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Israeli occupation forces arrested our colleague, the Palestinian journalist Hisham Abu Shaqra.
Hisham was arrested while he was working in the Jabal Johar area south of Hebron city in the Occupied West Bank. Abu Shaqra is well-known for his coverage and has received several awards for his videos documenting Israeli occupation crimes across the West Bank.
Hisham was covering for us the ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinians in the West Bank and was involved in several documentary projects in the past as well as recently.
We demand the immediate release of our friend and colleague, as well as all Palestinian journalists who are illegally detained by the Israeli state.
Israel has been carrying out a massive crackdown on journalists across the West Bank. According to RSF's tally, a total of 34 journalists have been arrested there since October 7, with 50 Palestinian journalists currently being held in Israeli prisons.
The far-right takeover of Europe has taken hold of Portugal with the racist "Chega" party securing huge gains in this year's election. Chega's leadership barely conceals its admiration for the brutal era of Salazar's fascist dictatorship and its association with neo-Nazis. Read through the slides to find out more about who they are and what's at stake.
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Was NATO founded to protect freedom? If so, why did it include Nazi war criminals among its ranks? Rather than denazifying West Germany, the U.S. utilized Hitler's senior bureaucrats and fascists to establish the institutions of today's 'democratic West.
We take a look at recipients of the Iron Cross who later assumed senior positions in NATO.
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Elections are being held in Portugal today amidst the unprecedented rise of the far-right "Chega" party. Currently the country's third-largest parliamentary party, the ascent of this openly racist party represents a massive shift in Portugal's political landscape.
Having secured only 1.3% of votes in the 2019 election, the party is now making headlines as recent polls suggest the party will secure 17% of the vote this year.
The party's leader, Andre Ventura, has a notorious history of xenophobic, misogynistic and homophobic comments, as well as performing the fascist salute. In 2020, Ventura told a Black Member of Parliament to "go back to her country of origin."
Anticipating the elections will result in parliamentary deadlock, Ventura has expressed a desire for a role in the government. red. took to the streets to ask People of Color how they feel about their future in Portugal amidst Chega's rise.
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Israeli occupation forces arrested female Palestinian journalist Bushra al-Tawil in Ramallah, a city in the occupied West Bank, during an overnight raid. She was arrested along with three other women from different cities. The Israeli soldiers conducted a field interrogation and vandalized the house before leaving. In recent weeks, Israel has arrested more women; some have been released in the last prisoner swap during the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is holding at least 60 Palestinian women in Israeli prisons, including two journalists and two minors. The Palestinian female prisoners are facing harsh realities with the brutal Israeli restrictions and punishments instated after October 7. Recent reports indicate Gazan female prisoners being sexually assaulted and raped by Israeli soldiers and officers.
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Today we remember the first Palestinian women's militant organization, "Chrysanthemum Flower." Before the 1948 Nakba, this secret feminist organization in Jaffa resisted the Zionist militia with armed attacks.
Founded by Palestinian sisters Mohiba and Nariman Khurshid, the organization evolved from community aid to armed resistance after Mohiba witnessed a child's death by a British sniper. They fought and carried out deadly strikes to defend their people. After defending Jaffa, they faced displacement. Moheeba Khorsheed, one of the founders, became a refugee, settling in Egypt after fleeing through Lebanon and Jordan.
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“The “Working Woman’s Day” turns from a day of struggle for the franchise into an international day of struggle for the full and absolute liberation of women, which means a struggle for the victory of the Soviets and communism!” – Alexandra Kollontai.
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On International Women's Day we remember this Palestinian Christian woman who left Sunday mass, took off her heels and threw stones at Israeli soldiers during the First Intifada, two days before Women’s Day, on March 6, 1988.
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This International Women's Day, the threat to women is rising as fascism surges worldwide.
The work of Marxist pioneer Clara Zetkin, who both spearheaded Women's Day and developed one of the first revolutionary strategies to defeat fascism, is crucial for our collective battle against its root cause: capitalism.
