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Hundreds took to the streets in the Indian city of Badlapur to protest government inaction over a sexual abuse case. Outraged protesters gathered at the railroad station, blocking the tracks and hurling stones at police as they demanded justice for the affected children. Police responded violently in an attempt to disperse the protesters.
The two young girls were allegedly abused at their nursery school last week. Police have since arrested a male employee of the school, but the parents of the children accuse the police of a delay in action.
The school’s management has also been the target of criticism. Parents have spoken about various safety lapses, including the lack of functional CCTV cameras on campus. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights called the school’s attitude towards the case “insensitive,” accusing it of trying to “suppress the case.”
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Amnesty International has called for an investigation into German police’s repression of pro-Palestine activists. In doing so, they have validated the calls of activists over the past 10 months, who have long been calling for such accountability.
Germany remains one of the principal backers of Israel while the Israeli army continues its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, the German state has shown unprecedented repression of any showing of solidarity with the Palestinian people or even the mere calling for a ceasefire.
German police continuously respond with violent repression of activists, raiding organizing spaces, amongst other repressive tactics, systematically criminalizing dissent to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Hundreds of Bolivians took to the streets amid economic turmoil in the country. Union workers protested against fuel shortages and rising inflation caused by the ongoing dollar crisis gripping the country.
Similar protests due to fuel shortages have been ongoing in Bolivia since the beginning of the year as the nation’s economic crisis grows more severe. Bolivia imports half of its gasoline to meet domestic demand, costing about $800 million annually. Furthermore, as much as 80% of diesel supplies are imported.
The economic situation in the country has only worsened following the failed coup attempt by the country’s military in June. To reduce dependency on imported diesel, the government headed by Luis Arce launched an initiative expected to foster the creation of five to six new biodiesel plants, each requiring an investment of around $30 million.
Whether this will alleviate the country’s crisis and help lift the strain on Bolivian workers is yet to be seen.
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On this day in 1998, US President Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on the largest pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. The Al-Shifa factory produced 90% of Sudan’s pharmaceuticals. Its bombing led to tens of thousands of people dying from malaria and other treatable diseases.
The US claimed that the factory was producing chemical weapons and that it was linked to Osama bin Laden. When none of this turned out to be true, the US blocked a UN investigation into the attack. Sudan has requested an official apology multiple times since the 1998 attack. However, the US has never expressed any regret or compensated Sudan for the attack.
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Thousands of people coming from all parts of the US came to Chicago to protest the Democratic National Convention. Police had set up a “security fence” meant to sequester the protesters, but protesters were able to tear it down and break through.
The protesters are demanding an end to US aid to Israel and a ceasefire. Speaking at the DNC, so-called “progressive” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that Kamala Harris is “working tirelessly to bring a ceasefire to Gaza.” Yet, just last week, the US approved $20 billion in weapons to Israel.
Meanwhile, negotiations for what many argue is the last chance at a ceasefire have stalled. Hamas refuses to consider any ceasefire proposal that allows Israeli troops to remain in Gaza and declined to attend the latest talks. The US and media outlets are again framing the issue as the responsibility of Hamas, who has also accused the US of symbolically using the ceasefire talks to “buy time” for Israel’s genocide.
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63 years ago today, two dogs became heroes of the Soviet space program when they spent a day in space orbiting around the Earth. Former street dogs Belka ("squirrel") and Strelka ("little arrow") became the first ever Earth-bound creatures to survive a trip to outer space. The purpose of the mission was to see how the dogs would react to zero gravity in space.
Watch this incredible archive footage of these canine cosmonauts who became Soviet celebrities and helped Yuri Gargarin become the first man in space the following year.
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A Cholera Epidemic has struck war-torn Sudan. Sudan’s Ministry of Health declared the nationwide cholera epidemic due to contaminated drinking water and weather conditions. The eastern states of Kassala and al-Qadarif have the highest numbers of confirmed cases. According to the WHO, 11,327 cholera cases with 316 deaths had been reported across Sudan.
The humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in Sudan has exacerbated the spread of diseases, including cholera, with large numbers of displaced people sheltering in areas without sanitary infrastructure. WHO official Margaret Harris also added that dengue fever and meningitis infections were also on the rise in the East African country.
The war in Sudan, now ongoing for more than a year, has caused over 17,000 deaths, while 7.7 million people have been internally displaced, and 16.4 million children alone are facing starvation.
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Hundreds of German Neo-Nazis and far-right extremists have gathered in the eastern German city of Leipzig, flashing Nazi salutes and showing numerous other Nazi symbols. The Neo-Nazis rallied at Leipzig’s central station against more than 20,000 protesters who attended the city’s pride parade.
Prior to the parade, several organized fascist groups had already mobilized to disrupt Leipzig’s pride parade. This came just a week after hundreds of Neo-Nazis already disrupted the pride parade in the city of Bautzen, also located in the eastern German state of Saxony.
While most of the Neo-Nazis in Leipzig didn’t get much further than the central station due to police encircling them, they did allow the fascists to leave the station in smaller groups. At the same time, they enjoyed police protection throughout the day.
Meanwhile, however, massive crowds of anti-fascists had also gathered at the station to counter the Nazi rally.
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Who is responsible for global warming? Contrary to the narrative, the global north is by far the biggest polluter, causing 92% of excess CO2 since 1750. The US alone is responsible for 25% of historical emissions since 1750.
In contrast, the Global South is only responsible for 8%. According to Worldmeter, when judged per capita adjusted for population size, China is responsible for 7.44 metric tons of emissions, and India 1.44 per capita.
However, the Global South will likely suffer much more from climate change than the Global North. For example, it is estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 86 million people could be displaced by climate change by 2050, and 19 million are in North Africa. Read on.
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Legendary German communist leader Ernst Thälmann was executed by the Nazis on this day 80 years ago, following an order from Adolf Hitler.
The Chairman of the Communist Party of Germany dedicated his life to the working class, communism, and fighting fascism. He built the Red Front, a militant organization to fight fascism in Germany.
In 1944, after 11 years of solitary confinement, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and shot.
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇮🇳 Kolkata, India – Massive night protests have swept Kolkata in condemnation of the rape and murder of a young medic.
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh – Students demand accountability and trial against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
🇵🇸 Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Palestinian children pose for a picture near their tent set up on a road’s median at a makeshift displacement camp in central Gaza.
🇰🇵 Pyongyang, DPRK – Koreans across the peninsula marked the 79th National Liberation Day, commemorating the end of Japanese colonial rule at the end of WWII.
🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines – Members of non-profit organization “Lila Pilipina”and families of victims of Japanese wartime atrocities protest for an apology from Japan on the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women.
While mainstream media quickly supported the opposition protests in Venezuela following the country’s election, labelling them as “popular uprisings,” they failed to mention crucial details: The right-wing opposition protests have formal support from some of the country’s largest drug gangs, including the notorious “Tren de Llano” and “Tren de Aragua.”
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In the US, Cuba is portrayed as a backward Communist dictatorship hell-hole where people live in grinding poverty and infrastructure is falling apart. However, not only is this a distorted, inaccurate picture, but it ignores the numerous areas where Cuba does better than the US.
While homelessness is soaring in the US, in Cuba it is effectively non-existent. Homelessness in the US has risen by 11% this year to reach the highest level in 15 years since US authorities started collecting data.
In contrast, housing is considered a human right in Cuba, and rent is capped at 10% of family income. Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Fidel Castro introduced housing subsidies and state-owned homes to combat homelessness, almost eradicating it as a social problem. Today, thanks to government subsidies, around 90% of Cubans own their own home compared to about 65.9% in the US.
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34 South African mineworkers were massacred by police, on this day in 2012. It was the worst massacre since the apartheid regime’s repression of the 1976 Soweto uprising.
The killings were also a political turning point as many workers started to lose faith in the increasingly neoliberal African National Congress (ANC). As a result, the Economic Freedom Fighters, led by Julius Malema, burst onto the scene and is still contending with the ANC.
The strike began in August 2012 demanding a pay raise. The government-allied union, the National Union of Mineworkers, did not approve the walkout but workers still went ahead with a wildcat strike.
