Palestine AnarchoBolshevik • 9h ago • 94%

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv for antigovernment protests

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Prepare to be unimpressed.

Palestine AnarchoBolshevik • 10h ago • 100%

The occupation’s economy is paying a high price for its widening war

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([Mirror.](https://archive.is/sFK5K)) >Flug, the former Bank of Israel governor and now vice-president of research at the Israel Democracy Institute, says there is a risk the […] government cuts investment to free up resources for defense. “That will reduce the potential growth (of the economy) going forward,” she said. > >Researchers at the Institute for National Security Studies are similarly downbeat. > >Even a withdrawal from Gaza and calm on the border with Lebanon would leave Israel’s economy in a weaker position than before the war, they said in a [report](https://archive.is/1gqDu) in August. “Israel is expected to suffer long-term economic damage regardless of the outcome,” they wrote. > >“The anticipated decline in growth rates in all scenarios compared to pre-war economic forecasts and the increase in defense expenditures could exacerbate the risk of a recession reminiscent of the lost decade following the Yom Kippur War.” Related: [*Occupation’s GDP growth revised down to 0.3% as war on Palestinians takes economic toll*](https://archive.is/iRAhr): >Israel’s economy grew slower in the second quarter than previously thought, data showed on Tuesday, as [the] war in Gaza […] continued to weigh on growth. > >Gross domestic product (ILGDP=ECI), opens new tab rose by an annualised 0.3 in the April–June period, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in its third estimate, down from 0.7% reported a month ago and from an initial 1.2% published in August. > >The economy was supported by gains in consumer and state spending and in investment in fixed assets, while exports fell. > >Last week, the Bank of Israel trimmed its […] economic growth estimate in 2024 to 0.5% from a prior estimate of 1.5%. > >Along with a weakening economy, inflation has spiked and central bank officials have [warned](https://archive.is/sJSV4) of possible interest rate increases. It held rates [steady](https://archive.is/I7J2O) last week for a sixth straight policy meeting. > >First-quarter GDP growth was unrevised at 17.2%, as the economy bounced back from a steep contraction in the fourth quarter of 2023 when the war began. Oh no.

Capitalism in Decay AnarchoBolshevik • 10h ago • 100%

The Fascists stole a large stele from Ethiopia and nobody returned it until the 2000s

