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On this day 34 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving 27 years under the racist apartheid regime, more than a quarter of his life. In honor of this day, here is a one of his strongest quotes, underlining oppressed peoples’ right to liberation.
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On this day in 1903, for the first time in US history, workers from different racial backgrounds came together to form a labor union and challenge their bosses. The Oxnard Strike of 1903 demonstrated the effectiveness of a multi-racial working class alliance, proving that class struggle knows no race. Read on to learn about this crucial moment in labor history.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Gaza’s governing organization stated that any Israeli invasion of Rafah would torpedo hostage negotiations. Israel has said it believes that 105 hostages are still being held in Gaza.
🟡 The Israeli army is preparing to remobilize reserve units for the looming invasion of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip with 1.4 million civilians.
🟡 The UN, EU, US, and Arab nations are warning Israel against the Rafah invasion. In response, Netanyahu promised a “safe passage” in Rafah but failed to provide concrete plans.
🟡 Palestinian fighters in Gaza confirmed the deaths of 2 more Israeli hostages and 8 others injured by Israeli bombs in the last 4 days.
🟡 UN’s Francesca Albanese declared that Israel is violating ICJ orders to cease all activities amounting to genocide.
🟡 A senior official of Gaza’s ruling group survived an alleged Israeli assassination attempt in central Lebanon.
🟡 US President Joe Biden will send CIA Chief William Burns to Cairo for talks next week.
Indigenous Peruvians chant ACAB as carnival weekend kicks off in Latin America.
During the folkloric parade in Puno, Peru, dancers and musicians chanted: "Oh police! Corrupt police!" and "Who ordered you to kill the people?" referencing the police massacres of protesters who resisted the US-backed coup last year. The "Fiesta de la Candelaria" in Puno is the largest carnival celebration in the country, and it was canceled last year as an act of mourning due to the massacre in the nearby town of Juliaca, where 19 protesters were shot dead by police.
The entire Andean region of Peru went on strike in January and February 2023 against the coup that removed democratically elected Pedro Castillo from office. The police, military, and Congress installed Dina Boluarte as "president," and she launched a campaign of brutal repression against the majority Indigenous protesters who opposed her regime.
Boluarte's right-wing regime remains a close ally of the United States, the first country to recognize her government following the coup. The US Embassy also announced an $8 million grant for Peru's security forces in January 2023 at the height of the repression.
This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇨🇩 Goma, DR Congo – Protesters burn the US and EU flags in response to the Western-backed government’s failure to contain the M23 rebels in the eastern region of North Kivu.
🇨🇴 Bogotá, Colombia – Protestors clash with police during a rally in support of Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
🇸🇳 Dakar, Senegal – Massive protests erupted in Senegal after President Macky Sall announced the postponement of the presidential election.
🇵🇸 Jericho, occupied Palestine – Israeli security forces violently crack down on a joint Palestinian-Israeli protest against Israel’s war on Gaza.
🇪🇸 Girona, Spain – Hundreds of farmers blockade the AP-7 highway to protest the crisis in the agricultural sector.
🇵🇱 Poznan, Poland – A flag of the EU is skewered on a pitchfork in front of the Greater Poland government office building during a farmers’ protest.
🇹🇷 Antakya, Turkey – Protesters scuffle with police on the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria.
🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince, Haiti – A policeman points a gun at protesters during a demonstration calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
🇵🇸 Gaza, occupied Palestine – An injured man looks on while standing next to the rubble and debris of a destroyed building in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
🇬🇷 Crete, Greece – Residents protest US ships coming to Souda Bay in the eastern Mediterranean island.
Rafah, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is now Israel's next target. Currently, more than half of Gaza's population, estimated to be over 1 million people, is seeking refuge in Rafah. They have fled and been forcefully displaced due to Israel's relentless and terrible war on the people of Gaza.
The UN and other humanitarian organizations are expressing concerns. They warn that this situation could lead to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, resulting in thousands of deaths.
🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,947, with more than 67,459 people injured.
🟡 Israeli occupation tanks are shelling areas in eastern Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, where over 600,000 children and their families have been displaced.
🟡 Israeli occupation snipers in Khan Younis, south of Gaza Strip, killed at least 17 people outside of Nasser Hospital and shot a doctor while working in the operating room inside the hospital.
🟡 A 21-year-old Palestinian died in an Israeli prison, where he had been held since May 2022. Since October 7, eight Palestinian prisoners have died or been killed in Israeli prisons.
🟡 US and UK carried out seven strikes against Yemen’s Ansarullah group, in its continuous aggression on Yemen.
🟡 Israel has assassinated a Heubollah commander in an air strike in southern Lebanon. In response, over 20 rockets were fired toward Israeli settlements and a military outposts in northern Israel.
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Why is the President of Argentina bursting into tears of joy upon visiting Israel?
We take a look at the factors behind his strange obsession with Zionism. From the business interests of his inner circle, to his “spiritual” connection.
Moving their embassy to Jerusalem is just the tip of the iceberg. Latin America’s military dictatorships all counted Israel as a strategic ally, but now Milei is taking it to new levels of cooperation, or rather, servility.
17-year-old anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) got executed by the Nazis on this day in 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.
Amid a fierce battle, she used up all her ammunition. Undeterred, she called on her comrades to fight with their bare hands until overpowered by blows from German rifle butts.
Alongside her sister Dara, she fought in the 7th Partisan Company of the 2nd Krajina Detachment. On February 8, they were helping refugees, primarily women and children, escape the Nazi 369th and 7th SS Division.
Scheduled for hanging, as the rope was tightened around her neck, her captors offered her a chance at life if she revealed the names of her comrades. Her response was resolute; she was no traitor, and her comrades would reveal themselves when avenging her death.
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Mass protests rocked Haiti yesterday, igniting clashes with the police and, in some cases, street shootings. In Port-au-Prince, thousands of people have flooded the streets for days, demanding the removal of the US-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry as the country grapples with escalating gang violence.
Amid this past Wednesday’s unrest, a tense standoff unfolded between the police and Haiti’s governmental armed environmental agency (BSAP). The police reported that a group of BSAP agents demanded the surrender of police officers at gunpoint, resulting in a shootout, leaving five dead.
The BSAP has evolved into a paramilitary consisting of soldiers who formerly worked alongside the US-backed coup leader Guy Philippe, who made a surprise return to Haiti and has now begun mobilizing for a new “revolution.”
Haiti is suffering from the aftermath of multiple devastating foreign interventions that have significantly destabilized society and exacerbated the issue of gang violence.
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Irish MEP Clare Daly was cut off in the European Parliament for exposing the EU and US response to Israel’s war of extermination.
Daly's mic was turned off as she was slamming how the West uses “every cliché imaginable” to divert attention from Israel’s crimes in Gaza, using all "bogeymen" at their disposal, from Venezuela and Iran to Russia.
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On this day in 1962, the US imposed a total blockade on Cuba, designed to sabotage the country's socialist revolution. The blockade has caused an estimated $1 trillion in damage and has been condemned by the majority of the world for 30 consecutive years. Despite the blockade's devastating humanitarian effects, the Cuban revolution continues and the country boasts a higher average life expectancy, literacy rate, and lower infant mortality rate than the US.
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Today, 59 years ago, the US began its air war on the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, commonly referred to as North Vietnam), effectively stepping up its involvement in the Vietnam War, the bloody war the US would go on to wage for another decade. On February 7, 1965, US President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a series of retaliatory air raids on the DRV after the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF, commonly referred to as Viet Cong) attacked the US base Camp Holloway in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, commonly referred to as South Vietnam). Undeterred by Operation Flaming Dart and the following US bombing campaigns, the NLF would go on to continue its liberation struggle until the last US aircraft left the Southeast Asian country in 1975.
