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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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HAPPENING NOW: Pro-Palestine activists have launched an offensive against Germany’s Zionist “left” in Hamburg. In this pre-recorded video, the activists are announcing their plans to reclaim Rote Flora, an occupied building that is a base for German Zionists who identify as "anti-fascists".
Currently, over 50 anti-imperialist activists entered of Rote Flora, brandishing Palestine flags and pyrotechnics, demanding the expulsion of Zionists from left-wing spaces across Germany. The presence of Zionists in the German left has become pervasive due to the Antideutsche (anti-Germans), a bizarre movement that is unique to Germany.
Even though the Antideutsche developed out of Marxist circles and claims to be anti-fascist, it is violently pro-Israel and pro-US imperialism, and has been agitating in favor of Germany's extreme crackdown on Palestine solidarity since October 7 last year.
The offensive by pro-Palestine activists aims to restore Rote Flora to its internationalist roots, as it was when initially occupied in 1989.
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Israel's relentless war on Gaza continues to intensify. Israeli fighter jets carried out several airstrikes across the strip. In the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Israeli strikes targeted houses, killing at least 14 Palestinians, including children. The bombing continued overnight while medical crews and rescue teams attempted to reach the targeted areas. Gaza’s civil defense crew is struggling to reach victims trapped under the rubble of bombed buildings, said a spokesperson for the agency, putting the lives of hundreds of injured Palestinians at risk.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 82 people were killed and 234 were injured during the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to at least 35,173, with at least 79,061 injuries since Israel's war on Gaza started on October 7, 2023.
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Today marks the anniversary of the 1970 liberation of imprisoned communist Andreas Baader by journalists Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, and others. This event led to the formation of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a Marxist urban guerrilla group that engaged in armed struggle against the West German state for nearly 30 years.
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Israel has sent troops and tanks back into the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli Army has continued to attack the Jabalia refugee camp and intensified attacks on the entire Gaza Strip. Clashes with the Palestinian resistance in Jabalia pushed back the invading forces following a night of intense air raids in the area. The renewed attack, in parallel with the assault on Rafah, comes while Gaza is under a full blockade since Israel took control of the Rafah crossing.
Nearly 360,000 people have fled Rafah since the first evacuation order a week ago. At least 35,034 people have been killed and 78,755 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
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BREAKING: Israeli invading forces targeted a UN vehicle east of Rafah with gunfire, killing one staff member and seriously injuring another.
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Tens of thousands of people in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia have taken to the streets in protest of French President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to reform New Caledonia’s electoral system. At least eight pro-independence activists had already been arrested before being released under pressure from protesters.
The latest wave of protests comes as the French National Assembly in Paris again gave a green light for the proposed constitutional changes, which native pro-independence parties fear will significantly affect their representation.
Last week, the National Assembly law committee debated the proposed constitutional amendment’s value. The bill should be debated again today, with a vote scheduled for May 14.
This move would allow an additional 11,000 mostly non-Indigenous people to determine the future of the French overseas territory, where voices favoring independence have grown.
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"Che Guevara's Avenger" was shot dead on this day in 1973. After the assassination of the legendary revolutionary by CIA-backed commandos in the Bolivian jungle in 1967, Monika Ertl embarked on a mission of revenge.
Her relentless pursuit culminated on this day in 1971 when she successfully shot and killed right-wing Bolivian colonel Roberto Periera in Hamburg, Germany. Read on to find out the whole breathtaking story.
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Savage cuts and austerity are coming soon to Europe. The EU is adopting new “debt reduction” rules that will force European governments to adopt neoliberal austerity measures and limit their ability to borrow for social and infrastructure spending.
Left MEP Clare Daly denounced the coming changes and pointed out that it makes a mockery of the “social Europe” myth pushed by liberals and social democrats.
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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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Around 50 pro-Palestinian and anti-imperialist activists temporarily occupied the Rote Flora building in Hamburg, Germany. Rote Flora is notorious for having become a pro-Israel and pro-US “activist” hub of the so-called Antideutsche movement.
