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Unrest erupted across France after anti-fascists celebrated the surprise defeat of the far-right National Rally. After the decisive round of the snap elections, clashes with the police escalated.
The far-right’s dream of a sweeping election victory was in ruins after the Popular Front coalition blocked the National Rally's anticipated takeover.
Fierce clashes broke out between protesters and police in Paris. Footage showed violent arrests and seemingly arbitrary violence against bystanders. According to a 2016 survey by Cevipof, 70% of police officers voted for the far-right.
In Lyon, right-wing mobs marched through the streets, attacking opponents. Similar incidents occurred in other cities as well.
Although France's far-right did not win the elections outright, they are far from losers. The National Rally achieved their highest electoral results ever. France's far right was on the verge of taking political power for the first time since World War II.
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ON THE FRONTLINES OF REVOLUTION: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CPI (MAOIST)
A renewed campaign to crush the people’s war in India has been launched by the Indian state. Indian politicians have vowed to “eliminate” the Communist Party of India (Maoist) within the next three years. The party says this is to open India to further plunder by multinational corporations.
For decades, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has been waging a people’s war against the Indian state. The party, comprised of Indigenous peasants of the Dandakaranya forest, is facing intensifying military attacks on their guerrilla zones.
🟡 red. media interviewed spokesperson Amrut about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest military offensive, how the party was founded, and how they organize life within guerrilla zones. Read the exclusive interview here.
🟡 READ IN TURKISH: DEVRIMIN ÖN SAFLARINDA: HINDISTAN KOMÜNIST PARTISI (MAOIST) ILE ÖZEL RÖPORTAJ
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France’s far-right National Rally Party (RN) is on the cusp of power. Since Marine Le Pen’s take over in 2011, she has pursued a strategy of “de-demonization” to sugarcoat RN’s image. But at its core, the party remains a viper’s nest of racists, neo-fascists, homophobes and misogynists.
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya – A protester returns a tear gas canister amid unprecedented anti-government uprisings, with over 41 dead.
🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada – After a court ruling and the threat of a violent police eviction, Palestine solidarity activists clear their protest camp with the message “We will return.”
🇨🇳 Yueyang, China – Devastating floods amid climate change-boosted extreme weather engulf entire neighborhoods in Hunan Province.
🇵🇸 Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Gaza’s displaced population continues to be chased up and down the Israeli-besieged enclave.
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh – Student protests intensify against what they see as discriminatory university quota reforms for government jobs.
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Happy birthday, Frida Kahlo! While Kahlo is renowned worldwide for her art, style, and persona, many forget that she was a political activist whose artwork reflected her communist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist views. She joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 and her political convictions stayed with her even after her death when a hammer and sickle flag covered her coffin. Watch this video on her revolutionary legacy.
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“I realized my foot was dangling. I told my father, “My foot is amputated!”” — Khamis, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza, spoke to red. media, telling us about the moment an Israeli drone targeted him and his family. Khamis and his family, originally from northern Gaza, have been displaced multiple times since Israel unleashed total war on the Gaza Strip.
While on the move, an Israeli drone targeted the UN vehicle Khamis and his family were in. Several people were killed, with even more injured. Khamis and his father suffered the most severe injuries.
Israel’s targeted destruction of Gaza’s medical facilities, coupled with the manufactured famine, have exacerbated their situation. Khamis’ future remains uncertain as Israel’s relentless war of extermination in the Gaza Strip persists.
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A message from our colleague Hassan Esdodi in Gaza.
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Today 62 years ago, Algeria declared official independence from France after a long and arduous struggle led by the Algerian National Liberation Front. The armed struggle of the Algerians tore down a system of racial and religious segregation, political disenfranchisement, and economic oppression.
The armed struggle of the Algerian people gave birth to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, a nominally socialist state in North Africa that became a role model for other colonized peoples on the African continent and around the world.
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Brazilian and Paris Saint-Germain star, Raí, spoke at an anti-fascist rally in Paris yesterday. The brother of the legendary socialist footballer Socrates linked the successful struggle against Bolsonaro and the far-right in Brazil to the current struggle against Le Pen in France.
