zapata’s army under the command of several generals. He was recognized for his fighting and leadership skills, and he was eventually granted his own command.
The idea that he transitioned as a survival strategy during the revolutionary war is flawed. There are several cases of women in the Mexican revolution, commonly known as the “Adelitas,” who took on multiple advanced military roles, including fighting on the front lines and designing warfare strategies.
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2022-06-12 10:23:01+00:00
Israeli forces harassed Palestinians protesting against the expansion of Israeli settlements near Qalqilya in the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces blocked the road to the concerned village despite the protest being peaceful and containing flags and chants only. Eventually, they violently assaulted the protesters amid Israeli settler provocations. Over 4,000 new settlement units were approved by the Israeli Government last month.
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2022-06-11 15:22:01+00:00
Bogota University students clashed with Colombia’s notorious ESMAD police unit, known for its excessive violence, as they commemorated the “Day of the Fallen Student.”
Students blocked roads and used Molotov cocktails and pyrotechnics against riot tanks and water cannons. Protesters could be seen wearing M-19 capes, a guerrilla organization that was popular at universities and began to decline in the 1990s.
June 8 and 9 are annual dates that honor Colombian student struggles and murdered students. Students have historically been at the forefront of social and revolutionary efforts in Colombia, constantly encountering deadly violence.
Over 600 university students were murdered in Colombia between 1970 and 2020, according to the ‘Truth Commission’ responsible for investigating the Colombian armed conflict.
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2022-06-11 12:56:04+00:00
An Indigenous affairs expert and a British journalist who is writing a book about the preservation of the Amazon have gone missing in a remote part of the Brazilian region of the Amazon rainforest.
Bruno Araújo Pereira, the expert on Indigenous affairs, was on leave from his position at Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency. He is one of the most experienced employees operating within the Vale do Javari area, and has received numerous threats from illegal fishermen and poachers.
This week, prominent Indigenous organizations accused right-wing President Bolsonaro’s government of being absent from the search efforts. This isn’t the first time Indigenous experts and activists have gone missing or been killed in the area, which has witnessed intensifying violence between Indigenous peoples and illegal loggers, miners, and fishers in recent years.
Watch our report “Fighting Fire: The Indigenous Struggle For The Amazon”: https://bit.ly/3xF30Jm
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2022-06-11 10:22:03+00:00
Violent clashes erupted between student protesters and police at several Greek universities as a new university police unit is set to be deployed at Greek’s four major universities.
During protests at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, police fired tear gas grenades at the students. On the same day, hundreds of students from Athens University blocked the entrance against the incoming university police.
Greece’s right-wing government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis dissolved a law preventing police presence at universities. Greek courts had ruled the incoming university ‘police’ constitutional in early May.
6 people were arrested following the protests in Thessaloniki but were released due to lack of evidence, according to local media reports.
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2022-06-10 15:21:34+00:00
Did you know that Belgium still has Lumumba’s tooth?
Belgium’s King Philippe is currently on his first official trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expressing “deepest regrets” for his country’s colonial crimes in the Congo but offering no formal apology and no plans for reparations.
An estimated 10 million Congolese were killed during the first 23 years of Belgium’s rule which started in 1885 when King Leopold II ruled the ‘Congo Free State’ as a personal fiefdom. Leopold had Congolese people imported back to Europe for his “human zoo.” Congolese communities that missed their rubber collection quotas were forced to provide severed hands instead.
On Wednesday, Philippe returned a five-foot-tall Kakungu mask, which had been used in ceremonies by the Suku people in Congo’s southwest. Belgium still holds Patrice Lumumba’s tooth, and loud opposition came from many Congolese who do not think these steps are enough.
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2022-06-10 12:56:04+00:00
Workers at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport went on strike today forcing over 100 flights to get canceled. They want fair compensation for their labor hours in response to high inflation and the repercussions of the pandemic.
A total of 7 trade unions mobilized for the one-day strike, which paralyzed 25% of all morning flights at the Parisian airport. The strikers blocked a terminal, followed by police attacking them with pepper spray. “We demand a 300 euro raise for all,” said a statement by the CGT trade union.
