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Police attacked communist protesters in Berlin causing severe injuries. The pretext, according to police, was "illegal" Palestine solidarity slogans. Israel’s war on Gaza dominated this year's "Luxemburg Liebknecht Lenin" (LLL) demonstration.
At least one arrested person was released after thousands demanded their release by refusing to move on and renewed clashes with the police broke out. The police then tried to arrest more people, prevented by the activists holding tightly together.
The LLL demonstration in Berlin is the annual highlight of communist and socialist organizations in Germany. Thousands from around the country mobilize to march together to the "Cemetery of Socialists" in the capital to commemorate the three communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Vladimir Lenin.
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Dutch police attacked anti-racist citizens protesting the far-right who gathered to burn the Koran in the city of Arnhem.
Local protesters gathered in Arnhem city center ahead of a Koran burning event announced by racist group PEGIDA. The protesters far outnumbered PEGIDA who eventually appeared and were protected and escorted by police, but they struggled to burn the Holy book amidst the local opposition.
Despite being heavily repressed by police, anti-racists managed to seize the Koran from PEGIDA whose planned event ended in failure as a result.
Watch Michael Parenti examine how covert modern colonialism functions as an integral part of US foreign policy. He argues that the US grants countries a facade of independence while simultaneously controlling and exploiting them for its benefit.
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Millions marched in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, against the bombing of Yemen by the US and its allies.
The US and UK launched 73 bombardments against Yemen on January 11, 2024, and attacked the International Airport.
When Israel declared war on Gaza in October 2023, Yemen’s Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the 'Houthis,' joined the war on the side of the Palestinian people a month later by blocking the Red Sea.
Yemen’s Red Sea blockade has turned around more than 2,000 ships. The threat to the flow of world capital clearly bothered the West more than Israel’s months-long war against Gaza.
Senior Ansarallah official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said that Yemen’s goal is to 'stop the crimes of genocide in Gaza' while the US and UK are 'supporting and protecting its perpetrators.'
'Every individual in this world is faced with two choices that have no third: Either to stand with the victims of genocide or to stand with its perpetrators,' he added.
How does Israel defend itself against the genocide accusation in the International Criminal Court? One tactic: It simply links the applicant South Africa to Gaza's armed groups. Today marks the second day of the historic court case centered around Israel's legal team's response to yesterday's indictment of South Africa.
Israel's responses focused on critical questions that have been addressed by countless investigations and reports since the beginning of the war, such as the question of "self-defense." ICJ President Joan Donoghue ended the two-day hearing by saying the court would announce its decision in the coming days.
Yemen lays bare the cracks in the empire's facade. The West's reaction to stop a months-long relentless war, apartheid, and an alarming death toll nearing 25,000? Next to nothing. But Yemen disrupting the flow of global capital? Unforgivable.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 23,708, with more than 60,005 injured.
🟡 Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed on average 100 children a day, adding up to at least 10,000 children in total or one percent of the total children population in the Gaza Strip, according to a new Save The Children report.
🟡 The daily death rate in Gaza is higher than that of any other major 21st century conflict as Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day, Oxfam reported.
🟡 Israeli forces damaged or destroyed 24 cultural centers, and approximately 195 historical buildings, including 20 mosques and churches across the Gaza Strip, Gaza’s Ministry of Culture reported.
🟡 Israeli attacks killed three journalists in the last 48 hours, raising the death toll of journalists since October 7 to 117.
🟡 Palestinian resistance fighters responded to a massive incursion by the Israeli occupation forces in Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm.
🟡 Iraq’s resistance killed three Israeli military intelligence officers in a drone strike that targeted their headquarters in Erbil, Iraq, the Jerusalem Times reported.
🟡 The US and UK bombed Yemen in response to Ansarallah’s blockade of the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine, further increasing the possibility for a full-scale regional war. Ansarallah condemned the attack and warned that the attackers that their military bases across the region will come under attack if they decide to increase aggression, adding that they won’t stop the blockade of ships bound for Israeli ports.
