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Happy birthday to the Vietnamese national liberation leader and communist revolutionary, Ho Chi Minh! Under his leadership, the Vietnamese Liberation Front was formed, which kicked out the French colonialists and US imperialists from Vietnam.
At the age of 21, Ho Chi Minh left his country to find an answer to the question of Vietnamese liberation in the international revolutionary movement. He lived in New York, London, and Paris and became involved in the global socialist movement. In France, he even became a founding member of the French Communist Party.
Later, he studied and worked in different governmental institutions in the Soviet Union and China, serving as a senior Comintern agent around Southeast Asia. In the late 1930s, he went to China to serve as an advisor to the Communist armed forces.
Upon returning to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh played a significant role in uniting the left factions and forming the party that led the liberation movement against French and American imperialism.
Rwanda's government has long served as an outpost for Western interests. Now, the UK government wants to deport immigrants to the African country. Why? Their president, Paul Kagame, has proven his willingness to serve those who brought him to power.
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On this day three years ago, the guerrilla leader of the FARC-EP, Jesús Santrich, was killed in an ambush in Venezuela by special commandos sent by the Colombian state – trained and advised by the CIA.
Born in 1967, Santrich adopted his assumed name in 1990 as a tribute to a fallen comrade, who had been assassinated by the state. Facing political persecution, he sought refuge within the Marxist guerrilla group FARC-EP, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army.
Rapidly rising through the ranks, Santrich emerged as a prominent figure on the international stage. His distinctive features, including his iconic Palestinian keffiyeh, dark sunglasses worn due to his blindness, and his humor, contributed to his recognizable persona.
Santrich played a significant role as one of the “architects” of the 2016 peace agreement between FARC-EP and the government. After feeling betrayed by the government and being arrested, Santrich returned to rebuilding the guerrilla movement.
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Watch as Vusi Madonsela, South African ambassador to The Netherlands, slams the ICJ for its inaction in stopping Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
“South Africa had hoped, when we last appeared before this court, to halt this genocidal process, to preserve Palestine and its people. Instead, Israel's genocide has continued apace and has just reached a new and horrific stage.”
He adds that the genocide in Gaza marks a continuation of the Nakba, which began in 1948.
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The Cuban revolution seized the lands of the rich, as well as those of US absentee landlords. Thanks to this early step, huge numbers of Cuban workers were able to own land for the first time. Here are the key policies of Fidel's first agrarian reform, passed into law on this day in 1959.
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A political verdict has just shaken Turkey. At the final hearing of the long-running “Kobane trial,” 24 politicians, including former HDP leaders Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, were sentenced to over 417 years in prison in total. The two were co-chairs of the left-wing pro-Kurdish HDP party. This was the last hearing of the case against 108 politicians, 18 of whom are in prison.
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Orthodox Jewish groups march against Zionism and in solidarity with Palestine through the streets of East Jerusalem. These minority groups believe that Zionism is antithetical to the teachings of the Torah.
The Me'a Sche'arim neighborhood of Jerusalem has become a home for those who consider themselves to be Palestinian Jews and have a policy of non-cooperation with the Israeli state. Since Israel's war against Gaza began, the area has held numerous protests and, as a result, has been repressed by the occupation police forces.
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France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of New Caledonia after clashes broke out between authorities and pro-independence protesters. At least four people have already been killed. Protests erupted after French President Emmanuel Macron introduced plans to reform New Caledonia’s electoral system, which would grant more French residents in the territory voting rights, endangering the Indigenous Kanak people’s right to self-determination.
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“We have no choice; we are dead already.” Listen to Mohammad Barghouth, a father from Gaza who fled Rafah to live in a burned UNRWA school. Despite the risks and the inhumane conditions, he has no other choice, as every place in Gaza has been bombed or is being bombed by the Israeli army.
His family is now sheltering at the school where Israeli occupation forces were stationed before their withdrawal from Khan Younis. The school, like many other places in Gaza, still has the remains of dangerous military ammunition, including mines, which were left by the Israeli military.
Since the first evacuation order a week ago, nearly 360,000 people have fled Rafah in search of safety. Many families in Gaza are being forced to flee for the fifth time in seven months while supporting elderly relatives and injured children as Israeli forces issue new relocation orders for the northern and southern parts of the strip, according to the UN Agency, Save the Children.