French inflation rates hit a new record of 5.8% in May, according to the INSEE statistics agency. Based on estimates by the Workers Force (FO) union, some 15,000 airport workers lost their jobs in the last two years.
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2022-06-10 10:28:00+00:00
Unrest has erupted in Fetihtepe, Turkey for the last three days over forced displacements. Residents are resisting police officers who plan to evict them from their homes in favor of gentrification.
The local Fetihtepe authorities have cut off electricity and water supply from hundreds of people intending to displace them. Residents fought back numerous times, building barricades out of furniture and trash cans. Meanwhile, calls for the resignation of the mayor of the ruling AKP-party are growing louder.
The police arrested at least five people and blocked journalists from reporting, according to the local media agency ETHA.
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2022-06-09 15:46:09+00:00
Hundreds from the migrant caravan which was launched simultaneously with the ‘Summit of the Americas’ in a symbolic protest are temporarily holding out in Chiapas, Mexico. The caravan consists of thousands of people currently fleeing poverty from various Latin American countries.
Migrants have set up a temporary camp on a basketball court in southern Mexico on their journey to the US border. The caravan is made up of about 11,000 people, according to the human rights ombudsman’s office. It largely consists of women, children, and dozens of disabled people.
The launch of the migrant caravan in parallel to the ‘Summit of the Americas’ hoped to draw public attention to the dire situation of migrants, with Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador personally boycotting the event over excluding Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba from the summit.
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2022-06-09 11:49:29+00:00
Left MEP Clare Daly calls out the West for continuing its warmongering foreign policy while ignoring Afghanistan which is left to suffer from the consequences of those same policies.
“Even as the world spends billions on arms, they can’t muster 3.5 billion to save lives.”
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2022-06-08 15:53:15+00:00
Hundreds gathered outside Buenos Aires’ pricey Sheraton Hotel against the annual meeting of the capitalist ‘Argentine Business Association’ (AEA) which was guarded by police officers.
As Argentina’s top business CEOs and government officials talked about investments, taxation, and warding off “ghosts of a communist model” in the expensive Buenos Aires hotel, tired Argentinians raised their voices outside and held signs and banners with slogans such as “Lower the prices” and “Enough with the bad diet.”
The AEA celebrated its 20th annual meeting while Argentina’s inflation rate is skyrocketing, reaching a harsh 55% annually.
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2022-06-08 14:19:56+00:00
A migrant caravan has set out from southern Mexico and is heading to the U.S. border as the ‘Summit of the Americas’ takes place.
The caravan includes thousands of people from Central America, Venezuela, and Cuba. Honduran, Venezuelan, and other national flags could be seen. Nearly 70% of its members are women and children, according to organizers of the caravan.
The ‘Summit of the Americas’ led by the U.S. and taking place in Los Angeles, California this week hopes to address “immigration flows” among other critical issues. Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador said he is personally boycotting the event over excluding Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba from the summit; “there can’t be a Summit of the Americas if not all countries of the American continent are taking part.”
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2022-06-08 11:38:05+00:00
Anti-imperialist, LGBTQ advocate, feminist and revolutionary writer James Baldwin on love and sexuality: “Love is where you find it.”
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2022-06-07 15:55:10+00:00
Bolivians assembled outside the La Paz court demanding 30 years of prison for coup leader Jeanine Áñez, who is currently on trial. The protesters are calling for justice for the crimes committed during the coup.
The trial was supposed to begin earlier this year but was delayed for months through several political maneuvers. Prosecutors said they would seek a 15-year jail term for the 54-year-old politician.
During the 2019 coup against the ‘Movement for Socialism Party’ of former Indigenous President Evo Morales, Áñez declared herself president. Anti-coup protests were met with heavy repression, leading to 32 deaths.
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2022-06-07 13:55:06+00:00
The streets of Bangkok burst with color as rainbow and transgender flags filled the city with thousands participating in Thailand’s first Pride parade to be supported by the local government and the first Pride parade in the Silom area of Thailand’s capital in almost 16 years.
Despite Thailand’s reputation for diversity, the largely conservative kingdom still does not recognize same-sex marriages. Members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies continue to fight for their rights, such as legal protection against discrimination and abuse.