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Haiti could slide into civil war and even genocide if Prime Minister Ariel Henry returns to the country, warns leader of the G9 gang Jimmy Chérizier. Henry has been in Kenya negotiating a deal to bring Kenyan police to Haiti as part of yet another US-backed intervention.
Henry is set to return to the country but is now holed up in Puerto Rico under FBI supervision, unable to return due to the extreme violence that caused his government to declare a state of emergency and curfew earlier this week.
The US has been pushing for yet another foreign intervention in Haiti to shore up its puppet government led by Henry. The US Embassy has told its citizens in the country to leave immediately.
🟡 Latest War on Gaza News Roundup
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 30,800, with more than 72,298 people injured.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah strike on a cargo ship causes the first deaths since the group began attacks on Red Sea shipping in response to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s starvation war on Gaza has reached 20, majority of which are children. While Gaza's Health Ministry stated that dozens are dying from starvation without reaching hospitals.
🟡 At least five people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a mosque in Jabalia al-Balad, in northern Gaza.
🟡 Over 100,000 women, men, and children have been killed or wounded. With at least one in 23 people in Gaza being either dead or severely injured, said CARE International.
🟡 UNRWA plans to use an Israeli military road bordering Gaza to test its suitability for delivering humanitarian aid to northern parts of the enclave, according to a UN official.
🟡 Family members of Palestinian victims in Gaza have met privately with UN chief António Guterres and members of the UN Security Council in New York.
🟡 Israeli forces continued raids across the occupied West Bank, detaining at least 40 Palestinians including four women. Since October 7, Israeli forces have detained at least 7,490 Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 The Israeli settlement-planning authority has pushed forward permits for 3,500 new illegal settlement housing units in the occupied West Bank.
🟡 South Africa requested additional action, an immediate ceasefire order from the International Court of Justice to prevent “full-scale famine” in the Gaza Strip.
🟡 Israel’s orders to evacuate the civilian population from Gaza are illegal and have been used to forcibly transfer and detain Palestinians, said the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights.
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Alarming rise of anti-Muslim hate speech in India
A new report by India Hate Lab reveals a surge propelled by conspiracy theories, misogyny, and misinformation. From the dominance of hate incidents in BJP states to the targeted attacks on Muslim women and mosques, the data paints a stark rise in fascism against Muslims in India.
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Unrest erupted outside a high school in the Val-de-Marne suburb outside Paris when hundreds of students confronted police early in the morning during protests against the "unacceptable" condition of the school.
Footage shows the rebelling youths flipping over police cars, setting fire to barricades, and throwing objects at police forces. There are also reports in local media of Molotov cocktails being thrown. The police arrested a 17-year-old.
The riots come in parallel with protests and strikes by teachers over the dilapidated state of the Lycée polyvalent school in the suburb, warning of water-leaking ceilings and rat-infested buildings.
Similar protests broke out in several parts of France last month, with student organizations warning "the state school system is on the brink of collapse" and calling for school protests.
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🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 30,717, with more than 72,156 people injured.
🟡 Another child died due to malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip, raising the death toll to 18 in the last 10 days.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 348 medical staff and arrested over 269 others since October 7.
🟡 For the first time since October 7, a UN mission carrying fuel and lifesaving supplies reached Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, where over 50 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition are being treated.
🟡 A large US shipment of flour intended for Gaza remains stalled 46 days after the White House first announced it, a US official told the Times of Israel.
🟡 Israeli authorities prevented 1,350 water filters provided by the UK government from entering the Gaza Strip, claiming they were a “threat.”
🟡 A Palestinian teenager who was critically wounded by Israeli occupation forces died in Jenin city in the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed 423 Palestinians across the West Bank.
🟡 An Israeli airstrike killed a Hezbollah fighter, his wife, and their son in the southern Lebanese village of Hula. Meanwhile, Hezbollah has increased the volume of its rocket attacks, firing over 50 rockets at Israeli targets last night.
