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Japan, today often portrayed as a “peaceful” nation, has a dark history of colonialism and imperialism, often swept under the rug. In the 1970s, one particular urban guerrilla group took it upon themselves to make Japan face its ugly past. Meet the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front.
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A 10-month-old baby has become the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza in 25 years. red. media spoke to the baby’s mother. According to her, her son is now partially paralyzed due to the disease and in urgent need of medical treatment outside of Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel refuses to halt its genocidal war on the enclave.
At the end of last month, Gaza’s Health Ministry officially declared a polio epidemic after finding it in sewage samples. The ministry blamed Israel’s continued war of annihilation for the re-emergence of the deadly virus which was previously eradicated in Gaza. Due to Israeli attacks on the enclave’s water systems, the already scarce drinking water supplies are at risk of being contaminated by the virus.
The World Health Organization said it was sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza. However, the lack of humanitarian access into and throughout the enclave due to Israel’s unabated attacks has prevented the vaccines from reaching the people in need.
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On this day in 1991, the activities of Communist Party of the Soviet Union were suspended a few months ahead of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Is this when Soviet socialism was abandoned or was it much earlier? Watch Lady Izdihar explore a debate that is still heated within the international communist movement and let us know your thoughts in the comments 👇
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“We have challenged the occupation” — these are the words of Mohammad Jaber, known as Abu Shuja’a. The commander of Tulkarem resistance group was assassinated by Israeli occupation forces after a long battle.
Abu Shuja’a, the most wanted fighter in the West Bank, had survived several previous assassination attempts by Israeli forces. He was also being hunted by the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces in recent months. The PA attempted to arrest him several times and even raided a hospital where he was being treated for an injury, but the people surrounded the hospital and smuggled him out.
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The Communist Party of Kenya publicly apologized to the people of Haiti for its invasion of Haiti on behalf of the US. The spokesperson states that the people of Haiti are now being subjected to the same violence Kenyans experienced at the hands of the police at home.
In June 2024, Kenyan police were sent to “restore order” to the gang-controlled country. Massive protests spread across Haiti earlier this year, calling on the US-backed Ariel Henry to resign. Armed gangs then exploited the power vacuum that followed and currently control about 85% of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
In the first six months of 2024, five children a week were killed or injured in Haiti, totaling 131 children. More than 600,000 Haitians have been displaced and become homeless due to gang violence. NGO Save the Children warned that given the track record of the Kenyan forces, the invasion would likely only lead to more violence and suffering.
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Families in Nur Shams, Tulkarem, West Bank, were forced to leave their homes. This followed widespread destruction and an invasion by Israeli occupation forces.
When the families attempted to leave, soldiers forced them back. This was likely done to prevent any evidence of the displacement from being recorded.
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When the safety of only one group of people matters.
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The Israeli military has launched an unprecedented raid in the northern West Bank. They claim they are fighting “terrorism” but in reality this aggression is about enforcing the broader occupation of Palestine as a whole.
We met resistance fighters in the West Bank who told us such aggression helps to cultivate a new generation that is committed to the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Watch the full documentary: Inheriting Resistance
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Israeli occupation forces have launched a new military operation across the West Bank in a new attempt to crush the resistance. The operation started at dawn and targeted refugee camps in the West Bank. While most of the the raids ending within a few hours, the raids in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem are still ongoing.
At least nine Palestinian were killed, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli forces also continue to besiege the four main hospitals in Jenin and Tulkarem. By preventing treatment of injured people, they are effectively causing more casualties. This is similar to their policy of attacking health facilities in Gaza.
The refugee camps across the West Bank have been a hub of resistance and have experienced painful attacks from the invading Israeli forces. With limited resources, the fighters have developed their tools and tactics from only firearms. With these modest means, they’ve developed explosives used to ambush Israeli military vehicles.
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US rapper Macklemore has spoken out against German police’s oppression of people protesting the genocide in Gaza. During a concert in the German city of Leipzig, the rapper and activist condemned the police, mentioning videos from Berlin where police brutally attacked people, pushed women to the ground, and beat up a 15-year-old child.
The US rapper has consistently stood up for Palestine and his song Hind’s Hall became an anthem among the Palestinian solidarity movement worldwide.
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The Israeli military launched a large-scale incursion, by land and by air, into the northern occupied West Bank. This marks the biggest Israeli operation in the West Bank since 2002.
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Watch Palestinian journalist Mariam Bargouti school BBC’s anchor for their misleading reporting on the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. She criticizes Western media’s adoption of Israel's perception-shaping policy regarding both of these events.
While Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, the ethnic cleansing and depopulation of Palestinian villages continues across the occupied West Bank. Supported and led by the Israeli government, settlers are taking advantage of the world’s eyes being focused on Gaza.
Since October 7, At least 14 Palestinian communities in the West Bank have been completely displaced due to Israeli settler violence. 16 others have been partially displaced, according to the UN.
While global attention is on Gaza, Israel is also waging war in the West Bank, inflicting similar levels of destruction and crimes on Palestinians as in Gaza.
Watch Our Documentary: Israel’s War on the West Bank.
