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Is Pride a “Western import,” or was homophobia? With the rise of anti-LGBTQI+ legislation around the world, some claim that Pride is a concept imposed on countries by the West. However, ancient artifacts and historical evidence shed light on alternative views.
Did you know that socialist Cuba has a home ownership rate of 90%? Affordable housing should be an indelible human right that Western capitalist countries with growing homeless populations increasingly ignore.
Although US conservatives and liberals boast about how economically developed it is compared to Cuba, home ownership rates are declining, particularly amongst the Black population and younger generations.
Following the 1959 Cuban revolution, the government introduced a series of housing measures, resulting in an average 40% reduction in rents. Evictions were also made illegal, thousands of social housing units were built, and empty homes were given to those needing them.
As a result, the shanty towns that were a feature of Batista’s Cuba in the 1950s disappeared. Today, the number of homeless people in Cuba is close to zero, while nearly 600,000 people struggle to survive on the streets of US cities.
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🇮🇳 Kolkata, India – Students burn an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they block a road during a protest against the latest corruption scandal under India’s Ministry of Education.
🇧🇴 La Paz, Bolivia – A protester carrying a military police shield throws a tear gas canister back at military police during the military’s failed coup attempt.
🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka – Police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse teachers and principals protesting against salary anomalies during an anti-government protest.
🇰🇷 Seoul, Republic of Korea – Pro-unification activists wearing masks of ROK President Yoon Suk Yeol, US President Joe Biden, and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida protest the first trilateral “Freedom Edge” exercise.
🇮🇶 Nasiriyah, Iraq – A man douses himself with water to cool off as protesters gather against extended summer electrical power outages amid an extreme heatwave.
Tirelessly, Kenya is putting up the biggest resistance in its young history, despite the country’s High Court ordering the military to “restore order” in the latest move. Amnesty International on Wednesday warned of mass arrests, hundreds of injured, and kidnappings of protesters by authorities, in addition to the soaring 26+ death toll.
The leaderless Gen-Z-driven movement is acutely aware and, on social media, widely discussing the parallels with the 2022 uprising in Sri Lanka, where thousands stormed the presidential palace amid rising living costs and ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The EU’s Josep Borrell issued a statement saying: “President Ruto’s recent decision to withdraw the Finance Bill will help to reduce tensions and should help to create an environment conducive to dialog.”
In sharp contrast, the Communist Party of Kenya, among those at the forefront of the protests, issued a statement saying “tyranny can only be defeated through resistance, not negotiation” and “Despite the violence promised by the state, the unarmed Kenyan people will raise their hands to defy the neo-colonial project.”
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On Pride Month, we remember Willem Arondeus, a Dutch artist, author, and gay anti-N**i resistance fighter. At the age of 17, Arondeus was forced to leave his home because his parents could not accept his decision to live as an openly gay man.
When the N***s invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Arondeus and his friend Frieda Belinfante, a le***an cellist, wasted no time in joining the Dutch resistance movement. Using his artistic talents, Arondeus skillfully forged documents and fabricated false identity papers for Dutch Jews and other individuals wanted by the Gestapo.
In a daring act of defiance in 1943, Arondeus led a raid that led to the destruction of the Citizen Registration Building of Amsterdam, which was essential for the N***s to track people and cross-check the forged documents. Their audacious mission proved successful as they managed to destroy thousands of records containing information about Jews and others being monitored by the N***s.
Arondeus was sentenced to death shortly thereafter. True to his identity, his parting words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!”
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Happy birthday to socialist and former Chilean president, Salvador Allende! His presidency represented the attempt to establish a socialist society via parliamentary means in defiance of US influence.
The main focus of Allende’s policy during his 1970-1973 presidency was the expropriation of essential pillars of the Chilean economy, such as the nationalization of mineral resources, foremost, copper deposits, and the expropriation of large foreign companies and banks. By the end of 1971, the socialist government had taken control of more than 150 companies, including 12 of the 20 largest firms in Chile.
But Allende’s experiment in building socialism in Chile was crushed by a fascist coup led by Augusto Pinochet and backed by the US in 1973. Pinochet’s brutal rule lasted for nearly two decades, and over 40,000 people were tortured, killed, or disappeared.