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ON THE FRONTLINES OF REVOLUTION: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CPI (MAOIST)
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has overseen a policy of Hindu supremacy wherein Muslim communities are bulldozed, Muslim men are detained without cause, and mosques are destroyed to make way for Hindu temples. The result has been a seismic increase in Islamophobic attacks.
For decades, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has been waging a people’s war against the Indian state. The party, comprised of Indigenous peasants of the Dandakaranya forest, has played a critical role in the movement against Hindu-fascism in India, especially against the NRC and CAA laws targeting Muslims and non-Hindus.
red. media interviewed spokesperson Amrut about Modi’s Hindu-fascist policies, how the party was founded, and how they organize life within guerrilla zones.
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🟡 Read in Turkish: DEVRIMIN ÖN SAFLARINDA: HINDISTAN KOMÜNIST PARTISI (MAOIST) ILE ÖZEL RÖPORTAJ
The oldest Marxist guerrilla in the world has fought for so long that its origins are often forgotten. Inspired by the Marxist-Leninist movement that surged globally in the 1960s, the National Liberation Army (ELN) aimed to replicate the Cuban revolutionary model in Colombia. Could it succeed?
Emerging from the aftermath of previous civil conflicts and the rise of a new (old) elite following Colombia's independence from Spanish colonialists, the guerrilla took up arms precisely 60 years ago today under the ELN banner. Read on to discover their journey.
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A devastating Israeli air raid has hit yet another “safe zone” in Gaza, this time a residential building next to Nasser Hospital and a UNRWA school housing displaced Palestinians in the city of Khan Younis. The attack killed at least seven people, hospital authorities and witnesses say.
The brutal bombardment comes just days after Israel ordered the forced displacement of 250,000 Palestinians sheltering in eastern Khan Younis, pushing them into the central and western parts of the city, officially designated “safe zones.” Tens of thousands have sought shelter in and around Nasser Hospital, the only remaining main hospital providing services to patients in Khan Younis and Rafah.
The attack on the “safe zone” marks just the latest in Israel’s aimed targeting of the displaced. Throughout the past nine months, the Israeli military has continuously bombed displaced Palestinians, many of whom sought shelter in so-called “safe zones,” including people sheltering in UN-run schools.
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Recent days have seen intense clashes between armed protesters and Turkish security forces in Turkish-occupied Syria. The deadly riots saw several attacks on Turkish-owned trucks and vehicles, the removal and burning of Turkish flags, and exchanges of fire with Turkish troops, leaving at least seven people dead.
The unrest comes amid a series of anti-Syrian pogroms in neighboring Türkiye as well as recent statements by Erdoğan indicating openness to the normalization of relations with Damascus, which represent a significant shift in Türkiye’s stance.
Northwest Syria is known for its strong opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Damascus. Many Syrians living there now fear that Ankara and its forces will abandon them in favor of Damascus.
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Did you know that Saudi Arabia once had an influential communist movement? Born in the early 1930s among migrant and Saudi workers in the country’s booming oil industry, the movement became instrumental in forming Saudi Arabia’s first organized labor movement. Faced with increased state persecution, the communist movement became more militant in the 70s and played a crucial role in organizing the Muharram Intifada against the Saudi Monarchy.
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A Kenyan protester hits the “SIU” after kicking a tear gas grenade back at the police. 🎯 ⚠️ [Sound edited]
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Kenyan police are part of the US-funded intervention in Haiti because Biden needs Black faces to fire at Haitians, says Booker Ngesa Omole of the Communist Party of Kenya.
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Feeling lost on where to start helping Gaza? Help the loved ones of our brave colleagues find safety!
In war-ridden Gaza, Palestinian journalists Samy Zyara, Mohammed Abu-Nahel, Mohammed El Saife, and Hassan Esdodi continue to report fearlessly.
They risk their lives to bring us the truth, while their families face unimaginable danger.
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Have you seen this series of communist paintings by Mexico's most important painter, Frida Kahlo? Her self-portrait with Joseph Stalin may be glossed over by liberal whitewashing, but Kahlo's communist legacy still shines through despite commercialization of her persona.
