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Listen to George Habash, the Palestinian Marxist, stating, 'American Imperialism […] is backing Israel because Israel is playing a bodyguard for Imperialist interests.' George Habash passed away 16 years ago. He advocated for a democratic Palestinian State where all ethnic and religious groups could live freely and peacefully.
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Tens of thousands rallied across Australia on Invasion Day – how Indigenous people refer to Australia Day. Protesters are calling for the date of Australia Day to be changed or for the public holiday to be abolished entirely as large crowds gathered in every major Australian city to protest Australia’s lasting British colonial legacy.
Australia Day marks the arrival of the British First Fleet, which landed on the continent’s shores in 1788. For Australia’s Aboriginal population, this day marks the start of a brutal period of genocide and forced expulsion from their land, which they have occupied for millennia.
Since at least 1938, January 26 has also been a day of protest and mourning against the start of British colonization as the country’s Aboriginal population continues to face widespread discrimination and negligence at the hands of the state.
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Argentina’s possibly biggest general strike in decades brought the South American country to a halt as its largest union confederations mobilized against “libertarian” President Javier Milei’s extreme austerity package.
Over a million people across the country flooded the streets in the first general strike against Milei, a taste of what’s to come if Milei pushes ahead with his more radical policies. These policies include the privatization of state companies, the destruction of workers’ rights, and the end of all funding for infrastructure projects — a crucial source of jobs and development for the country.
Under the slogan “Our country is not for sale,” a giant march in the capital, Buenos Aires, reached Congress in striking defiance of threats of repression from the far-right Interior Minister, Patricia Bullrich. The police could not enforce the Minister's threats due to the massive size of the mobilization and were forced to watch as workers rallied in central Buenos Aires and across the country in huge numbers.
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“There is no place to go. The city of Rafah is full.” – Palestinian families are fleeing Israel’s bombardment as Israeli occupation forces advance in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The city was previously designated as a “safe zone” by the Israeli military. However, since October 7, no safe place remains in Gaza. People fleeing Khan Younis are heading to the border city of Rafah, the last place left in Gaza that Israeli soldiers have not set foot in so far.
Around one million internally displaced Gazans, almost half of the enclave’s population, reside in Rafah now, raising the city’s population to five times more than previously. At least 268,000 people live in public squares and make-shift tents on the streets. The absence of essential services and infrastructure led to the spread of diseases such as cholera, gastroenteritis, and Hepatitis. The infectious diseases are expected to deplete the hospitals that are already collapsing after 109 days of war.
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29 years ago today, former Manchester United striker Eric Cantona kung-fu kicked racism out of football.
Cantona launched at Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons who had been racially abusing him for being a “foreigner” at Selhurst Park Stadium. Cantona’s grandfather was from Barcelona, and was seriously injured fighting the armies of fascist General Francisco Franco in 1938.
It is reported that Simmons had a history of Nazi sympathies, attending far-right British National Party and National Front rallies, and attacking a Sri Lankan-born man in a violent robbery in 1992.
Simmons reportedly ran down 11 rows in the stand and heralded xenophobic insults at Cantona, who in response raced towards Simmons, climbed up the fence and gave him a kung-fu kick.
Cantona received a 9-month ban, was stripped of the captaincy of the French national team, fined £10,800, and penalized with two weeks of community service. “I have one regret,” Cantona said in an interview last year. “I would have loved to have kicked him even harder.”
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Greta Thunberg spoke powerfully against what international organizations describe as Israel committing genocide in Gaza in the German city of Leipzig. Meanwhile, her counterparts in the German branch of Fridays for Future have allowed racist attacks and harassment of pro-Palestine activists at their demonstrations against the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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Dr. Myriam François highlights Sky News’ bias in her compelling commentary, “I’m so sorry your Amazon packages are delayed [...] but you know, genocide, guys, genocide”.
As Western powers focus on bombing Yemen to reopen profitable trade routes, Israel’s unyielding assault on the Gaza Strip results in the deaths of thousands and puts hundreds of thousands at risk of famine. Rather than seeking peace through a ceasefire, these powers continue their aggressive actions in Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries and a staunch ally of the Palestinian people.
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red. Media interviewed media scholar and award-winning journalist Ignacio Ramonet at the international Rosa Luxemburg conference about the mainstream media’s evident failure to whitewash Israel’s extermination war. Has Israel lost the war of public opinion?
“Each citizen has more communicational power on their phone than any television channel.” - Ignacio Ramonet told us. He referred to the shift in power away from the dominance of mainstream media as a “revolution.” According to a dataset of 1.9 million posts analyzed by Mig AI, nearly 80% of all social media posts online express opposition to the Israeli occupation.
