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Israel has bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus. According to Israeli statements, the strike is a warning message to Ahmad al-Sharaa following the deadly clashes with the Druze community.
Israeli PM Netanyahu stated that he "will not allow forces south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community." Israel aims to exploit sectarian tensions to fragment Syria and reinforce its occupation.
Deadly clashes between Syrian Druze community and pro-government forces have left several people dead, while open calls for sectarian violence are increasing. Videos circulating online document brutality, insults, and humiliation directed at the Druze, with critics drawing parallels to the targeting of the Alawite community. On Wednesday, an agreement was reached between Druze leaders and state officials, involving the surrender of weapons by the Druze community.
During the Syrian war, the Nusra Front — now known as HTS — received backing from Israel. Learn more about their longstanding ties here.
May Day protesters in Chile faced repression as President Gabriel Boric’s centrist government used water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds commemorating International Workers’ Day. Demonstrators also burned US flags in the streets.
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New photos reveal the aftermath of a drone strike on the Freedom Flotilla, a humanitarian vessel en route to Gaza. Attacked overnight in international waters, the ship remains stranded after sending an SOS distress signal.
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Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is now officially designated as an extremist organization. The first time in modern German history that a nationally represented parliamentary party has received this label.
The decision was announced today by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. It follows extensive evidence that the AfD promotes ethnonationalist policies, seeks to exclude immigrants and Muslims from equal rights, and undermines core democratic principles.
While the classification escalates the political stakes, it does not ban the party—despite growing calls to do so. For many, the move comes too late: the AfD has already embedded itself in state institutions and normalized far-right politics across Germany.
In 2024, an investigation revealed that over 100 far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis, were hired as parliamentary staff by AfD MPs. These appointments embedded fascist networks in the German state funded by the public. Read that investigation here.
Workers of the world, pictured — a photo dump from this year’s May Day around the globe.
🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye — Turkish police detain a protester marching toward Taksim Square during May Day demonstrations.
🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines — A protester raises his fist while demonstrators confront the police.
🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka — Demonstrators carry posters of Marx, Engels, and Lenin during the May Day march.
🇬🇷 Athens, Greece — Protesters raise their fists and wave red flags in front of the parliament.
🇫🇷 Nantes, France — A demonstrator holds a smoke flare during violent clashes with the police.
🇮🇶 Baghdad, Iraq — A woman holds up a hammer and sickle symbol during the May Day march.
🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa - A protester raises the Palestinian flag.
🇨🇺 Havana, Cuba — A demonstrator holds up a an image of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia — A protester holds a sign that reads “Tunisia is an open jail” to denounce state repression.
🟡 NOW: Police snatched a disabled person from the pro-Palestinian bloc at Berlin’s May Day protest. After police dragged the person away, only their wheelchair was left behind.
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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: Police attacked a journalist clearly marked “PRESS” during May Day protests in Paris. She was punched, kicked, and hit with a baton.
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Police tries to charge May Day crowd alone in Paris—but quickly regrets it.
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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: New video shows police unleashing extreme violence in Paris—protesters beaten on the ground, tear gas fired, and water cannons deployed during May Day demonstrations.
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Raul Castro makes a rare public appearance at Cuba’s giant May Day rally in Havana. Hundreds of thousands of workers belonging to the “Cuban Workers Central,” the country’s labor union confederation, are gathered right now in central Havana.
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Clashes erupted outside Indonesia’s parliament on May Day. Workers, feminist groups, and student organizations gathered for a mass rally, defying relocation orders and a heavy police presence.
Banners declaring “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back” were seen outside the gates of the legislature. Protesters condemned state repression and neoliberal labor policies.
Student groups accused the Prabowo-Gibran government of serving foreign—especially US—interests, rather than protecting workers and the poor.
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Thousands of people rallied in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May Day. Protesters marched to demand an increase in the national minimum wage, safer working conditions, and protection of workers’ rights. Several Palestinian flags were also seen in the crowd.
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The International May Day is a historic day of struggle and solidarity for the working class. This annual event on the 1st of May sees millions taking to the streets worldwide to protest against capitalist oppression.
Here is a collection of inspiring communist and socialist posters designed to mobilize people for International May Day – not just art, but a call to action. Join your local May Day protest.
Posters are from the following countries in this order:
Palestine, Cuba, USSR, China, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Spain, Türkiye
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Police in Istanbul violently detained dozens of May Day protesters as they attempted to reach Taksim Square. Authorities enforced a long-standing protest ban in the area, imposed after the 2013 Gezi Park uprising against the Erdoğan government.
Taksim Square has remained under heavy police control since the 2013 protests, which were the largest anti-government demonstrations in Turkey’s recent history.
This year’s May Day protests follow a worsening economic crisis and the arrest of a senior opposition leader. Protesters described the arrest as a “political coup” and accused the government of targeting dissent.
Further protests are expected across Istanbul. Police have been deployed in key areas to block marchers and prevent mass gatherings.
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has released a new poster for this year’s International May Day.
Translated: “Free People of the World, Unite Against Barbarism.”
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“She suffers from malnutrition due to the blockade of Gaza.” People in Gaza are starving as Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid surpasses 60 days.