The Thai cabinet has agreed on a proposal to increase the rights of same-sex couples but held back on full equality with heterosexual couples back in March.
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2022-06-07 11:48:08+00:00
Israeli forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters with tear gas and pepper spray for organizing an anti-settlement march in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley.
Israel has demolished two Palestinian homes in Tubas last month, and a Palestinian man was kidnapped by undercover Israeli soldiers in the same city last week.
This week, Israeli authorities confiscated a large area of olive and grape-cultivated land in Tarqumiyah in the Southern West Bank, with reported plans to establish new 5,000 settlement units across occupied Jerusalem as well.
“Drop your weapon, then confront me face to face” yelled a Palestinian woman at the Israeli soldier who pushed her during the confrontation as the Palestinian march reached an Israeli military checkpoint in Tubas.
Local media reported 20 cases of suffocation by Israeli tear gas and pepper spray. Journalists also came under fire and had to be treated by medics.
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2022-06-06 15:54:00+00:00
This is how an assembly that Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó was going to attend ended in Zulia, Venezuela after counter-protests were initiated by Chavista supporters of the ‘United Socialist Party of Venezuela’ (PSUV). Guaidó was forced to leave the assembly and could not finish his planned tour across the state of Zulia.
Guaidó is the US-backed coup leader against Venezuela’s Chavista government who gained international attention during the 2019 coup attempt, notably for scandals such as collaborating with narco-paramilitaries.
Guaidó is currently touring Venezuela as the opposition announced primaries last month to be held in 2023 to elect a single “unity” candidate to stand against incumbent President Nicolás Maduro in the country’s next presidential elections in 2024.
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2022-06-06 14:01:23+00:00
Mexico remains the world’s 2nd most dangerous country to be transgender. At least 189 transgender people were killed in Latin America last year.
This Pride Month, watch our report “Trans Sex Workers Of Mexico Unite” where we joined trans rights activists who took it upon themselves to help trans sex workers fight back against transgender killings, HIV, and COVID-19: https://bit.ly/3aqlqUW
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2022-06-06 10:44:51+00:00
Anti-fascists swarmed the streets of Paris to commemorate the death anniversary of 18-year-old anti-fascist activist Clément Méric, killed nine years ago by a group of neo-Nazis.
“Clément’s death was nine years ago now, and his struggles are tragically up to date,” read a statement by ‘Action Antifasciste Paris-Banlieue,’ the organization which called for the protest. Méric was active in a union and an anti-fascist organization. He collected money for strike funds, among other activities. His friends describe him as an anarchist who “hated the elitist ideology in capitalist society.”
The protest targeted the growing danger of the extreme right, given that Méric’s death ignited a broad discussion around the rise of fascism in Europe.
According to a recent report published by the pan-European anti-racism network the ‘European Network Against Racism’ (ENAR), “Racism and anti-Muslim hatred in the country [is] at an all-time high, far-right ideology in France is not only rising; it’s already here.”
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2022-06-05 15:26:01+00:00
The Amazon’s Indigenous people are besieged by illegal loggers, cattle ranchers, soy farmers, and gold miners, all of whom have been bolstered by neoliberal policies that benefit large corporations, primarily in the farming, mining, and oil industries. These policies are accelerating deforestation and rapidly eroding Indigenous people’s rights.
In the past, these miners have brought influenza and malaria that killed hundreds of Indigenous people. The danger of spreading disease to isolated Indigenous communities is even higher today.
Equally catastrophic is the mercury used for gold separation on Indigenous land. The toxic metal used by miners is polluting rivers and poisoning fish, which is the main source of protein for Indigenous people and is crucial to their survival.
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2022-06-05 12:55:07+00:00
On World Environment Day, we remember these timeless words by Brazilian labor leader, socialist, and conservationist Francisco “Chico” Mendes.
A sworn enemy of the landowners, Mendes was the leader of a local union of rubber tappers, an active member of the growing Workers’ Party, and an advocate of socialist ecology. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest and promoted the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples.
Mendes realized that in order to secure the future of the Amazon, they had to find a way to secure workers’ rights while preserving the forest. Ultimately, the concept of “extractive reserves” was envisaged, which meant that “the land [would be] under public ownership, but the rubber tappers and other workers should have the right to live and work there.”