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“Twenty-five thousand Palestinians are dead, and all you’re enraged about is international shipping.” – Watch Irish MEP Clare Daly expose the EU Parliament for its disregard of over 25,000 dead Palestinians in comparison to its outrage over international shipping in the Red Sea amid Yemen’s Ansarallah’s blockade in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Kampala, Uganda, Namibian Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah called on the NAM to break the UN Security Council’s balance of power and demand an end to Israel’s relentless war of extermination against Gaza and the Palestinian people.
As a NAM member, Namibia has taken the initiative by supporting South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Israel. Namibia has also criticized Germany for officially rejecting this court case despite Germany’s history of committing genocide on Namibian soil. Facing another genocide that world powers have failed to stop, Namibia demonstrates its solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The NAM is a forum dedicated to representing developing countries while not formally affiliated with or opposed to any major world bloc. It is the second-largest such association after the UN, with more than 120 member states, 20 observer states, and 10 observer organizations.
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🟡 Latest News Roundup on the War in Gaza:
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 25,490, with more than 63,354 people injured.
🟡 570,000 people in the Gaza Strip are facing “catastrophic hunger” due to the Israeli blockade of the enclave. “The risk of having pockets of famine” is increasing, according to the UN.
🟡 Marking the deadliest day for the Israeli occupation forces since the start of the ground invasion in the Gaza Strip, at least 24 Israeli soldiers were killed in two incidents. Since October 7, the Israeli military has only announced the death of 552 of their soldiers, though the number is likely to be much higher.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces targeted five shelters across Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, where over 30,000 displaced people are staying in an area previously designated as a “safe zone” by Israel.
🟡 Nasser Hospital and the Red Crescent ambulance center in southern Gaza Strip are under attack by Israeli forces as fighting intensifies in Khan Yunis.
🟡 Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the village of Betin, near Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, burning 10 cars in a dealership. Since October 7, the UN has recorded 444 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 US and UK forces carried out new attacks on Yemen, announcing the prolonged operation “Poseidon’s Arc.” Yemen’s Ansarallah stated that 18 strikes were carried out by the US and UK, and that “All US-UK attacks will not prevent us from supporting the Palestinian people.”
🟡 Egypt warned that any Israeli move to occupy the Philadelphia axis, a narrow strip within Gaza along the border with Egypt, will lead to a serious threat to Israeli-Egyptian relations.
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Italy’s Supreme Court ruled the infamous fascist salute not to be a crime unless “there is an actual concrete danger of the reconstitution of the fascist party, which is absolutely excluded in the case of commemorations.” The latest court ruling comes just a little over 10 days after hundreds of fascists marched through the Italian capital doing the fascist salute.
Italy’s countless far-right organizations are known to use fascist salutes at rallies celebrating the country’s fascist past and commemorating fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, among other fascists. Even though the Supreme Court has reiterated that both the Scelba and Mancino laws, Italy’s central legislations against fascist propaganda, could be applied to people making the fascist salute depending on the circumstances, coupled with the latest court ruling, individual prosecutors are left to decide whether these circumstances are applicable or not.
The court ruling comes as no surprise considering the rally by the far-right Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, the de facto successor party to Mussolini’s regime, earlier this month was also attended by local authorities and found support from leading figures of the ruling far-right Brothers of Italy party. Italy’s current Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, also took her first political steps in the MSI youth movement at just 15. Her mother was also active in the MSI and later joined its successor party, National Alliance.
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Eighteen years ago today, Evo Morales, the first indigenous president in the history of Bolivia, assumed office. Leading the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party, Morales launched a transformative agenda to uplift the indigenous, exploited, and oppressed populations in one of the world's poorest countries.
Bolivia, historically politically unstable and ethnically divided, particularly between the impoverished indigenous rural majority and the small white urban elite, experienced profound changes under Morales. Before his presidency, 60% of Bolivians lived in poverty, a figure drastically reduced to 17% within 11 years.
In 2019, a US-backed military coup ousted Evo Morales. This triggered relentless mass protests led by indigenous groups and unions loyal to Morales, who warned of civil war unless the unelected far-right coup government resigned. After 11 months, the MAS won elections with 55.10%, promising to continue Morales' legacy, who had been forced into exile.
In September 2023, Morales declared his intention to run again in the 2025 presidential elections. Since the MAS's return to power, internal struggles have emerged between the radical faction led by Morales and the more moderate wing represented by the current president, Luis Acre, who was expelled from the party in October.