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Unrest in Senegal continues to escalate as huge crowds and clashes with the police dominate the capital, Dakar, in reaction to the West African country's first-ever postponement of presidential elections since independence from France in 1960. President Macky Sall initiated the last-minute delay of the elections from February 25 to December 15, 2024.
Over 1,000 people from the opposition, media, and civil society have been arrested since January. HRW warns of a "pre-election crackdown."
Mass protests have erupted in Senegal over the past year amid fears that President Sall would run for a third term, which he has denied. However, the election postponement ultimately gives the President almost a year of unelected power extension.
The government temporarily shut down the internet to curb mobilization, drawing harsh criticism from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Today is popular Black singer Bob Marley’s 79th birthday. Despite Marley’s popularity, the CIA’s alleged attempt on his life remains largely unknown. The shooting at his home in Kingston in 1976 happened against a backdrop of CIA sponsored destabilization of Jamaica following the election of the social democratic Michael Manley, who talked tough against the IMF and was close to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Read on to find out more about the shooting of the legendary singer who once sang “Rasta don't work for no CIA”.
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"The settlers hurled stones at my house and my family." – While the eyes of the world are on the Gaza Strip, Israel's extremist settlers have initiated their own war against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. As settler violence escalates, the current far-right Israeli government has intensified its support for the settlers through legislation and widespread distribution of weapons.
In Ras El Ein, south of the Jordan Valley in the east of the occupied bank, armed settlers invaded the barn to steal and loot the sheep of the Palestinian shepherd community.
Since October 7, Israeli settlers have carried out 514 attacks on Palestinians, resulting in the deaths of at least 10 Palestinians and damage to Palestinian property, according to the UN. While some countries have announced visa restrictions on some settlers, settlement expansion remains a central policy that has persisted since the establishment of the settler colonial project in Palestine.
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Is Latin America shifting back under US control? Ecuador’s decision to send its Russian weapons to the US for use in Ukraine represents a new level of servility from the neoliberal governments in the region. Combined with the new government in Argentina, the coup regime in Peru, and others, the right is gaining ground in the area.
These developments represent a new opportunity for the US to rebuild its military presence through SOUTHCOM and enlist new countries to help advance its foreign policy agenda. 2024 could be a year of tensions between those serving US interests and those still committed to an independent path.
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“If the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.” - Hear this passage from Nelson Mandela's address to the Palestinian Assembly in Gaza, a statement that continues to be as relevant now as it has ever been.
Today marks 34 years since his release from prison. Nine years later, the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary visited Gaza in what many described as a symbol of hope to Palestinians.
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WHY IS ISRAEL'S YOUTH RIGHT-WING?
“The most right-wing are the kids, and that’s because Israel has an incredibly successful, powerful, ideologically driven educational system.”Listen to Phyllis Bennis, a prominent American writer, activist, and political commentator, as she explains why Israel's youth tend to lean more towards the right-wing. She attributes this trend to an educational system that instills a sense of victimization and self-defense, ultimately shaping a generation inclined towards unquestioning militarism.
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Anti-Muslim violence in India reached a new boiling point, with at least two people killed and hundreds more injured in the city of Haldwani in the state of Uttarakhand. Police responded with large-scale repression of Muslim protesters as the city was placed under curfew, with shoot-at-sight orders issued against rioters and internet services completely shut down.
The riots erupted after authorities, with a heavy police presence, demolished a madrasa and an adjoining mosque, declaring the structures illegal and claiming that they stood on government property. The incident took place in the Banbhoolpura area of the city. The district had witnessed widespread protests a year ago after more than 50,000 residents, mostly Muslims, were served eviction notices alleging they were illegally living on land owned by the Indian Railways.
There have also been reports of Hindu residents joining the police in cracking down on the protesters. Islamophobic state-sponsored violence in India, including pogroms, home demolitions, and attacks on Muslim structures, has surged since 2014 when the ruling BJP came to power and mainstreamed the Hindutva ideology, which is based on Hindu supremacy.
