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    Activists warn of the growing militarisation of the Indonesian government under General Prawobo

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on May 11, 2025 by Roser Gari Perez (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted May 13, 2025)

    Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.

  • New York City retirees protest attempts to priviatize their Medicare.

    Medicare Advantage: The $1.2 trillion in government waste that Trump won’t cut

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 9, 2025 by Catherine Henchek (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget calls for up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years to help fund massive tax cuts for the rich.

  • THIS is post racial America!!!

    America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising

    Originally published: America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising on May 2025 by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (more by America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising) (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.

  • Columbia University Student Protest

    Columbia University suspends 65 anti-genocide students over library protest

    Originally published: Quds News Network on May 10, 2025 by Editing Team (more by Quds News Network)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  • Kehlani in the music video for their song "Next 2 U"

    Artists reject censorship of Pro-Palestine musician Kehlani after NYC concert cancellation

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 10, 2025 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Boots Riley, Kneecap, Residente and dozens of other artists have signed an open letter protesting the censorship of Kehlani after the NYC mayor’s office pushed for the cancellation of her pride concert.

  • Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival in Zagreb, 2013 CREDIT: ROBERT CRC VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

    You Can’t Please All – review

    Originally published: Red Pepper on April 15, 2025 by Sheila Rowbotham (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted May 10, 2025)

    Tariq Ali’s second memoir demonstrates his depth as a radical writer and thinker, writes Sheila Rowbotham.

  • BAP demonstration in Washington DC gathered outside the Embassy of Burkina Faso, in defense of the Alliance for Sahel States, October 2024.

    Now is the time for all anti-imperialists and all justice loving people to stand unequivocally in defense of Burkina Faso

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on May 5, 2025 by Black Alliance for Peace Staff (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    BAP and USOAN call on all anti-imperialist forces to join in active defense of Burkina Faso, demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent, and ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011.

  • Mobilizing to release Mumia Abu-Jamal, Malcolm X Library, San Diego, 2023. SLL photo: Gloria Verdieu

    Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal on his 71st birthday

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 6, 2025 by Gloria Verdieu (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    “Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and steel, I felt our love, sometimes like a wave, sometimes like a whisper, but always there, ever present.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio.

  • Starbucks Drive Thru at the Maypole.

    Starbucks sued for slave labor

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 6, w0w5 by Shenby G (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    Starbucks, the largest coffee chain in the world and the 120th richest corporation in the United States, is being brought to court after being exposed for using slave labor in their coffee production chain.

  • London protest 19 April 2025 image by Steve Eason

    The Supreme Court decision: When law becomes the means of oppression

    Originally published: rs21 (Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century) on April 28, 2025 by DK Renton (more by rs21 (Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century))  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism.

  • The Politics of Donald Trump: Where Ignorance and Arrogance Collide

    The Soviet feat and Trump’s ignorance

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on May 6, 2025 by Hedelberto López Blanch (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    In commemoration of the Nazi surrender ending the second world war on May 8, 1945.

  • No to the New Cold war with China

    U.S. imperialism and the project of New Cold War

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on May 4, 2025 by Sanjay Roy (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    The U.S., particularly oligarchs like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Harlan Crow, and Rupert Murdoch, seeks to shape the world according to their own image. The hypothetical Mar-A-Lago accord, proposed by the Hudson Institute–a neoconservative think tank funded by right-wing billionaires–lays out a position paper calling for the U.S. government to restructure the global trade and financial architecture.

  • US President Donald Trump

    Yemen – U.S. concedes Maritime defeat

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on May 7, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted May 09, 2025)

    Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.

  • Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia

    Cuban days against homophobia and transphobia have begun

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 6, 2025 by Resumen (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted May 09, 2025)

    The National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) launched the 18th edition of the Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Monday.

  • New York State Police raided Columbia University, arresting dozens of demonstrators. (Photo: video grab)

    Police storm Columbia University library, arrest pro-Palestinian student protesters

    Originally published: The Palestine Chronicle on May 8, 2025 by Palestine Chronicle Staff (more by The Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    Footage showed a heavy police presence as students clashed with security and barricaded themselves inside the library.

  • Cpt. Ibrahim Traoré

    The rising star of Cpt. Ibrahim Traore – Burkina Faso’s spirit of Sankara

    Originally published: Nkrumah's Africa on April 12, 2025 by Nicolas Jones (more by Nkrumah's Africa) (Posted May 09, 2025)

    The new, bold and vibrant leader of Burkina Faso, has left his continental colleagues in the dust, when representing Pan-African leadership…

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    Absurd (scary) CO2 emissions

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on May 4, 2025 by Robert Hunziker (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted May 07, 2025)

    In a major blow to the Paris ’15 climate agreement, last year witnessed one more nail in the coffin of the celebrated agreement to slow down CO2emissions by 2030, as CO2, for the first time in modern history, enters the scientifically established danger zone.

  • US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IN KYIV, UKRAINE ON FEBRUARY 20, 2023. (PHOTO: PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VIA APA IMAGES)

    Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 2, 2025 by Mitchell Plitnick (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 07, 2025)

    Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.

  • National Museum of African American History and Culture Building in Washington DC, USA. A popular visitors and tourists destination in the capital city

    Sounding the alarm

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on May 5, 2025 by April Ryan (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted May 07, 2025)

    In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw University; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said, “I will probably get fired at some point,” Bunch said. “But I think the goal would be to, sort of, fight the fight as long as you can.”

  • Nayib Bukele

    The long history of illegality in U.S. policy toward Latin America

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 5, 2025 by Greg Gardin (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted May 07, 2025)

    It seems as if the entire disgraceful history of U.S. illegality in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has sparked outrage in the United States among human rights defenders and opponents of the Trump administration.

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