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🟡 Latest News Roundup on the War in Gaza
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 25,295, with more than 63,000 people injured.
🟡 According to Gaza's Endowments Ministry, Israeli occupation forces have destroyed over 1,000 of the 1,200 mosques in the Gaza Strip, including all the mosques in northern Gaza.
🟡 People in the northern Gaza Strip are eating tree leaves and grinding "animal food" to make bread due to the depletion of rice and flour caused by the Israeli starvation war.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces uprooted 70% of the trees in the Gaza Strip, intentionally destroying 40% of the agricultural land.
🟡 Israel has killed a higher percentage of the population in Gaza (1.1%) than the percentage killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine (0.2%) and the war in Iraq (0.8%), and this happened in a much shorter time period.
🟡 Continuing clashes between the resistance fighters and the Israeli invading forces are taking place in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces have detained at least 25 Palestinians during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, Israeli forces have detained at least 6,195 Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 Hezbollah says it has targeted Israeli soldiers preparing to carry out a military operation inside Lebanon while confrontation and escalation between Hezbollah and the Israeli forces continue.
🟡 The High Representative of EU Foreign Affairs, Josef Borrell, has outlined a 10-point peace plan to end the "Israel-Palestine conflict." Reported by Euractiv.
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Far-right Hindus in New York chanted for more mosques to be taken over in India, during their gathering for the inauguration of Ram Temple.
The temple, dubbed the "Hindu Vatican", is being inaugurated in the city of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, on the site of the 16th century Babri Mosque. That mosque was destroyed in 1992 by a mob of 150,000 Hindu extremists and paramilitary forces led by the BJP. Nationwide Islamophobic riots ensued, killing approximately 2,000 people, mostly Muslims.
The crowd in Times Square chanted "Ayodhya is just a teaser, Mathura and Kashi are pending", referring to mosques in the cities of Varanasi and Mathura, which Hindu extremists are threatening to raze to make way for Hindu temples.
Last year a senior BJP leader claimed the Islamic Mughal Empire, which ruled over much of South Asia from the 16th to the 19th century, destroyed 36,000 Hindu temples to make way for mosques, and threatened that all of them would be reclaimed.
Islamophobic state-sponsored violence, including pogroms, home demolitions, and attacks on Muslim shrines have surged since 2014 when the BJP came to power, and mainstreamed Hindutva ideology, which is based on Hindu supremacy.
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The ICJ has recognized evidence of Israel’s genocidal intent and the catastrophic consequences of its war on Gaza BUT failed to order an immediate ceasefire, instead issuing vague orders for Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza.
Our verdict: GUILTY
Today, we’ll hear from the ICJ about South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Whatever the outcome, the court cannot force Israel to stop its brutal war on Gaza. More than that, the responsibility lies with the main allies of Israel who allow Israel to commit such a crime.
Why? Israel’s Western allies, above all the US, will veto any possible action at the UN Security Council. The same Western countries talk about “Responsibility to Protect” and “Humanitarian Intervention” to justify their wars. Now, they’ll make a mockery of that discourse as they prevent any action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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In Zambia’s latest mining accident, several miners of a Chinese-owned mine have been trapped in the country’s Copperbelt province. This comes just one month after landslides in Zambia buried dozens of miners at another mine.
Zambia possesses one of the world’s highest-grade deposits of copper and is one of the top copper producers in Africa and the world. However, many of the south-central African country’s mines are run by foreign companies.
Read on to find out why Zambia, at the mercy of multinational mining corporations, is met with frequent and fatal mining accidents.
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Latest News Roundup on the War in Gaza. In today's round, we focus on the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and Israel's bombing of the UN compound. Furthermore, we dive into the regional events linked to the war in Palestine, including those in Yemen, Qatar, and Egypt.
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Supporters of Evo Morales enter day four of their protests against President Luis Arce and his government's attempts to ban Evo Morales from standing in next year's elections.
Rural campesino groups are blocking highways, and their main demand is the resignation of the country's judicial authorities, who they say are being used by the government to ban Morales. Judicial elections were supposed to be held now, but the magistrates have extended their own mandate with the government's support.
On Monday, roadblocks cut off highways in Cochabamba and Oruro. However, pro-Evo protesters have now erected barricades, cutting off highways in every single region except La Paz. The La Paz bus terminal has confirmed that there is no travel by land to any other region of the country.
The internal split within the MAS, between Evo Morales and Luis Arce, has been rumbling on for over a year but has now spilled out onto the streets as the two leaders battle it out to see who will be the presidential candidate for the MAS in 2025.
