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German police violently arrested numerous pro-Palestine activists during their occupation of Berlin’s Humboldt University. The protesters demanded the university cut ties with Israeli institutions, called for a ceasefire, and denounced Israel’s extermination war on Gaza.
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🟡 NEW: Yemen’s Ansarallah Face a US-Backed Ground Offensive
Washington, alongside the Saudi-backed administration in southern Yemen, is in talks to oust Ansarallah. Plans could include an attempt to retake the capital, Sanaa.
Despite repeated, escalating US-led bombings aimed at crippling Ansarallah, it’s clear these efforts are failing to deliver the desired results.
Reports suggest the first target might be the key port city of Hodeida, which would cut off Ansarallah’s access to the Red Sea. Since the onset of the Gaza genocide, Ansarallah has maintained an almost continuous sea blockade.
This blockade has crippled critical global trade routes in the Red Sea and is aimed at applying pressure on Tel Aviv to end its war of extermination on Gaza. Seizing the port would also sever the group’s vital economic lifeline.
In response, senior Ansarallah leader Mohammed Ali al-Houthi stated that the US-led bombing campaigns had not deterred them, and a ground operation would fail to stop their resolve.
🟡NOW: Around 60 activists have occupied parts of Humboldt University in Berlin in solidarity with Palestine. A banner reading “Intifada until victory” hangs from the occupied building. Outside, spontaneous protests have erupted as police respond with a large deployment.
Last summer, a wave of university occupations swept through Berlin. Protesters demanded a ceasefire in Gaza and called for the severing of institutional ties between German and Israeli universities.
Irregular migrant crossings into Europe fell by 30% in early 2025. Human rights groups attribute this drop to EU deals with countries like Libya and Tunisia, where Brussels has outsourced the repressive side of border control. These governments, backed by the EU, carry out widespread abuses to stop people from reaching Europe.
Migrants detained in these countries often face beatings, sexual violence, and even slavery. EU officials have continued backing these arrangements despite extensive evidence of systematic abuse—turning a blind eye so long as the numbers fall.
“The decline in official numbers does not mean fewer people are on the move. It means more people are being contained in horrific conditions in Libya and Tunisia—conditions that amount to crimes against humanity, enabled by EU cooperation and approval,” said human rights lawyer Alisson West, in an interview with the Guardian.
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108 years ago today, legendary revolutionary Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin returned to his homeland, arriving in Petrograd. This was a key moment in Russian and world history, leading to the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Following 17 years of exile, Lenin arrived on April 16, 1917, after a long train journey from Zurich, determined to overthrow the failed corrupt Provisional government and create a “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
In a passionate and inspirational speech upon his arrival, Lenin called for an end to the imperialist war and a socialist revolution—not just in Russia, but worldwide.
Later that year, led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks and organized by the Soviets, the Russian working class made history by overthrowing the Provisional government and seizing power in the world’s first socialist revolution. It was the most defining event of the 20th century, inspiring millions around the globe.
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🟡 BREAKING: The UK’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the legal definition of a woman must be based on biological sex only.
Critics warn it sets a dangerous precedent for trans rights.
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“An empire drunk on power.” That’s how Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described the United States, accusing Washington of using force and manipulation to maintain its grip on global power.
Speaking in Caracas, Maduro pointed to Ecuador’s recent presidential runoff as a fresh example of US interventionism in Latin America. He condemned the election of right-wing businessman Daniel Noboa as part of a broader “colonialist project,” suggesting Washington played a role in engineering the outcome to serve its regional interests.
Ecuador’s left-wing opposition has also rejected the results. Exit polls showed a technical tie, but official figures gave Noboa a decisive victory—raising accusations of fraud, voter suppression, and military intimidation.
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Israel has bombed yet another hospital in southern Gaza, killing at least one medic and injuring ten others in an airstrike on the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Younis. The targeting of medical infrastructure comes as the official Palestinian death toll surpasses 51,000—though estimates place the real number far higher, with thousands still buried under rubble or missing.
