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German police have threatened Palestinian activist Salah Said amid a wave of extreme repression against activists opposed to Israel's war of extermination. Said, who was also active in the occupation at Berlin's Free University, from where we have been reporting, said police officers knocked on his door and interrogated him, saying they were running files on him and threatening new "visits" if he did not stop his activism.
A few days ago, on December 20, over 170 police raided the homes and facilities of Palestinian-Soldi internationalist activists in Berlin. Germany is leading the western crackdown campaign against Palestinian activism. Shortly after Israel declared war on October 7, German authorities immediately banned Palestinian organizations, banned protests, and violently suppressed demonstrations with police violence.
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Since October 7th, the Israeli state, politicians, mainstream media and foreign pro-Israel public figures have likened Gaza's ruling militant groups to the extremist terrorists !S!S. This characterization has also extended to other factions such as the PIJ and the PFLP.
However, the wild claim shatters when cross-checked against the group's political programs. Take a look, as we dive into the political programs of four of the armed factions currently based in Gaza.
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Germany is waging a vicious campaign against students protesting the country's complicity in Israel’s crimes. Read our in-depth report: Students are Taking on Germany’s Genocide “Guiltwashing”.
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red. Rewind 2023: Among the biggest embarrassments for France following the 2023 coup in Niger, which cut far-reaching exploitative ties between the African country and its former colonial ruler, was the seizure of "smuggled croissants" bound for the sanctioned French embassy in the country. Coup forces seized chests full of the French pastries contraband, one of many embarrassments for France this year.
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Huge numbers of marching Yemenis have been seen being deployed to confront the US-led coalition in the Red Sea. Ever since Israel began its war on the Gaza Strip, Yemenis have been at the forefront of solidarity with the Palestinians: from organizing protests with hundreds of thousands of people to cutting off Israel’s supply line in the Red Sea.
In response, the US has spearheaded the creation of a naval task force to “protect shipping in the Red Sea,” whose purpose is in fact to protect Israel and not international shipping. Ansarallah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned that any escalation will be met with escalation, also clarifying that engaging in a direct war with the US and Israel, rather than their proxies, is what the group wants the most.
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Argentina’s unions and social movements took to the streets yesterday for the first time since “libertarian” President Javier Milei took power. Protesters rallied against the new neoliberal measures, as well as a new repressive law being introduced to crack down on social protest.
Milei has already announced his “Shock Therapy” measures, such as cuts to infrastructure spending and subsidies, and as a result, inflation is even worse today. Argentina is set for a 30% monthly inflation, much higher than the 8% figure in October.
To prevent social protests against these measures, Milei is introducing a new law that criminalizes any mobilization that cuts traffic access and gives the police greater power to repress.
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French President Emmanuel Macron allied with the far-right to pass a controversial new migration bill that limits access to social security to foreigners who have been in France for 5 years or 30 months for those with jobs. 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.
Last week opposition lawmakers refused even to debate the bill. In response, Macron's centrist government responded by putting forward a much tougher bill which also toughed rules for foreign students, introduced migration quotas, and made it harder for the children of foreigners to become French. Communist MP Elsa Faucillon said that Macron’s government was using the same sort of words and ideas on migration as Italy’s fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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red. Rewind 2023: The year started with months of mass protests and nationwide strikes in France against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to increase the retirement age, which was rejected by over 70% of the population. Hundreds of thousands of workers paralyzed public life with over a dozen nationwide strikes in the first five months of the year.
Protesters occupied corporate buildings linked to the capitalist class, such as the headquarters of BlackRock and Louis Vuitton in Paris. The protests were met with massive police violence. After the French Assembly voted against the reform, Macron used a highly controversial constitutional article to force it through, and it became law in September.
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Germany’s students are rising up against their universites’ complicity in yet another genocide. They've coined the term "guiltwashing" to describe how the German elite is trying to shift their Holocaust guilt onto innocent groups critical of Israel's war crimes. Read our in-depth report here.
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This year’s award for the best football fans goes to those who have shown their unwavering solidarity with Palestine. Despite countless bans and fines, football fans from Scotland to Egypt have demonstrated their solidarity by waving thousands of Palestinian flags and singing songs of solidarity.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 19,453, with more than 52,286 Injured.