>**Once [the Fascists] completed the military occupation of Ethiopia, a large stele from the city of Aksum was plundered by [Fascist] colonial troops [and transported to Rome.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aksum_Stele_n._2_(Obelisk_of_Axum-Roma)_in_Rome)** In antiquity, the Kingdom of Aksum (100 BC – 700 AD) represented the earliest form of Ethiopian civilisation.¹⁴ > >The city hosted (and still does so in its rôle as a UNESCO heritage site) an impressive number of stelae originally carved and erected to mark the location of underground burial chambers. The theft of the stele and its re‐erection in Rome in 1937 allowed the fascist régime to proclaim itself as the successor of Ancient Roman conquerors.¹⁵ > >The placement of the stele at the ancient heart of the city was meant to create vistas and axes that would connect the Circus Maximus to the Colosseum and the pyramid of Cestius, as well as creating an artery that would link the city to the newly built EUR42 imperial quarter and the nearby port of Ostia, permitting access to the Mediterranean Sea.¹⁶ The construction, facing the Aksum stele, of a new building to host the Ministry of Italian Africa, was therefore meant to celebrate Italy’s imperial geography. > >[…] > >The […] 1947 Paris Peace Treaties set the terms for the return of the stele to Ethiopia. Article 37 stipulated the restitution of looted works of art, objects of religious, and historical value to their legitimate owners. **But, despite these obligations, Italy kept the restitution on hold until 2002.¹⁷** > >By then new bilateral agreements were signed between Italy and Ethiopia, focussing around business, infrastructural projects, and development aid. These agreements, and through UNESCO mediation, **eventually led to the complete restitution of the stele in Aksum in 2008**, thus leaving the square empty and the FAO headquarters in Rome standing alone. > >However, after the removal, the apparent sense of emptiness led to a new mutation. On 11 September 2009, the Mayor of Rome, the right‐winger Gianni Alemanno, inaugurated a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York eight years earlier. > >The memorial, placed nearby the original location of the stele, consists of a plaque placed between two columns taken from the fountain of Curia Innocenziana in the Piazza di Montecitorio in Rome. This new spatial intervention clearly reproduces the profile of New York’s Twin Towers. Paradoxically, on the plaque are carved the words of the philosopher George Santayana: ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’.¹⁸ > >[…] > >**The […] substitution in the late 2000s of the Aksum stele with a 9/11 memorial has reinforced the coloniality of power, making room for other memorialisations and new civilisational messages.** This latest intervention has triggered the attempted making of new global historical memories that are not necessarily bound to the sense of belonging to the nation or an ethnos, but, on the contrary, they inform the identity of those communities who did not directly experience specific traumatic historical events.⁴⁷ > >The experience of catastrophe following the Holocaust and the Second World War came to create a global political and moral space where collective trauma is held hostage by an exclusive Western interpretation, providing inspiration and justification for military and non‐military interventions to prevent outbreaks of major threats to the global hegemonic order. > >Within this context, **9/11 acted as a historical turning point for the West out of which a transnational sense of ‘vulnerability’ started spreading. This has generated, and continues to generate, justifications of military aggression and war on a global scales a way to protect Western interests and concerns.** (Emphasis added.) --- :::spoiler Click here for events that happened today (October 20). **1887**: Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Imperial general who sanctioned the Nanjing Massacre, was unfortunately born. **1918**: Martin Drewes, Luftwaffe aviator, existed. [**1944**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/20/1944): The Axis lost Belgrade to the Red Army and Yugoslav partisans. **1953**: Werner Baumbach, Axis bomber pilot, dropped dead. [**1967**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/20/1967): Shigeru Yoshida, Imperial ambassador to Fascist Italy and the United Kingdom, expired. :::