Allende took up arms himself during the fascist coup until his death in the presidential palace La Moneda. In his last address to the people, he said, “I will not resign! Placed in a historical transition, I will pay with my life for the loyalty of the People” and “They can smash us, but the social processes are not detained, neither with crimes nor with power. History is ours, and the people will make it.”
The defeat of socialism in Chile via parliamentary channels destroyed a lot of illusions about the possibility of reforming the capitalist system. It remains a much-discussed chapter in Latin America and amongst the international left.
Germany will now make all new citizens declare their support for Israel’s “right to exist.” The new law requiring this will come into effect on Thursday. But what about other countries’ right to exist... Like Palestine, for example?
Is this the only example in history of citizenship being tied to support for a foreign country?
74 years ago today, the US military slaughtered 400 Korean refugees with airstrikes and machine gun fire in what is known as the Nogeun-ri massacre. 41% of those murdered by the US imperialists were children and 70% were women. Shamefully, the US has refused to admit the deliberate nature of the massacre, while the government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) has rejected calls for a legal case. Read on.
Venezuela’s former socialist president Hugo Chávez called for elections for the Constituent Assembly that were held on this day in 1999, paving the way for the new Bolivarian Constitution and the consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution.
As a result, the transition from the Fourth Republic of Venezuela to the present-day Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was sealed. Representatives from all over Venezuela, including Indigenous groups, worked on the new constitution. Here are some of the iconic quotes from the legendary Chávez.
Today marks 74 years since the official beginning of the Korean War. Despite its devastating scope and crucial role in shaping today’s Korea, it remains largely forgotten in the West, overshadowed by WWII and the Vietnam War. Marked by immense destruction and countless massacres, the war cost the lives of up to five million people. Over 70 years later, rising tensions on the Korean peninsula beg the question: will there be another Korean War?
On this day in 1975, Mozambique declared its independence from Portugal after a 10-year-liberation war waged by the Mozambique Liberation Front, better known as FRELIMO, ending 470 years of Portuguese colonial rule in the East African region. In 1962, FRELIMO began as an anti-colonial movement that sought independence from the Portuguese. It received assistance from the USSR and China, and in 1977, it adopted Marxism-Leninism as its official ideology.
Mozambique’s war of independence erupted in 1964 due to unrest and frustration among Indigenous Mozambican populations who were subjected to exploitation, mistreatment, and limited access to education and jobs. In 1970, the Portuguese army launched “Operation Gordian Knot” to crush the war of liberation, complete with na**lm and scorched-eath tactics, killing the inhabitants of entire villages such as in the case of the “Wiriyamu Massacre.”
One of the leaders of FRELIMO was revolutionary socialist and independence leader Samora Machal, who, on June 25, 1975, became the first President of Mozambique, declaring “the total and complete independence of Mozambique and its constitution into the People’s Republic of Mozambique.”
Machal’s government quickly nationalized land, healthcare, education, and other essential sectors to redistribute and provide for the people. But in 1981, the CIA plotted to assassinate Machal and others and was accused by the Mozambican government of preparing to back a coup.
Black residents of Detroit surged against a tide of racist police brutality in one of the most significant uprisings in US history on this day in 1967. The state responded ruthlessly. Tanks rumbled through city streets, and troops descended in force. The human cost was staggering: 43 lives were lost, 1,000 individuals were wounded, and over 7,200 arrests were made. Read on.
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🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya – A police officer fires a tear gas canister at a protest against suffocating tax reforms.
🇮🇳 Kolkata, India – A leftist youth organization burns effigies of US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they stage an anti-war protest.
🇰🇷 Seoul, Republic of Korea – Tens of thousands of doctors and medical students attend a rally as part of a general strike against the government’s plan to sharply boost medical school admissions.
🇨🇳 Guilin, China – Dozens of people have died as downpours in southern China caused catastrophic flooding and landslides.
🇫🇷 Lyon, France – A protester holds a smoke canister in his hand during a wild anti-fascist protest against the rise of France’s far-right.
“It's not tear gas. It is the fragrance of change.” Seen in Kenya. 🇰🇪
83 years ago today, N**i Germany launched an invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII, known as Operation Barbarossa. This brutal conflict led to the loss of up to 27 million Soviet lives in the fight against fascism. More than three million German troops invaded the Soviet Union, committing horrific crimes including the gang r**e of tens of thousands of women, torture, and extrajudicial killings.