🟡 As a result of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip’s civilian population, 71% of Gaza’s population is suffering from acute levels of hunger. Meanwhile, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has reported that 98% are suffering due to insufficient food consumption.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces have closed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, detaining its staff and several others as well as destroying the main entrance. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have turned Al Awda Hospital into a military barracks, detaining 240 people, including medical staff, patients, and displaced people.
🟡 Only eight out of 36 hospitals across the Gaza Strip remain fully operational. Only one of these hospitals is in the north, according to the WHO. The two major hospitals in southern Gaza are operating at three times their bed capacity while facing critical shortages of basic supplies and fuel.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 30 Palestinians overnight across the occupied West Bank. At least 4,605 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced the formation of an international coalition that will conduct joint patrols in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in response to Ansarallah’s ongoing blockade. Yemen’s Ansarallah has said that they will confront any US- backed coalition in the Red Sea.
🟡 An Israeli hostage who was released as part of the recent prisoner swap said that the Israeli military killed her mother on October 7, when they shot at the car that was taking them to Gaza.
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red. rewind 2023: France’s War on the Suburbs – After Paris police shot dead 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, protests and riots erupted across suburbs in Paris, eventually sweeping the whole country. The authorities quickly announced the deployment of tens of thousands of security forces to quell the uprising, but the youth-led protests made an unprecedented impact.
Watch our special report in the aftermath of the racist police killing, giving unique insights from France’s Black, Arab, and marginalized communities during the height of the Justice for Nahel uprising. WATCH HERE.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Israel’s fifth forced telecommunications blackout on Gaza since October 7 has disrupted communications to the extent that it is impossible to provide accurate and up-to-date numbers in relation to the death toll.
🟡 An Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least 25 people, including journalist Haneen Ali al-Qutshan, the 95th Palestinian journalist or media worker killed by Israel since October 7.
🟡 The Gaza Strip’s fifth and most prolonged communications blackout leaves well over a million people completely cut off from lifesaving assistance. The blackout makes it impossible to properly distribute the already limited aid allowed into Gaza according to Save the Children.
🟡 As Israel’s attacks on hospitals continue, the WHO described the situation at al-Shifa Hospital as “a complete horror scene” and a “bloodbath” in addition to calling the recent destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital “appalling.”
🟡 Israeli occupation forces raided at least six areas across the occupied West Bank overnight, arresting dozens of Palestinians. Israeli forces have detained at least 4,575 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 Israeli civilians are becoming gun owners in record numbers as Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he will “continue to distribute as many weapons as possible.”
🟡 Two shipping companies, the Italian-Swiss MSC and the French CMA CGM, announced that they have suspended operations in the Red Sea after Yemen’s Ansarallah attacked two vessels bound for occupied Palestine, bringing the total number of the world’s top shipping companies to do so so far to four.
🟡 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called for an “immediate and durable truce” in Gaza after Israel bombed a residential building in Rafah, killing a French government employee.
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Perception vs. Reality
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red. Rewind: 2023 was the year in which mainstream media left their facade of respectability behind and joined Israel in their fascist rhetoric labeling Palestinians as “animals” and “savages.” However, those same people celebrated and promoted real terrorists in Syria and Libya. What's going on?
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red. Rewind: 2023 was the year in which mainstream media left their facade of respectability behind and joined Israel in their fascist rhetoric labeling Palestinians as "animals" and "savages." However, those same people celebrated and promoted real terrorists in Syria and Libya. What's going on?
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Happy Birthday to the pan-African revolutionary Thomas Sankara! Inspired by the example of the revolutionary armed movements in China and Cuba under Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro, he believed that the armed forces could act as a progressive socialist force that could help improve people's lives.
Sankara launched extensive social, ecological, and economic programs, as well as land reform. Setting a personal example, he cut his salary and sold off the government fleet of Mercedes while maintaining an austere lifestyle. He was also known for his solid anti-imperialist foreign policy, challenging Western imperialism in Africa, mainly from France.
However, Sankara's presidency came to a tragic end in 1987 when he was murdered during a coup organized by Blaise Compaoré, who had become Sankara's closest friend after they had met in the military and who had been involved in the 1983 revolution. Read on.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has remains 20,000, with more than 52,600 Injured.