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“Rape in the name of God” — these are the words of an Israeli settler who attacked a Palestinian family and threatened them with rape. A new video released by human rights organization B'Tselem documents an attack on a Palestinian family in South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank. During the attack, an Israeli settler threatened a Palestinian man with rape by mentioning Sde Teiman, the known Israeli torture center where soldiers rape Palestinian prisoners.
A recent military investigation was launched after a Palestinian prisoner was hospitalized, following sexual abuse by Israeli soldiers. This incident sparked widespread outrage, not against the alleged crime, but against the investigation itself. Some protests, reportedly supported by certain Israeli politicians, even defended the “'right” to rape Palestinian prisoners.
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Chile’s iconic cop-biting riot dog Negro Matapacos (translated as Black Cop-Killer) died on this day in 2017. The stray dog showed up at student protests for free education in 2011, defying tear gas and water cannons and becoming an unwavering companion in student’s struggle.
Notably, he would only attack “pacos” (Chilean slang for “cops”), never students and protesters.
The image of the black dog in a red bandanna remains a symbol deeply ingrained in Chilean protest culture today. Matapacos’ presence continues to resonate in various forms, with signs and posters at protests with phrases like Estai Presente (“You’re Present”) and En Tu Memoria (“In Your Memory”).
Negro Matapacos passed away of natural causes on August 26, 2017.
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Two terrorist attacks. Two different reactions.
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“We are a body without a soul” — Listen to the words of a Palestinian man in Khan Younis speak to how much suffering the people in Gaza have endured.
Israel has killed over 40,602 people and injured at least 93,855 since October 7. Thousands of people remain missing, either buried under the rubble or kidnapped to Israeli torture centers.
While people across the world continue to apply pressure to complicit world leaders, the resistance continues to deal the heaviest blows to the occupation. Despite 10 months of genocide, the occupation has been unable to achieve a single one of its objectives.
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Today marks the anniversary of Leila Khaled’s audacious, bloodless hijacking—a mission carried out in the name of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Khaled was not only the first woman to lead such an operation, but she also executed it with meticulous precision.
Palestinian liberation groups recognized the potential to thrust their cause into the global spotlight by exploiting the vulnerabilities of air travel—a tactic that, in a post-9/11 world, is nearly unimaginable. These hijackings left the international media with no choice but to cover the realities of Israeli colonialism and the hijacker’s motivations, the fight for a free Palestine.
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On this day 66 years ago, a vicious series of racist attacks were launched on the Black Caribbean population of London’s Notting Hill area. The most recent pogroms that have shaken the UK are hauntingly reminiscent of that dark period.
In 1958, local Black men responded to the pogroms by defending their community, standing against the terror that the authorities refused to acknowledge. In 2002, documents were released confirming that the police had deliberately downplayed the racist nature of the violence.
In the aftermath of the riots, efforts by the fascist Oswald Mosley to exploit the unrest failed. Instead, a powerful symbol of resistance emerged: The Notting Hill Carnival, organized by Caribbean communist Claudia Jones. Read on.
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Clashes between Argentinian retirees and police erupted in the South American country’s capital, Buenos Aires. The retirees took to the streets to protest ultra-neoliberal President Javier Milei’s veto of a newly passed pension reform.
With an inflation rate of a whopping 263.4%, Argentina continues to grapple with a crippling inflation crisis. To compensate for this, the country’s senate passed a pension bill to raise retirement benefits by over 8%. The new law also guarantees that the minimum pension will be enough to afford essential goods for the elderly who are facing severe levels of poverty.
Milei, convinced that lawmakers only seek to break his austerity program, announced that he would fully veto the new pension bill. “I will veto everything, I don’t give a damn,” Milei previously said, insisting on standing by his administration’s zero fiscal deficit policy.
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Israel’s invasion of the occupied West Bank continues with more overnight raids on refugee camps and villages. The occupation forces withdrew from Al Far’a camp in Tubas after over 24 hours. In Jenin and Tulkarem, they continue to expand the attacks.
Last night, fighting with the invading forces intensified with gunfire exchanged and IED explosives detonating in Israeli military bulldozers. In Tulkarem, Israeli forces assassinated five resistance fighters among them Abu Shuja’a, the commander of Tulkarem Brigade and the most wanted man in Tulkarem, after hours of fighting in a besieged house in the camp.
At least 18 people have been killed so far. The number killed is likely higher, as Israel has blockaded hospitals and kidnapped the bodies of fighters.
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Activists from the group Palestine Action targeted the office of Elbit Systems in the German capital of Berlin. A video received by red. shows the activists splashing red paint on the office’s entrance.
Elbit is one of the biggest producers of weapons being used in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Elbit also produces drones like the Herms 450, which was used to kill international aid workers in Gaza. The company has been the main target for Palestine Action in the UK, but now other chapters of the organization are targeting Elbit and other arms manufacturers across Europe.
Elbit Systems has its main European office in Germany as they have several partnerships with German weapon companies. Germany has been one of the biggest supporters for Israel in its attack on Gaza politically and militarily.
