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Deadly police violence crushed protests in Nepal organized by job seekers, leaving two protesters dead and several injured. Hundreds took to the streets against what they condemned as stricter job conditions abroad.
Protesters set a Nepalese minister’s car on fire while police forces dispersed the crowd with tear gas.
Last year, Nepal plunged into its first recession in six decades as economic performance was hit by inflation and political instability. It was the first time the government officially acknowledged that the country was in recession.
Unemployment is rising due to the struggling economy and lack of job opportunities, forcing young people to leave the country to work abroad. The protesters were mainly young Nepalese people applying for jobs in South Korea.
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France keeps losing influence in its former colonial African states: the French embassy in Niger’s capital has now closed – an extremely rare measure. The shutdown marks just the latest blow in a long series of political defeats for Paris in the region, including the withdrawal of all French troops from the country. But why are they in the Sahel region anyway?
Ever since France’s direct colonial overlordship over large parts of Africa ended in the 1950s and 60s, France has maintained a neo-colonial presence in much of the continent, not to lose access to precious natural resources and its profitable control over its former colonies’ central banks.
In 2011, France sought to reassert its domination of the continent when it led the charge for the war on Libya, a war that caused a wave of instability to flood the Sahel region. In response, France sent thousands of troops to “stabilize” the area, but more than a decade later, the opposite happened. In this video, we break it down.
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Happy Birthday CLR James! A pioneer of the Black Marxist tradition. Born in Trinidad, he'd go on to author one of the most important texts on the history of the Haitian Revolution, "Black Jacobins", as well as applying his Marxist approach to analyzing his favourite sport, Cricket.
His critical Marxism often put him in conflict with other parts of the left, but his intellectual contributions to the Pan-African movement and the socialist tradition as a whole are undisputed.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,313, with more than 57,296 injured.
🟡 An Israeli drone strike targeted the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, killing seven people, including Hamas deputy chief and co-founder of its military wing Saleh Al-Arouri, the most senior Gaza ruling group official killed since October 7.
🟡 Hamas has frozen talks on a Gaza ceasefire or a possible prisoner deal with Israel following the targeted assassination of its senior leader.
🟡 Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned that Israel’s killing of Saleh Al-Arouri in the Lebanese capital “will not go unanswered or unpunished.”
🟡 A general strike is being observed across the occupied West Bank following the eruption of mass protests regarding the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri. Palestinian parties and factions had called for joint action and protest rallies.
🟡 Egypt officially informed Israel of freezing its role as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian factions, aiming to conclude a new exchange deal in light of the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri.
🟡 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that ministers not make statements to the media regarding the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported.
🟡 October 2023 was the deadliest month in any 21st-century war, as Israeli forces killed 395 per 10,000 people. Around 70% of the dead are women and children, with one in every 148 Gazan children killed since October 7, the UN reported.
🟡 Israel is holding the bodies of 450 Palestinians, including those of 21 minors, five women, and 18 Palestinian detainees who died inside Israeli jails in secret burial sites, a local NGO claimed.
🟡 Israeli forces bombed the Palestinian Red Crescent Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis, where 14,000 displaced Gazans are sheltering. At least five people were killed, including a five-day-old baby.
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“Our students aren’t students of war. They’re students of peace.” – red. Media was on the ground with Gazans trying to pursue their right to education amid Israel’s relentless war on Gaza and its Palestinian population. Israeli forces bombed or damaged at least 343 schools across Gaza in addition to having killed at least 4,119 Palestinian school-going children and injured at least 7,536 others. Even though there are hopeful attempts at setting up makeshift classrooms, with no end in sight, Israel’s war on Gaza casts a dark shadow over Gaza’s children’s future.
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“We are living in great fear” – red. Media was on the ground with Delhi’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims, who fled a genocide in Myanmar. However, they now face a similar situation in India, as authorities under the Hindu-nationalist BJP party mirror oppressive actions by Myanmar’s military.