Armenia has just announced that it has recognized the State of Palestine, bringing the number of UN member states that recognize Palestine to 149 out of the 193 UN member states. Virtually all of the world safe for the Global North and its closest allies have come to recognize Palestine. Even in the EU, several countries have pushed through recognition of Palestine in recent months as well.
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Today marks Juneteenth, also known as “America’s second Independence Day” as it signifies the end of slavery. But did it really? Echoes of bo***ge persist through the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which permits slavery as a punishment for crime.
This loophole ensnares a disproportionate number of Black people in incarceration, subjected to exploitative labor conditions for little to no pay. The disparities in imprisonment rates speak volumes about entrenched systemic oppression in the US.
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With the recent unrest in New Caledonia making international headlines, many have by now heard of its native Kanak population and their name for the Pacific archipelago, Kanaky. For Germans, however, these names leave a bitter aftertaste. How come, you may ask? It all goes back to Germany’s forgotten colonial past in the South Pacific. Here’s how German colonialism turned a native Polynesian word into every German racist’s go-to slur.
On this day in 1948, the Malayan War of Independence ignited, with Marxist guerrillas spearheading the revolt against British colonial rule. Inspired by the Chinese Revolution and WWII resistance against Japanese occupation, the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party became a formidable force. Dubbed “Britain’s Vietnam,” the British counter-insurgency set a precedent for the later US invasion of Vietnam against communist forces. Read on.
German media has become complicit in the state’s authoritarian witch-hunt against critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Due to our dedicated coverage of Germany’s crackdown on Palestine solidarity, our “colleagues” from major German outlets have also come after us, circulating misinformation about red., including that we have been “staging” pro-Palestine protests and are “close” to Russia.
German newspaper collected some of these claims, and added absolutely no evidence, to create a hit-piece on red., where they also admit that they refused to publish our answers.
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Happy birthday to José Carlos Mariátegui, one of the most essential Marxist intellectuals and communist militants in Latin America! The Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and socialist was one of the first to apply Marxist analyses to the specific realities of the continent.
Despite facing numerous health challenges, such as tuberculosis, arthritis, and rickets, which disrupted his formal education, Mariátegui’s passion for knowledge endured. He pursued self-education and embarked on a lifelong journey in journalism.
His Marxist analysis of the “Peruvian Reality” emphasized the inclusion of Indigenous communities and addressed land-related issues as fundamental to changing society, and has become paramount for revolutionaries all over Latin America.
Mariátegui’s founding of the Peruvian Communist Party and his instrumental role in organizing the inaugural conference of communist parties in Latin America solidified his reputation as a pioneer of socialism on the continent.
Happy birthday, Che Guevara, the revolutionary icon par excellence who changed the world forever during his short life! Starting as a humanitarian doctor, forged by the catastrophic consequences of capitalism in Latin America and immortalized in the communist struggle — for Che Guevara, words and deeds were the same.
In 1953, bidding farewell to his parents, Che started with his legendary motorcycle trip across Latin America. He first encountered his future comrade-in-arms in Mexico, the young Fidel Castro, preparing for the guerrilla struggle against Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba.
Three years of guerrilla warfare followed in the Sierra Maestra, during which Che rose to become the “comandante” of the Cuban revolutionaries, whose victory catapulted him onto the world stage. However, his uncompromising revolutionary urge was not satisfied, and he threw himself again into the guerrilla fight, first in the Congo and then in Bolivia.
When the CIA and the Bolivian army captured Che after a fierce battle on October 8, 1967, his captors, fearing his ability to transform the court proceedings into a powerful platform, executed him on the spot. The murder made him immortal.
The continuing interest in Che’s thought and work and the continuing enthusiasm for his struggle stem from the same consciousness as Che’s fight: the victory over the miserable system that is capitalism and the liberation of humanity.
72 people died when a fire broke out seven years ago today in Grenfell Tower, a residential social housing building for people on low incomes in North Kensington, West London. People burnt and choked to death in one of the wealthiest cities in one of the richest countries worldwide because local politicians wanted to save money.
Following the disaster, it emerged that a cheap but unsafe form of cladding had been installed on the outside of the building, which allowed the fire to spread more easily. There weren’t any sprinklers, and the fire doors failed to close properly. At first, the fire brigade also told residents to stay in their apartments.