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A 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till from a working-class neighborhood in Chicago was savagely murdered by white racists in Mississippi on this day 69 years ago. His crime? Being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. Her husband, fueled by white supremacist hatred, teamed up with his half-brother to kidnap, torture, and brutally murder Emmett. Despite the overwhelming evidence, an all-white jury swiftly declared them both not guilty.
In a bold and heartbreaking act, Emmett’s mother insisted on an open casket funeral, forcing the world to confront the gruesome reality of her son’s murder. Emmett’s mutilated body became a grim symbol of the rot at the heart of American society. Read on.
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Israeli occupation forces continue their attack on refugee camps across the West Bank and Jerusalem. Accompanied by military bulldozers, the military is destroying and besieging refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas. Israeli police are also raiding Anata and Shu'afat refugee camps in occupied Jerusalem, shooting tear gas and arresting several people.
Due to the siege on hospitals and the ongoing attack, it is still unknown how many people have been arrested so far. Palestinians have reported that field interrogations are being carried out by the invading forces. The death toll has risen to 10 people, with dozens injured.
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Protests in the Indian state of West Bengal turned violent as major clashes between police and protesters erupted. The wave of protests over the rape and murder of a female junior doctor earlier this month in Kolkata continues. Protesters are demanding the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main opposition party to the chief minister’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) party in West Bengal, has largely co-opted the protests. The party has called for a 12-hour bandh (general strike) in the state to protest alleged police atrocities against protesters. Meanwhile, police accuse the BJP of trying to orchestrate large-scale violence.
During the 12-hour bandh, reports of clashes between BJP and TMC workers have sprung up. BJP leader Priyangu Pandey was shot at, with bombs hurled at the car he was traveling in. Pandey claims the incident was an attack by TMC workers in a joint conspiracy with the police.
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Kenya’s political elite is trying to criminalize protests. The government is currently considering a bill that would give the police official authority to ban and crush protests, imposing fines and jail sentences for protesters.
Due to the recent uprising, the government was forced to scrap the Finance Bill, an IMF plan that would have significantly raised the cost of living. During the protests in June, more than 50 people were shot dead by the police and many more were abducted, with some people still missing.
While the Finance Bill was officially scrapped, Kenya’s top court suspended the ruling that denounced the bill as unconstitutional. This has sparked fears amongst Kenyans that the government will try to implement the law again. Nevertheless, Kenyans have said they will take to the streets should such an event occur.
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Spain’s new border strategy? Running over boats with migrants. Watch as the Spanish Coast Guard tramples a boat carrying migrants from Morocco towards Spain.
The Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras reported that in the first five months of 2024, more than 5,000 people have died trying to reach Spain by sea. This represents a 700% increase when compared to the same period last year. A leader of Spain’s main opposition party has stated that Spain should deploy its military to “deal with” migrants trying to enter the country.
The UN and other NGOs report that the armed conflicts in Sudan and the entire Sahel region are pushing many more to opt for the risky journey to Spain and other European countries.
The EU border agency Frontex has long been accused of disregarding human rights abuses. A 2022 EU report accused the agency of systematically covering up such abuses in Greece, where officials had been pushing asylum seekers back to their origin country or abandoning them at sea.
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The UN was forced to halt nearly all operations across the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s latest displacement orders. Virtually all movement of aid workers and aid within Gaza has stopped as Israel issued a displacement order for areas in Deir el-Balah, a critical center for aid workers.
Israel’s immediate displacement orders affected 15 sites hosting aid workers as well as four warehouses. Under the pretext of targeting “terror operatives” and working to dismantle the remaining “infrastructure” of Gaza’s ruling group, the Israeli military is effectively dismantling Gaza’s crucial aid network.
Following Israel’s invasion of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the UN was forced to relocate most of its personnel and operations to Deir el-Balah. The latest developments, coupled with Israel’s continued blockade of the enclave, only further exacerbate the dire situation, with over one million Palestinians at risk of imminent famine.
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“We are not animals. Even animals have human rights!” — said a Rohingya protester in the world’s largest refugee camp. On August 25, tens of thousands protested the anniversary of the genocide against the ethnic group.
In 2017, the Myanmar armed forces started so-called “clearance operations,” killing thousands, burning down nearly 400 villages, and violently displacing at least 750,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh. Now, in the middle of a civil war, the Rohingya are facing an intensifying genocide.
The United Nations says it fears the Rohingya might face a repeat of the 2017 genocide. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk emphasized that the Rohingya are being attacked by both the junta and resistance forces.
Read more about how the Rohingya genocide is intensifying during Myanmar’s civil war here.
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On this day in 1913, the five-month long Dublin lockout, led by socialists Jim Larkin and James Connolly, began. Dublin's capitalist class waged war on workers who were living in some of the worst conditions in Europe, determined to destroy their union, the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU).
The story is one of a pioneering attempt at building working class unity by creating one big union to represent all workers. This represented a step towards overthrowing capitalism and establishing a workers’ republic in Ireland. After betrayal by Britain’s trade union leadership, Irish workers lost this battle. But out of its ashes, a growing trade union movement was born as well as the Irish Citizen’s Army, which would lead the first major challenge to British rule three years later.
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