Today, deforestation and fire in the Amazon have risen to their highest levels in more than a decade since far-right President Bolsonaro took power in 2019.
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2022-06-05 10:23:01+00:00
On this day nine years ago, anti-fascist activist Clément Méric was killed at the age of 18 by a group of neo-Nazis in Paris. His death ignited recurrent anti-fascist protests and a broad discussion around the rise of fascism in Europe.
Clément Méric and his friends were attacked on the streets of Paris on 5 June 2013 by neo-Nazis, who beat him with brass knuckles. Méric fell onto the street and hit his head against a metal post. The attackers fled, but Méric was dead when he was rushed to the hospital.
Méric was active in a union and an anti-fascist organization. He collected money for strike funds, among other activities. His friends describe him as an anarchist who “hated the elitist ideology in capitalist society.”
In 2018, his killers were sentenced to 11 and 5 years in prison. Méric’s mother commented on the penalty, saying that “Imprisonment is never a victory. What is necessary is to continue the struggle against everything that is a breeding ground for the extreme right.”
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2022-06-04 15:28:01+00:00
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2022-06-04 12:53:01+00:00
Did you know Yemen is the most dangerous place to be a child on Earth today? The UN has been able to verify at least 10,200 cases of killed or injured children since the beginning of the US-sponsored Saudi-led aggression on Yemen.
Some 2.3 million Yemeni children have been on the brink of starvation at the end of 2021 due to the Saudi-imposed blockade. An estimated 2 million Yemeni children are internally displaced, and almost 13 million Yemeni children are in need of assistance; that is the equivalent of the total populations of London and Berlin combined.
On the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression observed today, the war on Yemen which has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises globally continues to be largely overlooked. UNICEF has described it as “a living hell for children.”
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2022-06-04 10:26:01+00:00
For 3 consecutive years, Poland has been ranking as the EU’s least LGBTQ-friendly country, according to the annual ILGA-Europe review issued last month.
In 2020, 80 Polish municipal or local governments declared their regions “LGBT-free zones,” and Polish laws continue to offer no protection from homophobic and transphobic violence.
This is coupled with the ongoing struggle that Poland’s LGBTQ+ community has been experiencing against the fascist far-right. We spoke with an LGBTQ+ activist about the discrimination the community faces in Poland and how Poland’s Law & Justice Party incites it.
This Pride Month, watch our report “Never Again: Fighting the Polish Far-Right”: https://bit.ly/3tfQBJ3
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2022-06-03 15:39:05+00:00
Hundreds of Black rights activists took to the streets of São Paulo after Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, a Black man diagnosed with schizophrenia was tortured and killed by the Brazilian Highway Federal Police using an improvised gas chamber. Santos’s killing came days after police killed at least 25 people during a raid in Rio de Janeiro.
Santos suffocated to death after two police officers forced him inside the trunk of a police vehicle and released a tear gas canister inside. The gruesome video of the incident, which has gone viral, showed officers slamming the door down on his legs while white smoke poured out.
Demonstrators also decried police brutality against marginalized communities of color, which has resulted in the deaths of scores of residents by gunshots sparked by police raids. In 2020, almost 80% of the victims of police violence in Brazil were Black, according to the Brazilian Forum of Public Security.
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2022-06-03 13:09:36+00:00
Muhammad Ali died on a day like today in 2016.
Here the sports legend explains why he refused to fight in U.S. imperialist wars.
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2022-06-03 10:28:54+00:00
This Pride Month, we remember the revolutionary transgender communist, activist and writer, Leslie Feinberg. Feinberg was an active anti-war, anti-racist, and pro-Palestine activist who emphasized the interconnections between all forms of oppression.
Feinberg helped organize several campaigns following attacks against African-Americans by the KKK. Ze organized pro-choice protests and defended LGBT bars and clubs from right-wing attacks. Ze was a fervent believer in the power of organization to fight back against all kinds of oppression.