Genocidal attacks at the hands of the Myanmar military starting in August 2017 caused more than 770,000 Rohingyas to flee. At least 20,000 displaced Rohingyas live in India, facing growing anti-Muslim violence and living in constant fear of detention and even deportation back to Myanmar.
Living conditions in refugee camps are deplorable, lacking drinking water, sanitation facilities, and education. Children, in particular, bear the brunt of these conditions, experiencing malnutrition, chronic diseases, and alarmingly high rates of infant mortality.
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"Israel is a settler colonial power that effectively wants to erase Palestinians from their traditional land." Watch International State Crime Initiative director Penny Green, break down why Israel does not have the "right to self-defense" claimed by Western powers.
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On this day in 1804, Haiti declared its independence after a slave uprising turned into a revolution that crushed the French colonizers.
After kicking out the French the former colony was renamed "Haiti", the Indigenous Arawak name for the island, and would become the first Black republic in the world as well as the first nation in the Western Hemisphere that abolished slavery.
The independence of Haiti was a major blow to French colonialism and inspired revolutionaries around the world as one of the most successful slave revolutions in history.
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🟡 Latest Gaza War Update:
🟡 US President Joe Biden, for the second time this month, circumvented Congress to greenlight a $147.5 million emergency arms sale to Israel, authorizing immediate delivery of M107 155mm artillery shells and related equipment.
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 21,672, with more than 56,165 injured.
🟡 Berlin anticipates potential police violence escalation in migrant neighborhoods on New Year’s Eve amidst high political tensions triggered by unprecedented state repression of Palestinian activism. A large-scale planned protest titled “No celebration during genocide” was banned.
🟡 Reports of organ theft by Israeli soldiers from Palestinians who have been killed are mounting. Gaza’s health ministry renewed warnings of “mutilation and organ theft” during mass executions.
🟡 Gaza’s ruling group negotiates new talks on a prisoner swap deal and a weeklong cease-fire through Qatari mediators.
“What would you do first when the war ends?” – We met children in Gaza and asked them about their plans for life beyond the constant bombardment. Overwhelmingly, most of the answers focused on the comparison to other children worldwide who want to live a “normal life in safety.”
“I want to distribute to poor people everything they want because they’re deprived. We felt the same deprivation this war.” – a girl in a refugee camp in Rafah told us.
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Did you know that the US military once massacred up to 300 Native Americans in South Dakota? 133 years ago today on 29 December 1890 the US Calvary troops entered a camp where the Lakota people lived at Wounded Knee Creek in an attempt to disarm them, which ended in a bloodbath. By the time the shooting stopped a few hours later, there were bodies strewn everywhere including those of babies and women. Read on.
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Another threat of war on the Red Sea? A historic deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway Republic of Somaliland sparked mass protests in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as tens of thousands took to the streets against a signed treaty that would give landlocked Ethiopia access to Somaliland’s port, a military base on the Red Sea and the Suez Canal further north.
Somaliland declared independence from Somalia unilaterally in 1991 but is not officially recognized by any other country except Taiwan. The new deal would make Ethiopia the first African country to recognize Somaliland’s independence.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Somalia’s government spoke of a move “contrary to international law” and viewed the deal as selling its land under a foreign flag. They recalled their ambassador from Ethiopia and requested a special session of the UN Security Council. “Somaliland is part of the Republic of Somalia, and Ethiopia has violated international norms,” it said in a statement. Somalia vowed to “defend every square inch” of their country.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,313, with more than 57,296 injured.
🟡 US forces carried out an airstrike against Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) headquarters in Baghdad, killing a senior commander and marking the third US attack on the Iraqi capital since October 17. At least 9 PMU members were killed by US attacks Since October 17, according to local media.
🟡 Israeli forces killed at least 300 Palestinians and injured more than 1,000 who were seeking protection in UN shelters across the Gaza strip In the past three months, said Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of UNRWA.
