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People around the world took to the streets to condemn Israel's crimes and world leaders’complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Thousands of protesters gathered in different cities following the horrendous massacre Israel committed as it targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah.
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Armenian authorities detained at least 273 anti-government protesters in the country’s capital, Yerevan. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across country in the South Caucasus, blocking roads as part of a “nationwide campaign of disobedience” to demand the Prime Minister’s resignation.
The protests, which have been shaking Armenia for several weeks now, come as the government cedes border areas in the Tavush region to its neighbor and longtime adversary, Azerbaijan.
The move by the Armenian government followed the departure of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeeping soldiers from in and around the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan took over by force in September of last year.
Azerbaijan’s takeover has since resulted in the exodus of 100,000 ethnic Armenians and the destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in the affected region. Many Armenians view the move as a threat to Armenia’s territorial integrity and security.
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Israel's full-scale assault on UNRWA is not only about depriving aid to the people of Gaza. The obsession with destroying UNRWA is about getting rid of the evidence of Palestinians' right of return to their homes and land. Watch Faten Elwan explain.
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Meet the mastermind behind one of the most famous bank robberies in history. Simon Ter-Petrosyan, also known by his party nickname “Kamo,” was born on this day in 1882. Together with Joseph Stalin, Kamo was one of the most important Caucasian communist revolutionaries of the early 20th century.
His Russian tutor and fellow countryman, who would later be known as Stalin, introduced him to the basics of Marxism and Marxist literature. In 1901, Kamo joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), quickly becoming an organizer of underground printing houses, expropriations, and the delivery of propaganda literature and weapons from abroad.
Kamo’s biggest feat, however, was undoubtedly the world-famous Tbilisi Bank Robbery in 1907. With Kamo as the head of the operation, the Bolshevik revolutionaries were able to expropriate 341,000 rubles, amounting to several million dollars today, as they were preparing their revolution, which would change history forever.
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“Dirty f*cking Muslims.” – This is the moment after a man, claiming to be an IDF soldier, assaulted a group of Muslim women on the London underground. He allegedly attempted to rip off one of the women’s hijabs before shouting racial slurs and accusing the women of being anti-Semitic. When confronted by a passer-by, he says he is an IDF soldier. He was later apprehended by British Transport Police.
The UK has seen a sharp rise in anti-Muslim attacks since October 7, largely directed towards women. Tell Mama, a charity documenting anti-Muslim hate, said there were 2,010 Islamphobic attacks between October 7, 2023, and February 7 this year, a notable increase from the 600 it recorded for the same period the previous year.
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Israeli forces have struck a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The camp is located in the designated safe zone and near the UNRWA warehouse. At least 35 were killed in the attack and more than 70 were injured, most of them were women and children. Many of the people were burned alive inside their tents because of the strike, while many with burn injuries arrived at hospitals.
The strike comes just a few days after the ICJ ordered Israel to halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah. The ICJ has also ordered Israel to report back to the court within one month on its progress in applying the ordered measures. Even though ICJ rulings are final and binding, the orders have been ignored in the past by Israel.
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On Guyanese Independence Day, watch Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali school a UK TV Host as he defended the royal family's palaces against reparations claims. “We're not asking for a palace. We're asking for justice...[for] the greatest injustice that has ever been done to human beings.”
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Did you know that communist theoretician Karl Marx studied at Berlin’s Humboldt University, the very same university where students occupied the Department of Social Sciences in solidarity with Palestine? Listen to a student at the university talk about Marx’s legacy and its connection to this week’s student occupation at Humboldt University.
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain – Police charge protesters during a rally against the Louis Vuitton fashion show that will take place in Park Güell on May 30.
🇮🇳 Amritsar, India – Residents hold placards protesting India’s general elections over inadequate water supply.
🇺🇸 New York City, US – Protesters rally outside US President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign rally in the South Bronx.
🇹🇷 Diyarbakir, Türkiye – A group of Kurdish Peace Mothers hold posters of Kurdish politicians recently sentenced to lengthy prison sentences.
🇨🇳 Taipei, China – Pro-unification activists protest near the venue hosting the inauguration ceremony of Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te and Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim.
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Latin America's wars of independence started on this day in 1809. The spark was a rebellion in the Chuquisaca, Bolivia, led by the white elites that had grown tired of obeying a weakened Spanish Empire. This was a revolution full of class contradictions, but it ultimately ended in the fall of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
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Police officers are still on strike over low pay and inflation in the province of Misiones, Argentina.