Feinberg was also a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, as well as a critic of Israel’s pinkwashing strategies. Ze once said, “Today we see how the imperialists — the US to Israelis — use the experiences of women, of gays, of transgenders as pretexts for imperialist war. The white supremacist ideology replaces the colonial claim of ‘bringing civilization, into imperialist claims that they are ‘bringing democracy.’”
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2022-06-02 17:52:02+00:00
The naked reality.
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2022-06-02 15:57:06+00:00
While Chile’s President Boric was giving his first State of the Union Address yesterday, Chilean riot police were cracking down on students in the capital Santiago for demanding free, non-sexist education, the cancellation of student debt, fair transportation prices, and more food subsidies.
The protests were largely peaceful with some incidents of protesters throwing objects at riot police who were attacking them with water cannons. Several students were arrested according to local media reports.
Chile has seen a series of protests during the last few months since Boric’s inauguration in March. The country’s youngest president’s approval ratings have dropped since, with the latest weekly poll by pollster Cadem published late on Sunday revealing his disapproval rating rose to 57%, the highest level since he took office in March.
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2022-06-02 13:23:02+00:00
Pride under apartheid? Every June, Israel paints itself as a “gay heaven” with tens of thousands of Israeli settlers attending Tel Aviv’s Pride parade. This is part and parcel of Israel’s pinkwashing strategy that aims to obfuscate its colonial crimes. But what exactly is pinkwashing?
Full interview: https://bit.ly/3x5r6v4
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2022-06-02 10:26:02+00:00
On this day in 1975, more than 100 sex workers occupied the church of Saint-Nizier in Lyon, France for eight days, protesting serial murders, police and state abuse, and drawing attention to their inhumane working conditions.
The ten-day occupation of the church was cut short on the eighth day when the women were removed by the police on June 10th. The action ushered in a nationwide solidarity strike that involved sex workers occupying multiple churches in different cities in France.
Their action made national and international news headlines and received support from political and feminist organizations and unions all over France, with locals supporting the women with food and clothing.
The event marked a turning point for a growing movement that inspired sex workers worldwide to demand decriminalization, safety and economic alternatives for sex workers so that no one is forced into sex work out of poverty. Every year, June 2nd is celebrated as International Sex Workers Day.
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2022-06-01 15:57:01+00:00
U.S. Department of State spokesperson Ned Price was grilled by veteran journalist Matt Lee who questioned him over the U.S.’ involvement in conspiring with France to oust Haiti’s first democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide “because he was demanding reparations for the French.”
A New York Times investigation has recently revealed that Haiti’s colonial debt payments starting in 1825 are estimated to be at an outstanding $115 billion, or as much as eight times its GDP in 2020.
Haiti became the world’s first Black-ruled Republic after declaring independence in 1804, but it soon had to begin paying France for the freedom of its citizens who had been slaves. Haiti has since suffered from impossible debts and loans from France, leading to an economic crisis which continues to this day.
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2022-06-01 14:30:46+00:00
Turkish police blocked and attacked protests commemorating the 9th anniversary of the Gezi Uprising, which was initiated at Taksim square in Istanbul in 2013. Local media reported several violent arrests.
When the gathered protesters tried to begin their march under the slogan “Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance,” the police launched tear gas and pepper spray. The crowd responded by throwing stones and bottles. President Erdogan gave a speech today where he addressed participants of the Gezi protests, reportedly saying “They are corrupt, they are sluts.”
The Gezi protests were one of the largest civil uprisings in Turkey’s history. The uprising captured international headlines due to the excessive police brutality that resulted in at least 9 deaths, over 8,000 injured, and more than 3,000 arrested protesters.
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2022-06-01 11:30:06+00:00
From colonial laws to Christian missionaries to U.S. evangelicals, the West has a long history of exporting homophobia to Africa.
A law passed in 2021 made homosexuality a criminal offense in Uganda, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Neighboring Kenya, where many Ugandans have fled, isn’t any better.
But homophobia on the continent isn’t new. The first anti-homosexuality laws in East Africa were written by the British and today, North American evangelicals are reinforcing those laws by spreading their extreme anti-homosexuality agenda through the continent.
This Pride Month, watch our report “Sodom and Gomorrah: Exporting Homophobia to Africa”: https://bit.ly/3MFoMBQ