Capitalism in Decay AnarchoBolshevik • 1d ago • 100%

Azov lobby goes to Brussels

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>“Jedi,” whose real name is Serhii Rotchuk, or Serhii Grushin, led the delegation. He was one of the Azovites [invited](https://golf.borderlands.com.ua/old-page-veteran-serhii-rotchuk) to [play golf](https://mossrobeson.medium.com/this-is-where-the-presidents-play-d1a88a032ce6) at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington earlier this year. “Jedi” is one of the leaders of the NGU Azov brigade’s medical service. He emphasized that Azov trains according to NATO standards. In his oldest [Instagram post](https://archive.ph/tu7sv), from 2019, he is wearing a “[Rock Against Communism](https://Wikiless.northboot.xyz/wiki/Rock_Against_Communism)” shirt produced by a National Socialist Black Metal brand affiliated with the [hardcore](https://www.bellingcat.com/?p=24891) neo[fascist] group “Wotanjugend,” which originated in Russia. Last year, he [expressed interest](https://archive.ph/slWX1) in a book by Léon Degrelle, the [Axis] collaborator who led the far‐right Rexist Party in Belgium. > >[…] > >It’s [been said](https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_xncFkyP2jI&t=142) that “if you happen to watch Finnish television now, and are looking at any coverage of the Russian war in Ukraine, you’ll probably see Major General Toveri.” He has argued that “the only way to have lasting peace in Europe” requires the integration of Ukraine “to our economic and defence systems through membership in EU and NATO.” But even if that never happens, Ukrainian neo[fascists] are still on track to be integrated in the U.S.‐led military‐industrial complex and western intelligence services. > >The day before the Azov delegation received a warm welcome at the NATO headquarters, the commander of the Azov Brigade paid tribute to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), as far‐right nationalists do every year on October 14. The UPA, the 1940s paramilitary arm of the OUN‐B, or “Banderite” wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, hunted Jews in the forests of western Ukraine and waged a massive ethnic cleansing campaign against the region’s Polish population. > >By the early 1950s, the CIA tried and failed to utilize the UPA as a “stay‐behind army,” but it whitewashed Ukrainian [Axis] collaborators throughout the Cold War. “I am sure that the UPA fighters, looking at your daily service, are proud of you and smiling because the defense of Ukraine is in good hands,” Azov commander Denys Prokopenko said in an online post that he wrote in English. “They couldn’t have dreamt of better descendants.” --- :::spoiler Click here for events that happened today (October 19). **1935**: The League of Nations placed some ineffectual economic sanctions on Fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. **1937**: Fascist Italy raised taxes significantly in an effort to meet the cost of increased arms production and maintaining its colonies. [**1939**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/19/1939): Hermann Göring created the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost to co‐ordinate the confiscation of Jewish and Polish assets in Fascist‐occupied Poland. [**1940**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/19/1940): Axis submarines *U‐38*, *U‐46*, *U‐47*, and two others attacked Allied convoy HX‐79 two hundred miles west of Ireland, sinking five ships and damaging tanker *Shirak*. Additionally, Axis submarines *U‐99*, *U‐100*, *U‐101*, and *U‐123* continued to attack Allied convoy SC‐7 one hundred miles northwest of Ireland. *U‐123* sank Allied ship *Shekatika* as *Shekatika* received her fifth torpedo hit. *U‐99* sank Norwegian ship *Snefjeld* (but the entire crew survived). [**1941**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/19/1941): The Axis defeated the Soviet forces within the Vyazma pocket in Russia and captured 670,000 men, 1,000 tanks, and 4,000 artillery pieces. The Axis also began rounding up men over the age of 16 in the Serbian town of Kragujevac in Yugoslavia. (Of the 2,324 gathered, about 300 of them were students from the First Boys High School.) Axis submarine *U‐204* sank Allied tanker *Inverlee* southwest of Tangier at 0300 hours; 22 were died, 21 lived. In the same region, Axis submarine *U‐206* sank Allied ship *Baron Kelvin* at 0614 hours; 26 were died, 16 lived. [**1942**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/19/1942): The Axis transferred the last twelve surviving Jewish prisoners of Flossenbürg to Auschwitz. Coincidentally, [the Axis and its collaborators exterminated one hundred eighty Jews in Manzhinsk.](https://books.google.com/books?id=DqAb5tY4Ai8C&pg=PA295) [**1943**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/19/1943): Allied aircraft assaulted and sunk cargo vessel *Sinfra* at Crete, and two thousand and ninety‐eight Italian prisoners of war drowned with it. [**1944**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/19/1944): The Fascist bourgeoisie ordered the complete and total destruction of Warsaw, but the Wehrmacht evacuated Belgrade as Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen lost his life Yugoslavian partisans in Montenegro. The Axis’s 4.Armee withdrew from around Tilsit, East Prussia, and Feldmarschal Model called off the attempts to relieve Aachen. Lastly, Takijiro Onishi met with the senior staff officers of the 201st Kokutai at Mabalacat airfield north of Manila, Philippine Islands, and asked for volunteers to form a special attack unit. :::

Communism AnarchoBolshevik • 1d ago • 100%

Sri Lankans elect communist president

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>Dissanayake’s victory is significant, as he is the first Marxist to be elected president in Sri Lanka’s history. He has strong support from young voters in particular. His success in the election reflects the growing popularity of leftist ideas in Sri Lanka. The JVP led two armed revolts against the government in the 1970s and 1980s. > >This electoral victory for the left comes after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt and went into bankruptcy. Current social and economic unrest in Sri Lanka has been motivated by the rapid decline of economic possibilities for the population, which faces shortages of essential goods, including food, fuel and medicines. > >Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe of the United National Party took Sri Lanka to the International Monetary Fund in 2023 to secure a $2.9 billion bailout, which has further trapped the country in a cycle of high-interest loans with corporate creditors in the [neo]imperialist West. Wickremesinghe continued to arm the government against the Tamil people’s resistance in the North and East of Sri Lanka. > >Dissanayake campaigned on transitioning Sri Lanka away from the IMF and resolving ethnic disputes in the country, specifically the ongoing genocide of the Tamil people. > >The election results represent the demands of the people but do not by themselves change the class character of the state. The capitalist class still controls the state, property and means of production in Sri Lanka, and the superrich maintain their ties to the military, courts, corporate media and police. > >The global working class must be in solidarity with Sri Lanka’s efforts to develop independently of world imperialism and to advance towards socialism.