Misiones, a province bordering Brazil and Paraguay, has been rocked by protests all week. What began as a teachers’ strike against low pay and inflation has now grown into a general strike in the region, which includes a police mutiny.
Public sector workers are demanding a pay rise of over 100% to keep up with the country's hyperinflation. Inter-annual inflation currently stands at 287%, up from 160% at the beginning of December, when the “libertarian” President Javier Milei took office.
Milei’s government has sent federal agents from the capital to keep order. The government has also stated that they will fire all the police officers participating in this strike.
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Yesterday, the United Nations passed a resolution commemorating July 11, the day of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1995, Serbian forces massacred more than 8,000 Bosniaks to support their territorial claims in the region.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić capitalized on the opportunity to stoke ethnic tensions in the Balkans and smear the resolution as “anti-Serb.” He also used the hypocrisy of the West on questions of genocide in order to distract from his own war crimes. In March, the UN refused to hold a debate on NATO’s 1999 illegal bombing of Serbia.
In reality, the only people being condemned by the resolution are war criminals. It’s therefore no surprise that the man who proclaimed, “kill one Serb and we will kill 100 Muslims,” is feeling attacked.
A minority of Serbs have gone against the reactionary nationalist tide in Serbia and are reckoning with the crimes committed by those in power.
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BREAKING: Downtown Rafah comes under attack as Israeli aircraft bomb the city located in the southern Gaza Strip.
As international pressure on Israel grows with the ICC’s issuing of arrest warrants for Israel’s top leaders and the ICJ ordering Israel to halt its latest Rafah offensive, Israel is only intensifying its attacks against the Gaza Strip. ICJ President Nawaf Salam says the humanitarian situation in Rafah has “deteriorated further” since the last court order in March.
Since October 7, at least 35,800 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed as a result of Israel’s war of extermination against the enclave.
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Germany’s massive racism problem has been caught on camera again. This time, the German elite partying on the luxury island of Sylt were filmed singing “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,“ while mimicking Adolf Hitler‘s salute and moustache.
Singing this racist slogan to the electronic tune of "L’amour Toujours" by Gigi D'Agostino has become a trend among partying white Germans, particularly within the social circles of the far-right party AfD and its youth wing, Young Alternative.
While the resurgence of Germany’s far-right is often associated with the economically impoverished east of the country (former GDR), the North Sea island of Sylt is the playground of the super-rich.
The enemy does not come by boat, he comes by limousine.
NB: An earlier version of this post incorrectly included footage that depicted another unrelated event as part of this one, it has since been removed.
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Today marks the 11th anniversary of the 2013 Gezi protests, a defining chapter in Türkiye’s modern history. What started as an environmental protest, quickly snowballed into an uprising to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and became one of the largest protests the country has ever witnessed. Millions took to the streets across the nation and were met with deadly police violence. Read on for more.
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Several European countries’ decision to recognize Palestinian statehood, including Norway, Spain, and Ireland, are now effective. While the US and its allies are busy blocking the UN from recognizing and granting full membership to Palestine, the vast majority of the international community, 144 of the 193 UN member states, already recognizes Palestine as a state.
As international pressure on Israel and its allies grows amid its war of extermination against Gaza, along with the ICC’s request for arrest warrants for top Israeli politicians, countries all over the world are pushing for the recognition of Palestine and an end to Israel’s crimes.
In response, Israel pulled its ambassadors from Oslo, Madrid, and Dublin as Israel becomes increasingly isolated on the international stage. It also blocked Spain from providing consular services to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and accused Spain of helping the Gaza ruling group.
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The ICC has been asked to investigate the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen over complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Our verdict 👆
The Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI) filed a claim on May 22, stating that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the current president of the European Commission […] is complicit in several violations of international humanitarian law, amounting to crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC.”
The claim has shone a light on the European Union’s support for Israel despite clear evidence of war crimes and other abuses. The petitioners contend that von der Leyen’s leadership position makes her accountable for the EU’s policies and actions and their impact in Gaza.
Von der Leyen has numerous statements in support of the Israeli government during their war on Gaza, and her native Germany is responsible for almost half of all weapons imported by the occupying government.
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BREAKING: Israeli and Egyptian forces have exchanged fire near the Rafah border crossing. At least one Egyptian soldier was killed and others injured.
Israeli media has been issued with a gag order and is banned from reporting on the incident.
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Weeks into New Caledonia’s popular uprising against French colonial rule, white supremacist militias wreak havoc on the island. Protesters say that heavily armed “Kanak-hunting” militias are continuously harassing Indigenous Kanaks and other Indigenous Polynesians, shooting live ammunition at them.
