Today marks the anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the working class of Russia, organized through soviets & led by the Bolsheviks, made history.
Here are colorful images from those roaring early years after the soviets took power – scenes that shook the ruling class to their core and ignited a spark of inspiration in millions of people around the world.
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A migrant caravan has just set off from the Mexico-Guatemala border, hoping to arrive in the US before Trump takes office. Many fear that an even more violent crackdown is coming.
Some of the fastest growing migrant groups arriving at the US border are those escaping violent conflict in neoliberal Ecuador, as well as Haiti where the US is funding yet another foreign intervention.
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“Never Again Applies to Everyone” — German pro-Palestine activists have set up an encampment at the Bundestag to protest a resolution that will criminalize criticism of Israel. It is being voted on tomorrow.
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140 million Americans voted on which president will continue to occupy and colonize Palestine. As George Habash once said: “Our real enemy is not Israel and Zionism only, it is American Imperialism, who is backing Israel because Israel is a bodyguard for American imperialist interests.”
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🟡 BREAKING: For the second time today, Hezbollah rockets target Tel Aviv. The attack comes right after a speech by General Naim Qassem who promised Israel would pay a heavy price for its invasion of Lebanon.
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🟡 NOW: Police attack striking workers in the Greek region of Patras, a few days before the looming general strike led by the Workers’ Militant Front (PAME). A national strike by construction workers is underway, with big protests in the capital city of Athens.
Читать полностью…Biden’s State Department will be leaving their posts soon. Above all, they’ll be remembered for their role in facilitating and justifying the genocide being carried out right now in Gaza. This was also a State Department that attempted to censor us across all platforms, falsely labelling us as Russia-affiliated.
Trump will soon announce his own State Department team. Last time around it was led by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Regardless of the personnel, the policy of backing Israel’s genocide will continue.
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🟡 BREAKING: In a rare incident, Hezbollah rockets struck Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, paralyzing all activity. Today also marks the 40th day since the assassination of Lebanese resistance leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Читать полностью…The Israeli occupation forces are escalating their attacks in the West Bank. They killed four Palestinians in raids near Jenin and Tubas, and conducted a drone strike. Military bulldozers destroyed streets in Qabatiya, where Israeli forces surrounded the house of resistance fighters. In Tubas, two men were killed and another person who was killed was paraded around atop an Israeli bulldozer. Since October 7, Israel has killed over 754 Palestinians across occupied West Bank.
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“The greatest democracy in the history of the world” – Kamala Harris
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”Down with the greed of the merchant” — Gazans are protesting against the Israeli siege and local war profiteers. While Israel continues blocking humanitarian aid, it allows a limited amount of goods to enter the private sector. This fuels a market of monopoly and corruption that increases prices by 10 to 20 times the original.
Israel created this problem by allowing for multiple layers of profiteering. Money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain, from procurement and transport, to final sale. This leaves Gazans with limited goods at insanely high prices.
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The West loves to point fingers at Iran, but are their hands clean?
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Polls are opening across the US in a crunch election between two flavors of imperialism and neoliberalism.
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🟡 BREAKING: Germany passed a new resolution that seeks to punish criticism of Israel with withdrawal of citizenship. Here’s what you need to know.
You think Germany’s anti-Palestinian crackdowns are bad? Brace yourself—things just got a whole lot worse.
The escalation comes as no surprise, as Germany leads Europe in the pro-Palestinian movement. There have been over 4,140 pro-Palestine protests in one year.
Germany ranks just behind the US as the primary arms supplier to Israel’s occupation forces and politically backs Israel’s extermination wars with near-unparalleled complicity.
Paris Saint-Germain fans unfurled a giant pro-Palestine banner in their Champions League match last night against Atlético Madrid.
Last year, Scottish club Celtic was fined by the Union of European Football Associations when their fans waved Palestine flags during a Champions League match. So far there has been no official statement from the governing body.
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red. media asked locals in Gaza how they perceive the outcomes of the US election. They told us what they think this will mean for their future prospects and the ongoing genocide of their people.
