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Orthodox Jews chanted "Free Palestine" at police in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem. The district is home to a number of Orthodox Jewish communities who consider themselves to be Palestinian Jews and have a policy of non-cooperation with the Israeli state. Since Israel's war on Gaza began, the area has held numerous protests and, as a result, has been repressed by the police of the occupation forces.
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The wave of student occupations for Palestine has reached Latin America. Having started in the US and then spreading to Europe, universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia have now also gone into occupation.
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Student encampments in solidarity with Palestine are continuing to spread across Europe like wildfire. While authorities in several countries respond violently, having evicted some, many more encampments are springing up daily.
What took off as a militant student movement reminiscent of Vietnam War-era protests in the US has led to a global chain reaction. Students worldwide are occupying campuses, demanding their universities divest from Israel and put an end to their complicity in the ongoing Gaza genocide.
To keep this map up to date, please notify us of any new occupations in your area, including the university name and city. Feel free to send us videos of your occupations, including a short caption and a selfie video explaining what’s going on and what your demands are.
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Environmental activists have stormed the grounds of Tesla’s Gigafactory on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. Police equipped with riot gear violently attempted to disperse the protesters as they staged the largest protest Elon Musk’s top factory has ever seen.
For several weeks now, activists have been occupying the adjacent forest to stop the factory’s planned expansion, which would come at the cost of severe environmental consequences. It is estimated that around 2,000 protesters are present in the area, with hundreds from across the region joining the protest.
A few weeks prior, we visited the occupation camp and spoke to the activists to find out what it was all about. Watch our report here.
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READ OUR LATEST: Erdoğan’s Palestine Dilemma: The Anatomy of a Collaborator
Erdoğan's delicate dance with Israel: Despite outcry over Gaza, trade thrives & political maneuvers persist. Explore the intricacies of Türkiye's Palestine-Israel policy – a story of pragmatism & collaboration.
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Police forces baton-charged anti-G7 protesters in Venice, Italy, during a two-day minister’s summit meeting. Local media reported hundreds of participants. Militant protests against the summit have been breaking out across the country for weeks.
The official focus of this year’s G7 summit is the “defense” of the Western-dominated “rules-based international system.” Specifically, the G7 states mention the arming of Ukraine against Russia and “conflict in the Middle East.”
Member states are Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the UK and the US.
Displeasure among G7 opponents is also growing over the failure to deliver on promised goals. No member of the G7 is currently on track to meet its emission reduction targets for 2030, according to a report from the Climate Analytics Policy Institute.
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red. Media spoke to Bolivian students and staff members who've joined the international wave of student occupations for Palestine. Unlike Europe and the US, university authorities here have endorsed the protests rather than repress them.
We spoke to staff about why they have sided with protests and with students about what their demands are in a country that has already broken all relations with Israel.
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Pro-Palestinian student protests and encampments are sweeping Europe. Students from some of Europe’s largest and most prestigious universities are organizing marches, sit-ins, and occupations and constructing barricades to demand their universities cut all ties with Israel as the Gaza genocide escalates once more.
Authorities across several countries have responded with brutal police violence, attempting to crack down on the peaceful student protests.
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On this day in 1976, revolutionary journalist, author, and communist Ulrike Meinhof died. She went on to become one of the most prominent figures of the radical West German ’68 movement.
She was a well-known journalist in progressive and intellectual circles in her hometown of Hamburg. The legacy of the Nazi era marked the youth of her generation, as young people often literally sat with Nazi relatives at the same kitchen table.
Meinhof gained international attention as one of the founders of the communist guerrilla organization Red Army Faction (RAF), to which she contributed as an author influenced by Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong.
After being captured by West German authorities, Meinhof died in solitary confinement at the age of 42, and although the official verdict was suicide, many did not accept this explanation, suspecting that she and her comrades had been murdered.
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Israel continues to intensify its offensive on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Several areas have come under nonstop bombardment, taking the lives of over 55 people and injuring at least 200 others. The offensive forced thousands of people to flee into central Gaza, mainly to Deir el-Balah city.
Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt has led to the cutting off lifesaving aid deliveries into Gaza. The offensive and the evacuation order further reduced access to healthcare in an already decimated health system, leaving people with almost no options for even basic medical care.
Rafah was considered the last shelter and safe place for Gazans, where around 1.7 million people were sheltering. Now, with the new offensive, people have no place left to go, including the 600,000 children in Rafah whose lives are now at an even higher risk due to Israeli shelling.