🟡 The US supply of arms to Israel violated domestic laws and policies in the US Human Rights Watch reported while also noting that the breach effectively violated international law.
🟡 US Media reported Israeli deaths 16 times more often than Palestinian deaths in the first six weeks after October 7, a report by The Intercept revealed.
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Taiwan’s general election is scheduled to take place on January 13. As cross-strait tensions between China and Taiwan have increased strikingly over the past years, local politicians have described the upcoming elections as “a choice between war and peace.” The East Asian island’s two major parties are the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), alternating government every eight years since 1996. While the previous KMT government has primarily pursued dialogue with Beijing, the DPP, which now holds a slim majority over the past eight years, preferred military muscle-flexing over de-escalation. So, will this election be “a choice between war and peace?”
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While the eyes of the world were glued to the live images of South Africa’s trial against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), most Western media refused to broadcast the historic event. It is only the second time in the history of the Genocide Convention that one state has attempted to prosecute the atrocities of another on genocide charges. Too unimportant for Western mainstream media? Rather too inconvenient.
Israel’s Western allies have been bending over backward to keep their partner free of genocide accusations. The two-day public hearing that began today is expected to put considerable pressure on Israel and cripple Western governments’ support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Layer by layer, step by step, the South African legal team argued in the first session today for Israel to be convicted of genocide.
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South Africa’s legal team destroys the long-standing narrative, minimizing the extermination of Palestine as a “conflict” during the court case against Israel. Layer by layer, step by step, South Africa’s legal team argued for a conviction of Israel on genocide charges during the first session today.
Gaza’s ruling group voiced support for South Africa’s initiative against Israel, saying, “We urge the court to reject all pressure and take a decision to criminalize the Israeli occupation and stop the aggression on Gaza.” Today, countless people worldwide watched the court case, often described as “historic.”
Israeli authorities are becoming more and more nervous in response. The spokesperson of the Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs called South Africa as “functioning as the legal arm” of Gaza’s armed groups.
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“These are the words of our founding president, Nelson Mandela. This is the spirit in which South Africa acceded.” – South Africa is taking Israel to the International Court of Justice in a historic move on charges of genocide. The two-day public hearing, which started today, is expected to put significant pressure on Israel, crippling Western governments’ backing of Israel’s war in Gaza.
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel marks only the second time in the history of the Genocide Convention that one state has tried to prosecute the atrocities of another. The trial, live-streamed worldwide, will provide a stage for the investigation of Israel’s genocidal intentions case.
South Africa’s speakers presented an extensive catalog of Israel’s crimes, with harrowing evidence, pictures, videos, and reports documenting the systematic extermination of Gaza. Powerful statements drew parallels between South Africa’s historic struggle against apartheid and that of the Palestinian people.
Israel is likely to argue that its killing of more than 23,000 people in Gaza is in “self-defense.” Experts say a sentence in this case could take three to four years.
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Shocking gang violence in Ecuador has its roots in the neoliberal restoration that began in 2017. The country went from being the second safest country in Latin America under Rafael Correa to having one of the highest homicide rates anywhere in the world.
The most recent gang assault saw police and prison guards being kidnapped and a TV station being seized by masked gunmen. The extreme level of violence was aimed at reminding the state that they do not have a monopoly on the use of force.
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Security forces of the Palestinian Authority (PA) clamped down on protesters against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah and his meeting with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas. Security forces have arrested multiple protesters as they attempted to march towards the PA headquarters.