Government repression resulted in the killing of 34 miners whose families are still seeking justice. This is the worst massacre to have been carried out by an ANC government.
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Chile's socialist left is best known internationally for President Salvador Allende. Allende’s parliamentary socialism largely overshadows groups like the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), which was founded today in 1965.
Despite the political fractures between Chile's leftist reformists and revolutionaries, the MIR defended Allende from the fascist reaction and was the only group to wage long-term armed resistance against the US-backed Pinochet dictatorship.
Did you know about this relatively unknown chapter of Chile's leftist history? Read on here.
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At least 72 protesters were arrested in front of the Israeli consulate in Chicago as protests at the Democratic National Convention continue. The police deemed the protest “unlawful” and violently dispersed the crowd. The remaining protesters were then kettled and many arrested, some with zip ties.
Repression of Palestine protests are likely to intensify further once the university semester starts again. Many universities have passed regulations banning “tent protests” and prohibited protests from starting after a certain time in the evening. Other regulations are requiring students to request permission from the university before hanging signs from buildings, giving the university administration power over which views can be expressed on campus.
Protesters in Chicago have emphasized that replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris will have no effect on the genocide in Palestine.
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25 Palestinian prisoners were just released from Israeli concentration camps. red. media spoke to the released hostages about the abuse they endured.
Israeli society has been overwhelmingly supportive of the torture of Palestinians. In a recent survey, 65% of Israelis opposed the prosecution of soldiers who raped Palestinian prisoners. Israeli ministers have also joined protests against the prosecution of these soldiers and politicians have publicly condoned such brutal acts.
While imprisoned, Palestinians are also subjected to starvation, sleep deprivation, and regular beatings. Of the thousands of Palestinians detained, dozens have been murdered from the torture they are subjected to, including rape. The real number of Palestinians killed is likely far greater than we know.
Earlier this month, Fady Baker, a survivor of Sde Teiman torture center, also shared his testimony with us. Watch the full exclusive interview here.
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What did Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro have to say about Africa? Under his leadership, Cuba became a close ally of anti-colonial liberation movements in Africa, trained guerrilla fighters from numerous liberation movements, sent troops to Africa, and supplied anti-colonial movements with the necessary materials to fight for liberation. Watch as Fidel Castro discusses the question of "how much his people would be willing to sacrifice" in the context of the Global South, particularly Africa.
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Headlines for the few, silence for the many.
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It is no secret that the West, above all the US, is calling for “regime change” in Iran. But did you know that this is actually not the first time? Today is the 71st anniversary of the CIA’s first successful coup, the 1953 coup in Iran. Read on.
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Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers went on a nationwide strike over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a government hospital in the city of Kolkata. While most hospitals were only hit by a 24-hour shutdown, some doctors remain off the job as they continue to demand justice.
The strike was called for by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country’s largest organization of medics comprising 400,000 members. Many of the protests led by doctors were also joined by tens of thousands of supporters demanding action.
Doctors are not only demanding justice for the victim but also the implementation of the Central Protection Act, a legislation aimed at protecting healthcare workers from violence.
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Following Yemen’s involvement with Palestinian forces in the struggle against Israel and the July 20 Israeli airstrikes on the Yemeni city of Hodeidah, media attention has returned to Yemen.
This raises questions about Ansarallah and the Yemeni war’s origins. But who are Ansarallah, and why did war in Yemen break out in the first place?
Last year, we interviewed Abdulelah Hajar, a senior Yemeni diplomat and advisor to the Ansarallah-led Supreme Political Council, to explore these crucial issues. Watch the full interview here.
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Trump’s VP candidate has not brought him any support in the polls. So why was JD Vance picked? Well, he’s the candidate of the tech-billionaire overlord class.
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Have you noticed the raging wildfires, searing heat waves, and devastating flash floods? Capitalism is literally burning the planet. Watch on to see how.
Flash floods from China to Brazil engulf entire cities. Wildfires devour entire forests in several parts of the world. Record heatwaves prove fatal in many regions. The climate crisis could lead to 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses worldwide by 2050, warns the WEF.