🟡 Israel is holding at least 51 female captives from Gaza, including children and elderly women, in Damon prison, the Palestinian Prisoners Club revealed.
🟡 Israel has bombed Gaza with more than 45,000 missiles and bombs that weighed more than 65,000 tons in total, including using around nine internationally banned bombs and missiles against civilians, according to the government media office in Gaza.
🟡 Israeli forces continue their aggression in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm for the second day in a row,raiding homes, destroying infrastructure and firing bullets at civilian houses.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces detained at least 30 Palestinians during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, Israeli forces have detained at least 5,630 Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 Lebanon’s Hezbollah carried out 10 cross-border attacks on Israeli military targets in northern occupied Palestine. Meanwhile, nine Hezbollah members were killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours.
🟡 The Israeli Supreme Court delayed the implementation of a law passed by the parliament as part of the controversial “Judicial Reform” legislation. The law aims to limit the possibility of isolating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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With the start of the new year, the Korean peninsula is seeing unprecedented aggression. In 2023, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) tested its largest ballistic missiles and launched its first military spy satellite. For 2024, the DPRK vowed to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal, according to state news agency KCNA.
The escalation comes as the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK, commonly referred to as South Korea), Yoon Suk Yeol, ditched the historic inter-Korean military agreement and conducted unprecedented joint military drills together with the US and Japan, all the while the US deployed more military assets to the Korean peninsula.
Unlike his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, Yoon has been pursuing a hawkish stance toward the DPRK since he came to power in 2022. The recent escalation on the Korean peninsula comes ahead of a year that will see pivotal elections in both the ROK and the US. How do you think the military escalation will affect those elections?
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Palestinians took to the streets across the occupied West Bank to protest the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri in Beirut, the founding commander of Gaza’s ruling group’s military wing. The Israeli assassination marks their first strike on Beirut since 2006 and a significant cross-border escalation with Lebanon’s resistance forces.
The protests also spread to cities and refugee camps across Jordan and Lebanon. Yemen’s Ansarallah, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and communist parties condemned the assassination. All Gaza-based political factions and their armed wings called for a general strike and confrontation with the Israeli occupation forces on all fronts.
According to the Lebanese security forces, three Israeli missiles hit Beirut, killing at least seven people. Along with Al-Arouri, the Gaza ruling group’s head of operation for the south of Lebanon was killed. Egypt officially informed Israel of freezing its role as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian factions, aiming to conclude a new exchange deal.
Al-Arouri’s sister said his “blood is not more precious than those who are being killed in the besieged Gaza Strip, particularly children; this is the path he took, knowing that this is how it’s going to end.”
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NOW: An explosion shook Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh, the main stronghold of Hezbollah. According to initial reports, it was an assassination attempt on Saleh al-Arouri, a high-ranking Hamas leader and founding commander of its military wing. This is the first bomb attack in Beirut since Israel's declaration of war on Gaza on October 7.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,185, with more than 57,035 injured.
🟡 “The West Bank is on the verge of a comprehensive explosion,” the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in a statement, adding that “transferring Gaza’s model to the West Bank is only a matter of time” as fighting in the occupied West Bank escalates.
🟡 Israeli forces have killed at least 4,156 students and injured 7,536 more. Meanwhile, at least 381 schools have been bombed or damaged due to Israeli bombardment, Gaza’s Ministry of Education reported.
🟡 Hamas fighters partially or fully destroyed 71 Israeli military vehicles, killed 16 Israeli soldiers, and carried out over 42 operations against the invading forces over four days.
🟡 A new group, the Grandchildren of Yassin Brigades, comprised of fighters from various factions, emerged. They have already engaged in fighting in the past few days. Meanwhile, the death toll in the West Bank since October 7 reached at least 324.
🟡 Palestinian fighters have opened fire at the Palestinian Authority (PA) governorate HQ in Nablus following the kidnapping of a member of the Balata refugee camp resistance group by the PA’s security forces.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian house in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. In 2023, 1,119 structures were destroyed in the West Bank, displacing 2,210 Palestinians, according to the UN.