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More than 20,000 people gathered in Serbia’s second largest city, Novi Sad, to protest the government’s lethal corruption and negligence. On Friday, a newly renovated awning at the railway station spontaneously collapsed, killing 14 people and injuring others.
In front of city hall, police fired tear gas as angry protesters broke windows and destroyed surveillance cameras. Several people were detained even despite not participating in the violence, according to local witnesses.
The railway station was constructed in 1964 but renovated from 2021 until July 2024. Chinese construction companies executed the renovation in cooperation with a local company affiliated with the ruling party, unironically named the Serbian Progressive Party even though there is nothing progressive about it. Activists are blaming the deregulation and profit-motivated modus operandi of the ruling government for the tragedy.
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Key points from the just-ended speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem, marking 40 days since Nasrallah’s assassination. The 40th day after a person’s death holds special significance in Islamic culture.
🟡 “Netanyahu is pursuing a project that goes beyond the borders of Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon to create a new Middle East.”
🟡 “Every place in Israel is a target. What will happen in the coming days will be greater than what you have seen.”
🟡 “We have tens of thousands of resistance fighters willing to fight at the border. We have plenty of supplies and can continue for a long time.”
🟡 “When the enemy stops the aggression, negotiations will begin.”
🟡 “Netanyahu thinks he can continue with the massacres and claim victory while more than half of his people protest him.”
🟡 “Netanyahu will understand that on the ground he is a loser.”
🟡 “Look at how many losses they have suffered, over 1,000 soldiers injured or dead. They do not admit their losses.”
🟡 “Israel will not win this war.”
🟡 BREAKING: Sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas after several rockets were launched by the Lebanese resistance. Over ten explosions were heard in central occupied Palestine.
Читать полностью…Watch Samora Machel, the socialist leader of FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), deliver a powerful speech in Maputo, Mozambique in 1980. Machel addresses the revolutionary struggle, emphasizing the urgent need to eradicate reactionary forces and infiltrators to build a socialist society rooted in equality and dignity for all.
As a guerrilla leader and Mozambique’s first president, Machel was instrumental in nationalizing the country’s natural resources. He was also a staunch supporter of South Africa’s fight against apartheid. Tragically, Machel’s life was cut short in a plane crash, which the Soviet Union strongly suspected was orchestrated by apartheid South Africa.
Today, Mozambique faces renewed unrest, fueled by accusations of election fraud and protests that are met with brutal repression. Deep-rooted inequalities and exploitation persist in a nation still grappling with the legacy of colonialism and the challenges of building its future amid systemic poverty.
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Spain’s far-right is taking advantage of the centrist government’s failure to help victims of the recent floods in Valencia.
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“I’d rather spend the remainder of my contract in a prison cell than wear the uniform” — red. media spoke with US Air Force member Larry Hebert who is leaving the military over the genocide in Gaza.
In March 2024, he was inspired by Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and went on hunger strike. Listen to him describe how the genocide has exposed US lies about “spreading freedom and democracy.”
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Happy birthday, Eugene Debs! As the US heads to the polls to choose between two imperialists, we remember the words of one of the county’s most celebrated socialist leaders.
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The unrest in Mozambique rages on, undeterred by the government’s heavy-handed crackdown amid accusations of election fraud. The state has responded to the unrest with brute force, unleashing deadly violence, including live ammunition, to silence the outcry.
Mozambique still lives under the long shadow of Portuguese colonial rule, a past that left it one of the poorest nations on Earth. Over 60% of the population struggles beneath the poverty line.
The protests are aimed at the ruling Frelimo Party, once Mozambique’s spearhead of the liberation fight against colonialism. But years of economic collapse have shattered trust in Frelimo’s leadership. Yet, Samora Machel—once Frelimo’s socialist leader—remains a figurehead among the protest movement on social media.
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New footage shows Israeli occupation forces demolishing a residential block in southern Lebanon. Over 37 cities and 40,000 housing units have been destroyed in a three-kilometer area along the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine.
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German policeman attacks yet again a migrant woman wearing a keffiyeh and hijab, following a Palestine protest, throws her violently to the ground and then takes her away in a headlock.
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