Palestine AnarchoBolshevik • 1d ago • 100%

Hamas statement: Martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar ‘will only strengthen our resistance’

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>We affirm that these sacrifices will continue to illuminate our path and drive us to more resilience and steadfastness. Hamas remains committed to the promise of its founding leaders and martyrs until the aspirations of our people are fully realized: the complete liberation and return, and the establishment of the Palestinian state on the entire national soil with Al-Quds as its capital, by Allah’s will. This will become a curse upon the invading occupiers who are strangers to this land. > >Our great people, our Arab and Islamic nations and the free people of the world: The martyrdom of Brother Leader Yahya Al-Sinwar, along with all the leaders and icons of the movement who preceded him on the path of honor, martyrdom and the project of liberation and return, will only strengthen Hamas and our resistance, making us more determined and steadfast in following their path, honoring their blood and sacrifices. A movement that offers its leaders and members as martyrs in defense of the rights of its people is a noble, genuine movement deeply rooted in its people. > >To those lamenting the captured occupiers held by the resistance, we say: They will not return except with the cessation of aggression on Gaza, its withdrawal and the release of our heroic prisoners from the occupation’s jails. We continue in the path of Hamas, and the spirit of Al-Aqsa Flood will remain a living flame in the hearts of our people. We remain faithful to your pledge, Abu Ibrahim, and your banner will never fall but will remain high and proudly raised. > >Peace be upon you, Abu Ibrahim, the humble, devout and pious man. Peace be upon you, the prisoner. Peace be upon you, the fighter. Peace be upon you, the martyr. Peace be upon you, for history will record that you wrote the first line in the war of liberation and the end of the occupation. May Allah have mercy on you and grant you the highest place in paradise with the prophets, the truthful ones, the martyrs and the righteous, and what excellent companions they are. And it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Buffalo: State of University vs. State of the People

>Following the reading of these demands and the statement that preceded them, the community heard from three more speakers. The first speaker represented SUNY Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and she connected her experience as a student activist in the 1980s pushing for divestment from South African apartheid to the current struggle to push for divestment from Israel. > >The second speaker represented the No CAS Cuts movement (budget cuts to the College of Arts and Sciences) and connected the crackdown on the humanities — including the firing of staff and cancellation of classes — to the current crisis of end-stage capitalism. > >The final speaker represented the Buffalo branch of Workers World Party and spoke about his time as a member of YAWF (Youth Against War and Fascism) fighting against Vietnam war recruitment activities on campus. He closed his speech by pointing out a connection between the U.S. military and how college campuses are complicit in [neo]imperialism.

China AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Defense of the People’s Republic of China is Solidarity with Palestine