At an early age, Kahlo joined the Mexican Communist Party's youth group and officially entered the party in 1927. She fought in labor unions, supported Spanish communist refugees with asylum in Mexico, and raised funds for Spanish Republicans fighting Franco.
She worked for the cultural revival of Mexico by celebrating and promoting indigenous culture through her art. She also dismantled traditional expectations in her art by addressing taboo topics such as gender, bisexuality, disability, mental health, and more.
Ignoring medical advice, Frida Kahlo protested against the US invasion of the leftist government in Guatemala in 1954. During this time, she got pneumonia, from which she would not recover.
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Kylian Mbappe has called on people to vote against the far-right in France. The French captain and biggest cultural icon in the country has spoken out against Le Pen for the second time now during the Euros.
Le Pen came in first place at the recent EU parliamentary elections and then again during the first round of voting that took place at the end of June. Le Pen’s closest rival is the “New Popular Front,” a new alliance consisting of the Socialist Party, Communist Party, Melenchon’s “France Insoumise” and other leftist parties.
Macron’s centrist party is insisting that both “extremes” are as bad as the other, nevertheless, many local candidates from both his party and others are withdrawing to ensure that the anti-Le Pen vote is not split.
French police have mobilized 30,000 officers for Sunday due to fears that clashes could arise between the far-right and anti-fascist groups.
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A candidate for France's far-right National Rally Party offers proof he isn’t a fascist, saying “I didn’t crush [a priest of color] with my motorobike.”
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Israel’s attacks on the occupied West Bank intensified as fierce clashes broke out in and around the city of Jenin. An Israeli drone strike bombed a house as special forces infiltrated the city and clashed with local resistance fighters. At least five Palestinians have been killed in the attacks so far.
The Israeli military units stormed the city with multiple military vehicles encircling a house and calling on people inside to hand themselves over. The invading forces later bombed the house with shoulder-fired missiles, causing a fire. Deadly clashes with resitance fighters ensued outside the house.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces are said to have also surrounded the Jenin Governmental Hospital, where the bodies of those killed and critically wounded were received, said the medical facility’s director, Wissam Bakr.
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As the US commemorates Independence Day, the words of renowned singer and civil activist, Paul Robeson, remind us that for many, the glow of independence was dimmed by the enduring darkness of colonialism and white supremacy.
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The deadly Hurricane Beryl continues to cross the Caribbean islands as it approaches Mexico. It caused destruction across its path, with the fierce winds and heavy rain taking the lives of at least 10 people and leaving the islands in complete devastation.
The early arrival of the hurricane also marks an early start to the hurricane season due to ocean warming, being the earliest hurricane to reach category five intensity in the Atlantic Ocean. The impact of global warming causes increased ocean temperatures, leading to the formation of more powerful thunderstorms, which in turn become more destructive hurricanes. While the number of hurricanes may not be increasing, their destructive power is certainly on the rise, generating heavier rain and a higher storm surge.
The impacts of hurricanes on the small island nations rapidly intensify and become stronger, causing severe destruction and giving communities less time to recover between shocks.
July 4th: a day of flag-waving nationalism of the bourgeoisie.
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Today is US Independence Day, but for Native Americans, there isn't much to celebrate. Millions of Indigenous and Black individuals have endured enslavement, torture, forced displacement, and brutal killings. Today, racism towards Indigenous and Black people still persists.
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Today the UK will head to the polls and get to vote for which genocide supporting, racist and anti-worker party they would like to run the country this time round.
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“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement” - V.I. Lenin 🤫
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Three million people are on the brink of death by starvation in Sudan amid the ongoing war, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned. Meanwhile, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue to advance, seizing another key town, Singa, in the southeast of the country.
The buffer around the remaining areas under the control of Sudan’s forces is tightening as the RSF expands into large parts of the east and west of the country after more than a year of intense fighting.
The fiercely contested town of El-Fasher is still under the control of the Sudanese army as RSF offensives were repelled.
The IRC director said, “[...] the number of people under-reported that is being really silently dying is unbelievable because there's a failure in the health system.”
The number of children in Sudan facing severe food shortages has almost doubled in six months, with about 75% of children now going hungry daily. More than 12 million people have been forced to flee from the war.
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