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German politicians and media outlets are outraged that the directors of the award-winning documentary “No Other Lands” condemn Israel for its war crimes at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor stated, "Now there can be no more denying the relentless abject horror of Israel, illegal military occupation, and settlements." The Palestinian activist and filmmaker Basel Adra urged Germany to respect UN decisions and stop exporting weapons to Israel.
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This day, in Black History Month, we remember Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini, a prominent student leader who was the most sought-after individual in South Africa during that period. In this clip, Mashinini articulates the objective and significance of the Soweto Uprising "The black student in South Africa is being fed the type of education that will domesticate him to become a better tool for the white man."
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The first genocide of the 20th century was carried out in Africa by German colonial authorities. This Black History Month, we remember the horrors of the concentration camps in Namibia, built decades before those of the Nazi Holocaust.
Namibia’s government reminded Germany of this fact during the recent ICJ hearings when Germany expressed their full support for Israel against the genocide charges brought by South Africa.
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Today, in Black History Month, we remember revolutionary socialist, guerrilla intellectual, and pan-African activist Walter Rodney.
In his landmark book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,” Rodney explained how European “development” was the flip side of African “underdevelopment.” He methodically examined how centuries of European colonial exploitation have exhausted Africa’s wealth while enriching the West.
Rodney developed a Marxist analysis of the pan-African liberation struggle that placed Black Power at its core and argued that only “under the banner of socialism and through the leadership of the working classes” could Africans break from imperialism and colonialism.
In 1980, he was assassinated by a car bomb, an attack widely believed to have been a political assassination orchestrated by the state.
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NATO pushed Ukraine into war with Russia, promising to support the country for “as long as it takes.” Two years on, and after sacrificing countless lives, the US is preparing to abandon the project.
As the late Henry Kissinger once said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
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Did you know about the kidnapped Ethiopian prince who is the only non-British royal buried in Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel? Today, in Black History Month, we take a look at Prince Alemayehu, for whom Ethiopians continue demanding the return of his remains one and a half centuries later. Read about his story here.
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Have you heard of the time Fidel Castro's guerrillas kidnapped Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio? While the Cuban revolution was gaining ground, U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista put on a spectacle as he hosted the Grand Prix in Havana, not least to distract from the fact that his power was crumbling. The revolutionaries seized the limelight to execute a spectacular operation that made headlines around the world. Read the story here.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 29,410, with more than 69,465 people injured.
🟡 Under the “current status quo” scenarios, the projections of the death toll will rise to 58,260. Under an "escalation" scenario, the death toll will reach 74,290, with traumatic injuries followed by infectious diseases being the main causes of additional fatalities. These projections were calculated by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
🟡 Families in Gaza are forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eat leaves in a desperate bid to survive. Aid supplies are rapidly declining leaving all 1.1 million children in Gaza facing starvation, Save the Children said.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces shelling of residential homes in central Gaza killed at least 40 people and injured over 100.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces carried out an air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, killing two people and injuring at least 15.
🟡 Yemen's Armed Forces launched several ballistic missiles at Israeli targets south of occupied Palestine and targeted a UK ship in the Gulf of Aden. Meanwhile, they vowed to escalate attacks against Israeli, US, and UK ships passing through the Red Sea.
🟡 Seven Israeli human rights organizations have issued a joint call to restore funding to UNRWA so the agency can continue its work in Gaza.
🟡 UNRWA has come under a “concerted effort” by Israeli officials who want to see “the dismantling” of the refugee agency for Palestinians, the UNRWA chief said.
🟡 A large portion of the weapons given to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank were sold to Palestinian fighters who used them in recent attacks inside Israel, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.
🟡 Israel's fascist Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has said that the Defense Ministry is set to permit the construction of 3,344 new homes in illegal Israeli settlements.
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Today, in Black History Month, we remember the youngest person to be executed in the US during the 20th century: 14-year-old Black boy George Stinney. Convicted of murder, Stinney was completely innocent.