🟡 For the third time since October 7, local militias in Syria have fired at least five rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Meanwhile, Israeli forces carried out strikes against sites belonging to the Syrian Army overnight.
🟡 The Iranian Navy deployed its IRIS Alborz (72) destroyer to the Red Sea. The deployment comes after the latest escalation in confrontations between Yemen’s Ansarallah and the US Navy in the Red Sea.
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Israeli settlers have unlimited access to water. Palestinians, on their own land, do not. A tank on the roof is the most visible symbol of this water apartheid, watch Faten Elwan in Ramallah explain the phenomenon.
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🟡 Israel pulled out some tanks from some Gaza City districts on Monday after it announced a shift in tactics and a planned reduction in troop numbers. Analysts suggest Israel is struggling to achieve objectives in Gaza, and latent fatigue among brigades is growing.
🟡 Israel intensifies attacks in south Lebanon, killing three Hezbollah fighters. The violence at the Israeli-Lebanese border has been escalating amid growing fear of an all-out war.
🟡 The Al-Qassam Brigades fired a large number of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv. Videos on social media documented how several rockets penetrated the Iron Dome.
🟡 The military wing of Gaza's ruling group announced on Monday that it seized an Israeli reconnaissance drone. The drone was on a surveillance mission in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
🟡 Iran deployed a warship to the Red Sea after the US Navy attacked and killed Ansarallah fighters on speedboats.
The Zapatistas smashed the neo-liberal triumphalism of the 90s and reinvigorated a global left that was still in retreat following the fall of the Soviet Union. Using the name of the legendary Emiliano Zapata, Indigenous communities in Southern Mexico built a rebellion that foisted them into the history books and reminded a generation that another world is possible.
They built a movement that went beyond protest becoming a permanent movement that included everyone through the participatory democracy they practiced in their self-governing communities. As the old Zapatista slogan goes, "Here the people govern, and the government obeys".
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A catastrophic hunger crisis has unfolded in the Gaza Strip, leaving its population on the brink of starvation and famine. Israel’s war of extermination has exacerbated the already dire situation caused by the 16-year-long blockade, leading to widespread hunger and thirst. In a clear violation of international law and yet another war crime, Israel is using the forced starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in Gaza, Human Rights Watch revealed.
The Gaza Strip’s entire population, which constitutes 2.2 million people, was classified as in phase 3 or above of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), meaning that humanitarian food assistance is urgently needed. The classification marks the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country. The Famine Review Committee (FRC) was activated due to evidence that phase 5, the highest phase, has been reached in the enclave. Despite the urgent need for humanitarian food assistance, supplies to Gaza are heavily limited due to Israel controlling what enters the enclave.
Only a few people in Gaza can receive food aid from the UN, mostly canned food. Meanwhile, Gaza’s primary food support and assistance comes from charity organizations and solidarity cooking. Gazans, from children to the elderly, are queuing for hours to get their portions. This system existed before the war, although mainly for poor people. Now, it has become the only lifeline for the entire population.
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🟡 US Navy helicopters launched from the largest aircraft carrier, Eisenhower, and fired on and sank three speedboats of Yemen's Ansarallah in the Red Sea, which were about to seize a Danish-owned container ship. Yemen's boats exchanged gunfire with the US helicopters, killing the crew of three of the four boats. This marks the first naval battle of its kind between the US and Ansarallah.
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 21,822, with more than 56,451 injured.
🟡 Israel dramatically increased troop concentrations in the last two days in central Gaza, possibly for an imminent expansion into the south of Khan Younis.
🟡 The Israeli military launched airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, with 23 deaths reported, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
🟡 Yemen clarified that alleged threats to cut the massive internet cables in the Red Sea are false and were spread through Israeli channels.
red. Rewind 2023: This year saw recording breaking mobilizations from women's organizations in every region of the world. From movements against sexual violence in India, and taxes on menstrual products in Ghana to the women’s strike in Iceland, and the giant “Margaridas” march by rural women workers in Brazil.