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Clashes escalated in Kashmir to an unprecedented degree as protesters rose up against Pakistani occupation forces. At least four civilians have been killed, and over 100 have been injured. One police officer has also been killed in the uprising.
In response to the protests, the authorities imposed internet blackouts, and the occupation forces brutalized the protesters. The current unrest was spurred by high inflation, and protesters successfully obtained $86 million in subsidies for vital goods like flour and electricity.
The protests also coincided with an International Monetary Fund visit to Islamabad to negotiate a loan to Pakistan, which would mark a further step toward neo-liberalization in the country. However, the region is known for decades of oppression against the Kashmiri people by occupying forces.
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Today marks Nakba Day, the day Israel’s ruthless campaign of colonization began, encompassing the erasure of everything Palestinian, including heritage and history.
While mainstream media wants you to believe that Israel’s war of extermination began on October 7, it has actually been ongoing ever since Israeli settlers arrived on the shores of Palestine in the 1940s. Welcomed by Palestinians, the settlers began replacing native Palestinian place names, from the name of the country itself down to every single city and small village.
Moreover, what started in 1948, continues to this day. With Israel’s latest invasion of Gaza, calls for resettling the enclave have become increasingly popular, and with that, the continued renaming of place names in an attempt to erase Palestine.
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948 at the hands of Zionist militias such as Haganah, Stern, and Irgun.
On this day, Zionist militias carried out more than 70 massacres against the Palestinians.
The Palestinians also lost more than 85% of their land, and 800,000 were forced out of their homes. The Zionist explanation was that the Palestinians had sold their land to them before the Nakba. Is this true? Or is the history of May 15, 1948, the result of many years of Zionist and British plans to expel the Palestinians from their land? Watch here.
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "Catastrophe," the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the wake of "Israeli independence" in 1948.
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Today would have been Malcolm X’s 99th birthday. We remember the revolutionary who fought and died for the liberation of Black people in the US and who understood that capitalism is intricately connected to racism and all other forms of oppression.
Watch Malcolm X explain in under 60 seconds why liberals are enemies in disguise.
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Micaela Bastidas was a leader of Peru's most important Indigenous rebellion against Spanish rule there. Often not given the recognition she deserves, this is the story of the woman who masterminded successful battles against the colonial troops in 1780.
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What is IDAHOBIT? International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia is an annual day of global mobilization to combat violations of LGBTQI+ rights. Protests and other events are recorded each year in over 130 countries worldwide, according to may17.
The importance of IDAHOBIT becomes evident when considering how recent the institutional shift towards LGBTQI+ acceptance is. It was only 34 years ago, in 1990, that the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. Despite this progress, violence against LGBTQI+ individuals continues and has even surged in recent years.
The rise of new right-wing movements in the West and escalating global crises have had devastating consequences for the LGBTQI+ community.
Here are some quotes from LGBTQI+ icons who have recognized the connections between the capitalist system, patriarchy, and gender oppression.
"Macron is a murderer! He has crushed the Yellow Vests, he has crushed all these people at his home, but you're not at home here, this is Kanaky, go crush your mother."
In response to protests that have erupted in New Caledonia, Emmanuel Macron has imposed a state of emergency, which has placed restrictions on movement, banned TikTok, and set a curfew on the island’s residents. He has also deployed 500 additional officers to join the 1,800 police and gendarmes already there suppressing the unrest.
The protests started when Macron passed constitutional reforms that would give white French residents voting rights in New Caledonia, where the population consists of 40% Indigenous Kanak people. The island is critical to French imperial interests in the Pacific, as it is rich in minerals and of key strategic importance amidst rising tensions with China.
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In under 30 seconds, this 1985 clip of Kanak independence hero Éloi Machoro explains what is happening in New Caledonia today.
Machoro, who is known as the South Pacific Che Guevara, was shot dead by French police just one month after he spoke these words.
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France's crackdown on massive pro-independence protests in New Caledonia is intensifying. It has imposed a state of emergency and deployed troops to quell the unrest. But why is French President Emmanuel Macron so determined to tighten France's colonial grip on the island located 17,000 kilometers away? Swipe through to find out.