Israel’s blockade on food, medicine, and other essential supplies is being described as “the harshest phase of the war so far.” While trucks carrying humanitarian aid remain blocked at the borders, the number of people at risk of dying from malnutrition continues to rise.
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) announced last week that its food stocks in Gaza have been fully depleted after delivering the last of its supplies to local kitchens. Over 400,000 people in Gaza depend on WFP aid. Israel is not only killing people in Gaza through bombs, but also by imposing a blockade that leads to deaths from a lack of medicine and food.
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“Right now we are sinking.” A new video reveals the aftermath of Israel’s drone strike on the Freedom Flotilla. The vessel, named “Conscience”, remains stranded in international waters following the attack. The Flotilla aimed to break Israel's siege on Gaza and deliver vital humanitarian aid.
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As police fired water cannons, Indonesian punk band The Jansen played in the middle of the May Day protest in Jakarta.
Banners reading “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back” were held high as riot squads advanced on the crowd outside parliament.
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🟡 BREAKING: Sirens are sounding in northern occupied Palestine after a missile was launched from Yemen. Despite the ongoing US-led assault on Yemen, the Yemeni Armed Forces continue to target Israeli-occupied territory. This is the second missile launched from Yemen today.
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Drones attacked the Freedom Flotilla — a humanitarian vessel headed to Gaza — in international waters off Malta.
The attack occurred shortly after midnight, when drone strikes hit the ship’s bow, igniting a fire and breaching the hull. Reports suggest the drones deliberately targeted the vessel’s generator, disabling critical systems. The ship remains stranded in international waters after sending out an SOS distress signal. The latest contact, in the early hours of May 2nd, confirmed drones were still circling overhead.
Activists have called for immediate intervention, urging the Maltese government to act. On board are thirty international human rights defenders, now at risk of the ship sinking. So far, only Cyprus has responded to the SOS signal, but its vessel lacked the necessary electrical support.
The Freedom Flotilla set out to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza and deliver vital humanitarian aid. Its mission was kept confidential to prevent Israeli sabotage.
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🟡 NOW: German police just brutally attacked the pro-Palestinian bloc at Berlin’s May Day protest. In the video, police are seen snatching what appears to be an unconscious person.
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🟡 HAPPENING NOW: Berlin’s May Day protest has just kicked off. Thousands are marching against the cost of living crisis, rising fascism, militarization, and the genocide in Gaza. Police units from across Germany have been mobilized to the capital.
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Seen today at May Day protests in Berlin.
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Police charged crowds across Paris this May Day, using tear gas, mass arrests, and batons to break up the march. Protesters also confronted the Socialist Party, tearing down its stand and denouncing its role in labor repression.
Joining the traditional workers’ mobilization was a growing protest against state Islamophobia. Just days earlier, Aboubakar Cissé, a 22-year-old Malian man, was stabbed to death while praying in a mosque. His killer filmed the attack, shouting anti-Muslim slurs—yet the state prosecutor refused to clearly label the murder as Islamophobic, suggesting other possible motives despite the evidence.
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Protesters burned the flags of Israel, the US, and Europe during the May Day march in Turin, Italy. Thousands of demonstrators filled the streets to protest unsafe, underpaid, and exploitative working conditions. They also condemned Italy’s complicity in the genocide in Palestine, calling for an end to rearmament and weapons production.
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Seen today at May Day protests in Istanbul.
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Clashes broke out in Lyon as police charged protesters during the May Day march. Thousands filled the streets—workers, students, and antifascist groups—amid a heavy police presence.
Just a day earlier, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced the dissolution of Urgence Palestine and the antifascist Jeune Garde. Justifying the move, he claimed “it was necessary to strike the Islamists”—a reference to the pro-Palestinian collective, which has been one of the main organizers of demonstrations in France against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The move signals a clear attempt to criminalize anti-colonial and antifascist organizing ahead of mass mobilizations.
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Protesters tore down police barricades in Manila on May Day. Clashes erupted near Recto Avenue, where demonstrators burned effigies of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump to protest foreign influence and imperialism in the Philippines.
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Did you know about this relatively unknown chapter of May Day? Berlin police opened fire on communist May Day protesters on this day in 1929, starting a series of anti-communist massacres known as “Blood May.” The ruling Social Democratic Party resorted to extreme tactics against the Communist Party of Germany, gaining momentum and mobilizing to the banned May Day protest. The brutal crackdown resulted in at least 33 deaths and 150 injuries – shattering the democratic facade of the Weimar Republic. Read on.
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The UN is investigating a weapons shipment from the UAE to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF). A panel of experts is examining how mortar rounds exported from Bulgaria to the UAE ended up in a supply convoy for RSF militia fighters.
In March, Sudan brought the UAE before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting the RSF militarily, financially, and politically. Sudan has accused the UAE of being “complicit in the genocide of the Masalit” in West Darfur. Khartoum claims the RSF and its affiliates are responsible for human rights violations, including mass killings, rape, and forced displacement.
Recently, the UN reported that more than 480 people had been killed in just two weeks in North Darfur, with widespread reports of sexual violence. Since April 2023, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF has claimed tens of thousands of lives, displaced over 13 million people, and created what has been described as “the largest humanitarian crisis ever recorded.”