🟡 Yemen's Ansarallah group attacked two US Navy destroyers in the Red Sea, while US forces carried out two airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeida province.
🟡 Hamas said ceasefire negotiations are ongoing but “the ball is in the Israeli court,” while the US says obstacles to a truce are “not insurmountable.”
🟡 Humanitarian aid financed by the UAE will enter the Gaza Strip by sea for the first time following the approval of the Israeli government.
🟡 The government of Chile has announced that Israeli firms will be banned from the International Air and Space Fair, Latin America’s largest aerospace fair, in Santiago in April.
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With burning barricades in front of the parliament building in Jakarta, protesters have been calling for the impeachment of outgoing President Joko Widodo, accusing him of widespread electoral fraud in the recent presidential election, which resulted in the likely victory of far-right, anti-communist Prabowo Subianto.
Led by students, the protesters criticize an 'undermining of democracy' sparked by journalistic investigations that exposed bias for front-runner Subianto by the police, regional authorities, and others. The presidential office has denied political meddling.
Subianto was a former military general who played a leading role in the genocidal invasion of East Timor. He was also the son-in-law of the dictator Suharto, who carried out the anti-communist genocide of 1965.
Currently still the Defense Minister, Prabowo Subianto has already declared himself the winner. Polls show his supporters are mainly young voters who did not witness the genocide.
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Fierce and violent protests broke out in central Athens, Greece, after the parliament approved a highly unpopular university privatization reform. This decision ignored months of widespread protests nationwide, which had been escalating in tension.
Over 30,000 students and activists protested during the vote, calling for public and free education. Under the leadership of right-wing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece allocates only 3%-4% of its GDP to education, below the EU average.
Intense clashes occurred between the students, who carried red flags, and the police, who responded with tear gas and batons, resulting in serious injuries. Videos also captured the use of Molotov cocktails and explosives against police forces. Several people were arrested.
Protesters criticized the new education law as an "assault" on public education. PM Mitsotakis claimed the reform was intended to combat "brain drain," referring to the emigration of highly skilled individuals.
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Seen in Istanbul at the 8 March demonstration.
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On this day in 1954, Irish socialist and freedom fighter, Bobby Sands, was born.
Sands sacrificed his life in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. While in jail, he led a 66-day-long hunger strike that resulted in his death.
At the age of 18, Sands joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He admired left-wing and radical writers, from Irish socialists like James Connolly to champions of African liberation like Frantz Fanon.
He was arrested multiple times and eventually sentenced to 14 years in prison for firearms possession. He was incarcerated in the notorious Maze Prison, dubbed "H-Block," infamous for its brutal treatment of prisoners and routine torture.
Sands led the prisoners' struggle to be recognized as what they were: political prisoners, not criminals. They wanted their struggle for Irish freedom to be recognized and their status as prisoners of war acknowledged. This culminated in the hunger strike that Sands and nine other prisoners became known around the world for. Forty-one days into the strike, Sands was elected with more than 30,000 votes as a Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, increasing international attention to his and his comrades' cause.
Despite international pressure and pleas from various political figures, including the Pope, Sands died on May 5, 1981, after 66 days on a hunger strike, aged just 27 years old. His death sparked a wave of protests and riots across Northern Ireland, and to this day, he is remembered as a hero by Irish freedom fighters. His famous saying, "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children," continues to inspire the oppressed around the world.
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On Internation Women's Day we remember Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng.
In this photo she is smiling after being sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp by the US puppet government of South Vietnam. After the judge issued her sentence, she told him: "20 years? Your government won't last that long." The photo is known as "the smile of victory".
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Palestine Action activists have destroyed a historic painting of Lord Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University.
Balfour is the man most synonymous with the establishment of the settler colonialist project of Israel. In 1917 he handed over Palestine, then occupied by Britain, to the Zionists with the infamous Balfour Declaration.