The disaster demonstrated the British political elite’s contempt for the poorer sections of society. There has been no political accountability for the disaster, and six years of an inquiry have yet to report its findings, and there have been no prosecutions.
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A leaked New York Times memo has exposed how reporters covering Gaza are barred from using the terms: genocide, ethnic cleansing, refugee camp and even Palestine itself. Did you know that it's not just the NYT? Watch this video explainer on which other major media denies Palestine's right to exist.
Pro-Palestine protesters target a Tesla factory in Fremont, part of California's "Silicon Valley". They managed to block access to the plant before police attacked them with pepper balls. Elon Musk has long been a supporter of Israel and recently toured the site of the October 7th offensive together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has also complied with Israeli requests to block Gaza's access to Starlink internet. This is one of three direct action protests in California yesterday in support of Palestine, including a roadblock on the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
Iran is “provoking an uncontrollable regional escalation”, they said.
For World Art Day, we honor socialist realist art that was pioneered in the Soviet Union as a genre that developed from Lenin’s declaration that “art belongs to the people.” Watch Lady Izdihar explore how revolutionary artists used socialist realism to inspire an entire society to rise up and build a better future.
Protesters in Niger have mobilized against the unwanted US military presence in their country. The capital Niamey saw chants including; "Down with American imperialism" and "The people's liberation is on the march." The US currently has around 650 military personnel in Niger and operates a large airbase outside the capital. Niger's government ended its longstanding cooperation agreement with the US in mid-March, but the US has still not left the country. Niger has already expelled the French military presence in 2023 after Nigeriens said that their presence had become a defacto occupation of the country. The French and US military presence was justified in the name of fighting terrorism in the Sahel region. Still, now Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have set up their joint operation without Western powers, who they say have destabilized the region and thereby contributed to the rise of terrorism.
How are Palestinians in Gaza reacting to Iran’s attacks on Tel Aviv? Israel has already announced the postponement of its deathblow assault against Rafah. For the first time in seven months of internecine warfare, there was a break from the 24/7 threat and airborne sound blasts. But what is the deeper political significance of the escalation between Israel and Iran for Palestine? – “I think last night’s attack was carried out to calm down the internal front in Iran,” feared one resident in Rafah, while another said, “[Iran] were supposed to support us; that is what we were expecting.
"What would Britain do if a hostile nation flattened one of our consulates?" British Foreign Secretary, David Cameron: "We would take very strong action." Journalist: "Iran would say that's what they did.” And the UK has invaded, occupied & destroyed multiple countries for much less.
Structural racism by the Dominican Republic against Haiti is deeply rooted despite the two countries sharing an island, a history of anti-colonial struggle, and both having Black-majority populations. During the current crisis, the DR is deporting Haitians while allowing the US and others to use their country as a landing base for those being evacuated from Haiti. We spoke to Professor Jemima Pierre of Columbia University and activist with Black Alliance for Peace about this dark history of colonial division.
After surviving Israel’s 2008-2009 war on Gaza, this boy said: “What are you expecting me to do when I grow up. To make peace with them? No. When I grow up, I will fight them.”
Djibouti is host to more foreign military bases than any other country in the world. The US, China, UK, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy all have troops there. How did this happen? Why are the world’s largest imperialist powers so interested in this tiny country? We explain here.
What is the Palestine Congress in Berlin? The event has mainstream media, politicians and Zionist organizations fuming. But despite all the repression, slander and police assaults, the congress is going ahead. The objective of the event is to explore strategies to challenge Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide. Organizers anticipated over 1,000 participants, including numerous international speakers, but the German state is doing everything to sabotage it, and improvising obstacles to prevent speakers and delegates from attending. Germany weaponizes its Holocaust guilt to justify its unconditional support for Israel which includes supplying 50% of Israel's weapons. But for all its talk about guilt, Germany's unresolved history of denazification remains conveniently swept under the rug. Here's a snapshot of the frenzy within mainstream media leading up to the Palestine Congress. Stay tuned for real-time reporting from the ground in Berlin.
PALESTINE CONGRESS UPDATE: German police have begun arresting participants of the congress in Berlin before it has even started. The event was due to begin at 12pm local time but police are stopping people from entering demanding that organizers allow all German media entry. Hundreds of people are being stopped from entering the congress by police who are pressuring organizers to accept their extraordinary demand. Organizers insist on maintaining their accreditation process to ensure the smooth running of the event and highlight that the venue’s capacity is limited, ie. if there is no limit on press entry, those who have bought event tickets may be unable to attend. Police say their unprecedented demand, is necessary to ensure “freedom of the press”, the same press which has been uncritically churning out pro-Israel propaganda since October 7. 🟡 Follow us for all the latest from the Congress.