For a short time, the building was occupied, and pro-Palestine banners were dropped from the top of the building saying “Good Night White Flora,” referring to the fact that the space is mainly frequented by white activists who support Western imperialism.
The pro-Palestine activists demanded that anti-imperialists occupy pro-Israel and pro-US spaces that claim to be hubs for left-wing organizing as a means of liberating them from the Zionist movement.
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The Mayan Genocide in Guatemala was fueled by the anti-communism of the Cold War era. The Río Negro massacres of 1982 saw the mass murder of Indigenous villagers who refused to be displaced by a World Bank-funded hydroelectric project.
Despite committing some of the worst human rights abuses in the history of Central America, the institutions of the "democratic West" gave their full backing to the military dictatorship and never faced justice for it.
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A homophobic arson attack in Argentina has resulted in the deaths of three lesbian women. In response, protests were held last night to reject the rising tide of hatred and violence in the country. Last week, a 62-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail into a hostel room where two lesbian couples were sleeping. He was staying in the room next door and had been making homophobic threats.
At 23:30, he threw the bomb into their room, resulting in the deaths of Pamela Cobbas and her partner, Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, within a few hours of the attack. Andrea Amarante and her partner, Sofía Castro, were the other couple in the room and had been in intensive care until yesterday when Amarante died of her injuries, leaving Castro as the only survivor.
Following news of Amarante's death, LGBTQI+ groups and allies held a protest outside the hostel where the attack took place.
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Happy birthday to the former Black Panther revolutionary and scholar Kathleen Cleaver! Watch her respond to the question of nonviolence, arguing that “non-violence is non-functional.”
Inspired by the party’s radical approach to addressing anti-racism and class struggle, Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party in 1967 after meeting Eldridge Cleaver.
She became the first woman to be included in the Black Panther Party’s Central Committee, the highest decision-making body within the organization.
As the Communications Secretary, she was responsible for writing speeches, delivering them nationwide, and serving as a media spokesperson.
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Did you know the US once bombed itself? 39 years ago today, US police bombed the HQ of Black liberation organization MOVE, killing 11 people, including five children. After dropping a bomb on the roof, Philadelphia mounted a massive assault on the HQ and opened fire on those who tried to flee. Watch to see a recap of what happened.
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Kashmir's population is rising up against Pakistan's occupation to an extent many describe as "unseen." Video footage depicts police being chased away or disarmed by protesters as the unrest intensifies. What began as protests against price hikes has escalated into days-long unrest.
The protests against the occupation forces left one policeman dead and over 90 others injured. Footage also shows police brutality against protesters. Authorities imposed internet blackouts.
The militarized Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, both of whom lay claim to the entire territory. For decades, both occupying powers have suppressed Kashmir's independence movement.
A 2020 survey revealed that over 90% of college and university students in Indian-administered Kashmir advocate for a complete withdrawal of Indian forces from the region. Another 47% of Pakistanis said they supported independence for Kashmir.
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On International ME Awareness Day, watch our short report featuring activist Màiri-Ann Lowry who was diagnosed over 16 years ago.
People living with ME experience a worse quality of life than stroke, lung cancer and MS patients and are at a much higher risk of suicide than the general population.
Màiri is just one of the up to 30 million people worldwide diagnosed with the illness. The number of people experiencing ME symptoms shot up in the wake of the COVID pandemic and many of the 65 million long COVID patients also experience debilitating ME-like symptoms.
In this report, Màiri breaks down how the struggle against capitalist patriarchy is intertwined with ME patients' battle for treatment and support.
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While politicians remain complicit in Israel’s relentless war on the Gaza Strip, students and activists have escalated their confrontation with the Israeli State in an attempt to stop the genocide.
Watch our previous interview with Palestine Action co-founder Hudda Ammori on their work and actions that have resonated globally, leading other groups to join their movement in shutting down Israeli weapons factories and companies collaborating with the occupation.
🟡 Do not miss the revealing full length of this exclusive interview. Watch the entire conversation on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/YlVlIVgsCNU?si=Fd571GOgAPfvvPLV
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