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Tear gas, water cannons, and protests dominated the streets of Nugegoda, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital, as police forces violently cracked down on student protesters rallying against austerity measures. The Inter-University Students Federation has called for protecting education from these measures.
Sri Lanka experienced massive student-led protests in 2022 that culminated in the storming of the presidential palace and the subsequent ouster of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. However, the political system remained essentially unchanged, and many in Colombo face a situation similar to 2022.
In December, the International Monetary Fund confirmed a $2.9 billion bailout package linked to significant privatization reforms and severe austerity measures. Sri Lanka declared bankruptcy in April 2022, burdened with more than $83 billion in debt.
As the country approaches the 2024 presidential election, the People's Liberation Front, a self-described Marxist-Leninist party, is polling at 59%, emerging as the front-runner.
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WATCH TOMORROW: "The Siege of Jenin: Israel’s War on the West Bank", an on the ground documentary showing the devastating consequences of Israel's attack on Jenin Refugee Camp.
In December last year, Israeli forces invaded the camp in the occupied West Bank, first draining resistance fighters of ammunition, then ensuring they had no backing from the Palestinian Authority forces. With electricity, water, and telecommunications shutdown, Palestinian civilians are bearing the brunt of the siege and scores of residents have been indiscriminately killed by Israel.
This is part of the all out war on Palestine, and the style and size of the destruction in Jenin parallels what Israel is inflicting on Gaza.
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Discover how Europe's far-right shifted from anti-Semitism to Islamophobia in our latest piece: “Europe's Far Right's Unwavering Support for Israel“ by Miquel Ramos.
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Massive protests erupt across Germany in the wake of record poll ratings for the far-right AfD party (Alternative for Germany) and the uncovering of the party’s plot to launch mass deportations after seizing power. Politicians of the previous ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) also attended the AfD-led meeting. Further protests are planned for the coming days.
The AfD is on the verge of becoming Germany’s main opposition party to the ruling coalition of the Social Democratic, Liberal, and Green parties, which is increasingly plummeting in the polls. The coalition is failing to tackle critical domestic and foreign policy issues such as the war in Ukraine, the Gaza war, and the rising cost-of-living crisis in Germany.
Investigations revealed last week secret meetings of the AfD together with fascist organizations, CDU politicians, and top German businessmen. At the meeting, a “master plan” was discussed, which the AfD calls “remigration” – the expulsion of people with a migration background.
The latest developments have sparked widespread calls for the AfD party to be banned, a vital demand of the current mass protests. Top politicians in the ruling coalition have spoken out in favor of a ban, although the liberal faction, the FDP, is more critical of a ban. Germany’s oldest mainstream news program, Tagesthemen, also published an editorial article titled “Commentary on the AfD ban: the time has come.”
Over 1,300,000 people signed an online petition calling for the outlawing of AfD top politician Björn Höcke, who, according to a court ruling, can be classified as a fascist.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza News Roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 24,448, with more than 61,504 injured.
🟡 61% of Germans believe that Israel's war on Gaza is unjustified, while the German government is considering the delivery of 10,000 rounds of precision tank ammunition to Israel to support it in its fight against Hamas, according to the German magazine Spiegel.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces advanced with intense bombardment on the area around Al Nasser, the main hospital in the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, leading many Palestinians to flee the vicinity of the hospital.
🟡 “Currently, every single person in Gaza is hungry, a quarter of the population is starving, and struggling to find food and drinkable water," said UN human rights experts.
🟡 Many women who undergo a cesarean section are discharged just six hours after delivery to make space for other pregnant women, while others are turned away and give birth in tents, according to Médecins Sans Frontières.
🟡 Israeli Occupation forces carried out two drone strikes in Balata and Tulkarm refugee camps in the occupied West Bank during overnight raids on the two camps, killing at least nine people. Since October 7, at least 360 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank due to Israeli forces' attacks.
🟡 Israel’s Knesset has approved an extension of an emergency order that allows Israeli authorities to deny detained Palestinians from Gaza the option to meet with lawyers, according to a report by Haaretz.
🟡 The US Senate voted against a resolution calling for the State Department to provide a report exploring whether US-provided weapons have been used in human rights violations during Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.
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“Israel is losing on the ground and in the court of public opinion” – Watch Irish MEP Clare Daly slamming the US President as “Butcher Biden” and Germany as “Genocidal Germany” for enabling and supporting Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and criticizing their support for Israel in the ICJ case.
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Did you know that the CIA once orchestrated the execution of Patrice Lumumba by a firing squad? On this day in 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, was executed by a firing squad following assassination plots concocted by the US and Belgian governments.