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Chinese nationals are among the fastest-growing groups of migrants being intercepted at the US-Mexican border. Despite a large economy, rising inequality has meant that not everyone has enjoyed its spoils. Every day, migrants from China make the perilous journey through the Darién Gap to reach the Mexican border.
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Where has German Chancellor Olaf Scholz been over the past seven months?
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The hunger-striking Thai anti-monarchy activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom has died while in pre-trial detention. Thailand is often said to have some of the world’s harshest lèse-majesté laws. Furthermore, the Southeast Asian country’s judicial system allows for critics of the monarchy to spend months on end in pre-trial detention without bail.
Abroad, little is known about the youth-led anti-monarchy movement’s history, or how royalist forces massacred up to more than a hundred university students in 1976.
Both Netiporn’s death in custody and the 1976 Thammasat massacre serve as horrific reminders of what can happen to those who criticize Thailand’s monarchy.
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79 years ago, the Sétif and Guelma massacres unfolded. They were a series of brutal reprisals by French colonial authorities and European settler militias against Algerian civilians.
At the same time as Europe was celebrating liberation from fascism, in the Algerian towns of Sétif and Guelma, large crowds of protesters demanded independence from French colonial rule.
The situation escalated when French police attempted to crush the demonstrations by forcibly seizing banners and eventually opening fire on the crowd in Sétif. The police repression sparked an uprising, during which a total of 102 French settlers were killed.
The repression was brutal and indiscriminate, characterized by mass killings, torture, and the burning of villages. The violence extended beyond Sétif to the surrounding rural areas and into the town of Guelma.
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Have you blocked big celebrities on social media? A growing movement is
giving celebs the "digital guillotine," so what lessons can the digital
Jacobins of today draw from the French Revolution?
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On this day 1918, Charu Majumdar was born, a prominent leader of the Naxalite movement and a strong advocate of armed struggle to achieve revolution.
He devoted his entire life to the cause of peasants and played a significant role in the historic 1968 Naxalbari uprising.
He began his fight against social inequalities as a teenager and was influenced by the "petty-bourgeois" national revolutionaries and eventually joined the All Bengal Students Association.
Later he joined CPI to work in its peasant, but an arrest warrant forced him to go underground for the first time.
In the late 50s, he devised a revolutionary line for the Indian situation and was again jailed during the 1962 Indo-China war.
During 1964-65 he devoted his time to studying and writing about Mao Zedong’s thoughts. These were later called ‘Historic Eight Documents’ and subsequently formed the basis of Naxalism.
In July 1972 he was arrested by the Indian authorities and died in the same month in custody.
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On May 15, 1972, the US handed control of Okinawa over to Japan after having occupied the island for almost three decades. However, even over half a century after its “reversion,” the Western Pacific island continues to host the bulk of US bases in the country, despite its stated hope of becoming “a peaceful island free of military bases” upon its “return” to Japanese rule. Read on to find out how the US ruined Okinawa.
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Massive clashes erupted in New Caledonia overnight as the French government’s proposed constitutional reforms angered pro-independence voices in the French overseas territory. High Commissioner of the Republic, Louis Le Franc, said that “shots were fired at the gendarmes using high caliber weapons and hunting rifles.”
At least two car dealerships and a bottling factory in the capital, Nouméa, were set on fire. Several supermarkets were also looted in the capital and neighboring towns while protesters took over several roundabouts, confronting police and setting several vehicles on fire. There have been reports of pro-French residents forming groups to assist the police in cracking down on the rioters.
Authorities responded by announcing a 48-hour curfew and a ban on all public gatherings in the Greater Nouméa Area, weapons, ammunition, and the sale of alcohol. Le Franc told reporters that significant security reinforcements were on their way to the French Pacific territory.
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Have you ever heard of state-sponsored, pro-Israel pseudo-leftists? No? Well, what might seem impossible elsewhere is a reality in Germany. They’re called the Antideutsche, “anti-Germans,” and they play a huge role in undermining Germany’s anti-imperialist left. Watch to find out who the Antideutsche are and what makes them so problematic.
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