During Blinken’s latest visit to the Middle East, it became clear that the US was attempting to play different sides to secure their interests amid rising regional tensions. While in Tel Aviv, he called the genocide charges against Israel “meritless” and distracting; when meeting with Abbas, he discussed the PA’s role in the future of Gaza after stating that the US opposes the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
Blinken has previously stated that the US envisions PA rule over Gaza, despite the PA being hugely unpopular among Palestinians due to their ineffectiveness in representing Palestinians and effectively being an Israeli proxy. Support for Abbas dropped significantly, with demand for his resignation among Palestinians rising to around 90%, and even higher in the West Bank, as revealed by a recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR). The same is true for the trust in the PA as a whole, as demand for its dissolution rose to nearly 60%, the highest percentage ever recorded in PSR polls.
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South Africa's ICJ case against Israel, for violation of the genocide convention, is a historic opportunity to expose the fanatically violent character of the Israeli state and heap pressure on their western backers. That it's those who defeated apartheid bringing this case makes it all the more credible, even if the ANC of today aren't as politically iconic as the freedom fighters of that period.
The proceedings will take place between January 11th and 12th. We'll be covering it, watch this space.
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Watch this Palestinian woman shut down founder of the "Israel Advocacy Movement", Joseph Cohen, as he tries to gaslight the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians by Israel.
The slogan of his UK based organization is: "we do zionism".
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"Free Palestine" chants echoed at the international Rosa Luxemburg conference in Berlin, with record turnout numbers this year. Activists demanded justice for Gaza and an immediate ceasefire on stage. Organizers estimate that 4,000 people attended the annual conference to discuss socialist perspectives.
The event is named after the iconic communist Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder of the German Communist Party and leader of the 1919 Spartacus Uprising, the attempted revolutionary seizure of power in the aftermath of the First World War.
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The UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning “in the strongest terms” the attacks by Yemen’s Ansarallah off the coast of Yemen and demanding that the group immediately cease all such attacks.
Eleven countries voted in favor of the draft resolution, while four—Russia, China, Algeria, and Mozambique—abstained, and none voted against it. The US and UK, who have just bombed Yemen in response, have previously rejected three amendments by Russia, including one linking Ansarallah’s attacks to Israel’s war on Gaza. Despite this, Russia and China, who are permanent council members, could veto but chose not to, proving that when the global flow of capital is at stake, they choose the side of capital.
Not long after October 7 and the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip and its population, Ansarallah has become an increasingly influential front against Israel by preventing Israeli-linked ships and those heading for occupied Palestine from passing through the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, and the Red Sea. With the critical shipping route along the Red Sea being one of the busiest in the whole world, Ansarallah’s blockade has acutely disrupted the global flow of capital, proving a thorn in the side of global imperialism.
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News outlets worldwide have been warning that China “aims to invade Taiwan.” And with elections on the island upcoming, local politicians have called them “a choice between war and peace.” But what’s the root of the China-Taiwan dispute? Here’s a quick guide.
Taiwan has been one with mainland China since the Qing dynasty took over the island in 1683. In 1895, the Qing dynasty handed over Taiwan to the expanding Japanese Empire. Meanwhile, in 1912, revolutionary forces overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China (ROC). When the Japanese invaded China in 1937, the Chinese led a fierce liberation war against them under the leadership of the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). Following the end of WWII, civil war erupted in China until the CPC eventually defeated the KMT in 1949, leaving Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT to retreat to Taiwan along with almost two million people, including China’s bureaucratic and political elite and rich industrialists to establish the ROC on the island.
When the CPC prepared to reunify Taiwan with the rest of China, the US militarily intervened to prevent the communist revolution from spreading to the island. In 1979, the US started to recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC), pursuing a policy of dual recognition, only further driving a wedge between Taiwan and the mainland by promoting Taiwan as a nation separate from China.
The government in Taiwan has since shifted to the neoliberal Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which pursues a hawkish stance towards the PRC. With the imperialist rivalry between the US and China having intensified in recent decades, the DPP, together with the US, has been trying to prevent any attempts at peaceful reunification of Taiwan with mainland China.