Luis Arce supporters accuse Morales of destabilizing the government to regain power for himself. Meanwhile, Morales supporters accuse the government of shifting to the right and betraying the socialist principles of the MAS.
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Argentina is experiencing its biggest general strike in decades. Organized by the country’s largest union, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the strike has seen tens of thousands of workers participate in Buenos Aires, with more joining across the country.
Protesters are opposing the economic austerity measures and reforms introduced by new libertarian President Javier Milei. These reforms, focused on spending cuts and privatization, have faced significant opposition since Milei took office. The strike has impacted various sectors, including transportation, banking, healthcare, and public services, leading to the cancellation of hundreds of flights. This protest poses a major challenge to Milei’s government, which has been in power for just over a month. The CGT and other unions have criticized the government’s labor reforms as harmful to workers' rights.
This strike occurs as Argentina struggles with a significant fiscal deficit and a poverty rate above 40%. The government argues that the austerity measures are essential after years of overspending, which have left the country with considerable debts to both local and international creditors, including a $44 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
🟡 Latest News Roundup on the War in Gaza:
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 25,700, with more than 63,740 people injured.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces have issued evacuation orders for about 513,000 people crammed into an area in southern Gaza to flee elsewhere. The affected area includes three hospitals, representing almost 20 percent of the remaining partially functioning hospitals across the Gaza Strip.
🟡 Palestinians in northern Gaza are facing catastrophic starvation, with limited information due to Israeli control and continuous attacks in the area. Videos on social media show animals eating dead bodies in the streets, while Israeli forces continue to deny aid missions to the north for more than 14 days.
🟡 Israeli occupation continues its siege on hospitals in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, including Nasser Hospital where thousands of displaced people are sheltering and unable to leave because of the Israeli attacks.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at the Enab checkpoint near Tulkarm city, in the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed at least 371 people in the West Bank.
🟡 Israeli settlers attacked a flock of sheep belonging to Palestinians in the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank, killing two sheep and injuring others.
🟡 Iraq's Islamic resistance announced a new phase of their operation to support Gaza, by enforcing a naval blockade on Israel in the Mediterranean Sea. The announcement came after US forces carried out airstrikes, targeting the resistance in two villages near the Iraqi-Syrian border.
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Argentina's general strike against Javier Milei's austerity package gets underway today. The strike brings together all of the largest union federations in both the public and private sectors. These include the CGT, CTA, and the CTA-Autónomo.
This strike occurs just 45 days after 'libertarian' Javier Milei took office, setting a new record. It surpasses that of right-wing President Fernando de La Rua, who faced a general strike three months into his tenure in 1999.
Workers are mobilizing against Milei's 'shock therapy' austerity package that will slash social spending as well as subsidies for food and public transport. Argentina's highly organized workers unions will test their strength today in the face of possible repression announced by Interior Minister Patricia Bullrich, who has suggested that unions will be forced to pay for the cost of policing and could face prosecution if protests block public roads today.
The economic situation of the country has deteriorated ever since Milei took power in early December. Annual inflation has reached 211%, up from 160% in November. If the austerity package is approved in Congress, workers fear that basic goods will be out of reach for most of the population.
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The Bolivian Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is on its way to succumbing to a split between former President Evo Morales and current President Luis Arce. As supporters of both sides are now mobilizing en masse in the streets, will this open the window for the return of the right? Reporting from La Paz, Bolivia, @OllieVargas79 explains what is happening in Bolivia this week.
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With Palestine in the headlines, the question of occupation, resistance, and freedom is back in the spotlight. Watch how, in 1963, the Black revolutionary Malcolm X shattered the illusion of a peaceful path to freedom in just 24 seconds. "Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach," Malcolm explained.
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On this day in 1891, influential Italian Marxist theorist, intellectual, and Communist Party leader Antonio Gramsci was born. After Benito Mussolini's fascists took power, communism was outlawed, Gramsci was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison where he died on April 27, 1937.
Gramsci was considered one of the greatest minds of his time and was even revered by his political enemies. Mussolini said that Gramsci had "an unquestionably powerful brain." When he was on trial, the prosecutor also argued that it was necessary to "prevent this brain from functioning for twenty years."
During his time in prison, Gramsci filled over 30 notebooks with his writings, later entitled "The Prison Notebooks". One of his most famous theories was "cultural hegemony," which explained how the ruling classes maintained their control over the masses through ideological and cultural means. This theory expanded on Marx's view that "the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas," the theory that the ruling class maintains its influence over institutions such as schools, churches, and the media to influence the thoughts and expectations of the rest of society. This allows the worldview of the ruling class to be legitimized and therefore ensures the continuation of capitalism.