Lumumba's anti-imperialism and his vision of a united Congo made him an adversary of both Belgium and USimperialism. Although the CIA ordered his assassination, they weren't able to carry it out themselves. Instead, Washington and Brussels secretly funneled cash and aid to rival politicians who organized a coup and arrested Lumumba. He was then beaten, tortured, and killed.
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The US and UK might finally face their day in court for their crimes. After putting Israel in the dock, 47 South African lawyers will bring a lawsuit against both countries for their complicity in Israel's extermination war against Palestinians.
The UK and the US are not just complicit, though; they are the masters of this war, and Israel is their protege.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 24,285, with more than 61,154 injured.
🟡 Anticipating an escalation on the border with Lebanon, the Israeli military pulled one of four divisions out of Gaza, the 36th Division, transferring it to the border with Lebanon.
🟡 On average, 12,000 internally displaced persons reside in a single shelter in the southern Gaza Strip, more than four times the standard capacity. Since October 7, around 1.9 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip, some multiple times, according to the UN.
🟡 Only one of the three water pipelines supplying the Gaza Strip, the Middle Area water pipeline, is currently functioning.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces murdered two Palestinians, including a woman, in the occupied West Bank city of Dura. Since October 7, at least 355 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank due to Israeli attacks.
🟡 Iran launched 27 missiles at Iraq and Syria, their most significant attack since October 7 and in years. They targeted alleged Israeli espionage centers and a base hosting US military personnel in Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region, in addition to targets in northern Syria, allegedly linked to the so-called Islamic State.
🟡 South Africa is preparing a separate lawsuit for the International Court of Justice against the US and UK governments for their complicity in Israel’s war crimes in Palestine.
🟡 Israel’s cabinet passed an amended 2024 state budget, adding another $15 billion to the Gaza War budget, according to Israel’s Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister’s office.
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Seen in Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, at protests against the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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Happy birthday to civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.! Mainstream media continues to de-radicalize King, portraying him as a liberal icon and erasing his legacy as one of the most radical figures of the struggle for racial justice in the US. Hence, King is little known for his fierce condemnation of capitalism. Here are some of his most damning quotes.
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Colombia’s main guerrilla structures take further steps towards a united front as the ELN and the FARC-EP Segunda Marquetalia announce joint coordination in the southwest of the country. Similar steps have already been taken on other fronts in the country: a strategic military initiative to repel advancing far-right paramilitaries.
The 60-year-long guerrilla war in Colombia is undergoing major turns after seemingly being deadlocked for an eternity. Colombia’s first self-proclaimed leftist government is bringing new dynamics to the war, with plans to engage in dialogue with all of the country’s political armed groups.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 24,100, with more than 60,834 injured.
🟡 Over 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, reported missing, or wounded since October 7 as a result of Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
🟡 Nine in every ten Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip eats less than a meal a day, the UN reported, while an estimated 800,000 Gazans are facing death by starvation and thirst amid Israel’s ongoing siege and continuous bombardment of the enclave.
🟡 For the fourth day in a row, the Israel-enforced complete interruption of communications and internet services across the Gaza Strip continues, marking the seventh communications blackout since October 7.
🟡 Hamas fighters targeted and disabled around 1,000 Israeli military vehicles in the Gaza Strip during the last 100 days of Israel’s aggression against the enclave.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces killed at least six Palestinians in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank in the last 24 hours. Since October 7, at least 352 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank due to Israeli forces’ attacks.
🟡 Secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said his group is ready for “unrestricted warfare” with Israel, as cross-border confrontations continue.
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104 years ago today socialist revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were executed in Berlin following the unsuccessful supremacist uprising. However, their words are as relevant today as they were over a hundred years ago: "What does “regression into barbarism” mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means."
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"We will be called national traitors, that's better than being a class traitor." – red. Media met the Marxist theorist and author Torkil Lauesen during the international Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin to discuss his analysis of the current shifts in the global capitalist system through the lens of the raging Gaza War. Addressing 4,000 guests at the annual socialist conference, Lauesen spoke about perspectives to bring down the imperialist system.
Torkil Lauesen was a former member of the so-called underground Blekingegade group, which supported liberation movements in the Global South during the 1970s and 1980s, also resorting to militant methods. Today he is primarily a book author, publishing his detailed analysis of fighting the capitalist world system through a global perspective.
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Javier Milei's bizarre rant at Davos is being warmly welcomed by Western elites and economists. During his speech, Milei made some wacky claims about the ills of the world being a due to a "neo-Marxist" takeover in the West, but when you look closer you will find they are a result of the unhinged capitalism he dreams of.
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🟡 Latest News Roundup on the War in Gaza:
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 24,620, with more than 61,830 people injured.