The painting was a work of Philip Alexius de László and dates to 1914.
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Did you know that women perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid work every single day? On International Women's Day, here are 10 shocking facts which highlight how far we are from achieving global gender inequality.
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Who is your favourite feminist revolutionary icon? Here are 10 radical quotes from some of ours. Write yours in the comments.
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59 years ago today, racist white police brutally beat down 600 unarmed protestors in the city of Selma in the southern US state of Alabama in what would become known as "Bloody Sunday."
The march in Selma was part of the wider Selma to Montgomery marches, which were pivotal events in the civil rights movement. Continue reading to learn more.
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Take a look at these powerful socialist posters mobilizing for tomorrow's International Women's Day! They honor its origins in the militant working-class movement across the globe throughout history.
Origin of the posters in this order: Palestine, Eritrea, Germany, Cuba, Ireland, USSR, China, Spain.
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Poland saw its most heated farmers’ protest yet as violent clashes with police erupted outside the country’s parliament in the capital, Warsaw.
About 30,000 farmers threatened to bring Poland to a standstill as they demanded a halt to cheap imports and environmental regulations that they said would harm their livelihoods. As the farmers marched towards parliament, police responded with batons, pepper spray, tear gas, and stun grenades, with protesters hurling rocks and firecrackers at them.
After leaving Warsaw empty-handed, as their request to meet with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was turned down, Poland’s farmers’ unions warned of further measures such as the “blockade of the entire country.”
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"All the Arab countries kneel to Israel, but we did not kneel to them,” expressed a Palestinian woman, reflecting her anger at the complicity and lack of action from Arab nations in supporting Gaza. “We entered to defend Jerusalem and end the suffering that is happening to us,” she added.
Israel has intentionally starved the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8, preventing food, water, and medical supplies from entering the enclave. At least 18 children have died from starvation in the last days, while many others are in critical condition, being treated at barely functioning hospitals.
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Watch feminist philosopher Judith Butler insist October 7th be understood as an "uprising...against a violent state apparatus". Butler added: "you can be for or against armed resistance, you can be for or against Hamas but let us at least call it armed resistance and then we can have a debate about whether we think it's right."
Butler, who is most known for pioneering the theory of gender performativity, has also in the past called for the left to engage with Hamas and Hezbollah despite her own staunch advocacy of non-violent struggle. During Israel's unsuccessful 2006 war on Lebanon, she argued that both resistance groups should be understood as "part of a global left", emphasizing that this does not mean the left cannot be "critical" of those movements or "from raising the question of whether there are other options besides violence."
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Italian soccer fans from SS Lazio Roma made the Hitler salute and sang fascist songs at the infamous Munich Beer Hall, where Hitler first launched the Nazi party in 1920.
Those chanting happened ahead of their UEFA Champions League match against Bayern Munich. German police have confirmed the arrest of one fan for performing a Nazi salute.
Lazio fans were left disappointed later that day after being knocked out of the competition in a humiliating manner, but their fascist chanting is what made headlines. The club has a long connection to Mussolini, who personally supported the club and built its current stadium with state funds during his dictatorship.
Even among the players, this tradition has been kept alive, with figures such as club legend Paolo Di Canio, who performed a fascist salute on the pitch in 2005 and afterward stated, “I’m a fascist, not a racist.” In 2021, Lazio then gave a playing contract to Romano Mussolini, great-grandson of the dictator and son of Alessandra Mussolini, the far-right MEP who worked to keep her grandfather's legacy alive.
The fan base is also steeped in fascism. Their arch-rivals are AS Roma, a club whose traditional ultras are associated with the left; Lazio's infamous banner unfurled when playing them reads, “Auschwitz is your town, the ovens are your houses.”
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All the countries that have air dropped aid over Gaza are complicit in turning the strip into a death camp, where the threat of famine looms larger everyday that their collaboration with Israel continues.
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