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Ecuador has experienced one of the worst oil spills in its history this week. At least 29,000 barrels of oil have contaminated the Esmeraldas River and its tributaries. The spill has affected the drinking water of at least 300,000 people in Esmeraldas province.
Home to a mostly Afro-Ecuadorian population, Esmeraldas was already one of the poorest and most neglected provinces in the country. Now, communities that rely on farming, fishing, and tourism have been left without access to clean water.
The neoliberal Noboa government has been blamed for failing to invest in infrastructure improvements in the area—failures that contributed to this environmental disaster.
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On this day in 1931, Indian socialist revolutionary Bhagat Singh and his comrades, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru, were executed by India’s British colonial rulers. During Singh’s short life, he became one of the most influential revolutionaries in India’s independence movement.
Although he respected Mahatma Gandhi’s role in organizing people to resist British rule, he also developed a critique of Gandhi’s methods and vision for a post-independence India. Despite his atheism and Marxism, he’s still revered today by all sections of the country and is referred to as Shaheed-e-Azam (the Great Martyr) in Punjabi.
On March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh and his two fellow revolutionaries were hanged. As they marched towards the gallows, they reportedly chanted, “Down with British imperialism!” and “Down with capitalism!”. Their actions and subsequent execution by the colonial regime inspired many and made them revered figures in the Indian struggle for freedom against the British Empire.
BREAKING: Israel bombed a residential area in Gaza while finalising mass‑expulsion plan.
Since October 2023, more than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry — a conservative estimate that excludes those still trapped under rubble or vaporised by heavy bombardments.
Meanwhile, some 50,000 lives are in imminent danger near Rafah as Israeli forces besiege the area, Gaza’s Civil Defence warns. Palestinian Red Crescent teams responding to emergency calls are now trapped and out of communication. This morning, Rafah Municipality reported that thousands of families have been forced to flee under intense airstrikes.
Also today, Israel approved the creation of a new Defence Ministry agency to manage the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, framed as “voluntary” relocation. The agency will coordinate deportations to third countries, overseeing security checks and transportation. Israel says the plan aligns with former President Trump’s “vision.”
Journalists beaten. Elderly people shoved to the ground. Protesters attacked while carrying anti-fascist flags. This is how police responded to a nationwide march against racism and the far right today in France.
Organized by over 550 leftist unions and groups, the protest brought tens of thousands into the streets of Paris to resist the rising tide of fascism.
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A Real Madrid tattoo was the sole piece of evidence used by US authorities to accuse a Venezuelan migrant of gang affiliation, leading to his deportation to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Since his arrival, he has lost all contact with his family and legal representation.
Reyes is currently being held in the CECOT prison, a facility built by President Nayib Bukele to detain gang members serving life sentences. Images shared by Bukele himself showed Salvadoran police violently mistreating Venezuelan migrants who arrived at the prison last weekend.
These renditions are part of a multi-million dollar agreement between the US and El Salvador, under which Venezuelan migrants are deported and imprisoned on one-year contracts that can be renewed indefinitely. The initiative followed the suspension of flights between the US and Venezuela.
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Over and over again, protesters are trying to break through police lines at mass anti-government demonstrations across Türkiye. The heavy police repression has so far failed to enforce the authorities’ protest ban.
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Communist hammer and sickle symbol painted on a barricade in Istanbul as massive anti-government protests shake Türkiye.
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🟡 NOW: Turkish police are unleashing waves of water cannons and tear gas on anti-government protests sweeping across the country. Massive protests are erupting in multiple cities, triggered by the arrest of President Erdoğan’s main political rival, İmamoğlu.
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Current scenes in Türkiye: Anti-government protesters defy massive police crackdown.
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🟡NOW: Police cracked down hard in Istanbul as protesters attempted to storm the heavily barricaded Taksim Square. Protesters repeatedly pushed against police lines but were met with relentless tear gas barrages.
If protesters break through, it will mark the first time in over a decade that protest crowds have reached Taksim Square—a site of historic political significance in Turkey. The government banned all protests there following the 2013 Gezi Park uprising, and police have maintained a 24/7 presence ever since.
Taksim Square was the epicenter of the 2013 protests, the largest anti-government revolt in modern Turkish history. That uprising led to a total ban on demonstrations in the area.
The latest wave of unrest erupted after the arrest of CHP politician Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s top political rival. But the protests have outgrown party lines, fueled by years of Erdoğan’s systematic crackdown on opposition politicians.
On this day in 1947, US Cold War paranoia reached a new height when President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9835 to tackle alleged communist infiltration. Also known as the “Loyalty Order,” it paved the way for 3 million government employees to come under investigation and was the prelude to the anti-communist witch hunts known as McCarthyism led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The order enabled the FBI to research the associations and beliefs of federal employees. If “derogatory information” was found, the FBI could launch investigations using confidential witnesses. Employees could be fired if “reasonable doubts” existed about their loyalty to the US. There was no right to appeal decisions made by loyalty boards.