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Student encampments in solidarity with Palestine are spreading across Europe like wildfire. What began as a militant student movement reminiscent of Vietnam War-era protests in the US has now led to a global chain reaction. Students worldwide are occupying campuses, demanding their universities divest from Israel and put an end to their complicity in the ongoing Gaza genocide. Here is a map of all ongoing university encampments across Europe.
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May 8 is the day several European countries celebrate their liberation from Nazi occupation. Even though most of Eastern and Central Europe was liberated by Soviet troops, lies, myths, and misconceptions about the Red Army remain prevalent, especially in the West. What is less known, however, is that many of those myths stem from Nazi and anti-communist propaganda. Here are some of the most common myths debunked.
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Today, Victory Day, or the Day of Liberation from Nazi barbarism, is celebrated across Europe, marking the Red Army’s final defeat of the Wehrmacht on its own soil in 1945. On the night of May 8, 1945, the Wehrmacht command signed the instrument of surrender, ending World War II in Europe.
Watch archive footage filmed in 1945 of the world-famous military parade held by the Red Army in Moscow following the defeat of Nazi Germany, which was prepared in only one month. The parade featured soldiers who had distinguished themselves in battle and the destruction of Nazi symbols confiscated during the war.
The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million citizens to Hitler’s war of extermination. 5.7 million members of the Red Army fell into German captivity, where about 3.3 million of them died of hunger, cold, disease, forced labor, or were shot.
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How much was left of the Nazi state? Quite a lot. Here are selected shocking examples - but the tip of a giant iceberg.
The fascist apparatus involved 45 million Germans. While the Soviet-initiated Nuremberg trials brought key figures to justice, the new West German state officially ended the denazification process as early as 1951.
As a result, many people with a former Nazi past ended up again in the political apparatus of West Germany. In 1957, 77% of the German Ministry of Justice’s senior officials were former Nazi Party members, while others were systematically recruited from the West.
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Spanish universities join the international wave of student occupations in solidarity with Palestine. Students in Madrid and Barcelona held assemblies today, where they decided to occupy their campuses to demand an end to all cooperation with Israel.
Students at the University of Valencia have been in occupation for almost a week now. They were the first in Spain to take this step, but they are now joined by the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Barcelona. The University of Zaragoza is expected to join this Thursday.
This wave of occupations began at Columbia University in New York but has now spread all over the US and beyond, including Europe and Asia.
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico – Protesters burn the Israeli flag during a pro-Palestinian rally in front of the Israeli Embassy.
🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya – 26 people were arrested as residents of the Mathare slum protested the inhumane treatment of flood victims.
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Dutch police violently evicted multiple university encampments set up by students in solidarity with Palestine.
🇺🇸 Washington DC, US – A projection of President Joe Biden with the text reading “Genocide Joe” is seen on the wall of the George Washington University as the pro-Palestinian student encampment enters its second week.
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Pro-Palestine protesters fill the UN building in Nairobi, Kenya, as the UN Civil Society Conference is underway. Those attending brought out signs and banners reading “Ceasefire now!”
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Argentina was shut down yesterday by the second general strike since “libertarian” President Javier Milei took power. The streets were emptied as public transport ground to a halt, and airlines canceled all their flights.
The strike against austerity and privatization was organized by the three largest union confederations, the CGT, CTA, and ATE, who reported that 97% of their members took part.
The main demands centered around a recent law named the “ley de bases” that eliminates most of the country’s workers’ rights. Other demands include wage increases to match the record-breaking inflation levels, which currently stands at almost 300%, a stark increase compared to the 140% Milei inherited when he took office in December 2023.
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Israel’s intense bombardment across the entire Gaza Strip continued overnight. Since the ground invasion of Rafah started, Israel has killed over 97 people, including 35 children and 17 women.
Thousands of Palestinians fleeing Rafah continue to pour into central Gaza, such as Deir el-Balah, where food, water, and medical supplies are scarce. As the two key border crossings into Gaza are still closed, no aid is entering the enclave despite being desperately needed.
Seven months into the war, the food security situation in Gaza remains dire. Malnutrition among children is concerning, as one in three children below the age of two is now acutely malnourished or “wasted.”
Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip, now on its 217th day, has killed at least 34,904 people, 70% of them babies, children, and women, and wounded over 78,514, while over 10,000 are feared dead under the rubble of bombed buildings.