In a similar light, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the Hindu Ram temple in Ayodhya just over a week ago. The temple was built on top of a 16th-century mosque, which was torn down by a Hindu nationalist mob in December 1992.
Protests against the US, UK, France and the EU are escalating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as M23 rebels threaten to capture the strategic eastern city of Goma.
Protesters burnt barricades outside the UK Embassy in the capital Kinshasa and gathered outside the French Embassy, demanding an end to the West's complicity in the worsening conflict.
The current protests were triggered by M23's advance towards the capital of North Kivu province, Goma, causing tens of thousands more to flee their homes.
Since the murder of Congo's revolutionary leader Patrice Lumumba was orchestrated by the CIA and Belgium, foreign companies have plundered the country and fuelled violence through arming and financing armed groups in exchange for minerals. Between 1996-2007 alone, six million Congolese were killed. DRC is the world's most resource rich country and has untapped raw mineral wealth worth an estimated $24 trillion.
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Unrest erupted in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, as 20,000 protesters mobilized to prevent what they perceived as a “takeover” of the Chief Prosecutor’s office. President Gustavo Petro and trade unions rallied for the protests amidst escalating tensions. Earlier, Petro had issued a warning regarding a plan by the attorney general’s office to remove him from power.
The protesters surrounded the courthouse, calling for the judges to elect a new general prosecutor. This demand came after the high court announced a “failure” to select a successor for the outgoing Prosecutor. Power was handed to Deputy Prosecutor General Martha Mancera, despite allegations of protecting suspected drug traffickers.
Colombia’s current Attorney General is a close friend of former far-right President Iván Duque and has launched constant lawfare against Petro ever since he took office. The President accused the prosecution earlier of illegally raiding labor unions that had contributed funds to Petro’s party.
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"We never expected to sleep in a chicken farm," are the words of a child in Gaza who is forced to sleep in chicken cages with her family due to the brutal Israeli bombardments.
Israel's relentless bombardment has destroyed nearly all residential buildings or made them uninhabitable for people. Gazans have had to leave their homes in fear of being bombed to the ground and seek refuge in places like this chicken farm, sleeping under extremely unhealthy conditions among chickens and other animals.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,840, with more than 67,317 people injured.
🟡 70% of the Gaza Strip’s population is drinking contaminated water. According to the UN, displaced people from all over the enclave struggle to find clean water for drinking, cooking or washing.
🟡 At least 13 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes while fetching water for their families in Gaza City.
🟡 There is a severe shortage of surgical supplies and sutures, the UN announced. They added that an estimated four days are left of the fuel needed to power hospital generators.
🟡 Several Palestinian organizations demanded an inquiry into the UN’s Office on Genocide Prevention’s “inexcusable failure to address Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
🟡 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally ordered the attack on Rafah city. Meanwhile, the UN’s Secretary-General warned that any Israeli military action in Rafah would exacerbate the “humanitarian nightmare” in the Gaza Strip.
🟡 Israeli forces killed journalist Nafez Abdel Jawad and his son in a bombing in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The total death toll of journalists killed by Israeli forces since October 7 stands at 129 journalists.
🟡 Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Nour Shams refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank during an hour-long raid. Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed 387 Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 US forces assassinated a senior commander of Iraqi resistance, targeting his car with an airstrike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
🟡 Hezbollah targeted the Israeli Pranit barracks in the north of occupied Palestine with missiles as Israeli forces continued to bomb Lebanese border villages.
🟡 A delegation from Hamas arrived in Egypt to continue negotiating the ceasefire plan.
Clashes have erupted between farmers and police in the southern Spanish city of Antequera. The farmers and field workers blockaded major logistics centers of various companies. Among them Mercadona, one of Spain’s leading physical supermarket and online shopping companies. Police are reported to have used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters.
Without the help of the country’s major agricultural associations, farmers from all corners of the province of Málaga have mobilized to blockade Málaga’s port and Antequera’s industrial estate. They erected barricades along major roads, impacting traffic across the entire province.