For seven consecutive weeks, Israel has prevented the entry of food, medicine, fuel, and clean water into Gaza. Aid convoys are routinely obstructed, water wells and desalination plants deliberately targeted, and food distribution centers reduced to rubble.
Hamas has said it is reviewing the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal, which was delivered through Egyptian and Qatari mediators. The offer includes a 45-day pause in bombing in exchange for the release of 11 Israeli captives, but also calls for Hamas to disarm—a condition the resistance forces have described as “a million red lines.”
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Argentinians burned the US flag on Sunday in protest against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s visit to Buenos Aires. Bessent met with President Javier Milei to advance a trade deal that would lift tariffs in exchange for greater access to Argentina’s economy. The visit came shortly after the IMF approved a major loan to Argentina with Washington’s backing.
During the meeting, the US demanded that Argentina cancel its currency swap with China. While natural resources were not mentioned publicly, sectors like lithium and energy remain central to US interests in Argentina and are widely understood to be key stakes in the negotiation.
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Palestinian Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by ICE yesterday in Vermont, during what was meant to be his US citizenship interview. The arrest was in direct retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism.
Mahdawi, a peaceful activist, had lived in the US for 10 years and led campus protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The arrest has now set in motion his deportation to the occupied West Bank.
The arrest has been widely condemned as unconstitutional, highlighting a broader crackdown on free speech under the Trump administration. In March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that over 300 students have had their visas revoked as punishment for pro-Palestine activism — a number that is likely even higher now.
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The three-year Great Palestinian Revolt against British rule began on this day in 1936. It was caused by the dire poverty many Palestinians were plunged into under British colonial rule, as well as the influx of Zionist settlers and the start of the Zionist project.
The issues that underpinned the massive strikes and armed rebellion of Palestinians during the revolt foreshadowed the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and the formation of Israel. Read on.
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Algeria just gave 12 French officials 48 hours to pack up and leave. The expulsion order was issued today, three days after French police arrested three Algerians in Paris, including a staff member of the Algerian consulate.
Algeria condemned the arrests as a violation of diplomatic norms. France defended them as part of an ongoing investigation tied to a suspected kidnapping case.
Just a week earlier, both governments had signaled a shift toward reconciliation. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot had visited Algiers. Macron and Tebboune spoke by phone. That reset now appears to have collapsed.
France colonized Algeria for 132 years, ending in a brutal war that killed over a million Algerians. The French army used mass torture, executions, and scorched-earth campaigns to crush the independence movement.
To this day, France has never fully acknowledged its crimes—and continues to exert pressure on Algerian institutions and individuals, often under the banner of “security” and “counterterrorism.”
Protesters filled the streets of Madrid on Saturday to mark 94 years since the proclamation of the Second Republic. They called for peace, the end of the monarchy, and the creation of a new democratic republic.
The march, backed by Izquierda Unida and other leftist groups, rejected war and militarization and demanded stronger commitments to public education, housing, feminism, environmentalism, and secularism.
The Second Republic, proclaimed in 1931, was a democratic project that introduced secularism, land redistribution, and expanded civil rights. It faced fierce opposition from reactionary forces, culminating in a fascist military coup led by Francisco Franco in 1936.
Pro-Republic forces, which included communists, socialists, liberals, and regional nationalists, resisted Franco through nearly three years of civil war, becoming a global symbol of the anti-fascist struggle, before being crushed by Franco’s forces that were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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A wall of text from EU President Ursula von der Leyen condemning Russia’s actions. Meanwhile, deafening silence as Israeli airstrikes destroy Gaza City’s last fully functioning hospital.
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The US has once again sent detainees to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison, CECOT—a facility widely condemned for human rights violations. This latest round of deportations is part of a deal between US officials and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
The latest batch of deported prisoners are said to be linked to criminal networks like Tren de Aragua. However, officials have not released any public evidence.