🟡Iraq’s Islamic Resistance targeted the al-Assad Air Base in Iraq, hosting US and international forces, with a rocket. A total of 102 attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria have been conducted since October 17.
🟡 Heavy bombardments from air, land, and sea, continued across the Gaza Strip, with the most intense shelling in Beit Lahiya in the north and Rafah city in the south.
🟡 90% of people in north Gaza have gone a full day and night without eating. up to 20% have gone 10 out of 30 days without food. In the south, one in every two people rely solely on humanitarian assistance to feed their families.
🟡 The Israeli Occupation forces designated a new area covering about 20% of central and south of the city of Khan Younis for immediate evacuation.
🟡 At least 66% of employment equivalent to 192,000 jobs has been lost in Gaza since October 7 based on revised estimates by the ILO and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces murdered two Palestinians, and injured dozens in different incidents across the occupied West Bank. At least 303 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 Malaysia banned Israeli-flagged ships from using its ports in response to the war in Gaza, blocking shipping giant ZIM from docking at its sea terminals.
🟡Yemen’s Ansarallah warned that the group will strike US warships and interests if Washington targets Yemen. The statement came as a response to the formation of a new multinational task force to protect Israeli ships in the Red Sea.
🟡 The UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a pause to Israel’s war on Gaza was postponed again as members wrangled over wording.
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Watch a German journalist admit to red. media that he doesn't consider the celebrations of Palestinian civilians killed by Israel as discriminatory, but insist that activism in solidarity with Palestine has been "anti-Semitic".
The reporter from the national radio show, Deutschlandfunk, falsely claimed that an action by Berlin university students, where participants held up red hands was "anti-Semitic" because it celebrated an attack on IDF reservists in Ramallah in the year 2000. The students' red hands in fact symbolized the blood of Palestinians being massacred by Israel in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the reporter refused to condemn the explicit Israeli celebrations on TikTok of Palestinians massacred in Gaza.
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Massive armed police raids hit pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin this morning – at the center of the operation, the anti-capitalist youth women's organization ZORA. We spoke to ZORA, which reported how their mainly young women activists were handcuffed and taken away at gunpoint. German authorities are widening their scope as part of their anti-Palestinian repression, now targeting internationalist groups.
Germany is leading the West's campaign to quell any Palestine solidarity activism. Bans on organizations, police violence at protests, assembly bans, media smear campaigns, massive police raids – what is behind Germany's unparalleled efforts to have Israel's back?
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Indian police continue what the Myanmar military started: the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya population. Rohingya refugees in India are left with no safe place as India’s notoriously Islamophobic police is persecuting the refugees in Indian-occupied Kashmir, leaving many fearing arrest after a series of police raids targeted locals sheltering Rohingya refugees in the Bathindi area of Jammu city, Kashmir. Police conducted raids in at least 29 locations, confiscating documents and investigating those who have assisted the refugees according to media reports.
According to official data, there are around 13,700 refugees who have settled in the region, mainly Muslims from Bangladesh and Rohingyas from Myanmar. The authorities have claimed that many of the Rohingyas have entered the region through Bangladesh without documentation. Jammu police arrested 50 people following the raids while 10 Rohingyas and Bangladeshi nationals were also held.
More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar after the country's military, now in power, began a genocidal campaign of massacres, rape and arson against them in August 2017. Most Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh leading to the creation of Kutupalong refugee camp the largest refugee camp in the world close to the border with Myanmar.
The raids reflect the Islamophobic policies of the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since the BJP came to power in 2014 it has been promoting a racist discourse against Muslims depicting them as an undesirable group and a threat. This is within the context of territorial disputes with Muslim majority Pakistan over Kashmir and Jammu which are occupied by India. The 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act embedded this discrimination by fast-tracking citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries before 2015 but excluding Muslims.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 19,667, with more than 52,586 Injured.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah announced that the US-led coalition in the Red Sea will not affect their operations. The group has started to publicly mobilize in Yemen in order to confront the new US-led international coalition.
🟡 Children in the Gaza Strip can’t access 90% of their regular water use, UNICEF reported, as water and sanitation services are collapsing.