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Yemen is shaking the flow of global capital at one of its most vulnerable points on the Red Sea trade routes. Unlike in the extermination war against Gaza, the West sees a strong need for intervention and took immediate action. Seemingly powerless in Gaza, the US and UK bombed one of the poorest countries in the world in a joint operation.
Framed as a “rebel group” and as “pirates,” Ansarallah, which governs almost 80% of the entire Yemeni population, takes on an unprecedented sacrifice for the resistance in Gaza. 🟡 Find out what’s really going on in our in-depth analysis “Strategic Intervention: Yemen’s Impact on Red Sea Trade and Global Politics.” – PRESS HERE
After more than three months of destructive war against Gaza, Western countries are taking the first drastic step by attacking one of the world's poorest countries, Yemen. In a joint operation today, the US and UK bombed several cities in Yemen, the main ally of the resistance in Gaza.
The move marks a dangerous escalation towards regional war as Israel pushes its war of annihilation against Gaza beyond its borders.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council passed a resolution strongly condemning Yemen's naval blockade of Israeli ports in the Red Sea, one of the most critical tools in the fight against Israel's war. Read the carousel for a roundup of the developments.
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After almost two weeks of our Instagram page being banned due to our coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, we have access to our page again.
At a critically important time, when the threat of a full-out regional war looms over the Middle East, our most crucial platform, which informed tens of millions about the developments, was censored.
We thank everyone who supported us during this time and put pressure on META, serving as a positive example of how protesting big tech censorship can be effective.
Unfortunately, our TikTok account has been deleted after months of being geo-blocked in the EU. Meanwhile, our account on X remains shadowbanned, significantly inhibiting our ability to reach our audience.
We call on everyone to continue to support media that are still under censorship for their reporting on Gaza and express solidarity with them. We are far from being the only ones silenced by big tech, as social media giants have been rolling out unparalleled waves of censorship since October 7.
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What would anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela have thought about South Africa's ICJ initiative today? - “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
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At least 15 people have been killed in Papua New Guinea after mass riots broke out yesterday over pay cuts in the public sector. The government claimed that the pay cut was a “glitch” and would be reversed in the next month’s paycheck, but it was not enough to calm the fears of those protesting who proceeded to loot stores and burn a vehicle in front of the Prime Minister’s residence.
Police officers led a strike after noticing a pay cut in their latest wage packet. Shortly after, protests broke out across the country that ended in riots and looting, with images showing people taking essential goods such as food and household appliances.
Prime Minister James Marple then deployed the military to restore order until police returned to work. The government is a close ally of Australia and the US, with which it has numerous “security agreements” as the southwestern Pacific country is seen as a buffer between Australia, China, and the rest of the Asia-Pacific.
The country has suffered months of rising inflation and unemployment. UN figures say that 40% of the population lives below the “extreme poverty” line with a minimum wage of around $150 per month.
The dead are split between the capital, Port Moresby, and the city of Lae, although it’s not confirmed yet if those dead are a result of the chaos during the rioting or from the military repression.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 23,469, with more than 59,604 injured.
🟡 While the world is gripped by the live broadcast of the South Africa-led court case against Israel on genocidal charges before the ICJ, with major open-air live broadcast events around the world, Western mainstream media are avoiding the topic. CNN, BBC, Sky News, CBS, NBC, CNBC, and others are not broadcasting the historic event.
🟡 Israeli forces killed two of the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) staff and two of its patients in a strike on a PRCS ambulance in central Gaza.
🟡 Hamas fighters partially or fully destroyed 42 Israeli military vehicles, killed 22 Israeli soldiers, and carried out over 52 operations against the invading forces over the past week, Hamas announced.
🟡 A Palestinian man who was previously shot by Israeli forces died in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. Since October 7, at least 342 people have been killed in the West Bank due to Israeli forces’ attacks.
🟡 Israeli authorities demolished a Palestinian house in the Sur Baher neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, displacing more families. Since October 7, at least 453 Palestinians, including 227 children, from the West Bank and East Jerusalem have been displaced due to house demolition and settler violence, according to the UN.