Under the Trump-Bukele deal, key details—such as the number and identities of those deported—remain secret.
CECOT, a vast maximum-security complex designed to hold 40,000 inmates, has become a symbol of Bukele’s security crackdown and Trump’s deportation policies. Critics have called the prison a “black hole of human rights.”
Human Rights Watch documented at least 238 cases of the US forcibly transferring Venezuelan migrants to CECOT in what HRW labeled as “enforced disappearance.”
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Trump handed Wall Street the gift of chaos and the banks made a fortune. While his tariff war upended supply chains and pushed the global economy toward recession, the biggest US banks saw massive profits from trading.
JPMorgan made $9.7bn. Bank of America earned $7.4bn. Goldman Sachs took in $4.2bn from equities. Morgan Stanley’s trading revenues soared 45%. Citigroup’s rose 20%. Banks profited both by taking advantage of the swings and by processing the rush of trades that followed.
The more uncertainty Trump created, the more money moved and the more banks gained. Even elected officials took advantage. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought up to $315,000 in stocks—Apple, Amazon, FedEx—just before Trump announced a pause on tariffs, which triggered a 12% Nasdaq surge the next day.
While regular people braced for instability, trading desks and some in Congress cashed in on the chaos.
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On this day in 1961, Fidel Castro declared the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution for the first time.
He delivered the speech in honor of seven Cuban personnel killed the previous day in a bombing attack by CIA-funded rebels targeting several airfields near Havana. The attack was a prelude to the Bay of Pigs invasion, which began the following day.
Up until that point, the 26th of July Movement (M-26) had included a range of ideological currents, from nationalists to social democrats. The nationalization of industry, followed by this speech, marked a decisive socialist turn in the revolution—culminating in the creation of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965.
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UK police repressed a pro-Palestine protest outside BBC HQ in London yesterday. Organized by “Youth Demand,” it denounced the BBC’s biased coverage in favor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Protests at the site were banned earlier this year. Several arrests were made.
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ICE agents smashed the window of a Guatemalan migrant’s car and took him to an unknown location. Juan Francisco Mendez, 29, has no criminal record. When asked if they had a warrant to search the vehicle, the agents stayed silent.
This is part of a wider escalation in Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown. In March, 48.1% of people in ICE detention had no criminal record—yet many were still deported. Some have been sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, notorious for human rights abuses including torture and denial of access to food and healthcare.
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Two activists from Palestine Action scaled and occupied the roof of GRiD Defence Systems in High Wycombe. The firm supplies military computers to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons maker.
GRiD also provides components to Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, both deeply involved in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Palestine Action said the goal was to disrupt the genocidal supply chain linking British firms to war crimes. The site was previously targeted in 2024.
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Happy birthday to Ernst Thälmann, the legendary German communist leader! Thälmann devoted his life to the cause of the working class and communism and organized the overthrow of Hitler’s dictatorship.
As the Chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he was pivotal in building the Red Front, the militant organization spearheading the anti-fascist fight in Germany. He also established the Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifa) to resist the rise of fascism across Europe.
However, in March 1933, Thälmann was arrested by the Gestapo and subjected to 11 years of solitary confinement. In 1944, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and executed by direct order of Adolf Hitler.
Ernst Thälmann’s legacy continues to inspire generations in the ongoing class struggle for the liberation of mankind.
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Maldives has officially banned Israeli nationals from entering its territory, citing its stance on the Gaza war and support for Palestinian rights. In a statement, the President’s Office condemned the “acts of genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.”
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Colombia’s guerrilla war reignites after peace talks collapsed. The Gustavo Petro government faces its fiercest armed conflict yet after negotiations with guerrilla groups fell apart.
In the lead-up to the current armed escalation, guerrilla organizations like the ELN and dissident FARC factions were splintering at the negotiation table.
The ELN remains the most cohesive force, with about 6,000 fighters and deep political roots.