The richest 1% account for the same emissions as the poorest 66% of humanity (5 billion people) in recent years, according to a recent Oxfam report. “Oxfam undertook an analysis of 125 billionaires and found that, on average, they emitted 3m tonnes of CO2e a year through their investments – over a million times more than the average for someone in the bottom 90% of humanity.”
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Watch Venezuelan anti-imperialist revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez’s speech responding to the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, in which he said that the US was using its “war on terror” as a wild card to advance its interests ruthlessly.
In the wake of 9/11 and the US vendetta in the Middle East to justify, among other things, the imperialist occupation of Afghanistan, Chávez addressed the UN General Assembly. Chávez argued for a “war on poverty”, not the US-led “war on terror.”
The 20-year war in Afghanistan was the longest in US history, with, according to conservative figures from the “Costs of War Project”, the number of deaths totaling up to 360,000.
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The US finally pulled its last troops out of Afghanistan three years ago in August, closing the book on the longest war in American history, a brutal, staggering 20-year slog.
This war kicked off in the wake of September 11 under the banner of the “War on Terror,” and it turned into a goldmine for US contractors and the military-industrial complex, with the US government pouring $2.26 trillion into the conflict.
Afghanistan’s natural resources began to catch Washington’s eye. In 2010, the US discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits beneath Afghan soil.
By the end of 2020, millions of Afghans had been pushed across borders. According to conservative numbers of the “Costs of War Project” the death-toll sums up to as high as 360,000.
When the US finally left, the country had the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rate. The US committed war crime after war crime, all while the US had known for years that a military victory was only a dream.
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Indonesian security forces cracked down on protesters in West Papua, arresting at least 21. In an attempt to disperse the protesters, the security forces beat the them while using tear gas. The protesters were beaten and dispersed with tear gas. Protests took place in seven different locations, commemorating the 66th anniversary of the New York Agreement.
The New York Agreement was signed on August 15, 1962, between Indonesia and its former colonial overlord, the Netherlands. It laid the groundwork for Indonesia’s annexation of West Papua.
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Around 100 Jewish settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Jit close to Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. The settlers, dressed in black and armed, set fire to several cars and houses while people were inside. They also shot and killed one Palestinian and injured another as the Palestinian residents defended their houses from the attack.
Since October 7, violent attacks by illegal settlers and Israeli forces have intensified significantly while being fully backed by the Israeli government and its fascist ministers.
Several of those ministers live in settlements across the occupied West Bank themselves, such as Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who distributed over 100,000 assault rifles to Jewish settlers after October 7. At the same time, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has overseen massive land grabs in the West Bank.
Read this to find out who exactly the groups and organizations leading the violent settler movement in the West Bank are.
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French police have shot dead yet another protester in New Caledonia as clashes between pro-independence protesters and law enforcement persist. The latest death raises the death toll from now three months of violent unrest in the Pacific archipelago occupied by France to 11.
The clashes occurred in Thio, a small mining town known as a pro-independence stronghold on the eastern coast of Grande Terre, the archipelago’s main island. Police attempted to clear roadblocks when police shot at a group of protesters, responding to alleged gunfire, according to public prosecutor Yves Dupas.
Two protesters were wounded, one of whom died en route to Nouméa General Hospital. Dupas added that several investigations are underway and promised to provide more details later.
red. spoke to Dominique Fochi, the head of the pro-independence Union Calédonienne party, who breaks down the root causes of the continuing violence rocking the Pacific archipelago. Watch the full interview here.
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Pro-Palestine activists disrupted business as usual at Kamala Harris’s fundraising event in New York. People gathered outside the campaign event for the Democratic presidential candidate. They called for the end of US complicity in Israeli crimes against Palestinaans. The police attacked the protesters and brutally arrested several people.
Harris, who replaced Biden as a candidate for the Democratic Party, has stated that she will not support an arms embargo on Israel. The US has been the main supplier of the bombs that Israel uses to target civilians in Gaza. Those weapons shipments are despite calls by UN experts for an arms embargo on Israel.
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