All saw historically large mobilizations in 2023. Particularly in Brazil, where over 100,000 women joined marches demanding better land rights for rural women, as well as demanding the right to live without violence. In Iceland, the women’s general strike was unprecedented as most of the country’s female population withdrew their paid and unpaid labour.
What are some women’s movements that you’d like to see highlighted?
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇵🇸 Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Palestinian journalists attempt to connect to the internet using their phones as Israel has already forcefully imposed eight telecommunications blackouts on the enclave since October 7.
🇨🇳 Beijing, China – A woman walks past images depicting the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong as the country celebrates the 130th birth anniversary of communist China’s founding father.
🇲🇽 Chiapas, Mexico – The largest migrant caravan of 2023, known as the “poverty exodus” and serving as both a migration movement and a protest, crosses the Mexico-Guatemala border towards the US border.
🇷🇸 Belgrade, Serbia – Police guard the capital’s city council building during protests triggered by the nationwide parliamentary and local elections.
🇨🇩 Kinshasa, DR Congo – Police were deployed in the central African country’s capital in response to a banned demonstration against recent elections.
🇸🇾 Al-Qahtaniya, Syria – Thick smoke billows from a fire at a storage tank of a oil field facility in northeastern Syria as Turkey conducted deadly drone strikes on several targets.
🇺🇸-🇲🇽 US-Mexico Border – Migrants cross the border into the US as the past weeks saw record numbers of migrant crossings along the border.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Riot police clash with protesters over new “libertarian” President Javier Milei’s economic emergency decree, which includes over 350 controversial measures.
🇾🇪 Sana’a, Yemen – Yemenis rally in a protest in solidarity with Palestine and against the US-led maritime coalition in the Red Sea.
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red. Rewind 2023: In the summer of this year, the Mediterranean saw one of its worst-ever boat disasters, leaving over 500 migrants dead. On June 14, the fishing trawler Adriana was heading for Italy when it sank in the Ionian Sea off the Greek coast. The approximately 750 migrants onboard, mainly from Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, were crammed aboard the overcrowded vessel when it sank. Although 82 bodies were recovered, it is believed that hundreds of people drowned in the most horrific circumstances. There were only 104 survivors, and none of them were women and children. The infamous Greek Coast Guard and EU border protection agency Frontex were strongly criticized for their slow responses.
Following the tragedy, left-wing groups in Greece, including trade unions and the Communist Party, supported protests expressing solidarity with the migrants and opposing the controversial pushbacks and border fences used by the Greek government to deter migrants. Unsurprisingly, the protests were met with police violence.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached at least 21,507, with more than 55,915 injured.
🟡 The Israeli army announced expanding its operation in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza as the number of wounded Israeli soldiers is likely to reach approximately 20,000 once those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder are included, according to the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization.
🟡 At least 50,000 displaced pregnant women in the Gaza Strip suffer from thirst, malnutrition, and a lack of health care. Additionally, 50% of displaced children are exposed to dehydration, malnutrition, respiratory and skin diseases, severe colds, and lack of vaccinations for newborns, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported.
🟡 Israeli forces hit a residential bloc in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, killing at least 35 people, including two journalists, raising the total death toll of journalists killed in Gaza since October 7 to 105.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 20 Palestinians overnight across the occupied West Bank. At least 4,840 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
🟡 Israeli settler attacks causing property damage rose by 45% in 2023, and those causing casualties increased by 36% compared to 2022, according to the UN.
🟡 The US says that Yemen’s Ansarallah has launched more than 100 attacks over the past month, targeting at least 14 vessels in the Red Sea.
🟡 Egypt has put forward a framework proposal to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. The proposal includes more prisoner exchanges, culminating in an eventual ceasefire. They are now awaiting responses to the plan.
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