Earlier this week, Spain’s Agriculture Ministry announced about €270 million in aid to 140,000 farmers to compensate for the country’s drought and problems caused by the war in Ukraine. However, protests continue as authorities fail to meet the farmers’ demands.
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Repression, rubber bullets, and tear gas. The legacy of Chile's neo-liberal President Sebastian Piñera. We take a look at the violence and inequality he presided over, an antidote to the fawning media coverage.
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One of the most influential figures during the Fujimori dictatorship in Peru has now admitted to involvement in several massacres, yet he will likely be free again in two years. How is that possible? Swipe through the post for the whole story.
Vladimiro Montesinos was the head of the secret service under Fujimori, leading a brutal counterinsurgency against communist guerrillas. Montesinos was cultivated years earlier by the CIA to install an anti-communist ally in the highest levels of the Peruvian government.
Declassified Pentagon documents even drew parallels between Montesinos and Rasputin or Darth Vader. Montesinos wielded power over the country’s leading media outlets, plotted genocide against the Indigenous rural population, and led fascist paramilitaries himself, all under CIA supervision.
🟡 For more information on the guerrilla war in Peru and the largest and most significant Maoist movement in the Americas, read our article “The Andean People’s War: A Short History of Shining Path” here.
🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,708, with more than 67,147 people injured.
🟡 Hamas proposed a 4.5-month ceasefire to end the war, including a 3-stage plan for full prisoner exchanges, troop withdrawal, and repatriating displaced people, following mediators' suggestions last week.
🟡 Israeli forces bombed Rafah city south of the Gaza Strip, where more than one million displaced people are crammed, killing at least 107 people.
🟡 90% of fuel delivery missions in the Gaza Strip were not allowed by Israeli occupation forces. None of the 22 requests to open checkpoints earlier for aid delivery were allowed, according to the UN.
🟡 11,000 wounded and sick people are in urgent need of leaving the Gaza Strip for treatment to save their lives, said the Gaza health ministry.
🟡 Israeli forces have intensified their siege of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, endangering 300 medical staff, 450 patients, and some 10,000 displaced people.
🟡Dozens of Israelis blocked humanitarian aid at Kerem Shalom crossing, trapping 132 aid trucks from entering Gaza.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces raided the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Qalqilya. Clashes between resistance fighters and invading forces erupted.
🟡 Yemen's Ansarallah attacked US and UK ships with missiles, pledging to support Palestinians and resist aggression against Yemen.
🟡 Israel launched air raids on the city of Homs in Syria, killing at least six civilians, including a woman and a child.
🟡 Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry has issued a statement stating there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel without a Palestinian state.
🟡 Argentina's newly-elected far-right President Javier Milei announced he will move Argentina's Embassy to Jerusalem during his visit in Jerusalem.
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Protesters in Haiti returned to the streets to demand the resignation of Ariel Henry's US-backed government. The mobilizations began on Monday and are set to last three days, aiming to compel Henry's resignation by Wednesday, February 7th.
February 7th holds significance in Haiti as it marks the anniversary of the fall of the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 and the swearing-in of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected President. On Monday, these mobilizations shut down Haiti's major cities, including erecting roadblocks on critical highways. They are expected to intensify as February 7th approaches.
Previous foreign interventions have thoroughly destabilized Haitian society, exacerbating the issue of gang violence seen today. The problem has become so severe that approximately 80% of Port-au-Prince is now under gang control, with approximately 4,000 people killed due to gang/paramilitary violence.
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LGBTQ+, climate change and social justice activists are "left-wing extremists" in disguise, UK politician Liz Truss has claimed. Truss, who in 2022 became the most unpopular Prime Minister in UK history, made the comments at the launch event of the "Popular Conservativism" movement.
Dubbed "PopCons" by the media, this new faction within the Conservative Party champions far-right racist, sexist and transphobic talking points while ignoring that Britain's poorest are grappling with a crippling cost of living crisis as well as crumbling public services and infrastructure.
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