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>China does not want war. China wants peace. It wants to continue its development in peace. It wants to help the world develop in peace, especially the people of the Global South who have been the big victims of imperialism and colonialism. It wants to help them, but [neo]imperialism does not want peace. It doesn’t want China to develop in peace. It doesn’t want the world that it does not control to develop, and this is the problem. > >And what this murder in Beirut tells us — and there have been almost 1,000 people who have been murdered in Lebanon over the past couple of weeks — and the genocide in Gaza, what it tells us is that [neo]imperialism is willing to go to almost any length, unimaginable lengths of violence and terror to maintain its empire, which is crumbling. > >They are willing to flirt with World War Three, which could mean the end of all life on the planet Earth. And you know, when an empire is crumbling, that’s when it’s most desperate and dangerous. That’s when it’s most likely to resort to violence. And this is what we are witnessing, comrades. > >There are some in the ruling class here who are afraid of war, a wider war, a world war. They don’t think the U.S. will win. As a matter of fact they think it would hasten the demise of [neo]imperialism. And we think that they are right about that, and they’d like to maintain U.S. hegemony by other means. But whatever that is for the ruling class, they are losing. They’re not in the driver’s seat. > >It’s the warmongers who are in the driver’s seat. So we see the people rising up all over the world against the empire. We see the people demonstrating in the streets over the murder of the leader of Hezbollah. Actually, as I was leaving home, I saw on social media that there was a demonstration of thousands of people in Baghdad. They had entered the Green Zone and were trying to get into the U.S. Embassy. > >There are people demonstrating everywhere, around the world and particularly in West Asia. It shows you that — this is a hunch — they’re not going to take it by lying down. As a matter of fact, it’s going to wave off the mere resistance and, of course, the countries that are under attack, in particular China, that are in the crosshairs of [neo]imperialism, are going to fight back to defend themselves. They can defend themselves. > >But we have to ask ourselves this. Are we going to just leave it up to people in other places, to China, they’re willing to do it, they’ll do what they have to do, but are we just going to leave it up to them? Especially those of us who happen to be at the center of world imperialism, particularly here in the U.S. which they used to call the belly of the beast. We can’t do that. That’s not right. > >We have to seriously consider what our responsibilities as anti-imperialist revolutionaries are, and we have to show them those responsibilities, and then […] we gotta do whatever it takes. You see, the people of the world, they’re demanding this of us. History is demanding us. Save this planet if it could talk, is demanding this of us, that we do whatever is necessary, however we need to do it. However long it takes, and it doesn’t have to take too long for the anti-war and anti-imperialist forces to get so big and so strong that we can shut the world down to stop war. What real choice do we have? > >We’ve got to get away from complacency if that’s an issue. I know that there are those of us who do whatever we are doing on a day-to-day basis, whenever we can. We’ve got to get away from our routine — what they call routinism. It’s almost like a semi-conscious feeling that, yes, that needs to be done, but somebody else can do it. > >Sometimes, I think we have a partial kind of disconnect, a partial, you know, denial of what’s happening. Perhaps we can feel somewhat powerless, but all things we’ve got to push aside now, we got to push them aside, and we got to figure out what we are going to do. > >I think, I’m not sure, that comrade Maduro in Venezuela, a couple of months ago, called for an international united front against [neo]imperialism. Not sure if it’s just something that he floated, or whether it’s real and how he’s following up on that. But I’ll tell you comrades, if there was ever a time for that, and I’m not talking about just a name — he seems to have a name — I’m talking about something flesh and blood and strength and power that’s real. If there was ever a time for that, it’s now. > >I’m thinking about our own plan. The BRICS countries are meeting in Russia in the last week of October. And that’s good. People have talked about … and we can talk about that. But again we can’t just leave it up to the BRICS to push [neo]imperialism back, to marginalize it, to diminish its hegemony. We’ve got to do something! The masses have to do something. The working class has to do something decisive. And a lot of us are convinced that they can. And those who are not convinced, better get with it.

World News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

U.S. threatens Iran with THAAD missile system

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>For the first time, the criminal U.S. government is deploying a THAAD air defense system to the zionist entity to assist in defense “against an Iranian attack.” Along with the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery, dozens of U.S. soldiers will be deployed to install and operate it. > >Despite unlimited U.S. support, the deployment of such a system reveals a weakness in the zionist entity; its existing and extensive air defense systems deployed throughout occupied Palestine are not enough to counter seemingly limitless missiles and drones that rain down on all fronts. > >It is evidence that the Iranian operation was effective and precise and had that not been the case, the system would not have been delivered, as “israel” is incapable of repelling a larger attack.

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Boston rally demands: Indigenous Peoples Day Now!