Watch Germany's Jewish Voice chair, Wieland Hoban, respond to accusations of antisemitism by the German media at the press conference for the highly anticipated Palestine Congress. For weeks, German media has smeared the congress, dubbing it a "gathering for the world's antisemites." In a spectacular example of truth reversal, the media has had nothing to say about Germany's crackdown on Jews who criticize Israel, which hit a new low when the Sparkasse bank shut down Jewish Voice's bank account. The bank also requested a list of their members. Jewish Voice is a co-organizer of the Palestine Congress, which is due to begin today and last until Sunday. It aims to raise public awareness of Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza, for which Germany is facing charges in the International Court of Justice.
NOW IN BERLIN: Hundreds of German police are blockading the Palestine Congress in Berlin before it has even started. Police have put up barricades around the congress venue in the Tempelhof neighborhood and are preventing people from entering. The congress has been organized by an array of civil society activists, including Palestinian and Jewish groups, and its slogan is "We accuse". The event's goal is to highlight Germany's role in Israel's genocide in Gaza. For week's German media and politicians have been demanding it be banned. 2,500 police are deployed for the congress, 900 to surround the venue itself.
HAPPENING NOW: German police, Zionists and politicians have surrounded a Berlin community centre where pro-Palestine organizers are holding a press conference about the Palestine Congress that is due to begin today. For weeks, the German media and politicians have been trying to ban the congress. Organizers homes have been raided, speakers have been threatened with visa bans and the bank account of Jewish organization and co-organizers, Jewish Voice has been shut down. The slogan of the congress is "We Accuse", and its aim is to highlight Germany's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. It's speakers include Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis, Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett and founder of the Palestine Land Society, Dr.Salman Abu Sitta.
Indigenous Peruvians are protesting to defend their water supply against gold mining operations in the Andean region of Cajamarca. Protesters say that mining hasn’t brought any development to the area because, despite massive operations already in place, infrastructure is poor, and living standards remain low for Indigenous farmers. Similar protests are also taking place in neighboring Ecuador, where Indigenous communities are mobilizing against Canadian mining company Atico Mining Corp., which has begun gold mining operations that will damage the water supply for Quichua towns in the Andean region of Cotopaxi.
Confrontations between Argentinian police and protesters escalated once again as thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the South American country’s capital, Buenos Aires. Footage shows police officers using water cannons and firing rubber bullets to disperse the protesters, who responded by hurling stones at the police, setting garbage cans on fire, and paralyzing the capital’s main street in defiance of new legal changes banning roadblocks. The protesters took to the streets to protest President Javier Milei’s implementation of more cuts to the country’s welfare system, this time targeting soup kitchens. The protest was reportedly led by several workers’ unions and workers of several dining rooms and picnic areas across the country. The country’s 44,000 soup kitchens regularly feed four million people for free. As annual inflation tops 276% and Argentines slip deeper into poverty amid the government’s austerity measures, they have increasingly flocked to soup kitchens.
Today in 2002, right-wing forces backed by the US attempted to overthrow former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, ultimately falling against popular resistance. Watch this powerful speech of the Bolivarian revolutionary Hugo Chavez, rallying thousands against imperialism. On April 11, 2002, the Venezuelan elite, the Church, and some military members organized a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez. However, the Venezuelan people swarmed the streets to protect the Bolivarian revolution and overpowered the US-backed right-wing coup. The coup plotter aimed to form a de facto government headed by Pedro Carmona, a business mogul and former president of the chambers of commerce, which would dissolve all other state powers and local authorities. The people brought Hugo Chavez back to power in just 47 hours. The counterrevolutionary offensive backfired, as mass mobilization politicized additional segments of the population, who also organized themselves into Bolivarian collectives.
Palestine solidarity activists spray-painted the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) for its complicity in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. The activists used fire extinguishers to paint the ministry before police arrived. Five activists were arrested during the action. The organizing group “Youth Demand” stated that the MOD has given contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to Elbit Systems, buying Israeli weapons after they are “battle-tested” on the Palestinian people.
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