🟡 Israel has enforced yet another communications blackout on the Gaza Strip, the sixth blackout since October 7.
🟡 In the last 24 hours, over 300 Israeli strikes from air, land, and sea have been reported across Gaza, with the most intense shelling in the north of the enclave. Meanwhile, ground operations and fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance groups continue.
🟡 Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has killed more health workers than in all countries in conflict combined in any year since 2016, Medical Aid for Palestinians reported.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 25 Palestinians overnight across the occupied West Bank. At least 4,630 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine as Hezbollah and Israeli forces exchanged fire. Israeli forces fired incendiary phosphorus shells at border towns in southern Lebanon in another clear violation of international law.
🟡 South Africa says that its citizens serving in the Israeli army could face prosecution when they return home. French Deputy Thomas Ports has made similar comments arguing that more than 4,000 Israeli soldiers, who are French dual nationals, are fighting in Gaza.
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NOW: Over 300 activists occupy Europe's largest central station in Berlin, Germany, in protest against Israel's extermination war against Gaza. red. media is on the ground as pro-Palestinian chants echo through the central station, demanding an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's slaughter of the people of Gaza. Police forces also rushed to gather at the protest scene.
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Watch Ghana’s first openly trans musician, Angel Maxine, slam Ghana’s ruling politicians as they prepare a new law that will ban same-sex relationships. Maxine goes on to bravely threaten to expose the politicians’ hypocrisy as she knows numerous political figures in Ghana who secretly use LGBTQI+ sex workers while at the same time supporting the new homophobic law.
Many mainstream political parties in Africa use homophobia to present themselves as “anti-Western” and nationalist while at the same time selling off their natural resources and land to Western corporations. This homophobia overlooks the Indigenous African traditions of sexual diversity, which have existed for centuries and were repressed by European colonizers.
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Elon Musk and Rishi Sunak were guests of honour at a far-right festival organized by Meloni’s fascist “Brothers of Italy” party. At the event itself, Meloni reiterated her support for Ukraine and Israel, confirming the perverse alliance between Zionism and European fascism. While Mussolini colluded with Hitler to carry out the holocaust, his political heirs are best friends with Netanyahu.
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Chilean President, Gabriel Boric has betrayed the people and decided to leave the country where it was in 2019, along with its Pinochet-era constitution. The referendum rejected the second attempt at changing Chile’s magna carta yesterday. In response, Boric has said that the constitution won't be changed while he’s in power.
This latest referendum was on whether to accept or reject the rewrite of the constitution by the right with some of the rewritten articles being more neo-liberal than those they were supposed to replace. This came after a more left-leaning rewrite last year was also rejected in a campaign in which Boric did not participate. The unprecedented wave of massive protests that rocked the South American country since 2019 swept Boric to power. However, he abandoned them and crushed many Chileans’ hope for a new constitution.
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Post-independence Kenya is a land still rooted in disparity. In Nairobi, 65% of the population still lives in informal settlements that sprouted up during the colonial period. These settlements, like Kibera – one of Africa’s biggest slums – were set up to serve the elite in neighboring white areas like Karen.
Residents of Kibera say not much has changed today, except that the white man has been replaced by his black counterparts – a very well-packaged class that learned from the white settlers and is an ally to the colonial front.
As Kenyans reflect on 60 years of independence, watch “Echoes of Empire: British Neocolonialism in Kenya” out now.
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Do you know who this iconic quote belongs to? The Brazilian socialist and Workers Party organizer Francisco 'Chico' Mendes was tragically assassinated on this day in 1988 by wealthy landowners wanting to extract resources from the Amazon. As a tireless campaigner for the Amazon rainforest, which is now more threatened than ever, he knew precisely how closely environmental protection and class struggle are linked.
Mendes took militant action to stop the construction of a highly polluting road in the state of Acre and created forest reserves for the sustainable extraction of products for Indigenous communities and farmers. This made him an enemy of local ranchers, loggers, and landowners. On December 22, 1988, Chico Mendes was shot and killed in front of his house.
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Israel has become a safe haven for international criminals. From human rights abusers to paedophiles, the 'law of return' means that many can go and hide in Israel if they can prove they have some Jewish heritage.
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