>Lea Kayali, a Palestinian Youth Movement organizer said: “I come to you all in a state of mourning, but not in a state of despair. Because to be Indigenous is to embody the word ‘sumud,’ a word in Arabic that means steadfastness. To be sumud is to insist with our bodies and our spirits that we will resist colonialism with every moment of our lives. […] It is the strength of this movement of five centuries of anticolonial struggle that is a promise of liberation. […] From Turtle Island to Palestine, we demand Land Back and nothing less!” > >To close the rally, demonstrators joined hands to participate in a traditional round dance to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day and give expression to the ongoing resistance and resilience of Indigenous peoples around the world. > >Jean-Luc Pierrite said, in his closing remarks on the strike line: “We are here for all our [Indigenous] relations. We are here for our workers. We are here! Make them pay! Land back!”

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Coalition of disability rights groups protest the Judge Rotenberg Center’s literal torturing of students

>The school’s founder, psychologist Matthew Israel, patented a remote-controlled device called the Graduated Electronic Decelerator (GED). The FDA banned the use of the device, but JRC successfully overturned the ban in court. After Congress empowered the FDA to ban such shocks as behavioral therapy, the agency is working towards a new ban. > >**FDA ban proposal** > >The FDA wrote in its ban proposal, “These devices present a number of psychological risks including, depression, anxiety, worsening of underlying symptoms, development of post-traumatic stress disorder and physical risks such as pain, burns and tissue damage.” > >JRC students with intellectual disabilities are particularly vulnerable, the FDA notes, because it may be difficult for them to communicate about pain or other harms they experience from the shocks. > >School staff members administer electric shocks through electrodes attached to a student’s arm, leg or torso to cause a change in their behavior. According to their website (judgerc.org), “A highly trained and experienced staff member skillfully opens a plastic box and presses a button causing two seconds of safe electrical current.” Students wear up to five of the electrodes, even while sleeping, > >JRC is the only program in the U.S. that uses electric shocks to control behavior. The center compares the shock to a bee sting, but survivors of JRC have testified that it causes severe, lingering muscle cramps. According to its website, JRC is “licensed to serve ages five through adult.” It has used the device on minors, but states that it now delays shocks until age 18. Each student’s shock program is approved by psychologists and by the Bristol County Probate Court. > >In 2010, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, referred to the use of electrical shock devices for this kind of therapy as torture and sent an urgent appeal to the U.S. government to investigate. > >Israel claimed that there are no negative side effects from skin shock. Professor Nancy Weiss, co-author of a book on the Rotenberg Center, responded that people who have experienced the shock at JRC describe it as the worst pain they have ever felt, and years later still have debilitating PTSD. “Electric shocks are not a professionally accepted approach to behavior management. […] You’re not allowed to use electric shock on prisoners, or prisoners of war or convicted terrorists.” > >The JRC responds that using electric shock is “a treatment of last resort” for residents who harm themselves, but their court-approved programs allowed harmless behaviors to be shocked, including hand-flapping, standing up without permission, taking their eyes off of their work, nagging, disobeying orders or making noises. (Emphasis original.)

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Seattle families fight back against school closures

>The school district says that it has a $100 million deficit. Parents reply that there has been little communication about how the district plans to do this. Seattle certainly has enough billionaires and corporate wealth that it’s absurd that there’s not enough money for schools. > >All Together for Seattle Schools, a community opposition organization, has pointed out that the state has $1.2 billion in excess tax revenues that could also solve Seattle Public Schools’ budget crisis. All Together has held two big protest rallies of parents, students and teachers outside John Stanford school district headquarters. > >Faced with the opposition, the district has now reduced its threat to close five schools instead of 20, but parents argue this could be the first of many closures and cuts that are still planned. > >One of the schools facing the threat is the Licton Springs K-8 school (kindergarten to 8th grade), which houses the program set up for Indigenous students, who have spoken out at school board meetings in opposition.