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Tens of thousands of protesters have descended upon the Armenian capital of Yerevan, demanding President Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation. The protest comes after the Armenian government announced plans to cede border areas in the country’s Tavush region to its neighbor and longtime adversary, Azerbaijan, as part of a demarcation and delimitation process.
The announcement by the Armenian government follows the departure of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers from in and around the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan forcefully took over by force in September last year. Azerbaijan’s takeover has since resulted in the exodus of 100,000 ethnic Armenians and the destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in the affected region.
Many Armenians view the move as a threat to Armenia’s territorial integrity and security, asserting that it violates established international norms, including principles outlined in the UN Vienna Convention and OSCE guidelines.
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Indigenous protesters smeared red urucum seed paste on the faces of business leaders who are pushing for the construction of a railway in the Amazon that will destroy the environment for numerous communities.
At a public consultation event, these business leaders had come to endorse the Ferrogrão railway, which will cause environmental damage affecting fourteen Indigenous communities in the Amazon. Representatives from each of those communities came to voice their opposition.
Brazil’s Ministry of Transport will make the final decision. However, it comes just as there’s growing concern about climate disaster following the deadly floods in Rio Grande do Sul, a region bordering Uruguay, where over 100 people have died and well over 100,000 have been displaced.
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From solidarity with Vietnam to solidarity with Gaza.
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Immigrants in Portugal had their home attacked by fascists belonging to a group known as “1143”. Police have arrested six people connected to this group following a home invasion in Porto, where a house containing numerous immigrants was broken into and vandalized. The fascists also attacked the residents of the house, with two requiring hospitalization.
In the days leading up to this attack, there were anti-immigrant protests in the area; police believe that the two events are linked. Fascists in Portugal have been emboldened by the rise of the far-right Chega Party, now the country’s third-largest political group in parliament.
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Today, Dutch police forcefully evicted a pro-Palestine encampment in Amsterdam, leaving several students injured. Following yesterday's eviction, the students quickly constructed a new camp to continue their protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The police assault, involving batons, resulted in severe injuries among the demonstrators. Both students and supporters suffered skull injuries, which led to bleeding, and facial fractures.
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Dutch police are once again evicting the newly set up Palestine solidarity encampment at the University of Amsterdam. With the use of bulldozers, authorities are beginning to demolish the encampment’s barricades.
The previous encampment was already violently broken up after an assault by pro-Israeli attackers and a subsequent police operation; police, equipped with riot gear, batons, and shields, used a bulldozer to tear down the student’s barricades and arrested over 100 students.
Undeterred, students in Amsterdam have once again erected barricades at the new encampment, expecting a similarly violent eviction.
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What would happen if Venezuela arrested thousands of students and raided their campuses? President Maduro points out the hypocrisy of international organizations that supposedly promote human rights but are now silent in the face of repression carried out by Western governments against their own populations that are protesting for Palestine.
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Today’s Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, we remember one of the most famous moments from newly liberated Berlin. The video shows Maria Limanskaya, a young Red Army woman, dancing and directing traffic in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Limanskaya was born in Volgograd and joined the war in 1942 in the ranks of the Red Army when she was only 18 years old. She was thrown into the unbelievably difficult task of capturing Berlin. A cameraman named Anatoly Aronov captured her performance on film, and it immediately went viral worldwide.
After the war, she returned to her native village and worked at a library before becoming a nurse. It was there that she saw her famous photo for the first time, shown by one of her patients in the “Rabotnitsa” (The Woman Worker) magazine.
Maria Limanskaya was awarded the medals “For the Liberation of Warsaw,” “For the Capture of Berlin,” and “For Victory over Germany.” She is still alive today at the age of 100.
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“Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid” – Ernest Hemingway
Today in 1945 marks the final victory over Nazi Germany. The footage shows the epic blowup of the Nazi headquarters in Nuremberg 79 years ago. A German proverb goes, “He who does not celebrate has lost.”
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Victory Day 1945, Victory Day of Tomorrow.
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Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST has stepped in to provide food aid to flood
victims in Rio Grande do Sul state. The social movement has prepared around 30,000
food parcels to deliver in the state.
So far, 83 people have died and 121,957 have been displaced. Among them are 420
families who are part of the MST and live on lands that have been taken over. The MST
have numerous "encampments", usually lands that are unused by their owners, and the
MST organize to take them back and make them productive in a collective manner.
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