Stinney grew up in a segregated community in South Carolina until white mobs forced his family to flee when the state accused him of killing two white girls. Stinney was arrested, interrogated without an attorney or his parents being present, and sentenced to death by an all-white jury after only 10 minutes in court. Despite multiple appeals by Black advocacy groups, Governor Olin Johnston refused to intervene.
It took seven decades until a hearing was held, during which Stinney's surviving siblings presented new evidence and testimonies proving him innocent. Ultimately, the court overturned his conviction, recognizing that he was deprived of due process, his alleged confession was not credible, and his legal representation was grossly ineffective.
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Did you know that the British Empire stole Bolivia’s access to the sea? In 1879, the British Empire funded a Chilean invasion of Bolivia’s coast to plunder the vast mineral wealth in the region.
Britain may not have had many direct colonies in Latin America, but they were the neo-colonial masters after the Spanish Empire collapsed.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 29,410, with more than 69,465 people injured.
🟡 As Gaza’s north faces famine, only four trucks carrying vital humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The enclave needs at least 500 aid trucks daily, but only 47 trucks entered last week on average.
🟡 The head of the UN World Health Organization warned that “Gaza has become a death zone”, as “inhumane” health and humanitarian situation continue to deteriorate.
🟡 At least three Israeli soldiers and settlers were killed and eight wounded in an attack on a settlement in the occupied West Bank. The two Palestinian gunmen who carried out the attack were killed, and a third was arrested.
🟡 Ireland has concluded that Israel has committed “serious breaches” of International law by its prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory, and its settlement activities.
81 years ago, anti-fascist students Sophie and Hans Scholl were executed by Hitler's fascist regime. She valiantly opposed the Nazi regime along with her brother Hans Scholl and friend Christoph Probst. All three bravely sacrificed themselves to oppose the horrors of fascism.
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Happy birthday communist manifesto! Listen to Lady Izdihar explain why Karl Marx and Frederich Engel's Communist Manifesto, published on this day 176 years ago, continues to be one of the most influential documents of all time and why you should get a copy!
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 29,313, with more than 69,333 people injured. The UN has temporarily halted the delivery of life-saving food aid to the northern Gaza Strip “until conditions permit safe distributions.”
🟡 150 patients and at least 15 medical staff members remain stranded in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, without electricity, running water, or sufficient food, according to the UN.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces conducted raids in several cities across the occupied West Bank, including Jenin, where three people were killed. Since October 7, at least 401 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank.
🟡 A Palestinian prisoner died in an Israeli prison, bringing the total number of Palestinian prisoners who have died or been killed in Israeli prisons since October 7 to nine.
🟡 An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed a mother and her daughter, as the cross-border attacks have intensified.
On this day in 1869, Bolshevik revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya, wife of Vladimir Lenin, was born. Coming from a poor but radical family, she quickly became involved in Marxist student societies.
During the nearly 50 years she dedicated to the Communist Party, she played a vital role in organizing the underground conspiratorial network that supported the Bolsheviks and was instrumental in organizing the Soviet education and library systems.
Many historians overlook her tireless efforts and invaluable contributions to the Marxist-Leninist movement and Soviet society, reducing her to merely the role of Lenin’s wife. Read on to learn more about one of the Soviet Union’s most influential women.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Israel's extermination war against Gaza has exceeded 30,001 Palestinian deaths since October 7.
🟡 Israel published their first-ever post-Gaza War plan that envisions Israeli-selected authorities governing Gaza and indefinite military control.
🟡 Egyptian media report that talks are underway between Israel and Gaza's ruling group over a possible ceasefire and prisoner exchange.
🟡 The WHO called the destruction in Gaza "unprecedented," with 80% of civilian infrastructure destroyed or severely damaged.
🟡 Netanyahu said he would approve "operational plans" for the looming military invasion of Rafah early next week.
🟡 A two-month-old Palestinian baby, Mahmoud Fattouh, has died of starvation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
🟡 Israel plans to build 3,344 new housing units in the occupied West Bank, expanding Jewish settlements.
🟡 The Jordanian Foreign Minister said that Israel's war during Ramadan "will expose the entire region to the danger of an explosion."