300 government employees were dismissed for allegedly being a security risk, while 5,000 offered voluntary resignations following investigations, many of which took place during humiliating public congressional hearings.
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The moment when students tried to break through a police blockade in Izmir today.
Students are at the forefront of the ongoing anti-government protests that are shaking Türkiye.
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Protester with a snatched riot police helmet at the ongoing mass anti-government protests in Turkey.
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“We are living a second Nakba” – Palestinians in the West Bank are facing mass displacement as Israel’s ongoing military aggression and siege continue.
While Israel resumes its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, its military operation “Iron Wall” in the West Bank has entered its 60th consecutive day. The Israeli army is expanding its targets daily, from Jenin to Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Nablus.
Just yesterday, Israeli forces ordered around 50 families in Tulkarem to evacuate their homes and announced plans to demolish 95 houses in the Jenin refugee camp. In the Jenin camp, 100% of the roads have been bulldozed, along with 80% of the roads in the city.
More than 50 Palestinians have been killed in the operation, among them eight children, and more than 40,000 Palestinians remain displaced. According to a UN press release, Palestinians face a serious risk of mass ethnic cleansing as Israel moves forward with its long-standing plan to seize Palestinian lands.
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🟡 NEW: Israel blows up an entire hospital in Gaza.
Israel’s “most moral army in the world” has destroyed the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza. The hospital was Gaza’s only specialized cancer hospital and was considered one of the largest hospitals in the besieged strip. In July 2024, the hospital was turned into a military base by the Israeli army after being forced to shut down due to a lack of fuel caused by Israel’s total siege.
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The grandson of Nelson Mandela, Zwelivelile Mandela, chanting “Viva Hamas” at Yemen’s conference for Palestine today.
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Why Türkiye’s Protests Could Erupt Into a Full-Scale Uprising
Türkiye is experiencing its fiercest protests in over a decade, with violent clashes between police and protesters raging for four consecutive nights.
Today, Turkish courts sentenced Istanbul’s mayor and CHP politician Ekrem İmamoğlu on corruption charges to pre-trial detention. Allegations of terrorism were withdrawn. His arrest had already set off mass street mobilization—this news could push the situation to a breaking point.
A wave of protests is spreading across party lines as President Erdoğan’s AKP government escalates its crackdown on opposition mayors. Authorities suspended İmamoğlu's responsibilities as mayor and replaced him with a so-called “trustee” loyal to the AKP government—a tactic it has increasingly used in recent years, mainly against Kurdish politicians.
On Wednesday, authorities arrested around 100 politicians, journalists, and lawyers alongside İmamoğlu. His detention coincided with an internal CHP vote to nominate him as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election.
On Friday alone, Turkish police arrested more than 400 people in connection with the protests. Since İmamoğlu was widely expected to be the CHP’s frontrunner and Erdoğan’s primary challenger, multiple parties and organizations have called his arrest a “political coup.”
Across the country, riot police have unleashed extreme crackdowns—deploying water cannons, tear gas, and brute force. Protesters, in turn, are building barricades and equipping themselves with gas masks in self-defense. On Turkish social media, viral guides are circulating on how to resist the police.
Many are drawing parallels to the 2013 Gezi Park uprising, the largest anti-government movement in Türkiye’s recent history. With İmamoğlu’s conviction, the protests could escalate into something even bigger.
Happy birthday to revolutionary socialist, guerrilla intellectual, and pan-African activist Walter Rodney! On what would’ve been his 83rd birthday, listen to this excerpt from a speech Rodney delivered on the meaning of African identity for Black people worldwide.
Rodney developed a Marxist analysis of the pan-African liberation struggle that placed Black Power at its core. He argued that only “under the banner of socialism and through the leadership of the working classes” could Africans break from imperialism and colonialism.
However, Rodney’s effectiveness at the grassroots came at a price. In October 1968, he was accused of subversive activity while traveling abroad. In 1980, he was assassinated by a car bomb, an attack widely believed to have been a political assassination orchestrated by the Guyanese state.
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Jakarta’s streets erupted in protest after Indonesia’s parliament passed a law expanding military power. Students, workers, and civil society groups gathered outside the DPR building to oppose the decision. Clashes broke out once the law was passed. Riot police used violence, with several protesters beaten and arrested.
The new law allows active soldiers to take civilian jobs in more government institutions, including the courts and key ministries, without leaving the military. It also gives the president the power to assign them anywhere he wants. Protesters say this opens the door for the military to regain control over civilian life, similar to the Suharto era, when generals ran everything from local governments to parliament.
If you want to learn more about how Suharto’s rule led to the killing of up to three million people with help from Western countries, you can watch our report here.