Gramsci also developed the idea of an "organic crisis," a crisis that impacts every aspect of the capitalist system: economic, ideological, cultural, environmental, etc. A crisis like this would demonstrate the fundamental contradictions in the system that the ruling class would be unable to resolve, therefore weakening hegemony. It would also make revolutionary change more likely.
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Amidst the massive protests against the far-right AfD in Berlin this weekend, Germans protesters spat at and verbally abused pro-Palestine activists, taunting them with chants of "all of Berlin is with Israel."
The organizers from the climate change activist network Fridays for Future also collaborated with the police to separate the pro-Palestine activists from the otherwise predominantly white-German demonstration. In contrast, the Palestinian bloc consisted mostly of activists from a migrant background and many from the LGBTQ+ community.
While the pro-Palestine activists had joined the call to unite against fascism, the organizers' decision to exclude them made it clear that they share more in common with the AfD than they are prepared to admit: both racism towards Palestinians and support for the most deadly fascism currently on the planet, Zionism, which is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza.
The prospect of an AfD government poses the greatest threat to the Palestinian community in Germany, as the party has rejected accepting refugees from Gaza, demanded an end to all aid to Palestine, and proposed deporting all migrants, including those with German citizenship, disproportionately affecting the Palestinian diaspora.
The SPD and Green parties, both in the governing coalition, as well as the main opposition party, the CDU, have increasingly been coopting the anti-AfD protests, which have no concrete demands. All these parties, along with the AfD, are among the staunchest supporters of Israel's genocide in Gaza and have been complicit in anti-migrant policies that have caused the deaths of tens of thousands at the EU's borders.
While the protests have been triggered by revelations of the AfD's plot to deport migrants en masse, including those with German citizenship, Chancellor Olaf Scholz himself said at the onset of Israel's genocide against Palestinians last year, that Germany should “finally deport on a large scale those who have no right to stay” in the country.
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Today in 1905, Russian Tsar Nicholas II's troops perpetrated the Bloody Sunday Massacre, gunning down at least 1,000 protesters. The bloodshed sparked the 1905 Revolution, which Vladimir Lenin dubbed "the great dress rehearsal" for the 1917 October Revolution.
By 1905, Russia was crumbling under Tsar Nicholas' catastrophic rule while socialist revolutionaries, including exiled Vladimir Lenin, organized to topple him.
With living standards becoming ever more miserable, on Jan 22, 150,000 industrial and textile workers, accompanied by their families and children, protested in St. Petersburg. They marched towards the tsar's Winter Palace to deliver a petition demanding reforms. The petition was written by Georgy Gapon, an Orthodox priest of Ukrainian origin.
As they approached the palace, they were met with a hail of bullets from the Imperial Troops. The police put the death toll at least 1,000, while anti-government critics said as many as 4,000 were killed.
Until the massacre, Gapon had put his faith in the tsar whom he had been petitioning to reform. After it, he called for full-scale revolution, saying: "Today a river of blood divides [the tsar] from the Russian people. It is time for the Russian workers to begin the struggle for the people’s freedom without him."
The massacre marked a turning point in Russian history, sparking a wave of strikes, protests, and insurrection that lasted more than two years and gave birth to the Bolshevik leadership. In late January 1905, more than 400,000 striking workers joined with the peasants and began organizing councils called soviets.
The tsar finally understood he would be unable to crush the rebellion with repression alone. In October he signed the October Manifesto promising civil liberties like freedom of speech and assembly, sapping the revolution's leverage. The strikes ended and the soviets' authority evaporated.
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Over one million people in Germany have joined protests against the far-right AfD this weekend. The biggest protest hit Munich with 250,000 participants, followed by the capital Berlin with well over 100,000. At least 90 demonstrations nationwide were registered on Saturday and Sunday.
The protests are a response to revelations of the AfD's secret meeting with the fascist Identitarian Movement. The meeting's theme was the pursuit of a "remigration" policy, whereby people with a migration background, including German citizens, would be deported.
The protests are increasingly being co-opted by mainstream parties: the Greens, SPD, and CDU, all of whom have enabled the tightening of racist deportation laws. While Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended the massive Hamburg demonstration on Friday, he himself caused shock amongst migrant communities last October when he said Germany should “finally deport on a large scale those who have no right to stay” in the country.