🟡 A hepatitis A epidemic has broken out in the Gaza Strip due to overcrowding in displacement areas. According to the UN, nearly half of Gaza’s population is now in the city of Rafah in the south, in an area of 62 km², which amounts to around 16,000 people per km².
🟡 Over 120 mass graves have been established across the Gaza Strip to bury those killed in Israel’s ongoing war against the enclave’s population, as reported by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
🟡 Gaza has experienced a 300% increase in miscarriages since October 7, attributed to limited medical supplies and access to health centers, putting pregnant women at increased risk of infection, according to the humanitarian organization CARE.
🟡 As Israeli occupation forces continue their raid on the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank for the second day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for an independent investigation into the two Israeli strikes in the West Bank that killed nine Palestinians.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah announced their attack on a US-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden in response to recent US-led aggression against Yemen.
🟡 Israel’s military Chief of Staff stated that the possibility of war with Hezbollah “in the coming months is much higher than it was in the past.” Since October 7, over 2,000 projectiles have been launched at Israeli targets by Hezbollah and armed Palestinian groups along the Israeli border with Lebanon.
🟡 A shipment of medical supplies intended for Israeli captives and Gaza hospitals has entered the Gaza Strip and is being distributed as part of a deal brokered by Qatar and France.
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“Germany [...] supports a genocide” – Watch Left MEP Mick Wallace connecting Germany’s genocidal past to its current material and political support for Israel’s war on Palestine.
Not one EU member is backing South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel. In a shocking move, Berlin officially rejected the court case, drawing sharp criticism from Namibia, the country that suffered the first genocide of the 20th century at the hands of German colonialism.
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On Patrice Lumumba's death anniversary, we remember the words of the Congolese revolutionary and first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His analyses combined Congo's colonial past with an optimistic view of a future in which Africa takes control of its own history and destiny.
More than 60 years later, the consequences of Lumumba's assassination are still being felt by the Congolese people. Multinational corporations continue to plunder the wealth and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo, making the country one of the poorest in the world.
In February 2002, the Belgian government admitted "an irrefutable share of responsibility for the events that led to Lumumba's death." In July 2002, documents released by the US government revealed that the CIA was instrumental in Lumumba's assassination by supporting his killers with money, political support, weapons, and military training.
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Dozens of journalists in Gaza protested targeted killings by Israel against their press colleagues. The war is the deadliest for journalists in history, surpassing World War II, warns the Committee to Protect Journalists. Over 100 journalists have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, according to the Gaza Media Office.
The signs held up during the protest read in Arabic, “No to targeting journalists” and “Targeting journalists is a crime.” Al-Manar TV correspondent Abu Aoun said in a speech, “The invincible will of journalists is derived from the power of the Palestinian people. The coverage will continue.”
The extermination war against Gaza is the first in human history to be broadcast to the world in such detail in near real-time through the tireless efforts of regional journalists. Reporters Without Borders has filed several cases with the International Criminal Court against Israeli war crimes targeting journalists in Gaza since October 7.
🟡 Press here to watch our feature with journalists from Gaza sharing eye-opening insights on what it's like to report from the ground since October 7.
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The U.S. is reinforcing its main military outpost in the Indo-Pacific by constructing another U.S. military base on Japan’s Okinawa. The island already serves as a fortress in the U.S. geopolitical interests, primarily to keep China at bay. The decision is another blow to the people of Okinawa, who voted 72% against constructing another U.S. military base in 2019.
The regional population has a traumatizing relationship with the U.S. presence - most notoriously for the so-called “1995 incident,” when U.S. soldiers kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl. In addition, a report by the Japanese Communist Party recorded over 6000 criminal acts by U.S. personnel in Okinawa, including murder.
The beginning of the construction of the U.S. base once again violates the right to self-determination of the regional people, who tried in vain to prevent the construction through tireless protests. Okinawa accounts for only 0.6% of Japan’s territory but is home to 70% of all U.S. bases in Japan, the most crucial pawn for U.S. imperialism in the region.
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More than 300 farmers tried to storm a supermarket in Avignon, France, setting fire to barricades in front of its doors and occupying its parking lot with tractors in protest “against unfair payment.” The Young Farmers’ Union, which led the protest, emphasized they are working at a loss, under pressure from large-scale retail negotiators to cut prices.
“Through this cry of alarm, we are denouncing the measures announced by our government, which is slow in coming, and promises that have not been kept” - France’s government is failing to deliver on promises to protect farmers from exploitative corporate policies.
“We are fed up. [...] Today we can’t take it anymore, and we have to go out into the street”’ - said another union spokesperson.