🟡 The UN Security Council demanded Yemen’s Ansarallah end its attacks on ships in the Red Sea immediately. It cautioned against escalating tensions while hypocritically endorsing the US-led task force that claims to have been defending vessels.
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The censorship attacks against us continue. This is a call to action. Our TikTok page with over 100,000 followers has just been deleted, just days after our Instagram page with over 130,000 followers was taken down, which reached up to 50 million people monthly since the war on Gaza started.
We are far from the only ones who have been punished with censorship against coverage of Gaza, but the intensity of the silence we have to contend with is absurd. We are being sabotaged on all fronts.
What can be done when media are systematically cut off from their audience? If you’ve ever appreciated our work and coverage, then please get loud, speak up. Share this video, follow, and share our backup channels. Your voice matters. Protest works.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 23,357, with more than 59,410 injured.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah launched its biggest attack since October 7 with a large number of ballistic and naval missiles and drones, targeting a US ship that was providing support to Israel. The group stated the operation came in response to the attack on their naval forces by US forces on December 31.
🟡 All of Gaza’s bakeries have been shut down due to a lack of flour and fuel, including more than 12 of the leading bakeries across the enclave that Israeli forces bombed, further exacerbating the food crisis.
🟡 Due to Israel’s ongoing attacks and its siege of Gaza, the enclave is suffering the world’s worst current hunger crisis, according to the humanitarian organization Islamic Relief.
🟡 Israel’s war on Gaza is affecting more than 625,000 students and 22,564 teachers from Gaza, with closures and Israeli attacks on educational facilities ongoing for over three months, leaving Gazans with no access to education and a safe place.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 26 Palestinians overnight across the occupied West Bank. At least 5,780 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched a series of drone strikes at Israeli targets in northern occupied Palestine in retaliation for the killings of several of its fighters by Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon. The drones hit an Israeli army base, leading to the destruction of a “large number of Israeli vehicles and tanks,” the group stated.
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“You say what you like because they like what you say.” – Amid the wave of censorship against red. Media and outlets reporting on the Gaza War, here are critically important words from socialist historian Michael Parenti, explaining why mainstream media journalists’ claims to work for a free press are a delusion.
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Massive crowds turned out to join an event organized by the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as the country approaches the upcoming 2024 national general elections. The CPI(M) stands for a reformist path to power, while in stark contrast, the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has taken the path of armed guerrilla struggle.
In the presidential race, India's left forces have suffered defeat after defeat in recent years, while the Hindu-nationalist Party led by Narendra Modi has been in power for almost a decade.
The CPI(M)'s last remaining stronghold is Kerala, in southern India, where the communists first came to power in the late 1950s. In terms of literacy rate, social status of women, economic development, and other social factors, Kerala ranks among the top states in India.
Meanwhile, the Indian state's official announcement that it would defeat the Maoist guerrillas by 2023, who maintain de facto authority in parts of eastern India, the so-called "red corridor," has failed.
Twitter has launched a massive purge against large accounts that have posted in support of Palestine. The purge has taken well-known activists, bloggers, podcasts, journalists such as Alan Mcleod, and even some from critical mainstream outlets like the Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein and Steven Zetti of the Texas Observer.
Despite fashioning himself as a kind of “rebel” and guardian of free speech, Elon Musk has colluded with Western governments to eliminate any opposition to issues of significant concern for the foreign policy establishments. Whether it’s Ukraine or Israel, Musk has used his platform to crush any dissent or questioning of established narratives.
However, it’s not just Twitter. Our pages on Meta are currently censored, and our TikTok account has been geo-blocked, meaning that our European followers cannot see any of our content.
Political censorship has clearly become a feature on these apps, even more so since Israel’s war against Gaza. Mainstream media have not only stayed silent on this censorship but have actively encouraged it and claimed that it’s some crusade against “anti-Semitism.”
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