At the same time, French police are only increasing their repression of the pro-independence protesters, turning a blind eye to the violent pro-France militias. In response, youths are taking matters into their own hands, setting up barricades to defend their communities from racist attacks that have already killed several people.
Just last week, while in New Caledonia, French President Emmanuel Macron pushed for removing protesters’ barricades, adding that the state of emergency, which granted police more powers, could only be lifted if local leaders called for removing the barricades that protesters erected in the Pacific archipelago’s capital Nouméa and elsewhere as well.
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a major offensive against the army’s last stronghold in Darfur, one of the largest regions in Sudan with a pre-war population of almost 10 million. According to Doctors Without Borders, more than 130 people died in a single hospital during the RSF siege in el-Fasher, and more than 1,000 people were injured.
The Sudanese army announced that it had survived the offensive and confirmed the withdrawal of the RSF from West Darfur. Artillery fire between the army and the RSF has escalated, resulting in further civilian casualties.
The UN warns that there is a growing risk of genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur. Human Rights Watch reports widespread war crimes by the RSF against the ethnic Massalit and other non-Arab populations in and around El Geneina.
According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, more than 14,790 people have been killed since the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war in 2023.
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A Palestinian man in Gaza remains steadfast on his land by building a tent made of Israeli and American missiles. After months of repeated displacement, he situated his tent right next to his destroyed home. In this video, he shows red. media his makeshift tent, adorned with exploded missiles labeled in Hebrew and stamped with “US.”
The US-sponsored genocide in Gaza has damaged or destroyed more than 62 percent of all homes in Gaza. A United Nations report notes that rebuilding Gaza could take 80 years. No area has been spared during this latest Zionist assault.
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité for whom? #NewCaledonia
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On this African Liberation Day, which marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity 61 years ago, watch Burkinabè revolutionary Thomas Sankara drawing a comparison between imperialism and a “poor student that never learns from its mistakes.”
Thomas Sankara was a communist revolutionary leader who became president of Burkina Faso in 1983. His revolutionary ideology drew inspiration from Marxism-Leninism, pan-Africanism, women's liberation, and anti-imperialism. Sankara was assassinated in 1987 during a coup that was allegedly supported by France.
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Today is African Liberation Day, an annual event established 61 years ago to mark the founding of the Organization of African Unity, which fought for complete decolonization and a united Africa.
Watch this red. media interview clip featuring pan-Africanist Prof. P. L. O. Lumumba in Kenya as he speaks about the dehumanizing nature of colonialism.
Lumumba describes the reality for most Africans under European colonial rule as, “the most dehumanizing thing that can happen,” adding that, “you are made a foreigner in your own land.”
🟡 red. media was on the ground in Kenya shooting a documentary investigating the legacy of colonialism. Watch “Echoes of Empire: British Neocolonialism in Kenya” here.
Who are the armed groups behind the violence in Haiti these past few months? We spoke to Haitian-American scholar Jemima Pierre about the facts on the ground and the long history of Western destabilization that has led Haiti to this point.
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On this day 24 years ago, Lebanon’s H3zb0ll@h forced Israel out of southern Lebanon after nearly two decades of occupation. Since October 7, tensions between southern Lebanon’s resistance and Israel have been rising, with a significant portion of Israeli military resources diverted from Gaza to the northern front. Meanwhile, Israeli calls for another invasion of Lebanon have become louder. Has Israel learned from its past, or would H3zb0ll@h achieve victory once more?
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Kenyan security forces are arriving in Haiti to carry out yet another foreign intervention against the country, supporting this intervention was a requirement for any Haitian politician looking to join the current transitional council that's in power. This attack is entirely funded and armed by the US government, what is the aim of this latest attack on Haiti?
We spoke to Haitian-American scholar Jemima Pierre about this moment and the wider history of foreign invasions aimed at under developing the country.
Watch the full interview here.
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Did you know that Eritrea gained independence as late as 1991, making it one of the world's youngest countries? On this day 33 years ago, Eritrea finally achieved independence from Ethiopia after a 30-year war. Women were one of the leading forces in this liberation struggle, which was waged by the Marxist guerrilla group, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. Swipe through to learn about the nation’s colonial history, and how it won its independence.
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“It is a scary situation in Germany.” Watch this student negotiator from the Humboldt University occupation express their shock that Berlin’s mayor went over the heads of the university administration and ordered the police to storm the building.
The students said Humboldt University’s president, Julia von Blumenthal, had promised that police would not enter the premises.
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