The protests continue a broad trend in several EU countries, with farmers rising up against working conditions and regulations linked to EU laws. The protests echo last week’s week-long farmers’ revolt in Berlin, Germany. Similar protests have erupted in the Netherlands, Belgium, and other EU countries in recent months.
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In Germany, the far-right party “Alternative for Germany (AfD),” known for its anti-immigrant rhetoric, has become the second most popular political party. Since its founding, the AfD has steadily grown in popularity, using its populist rhetoric to exploit the German population’s dissatisfaction with Germany’s failing government. With several state elections upcoming this year and the federal election next year, will fascist rule become a reality again in Germany?
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Iran's IRGC launched several ballistic missile attacks against alleged Israeli espionage targets and a base hosting U.S. military personnel in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Another IRGC-claimed long-range missile attack also hit targets in northern Syria, allegedly linked to the so-called Islamic State.
The strikes on targets in Syria came in response to a devastating ISIS-claimed bombing in Iran's Kerman earlier this year, in which at least 103 were killed, according to Iranian state media. The alleged Mossad base in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region was reportedly linked to several targeted killings of senior IRGC commanders since October 7.
The attack also killed oil tycoon Peshraw Dizayee in Erbil, who reportedly facilitated oil exports to Israel. In total, local authorities report at least four dead and five wounded.
Bases of the U.S.-led coalition in Syria and Iraq have come under fire over 100 times since the Palestinian October 7 offensive with rockets and threatening attacks by various non-state militias in retaliation for Washington's support for Israel's war on Gaza. As a result, the U.S. increased its military presence in Iraq and Syria with 1,500 troops, officially announced in early January.
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On the occasion of anti-imperialist and Second Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s birthday, watch Nasser speak on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians—words that still hold to this day, half a century later. As a champion of anti-imperialism in the age of global decolonization, Nasser not only ended colonial rule in his own country but also actively supported liberation struggles across the Global South, including that of the Palestinians against the Israeli occupation.
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With the city authorities’ approval, about 500 joined a far-right anti-immigrant torchlight march through central Paris, an annual event organized by the French far-right group Paris-Fierte. As the fascists marched through the heart of Paris near the monument to Saint Genevieve, the patroness of the French capital, about 300 anti-fascists organized a counter-protest under heavy police surveillance. However, no clashes were reported.
The march comes as French President Emmanuel Macron’s teamed up with the far-right to pass a controversial new anti-immigration bill last month. Lawmakers from Macron’s centrist party voted for the bill along with the conservative Les Républicains and fascist leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Party.
The recent rise in anti-immigrant and far-right rallies is not unique to France. Just in recent weeks, fascists have rallied across Europe, with hundreds marching through Rome, Italy, while doing the Roman Salute. Meanwhile, the far-right in Germany discussed the deportation of millions of migrants while reaching an all-time high approval rate in nationwide polls.
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An estimated 68,000 people flooded the streets of the Basque city of Bilbao, Spain, demanding the release and fair treatment of prisoners of the now-disbanded Euskaid Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Basque separatist group. This year’s annual protest saw widespread support from political parties, trade unions, and pro-independence organizations.
The protesters accused the Spanish government of unfairly treating ETA prisoners under the “laws of exception” that led to the worse treatment of ETA prisoners compared to others. Even though the group disbanded in 2018, 134 former ETA members remain in Spanish prisons, eight in French prisons, and around 20 remain exiled abroad, according to Spanish news agency Efe. Until last year, Spanish authorities pursued the practice of scattering Basque prisoners throughout Spain, making it especially difficult for family and friends to visit.
ETA was an armed leftist group seeking independence for the Basque Country and the Basque people, constituting an ethnic minority in Spain and France. Founded in 1959, when fascist dictator Francisco Franco still ruled the country, the group went on to conduct bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings against the repressive government, which was highly centralized and repressed any expression of non-Castilian ethnic minorities, until finally disbanding in 2018.
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Thousands of communists and socialists participated in this year's massive "Luxemburg Liebknecht Lenin" (LLL) protest in Berlin. The annual protest tradition follows the international Luxemburg Conference, which saw record turnout numbers this year to discuss socialist perspectives.
Drawing participants from across the country, the event culminates in a march to the "Cemetery of Socialists" in the capital, commemorating the legacies of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Vladimir Lenin.
Communist protesters faced brutal police aggression, resulting in severe injuries and arrests, all triggered by what the police claimed were "illegal" slogans supporting Palestine. This year's LLL demonstration also placed a strong focus on Israel's war on Gaza.
Thousands refused to disperse without the release of the arrested person, which ended in the police giving in. During attempting further arrests, the police were met with resistance as activists held their ground.