Today, 38 years ago, millions of Filipinos took to the streets in a peaceful revolution to end the 20-year-long US-backed dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos ruled the Philippines with an iron fist, using the rise of the Communist Party’s New People’s Army and other militant groups as a pretext to declare martial law, terrorizing the country with counter-insurgency tactics.
Marcos’ attempted election fraud backfired and triggered a mass uprising across the country, known as the People Power Revolution, which eventually forced Marcos to flee the country.
The revolution not only changed the course of Philippine history but also inspired other movements in Asia and beyond.
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Today, for Black History Month, watch Black revolutionary Kwame Ture explain the ties between colonialism and capitalism, arguing that 'Anti-colonialism is nothing but anti-capitalism.'
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🇵🇸 Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Desperate women and children queue for food rations amidst Israel's imposed famine affecting all 2 million people in the Gaza Strip.
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For today, in Black History Month, watch former Black Panther, revolutionary, and scholar Kathleen Cleaver respond to the question of non-violence, arguing that “non-violence is non-functional.” Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1967. She became the first woman to be included in the BPP’s Central Committee, the highest decision-making body within the organization. She wrote many of the organization’s speeches, delivering them nationwide and serving as a media spokesperson.
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Tensions between protesters and police flared in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia during a protest in the capital, Nouméa. Police clashed with protesters, deploying tear gas and making several arrests as they protested the visit of French ministers.
The event, organized by the Union Calédonienne's "field action coordinating cell" (CCAT), drew thousands to the streets in opposition to France's proposed constitutional reforms.
The protesters denounced France's unilateral approach in presenting legislative proposals concerning the future governance of the region, mainly the alteration of electoral rolls for local elections, a move viewed by many as undermining the native Kanak people's right to self-determination. These reforms, if enacted, are perceived by many as a breach of the 1998 Nouméa Accord, which was intended to pave the way for increased autonomy and self-determination for New Caledonia, also referred to as Kanaky.
The confrontation between police and protesters in New Caledonia, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), a coalition of left-leaning pro-independence parties, highlights the deep-seated frustration and disillusionment felt by many in the Pacific Island territory over perceived continued interference in their affairs by the French government after 170 years of colonial rule.
After 170 years of French colonial rule, and on the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste (FLNKS), the confrontation between police and protesters underscores the deep-seated frustration and disillusionment felt by many in the Pacific island territory over what they perceive as continued interference in their affairs by the French government.
Today, for Black History Month, we remember legendary South African socialist Steve Biko.
Born in the Eastern Caper in December 1946, Biko was raised in a township and, in 1966, secured a scholarship to study at the University of Natal Medical School. Initially, Biko became active in the moderate Union of South African Students (NUSAS) before founding the all-Black South African Students’ Organization (SASO).
SASO was based on Black consciousness, encouraging Black people to recognize their dignity and self-worth. As the concept of Black consciousness spread across South African universities, Biko became of the Black People’s Convention, an umbrella organization for Black consciousness groups in 1972.
On August 18, 1977, Biko and his friend Peter Jones were seized at a roadblock and jailed in Port Elizabeth. On September 11, he was driven 1,190 km to a prison hospital in Pretoria, where he tragically died the following day, aged only 30.
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Watch Clare Daly expose the EU’s “cruise missile feminism” over its complicity in Israel’s devastating war on Palestinian women. Israel's genocide has made Gaza the most deadly place for women globally with two mothers killed every hour. Women and children make up 70% of the civilians Israel has killed.
“For the cruise missile feminists in here, there seems to be no fellow feeling - they want the atrocities to continue.”
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Clashes erupted between police and Spanish farmers as thousands from across Spain descended upon the capital, Madrid. The confrontations erupted after attempts by farmers to clear the way for tractors to advance towards the Ministry of Agriculture. The convoy of hundreds of tractors disrupted traffic across the Spanish capital.
The protesters criticized the EU’s heavy regulations and the lack of support from national authorities, emphasizing the stifling impact of bureaucratic barriers from EU and local policies. Simultaneously, they pointed out that the EU’s laws overlook vital economic and social considerations, adversely impacting their livelihoods.