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For Women’s History Month, we remember Zina Portnova, the 17-year-old who poisoned more than 100 Nazi soldiers. Just two weeks after arriving at her grandmother’s home in Belarus for summer vacation at age 15, the Nazis invaded.
The following year, Zina joined the Young Avengers, the resistance organization of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Then, in 1943, 17-year-old Zina played a leading role in a sabotage operation. Zina was hired as a cooking assistant in a canteen that supplied a Nazi garrison where she would pour poison into their food. Many of the soldiers fell in, and some died.
Later that year, she was captured by the Nazis. During her interrogation, she allegedly grabbed her interrogator’s pistol from the table and shot him, and then shot two more Nazi guards and escaped. The Nazis soon caught up with her. They brutally tortured her and then executed her by gunshot on January 15, 1944.
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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: Scenes show the massive scale of ongoing protests across Turkey, now entering their third consecutive day.
Demonstrations continue to spread nationwide, as police respond with tear gas, water cannons, and pepper spray in multiple cities.
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🟡 BREAKING: Protesters are pushing back riot police and water cannons in Ankara amid massive anti-government protests across Turkey.
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🟡 BREAKING: Lawyers are marching in Taksim, chanting, “The defense has not been silenced, it will not be silenced!” The protest comes after the dismissal of the Istanbul Bar Association’s leadership and takes place as mass demonstrations continue across Turkey.
The unrest began after the arrest of opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu but has since grown into a nationwide uprising against Erdoğan.
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🟡NOW: Massive turnout for anti-government protests now in Istanbul, Turkey. Other cities are also seeing large protests. Opposition parties and organizations had vowed beforehand to mobilize "millions."
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Today, on the occasion of Mother's Day in the Arab world, we share the words of resistance fighter Leila Khaled about the role of women.
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Türkiye braces for a third night of mass protests, the potentially most intense one yet. Opposition parties vowed to mobilize “millions”—despite a government-imposed ban on public gatherings and an expected police crackdown.
The unrest erupted after the arrest of CHP politician İmamoğlu, the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But the protests have spiraled beyond party lines, fueled by years of Erdoğan’s systematic legal assault on opposition politicians.
In 2020 and 2021 alone, the government has removed 66 mayors from the pro-Kurdish HDP. The HDP, facing a closure case, transferred its political activities to the DEM party, which secured control of 10 provinces in the 2024 local elections. The CHP won 35 provinces, making İmamoğlu’s arrest a dramatic escalation in Erdoğan’s grip on power.
Labeling the protests as “street terrorism,” Erdoğan vowed “not to give in.” Some speculate that the unrest could swell into a full-scale uprising akin to the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
“Where is the world?” – Palestinians in Gaza are currently under massive bombardment by the Israeli army across the entire besieged strip.
Since Tuesday, over 710 Palestinians have been killed in a military assault that Israeli leaders promise will be “unprecedented.” UNICEF denounced the killing of more than 200 children, with numbers expected to rise as many bodies remain trapped under the rubble.
The Israeli army has issued multiple displacement orders and expanded its ground invasion from both the north and south of the besieged Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Katz has announced plans to permanently occupy and annex parts of the territory. Meanwhile, for the second time since Israel broke the truce, Palestinian resistance groups have fired rockets toward Israeli settlements.
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Turkish police launched an excessive crackdown, trying to suffocate the mass protests before they could eventually turn into a full-blown uprising. The protests spread to at least 32 of Türkiye’s 81 provinces. Police arrested 150 people—those involved in the protests or for posts on social media.
The arrest of opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Erdoğan’s primary political rival, sparked a wave of protests across the country. İmamoğlu’s CHP party called the arrest a “coup attempt.”
While the CHP backs the protests, they are also fueled by a broad, non-partisan movement. The pro-Kurdish DEM party has also mobilized for the demonstrations. Students, youths, and women, standing firm against police repression dominate the frontlines.
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On this day in 1968, Israel suffered its first major military defeat against the Palestinian resistance movement.
Just a few hundred Palestinian guerrilla fighters, together with the Jordanian Armed Forces, fended off an Israeli army attempting to invade the east bank of the Jordan River.
The Battle of Karameh not only marks a major symbolic victory for the Palestinian resistance but also serves as a stark reminder that the state of Israel can be forced to recalculate its assumptions.
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Clashes escalate as mass protests sweep across Türkiye in response to the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the country’s main opposition leader. Protests erupted against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling AKP government, with the largest protests concentrated in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.
University students are leading some of the most intense confrontations. At Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), protesters attempted to break through police barricades.
Police forces responded with rubber bullets, water cannons, and tear gas. In Izmir, authorities have banned all protests, gatherings, and press statements calling for protests between March 21 and 25.
İmamoğlu, a politician from Türkiye's second-largest party, the CHP, was arrested on charges of terrorism and corruption. Critics call the move a political coup by the AKP, which has long been locked in a head-to-head battle with the CHP in presidential elections.
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