The fractured FARC offshoots, in particular, have become a chaotic patchwork of rival networks—sometimes without a clear chain of command or consistent agenda.
The government is now tightening its siege on FARC commander Iván Mordisco, who escaped a recent military assault that killed dozens of his fighters. He still commands an estimated 2,149 guerrillas.
Why is Colombia’s war escalating again despite promises of peace?
Click to watch our interview with Bogotá-based journalist Nils Heidenreich.
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Two years into Sudan’s civil war, the healthcare system has collapsed. In Khartoum, 256 clinics and 53 hospitals have been destroyed. More than 75% of facilities in conflict zones are no longer operating.
When cholera swept through between July and February, it killed 1,500. There was almost no one left to treat the sick. The death toll since the war began now exceeds 20,000. Over 300 civilians were killed last weekend alone in attacks on camps in Darfur.
Nearly 13 million people have been displaced within Sudan. Four million more have fled the country — most to Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Famine is deepening. Food has disappeared across Darfur, Kordofan, and the displacement camps. Aid agencies warn that 25 million people are facing hunger, including 3.6 million children now severely malnourished.
While Sudan starves, the EU is quietly funding mass deportations of Sudanese refugees from Egypt, sending them back into a war zone.
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For World Art Day, we honor socialist realist art, pioneered in the Soviet Union—a genre that grew from Lenin’s declaration that “art belongs to the people.” Watch Lady Izdihar explore how revolutionary artists used socialist realism to inspire society to rise up and build a better future.
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Undercover police violently beat pro-Palestinian students in Amsterdam. The students had occupied the main building of the University of Amsterdam to protest ties with Israeli institutions involved in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The university still collaborates with several and now seeks to restore a suspended partnership.
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🟡 NOW: Hungary’s parliament has passed a law banning LGBT gatherings, including Pride events. The law, pushed by Viktor Orbán’s far-right Fidesz party, also allows for facial recognition technology to be used to identify and prosecute anyone who attends these now-banned events.
The constitutional amendment passed with 140 votes in favor and 21 against, along party lines. Human rights groups have condemned the legislation, and Pride organizers have labeled the reforms “fascist.”
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China has ordered a halt to exports of rare earth magnets and a wide range of other critical minerals—an escalation in the trade war triggered by Washington. The move marks a sharp turn from earlier rounds of tariff-based responses.
Rare earth magnets are essential for everything from military weapons systems to electric vehicles. And China controls the market. It produces 90% of the world’s supply. That includes nearly 200,000 tons a year of magnets far stronger than standard iron-based alternatives.
Until 2023, China also held a near-total monopoly on heavy rare earth metals, pumping out 99% of the global supply. The economic blow to China is minimal—these magnets make up only a small slice of its overall exports. But for the US and its allies, the fallout could be massive.
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German state-funded TV aired an interview implying that one million migrants in Germany are inherently antisemitic. Speaking as an “antisemitism watchdog,” Levi Salomon, head of the “Jewish Forum,” appeared in a report claiming antisemitism is being imported through migration.
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Ecuador’s left has denounced election fraud by the neoliberal government of Daniel Noboa. Luisa González, candidate of the Citizens Revolution party led by ex-president Rafael Correa, says they do not recognize the results, which give a 12-point victory to Noboa despite exit polls showing a tie.
The two official exit polls showed a technical tie—González winning with 51.99% in one, and Noboa with 51.2% in the other. However, official results showed a wide Noboa win, with González gaining almost no votes beyond her first-round tally.
The Citizens Revolution party has posted what they claim to be evidence of ballots being counted without signatures. Their leader, Rafael Correa, posted on social media: “Luisa would have gotten practically the same number of votes as in the first round. They carried out a massive fraud.”
Other irregularities included militarization and voter intimidation in left-leaning coastal regions, votes from Ecuadorians in Venezuela being blocked, and sudden polling station relocations.