Tractor protests and blockades of major highways have been seen across Europe in recent months, with thousands of farmers participating across several countries. The central issues across the countries include high production costs, tax hikes, red tape, fuel costs, EU-wide green regulations, and cheap imports, such as those from Ukraine.
Today, in Black History Month, we commemorate Frantz Fanon, the Black Caribbean anti-colonial revolutionary who passed away in 1961. When he died at the young age of 36, his words had already inspired liberation movements worldwide.
Fanon was born 98 years ago in the former French colony of Martinique, part of the West Indies. Later, as a psychiatrist, Fanon analyzed the socio-pathological structure of the colonial system and worked closely with the Algerian National Liberation Front, which fought against French colonial rule.
His flagship work, “The Wretched of the Earth,” became a classic of anti-colonial literature, with a print run in the millions. In chapter one, Fanon wrote, “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state and will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”
Fanon died of leukemia in December 1961. More than half a century after Fanon’s death, his writings are still vivid.
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“The democracy in India has ended, and now there is the regime of violence, the regime of Hitler.” red. Media was at the frontlines with India’s farmers under fire from tear gas fired by police who barricaded Delhi to lock out the massive protests.
India’s farmers have been protesting for a mandatory minimum price for their crops for over a week. Negotiations with the Modi government earlier this week were unsuccessful, leading to a resurgence of protests. The farmers blocked the streets with barricades and are withstanding tear gas by suffocating the gas grenades.
Police forces shot and killed a 22-year-old protester who succumbed to his head injuries in hospital on Tuesday. Police deny the killing, but a video of the victim dying in a hospital bed went viral on social media, and his death was confirmed by hospital staff.
The protests echo India’s farmers’ rebellion in 2021. The protests were sparked by reforms that handed over India’s agricultural market to large corporations in the Global North.
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Palestine activists targeted Germany's largest publishing house, Axel Springer, for its whitewashing of Israel's extermination war against Gaza and incitement against Palestinians. The activists left a huge message at the Axel Springer Skyscraper site that reads, "Springer participated in the shooting."
The slogan emerged during the radical student movement of the 1960s in West Germany, which besieged the Springerhaus in 1968 after an armed attack on the prominent student leader Rudi Dutschke. Many blamed the Springer house for propagating anti-communist sentiments, fueling the assassination attempt, giving rise to the slogan "Springer participated in the shooting."
The media empire owned by Axel Springer includes prominent outlets such as Bild, Die Welt, Business Insider, Politico, and others. Springer enshrined its commitment to Israel in its "constitution." Journalists and all other employees must pledge their ideological commitment to Israel, NATO, and the "free market economy" before signing a contract.
The history of Axel Springer is deeply intertwined with the Nazi Reich. At the age of 21, Springer joined a paramilitary Nazi organization before moving to the newspaper "Altonaer Nachrichten" in 1933, where he produced Nazi propaganda as deputy editor-in-chief and developed his anti-communist and racist rhetoric, which paved the way for his life-long career until his death in 1985.
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Israeli social media has become a cesspool of hate. Whether it's sharing photos of dead Palestinians for mockery or organizing to block food trucks from entering Gaza, social media platforms used by settlers to incite violence and racism have become wildly popular.
Many of these closed groups are in Hebrew; therefore, most international audiences are unaware of just how radicalized and racist many Israelis have become. While Western media often quote polished spokespeople, we have investigated the dark side of Israeli public opinion.
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Today, in Black History Month, we remember revolutionary leader and Black liberation icon Malcolm X, who was assassinated on this day in 1965. Listen to this speech where he debunks one of the key myths that underlie American exceptionalism and moralizing about the so-called superiority of their system and “separation of powers,” which in reality only exists for some.
To this day, his death remains a mystery as two of the three people who were convicted for his murder were exonerated in 2021 after the trial was revisited, after more than 20 years in prison each.
An estimated 30,000 people attended his funeral, including many prominent civil rights leaders and activists, a testament to his impact on the world. Despite his death, Malcolm X’s influence and legacy as a fearless and uncompromising leader in the struggle for Black Liberation have made him an enduring symbol of resistance and defiance against oppression.
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