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Students at the Fashion Institute of Technology hang tough for Palestine

>One of the organizers, Jonas, speaking to the demonstrators and the media, explained that the administration had refused one of the meetings they had promised last spring. In another broken promise, it refused to release information about new investments. The administration held only one of the three meetings they promised. And it maintained university punishments of some of the students, including Jonas. > >The students demanded that the administration hold to the agreement it made with them last spring. This included providing details about all new investments so students could screen them. > >Now the students demand FIT set up a screen for further investments so they invest no new money in military corporations supplying arms to Israel; all charges against students dropped, no suspensions or arrests; a referendum on divestment from companies engaged with […] apartheid; and divestment from companies that used forced prison labor at “slave” wages. Students demand that FIT President Joyce Brown make a statement condemning the genocide […] in Gaza. > >Showing the development of students’ politics, chants were not only to “stop the genocide!” but “long live the Intifada!” and “liberation for Palestine!” > >If FIT students give a fair measure of the mood on campuses in general, student solidarity with Palestine is refusing to diminish and attitudes are sharpening while the U.S.-funded genocidal war expands in West Asia.

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 2d ago • 100%

Boeing and Pentagon attack both Palestinians and striking union members

>Boeing is up to its neck in problems, facing three things: a powerful strike, a mounting pile of production and financial troubles and anger over Boeing’s rôle as a producer of weapons used against Palestine and the Arab World. There is a growing outcry against the company for its anti-labor attacks and its genocidal role in the war on the people of Palestine. People are protesting Boeing worldwide. > >District 751 Local I President Bruce McFarland said: “What do the Boeing Machinists want? It’s simple. We want what was taken from us 10 years ago when we were pressured into a contract that took away our pension, forced us into a stagnating wage package and raised our medical bills.” (Seattle Times, Oct. 11) > >The previous contract, when the union made concessions, has meant that entry level workers are barely making $21 an hour. McFarland described an avalanche of Boeing and state government maneuvers and threats which essentially forced a regressive contract down the workers’ throats. This included a wholesale moving of much of Boeing airplane production from Seattle to a non-union plant in South Carolina. > >This was a stinging defeat for the Machinists, but now they are back on their feet to fight again — like so many other workers. > >With negotiations at an impasse, Boeing has announced job cuts affecting 10% of its workforce. These cuts are company-wide and involve supervisory as well as hourly workers.

Capitalism in Decay AnarchoBolshevik • 3d ago • 100%

The Anglo-American press gravely underestimated the German Fascists’ antisemitism

>**British papers regarded [Fascist] anti‐Semitism initially as a propaganda show to rouse the support of the discontented.** *The Times* and the *Manchester Guardian* reported extensively on the aims of the NSDAP, including its blatant Jew‐hatred, **but did not seriously believe that Hitler would turn his anti‐Semitism into a policy.³⁵** > >**The *Manchester Guardian* stated ironically that ‘the great majority of Germans could have nothing but dislike for the hysterical nonsense of Herr Hitler […] who blames impartially the French, the Russians, and the Jews for all his country’s ills’.³⁶ It reassured its readers that a share in political responsibility would have a sobering effect on the [Fascists]. Apparently the paper doubted that Hitler could maintain his political success in the long run if he did not adjust his programme.³⁷** > >Similarly, *The Times* trusted that Hitler’s revolutionary movement would come to reason and ‘develop into a constructive force’.³⁸ **This attitude is a reflection of the liberal theory of politics which argues that the exercise of power makes politicians inevitably more responsible.³⁹** > >[…] > >The *New York Times* also drew attention to the implications of [Fascist] Jew‐hatred. Under the headline ‘A Menace to Jews Seen If Hitler Wins’ the paper wrote in December 1931 that the possibility of Hitler assuming power […] should be of great concern to American Jews, as anti‐Semitism was an integral part of his political programme.⁴⁹ In September 1932 it warned that if the [Fascists] attained power in Germany there would be ‘substantial ground for fear that the movement itself might get out of control, producing racial excesses with the worst results’.⁵⁰ > >Still, **Anglo‐American journalists did not discuss the roots of German anti‐Semitism or the possibility that Germans might vote for the [NSDAP] because they were anti‐Semitic.⁵¹ They paid attention to the violent outbursts of [Fascist] anti‐Semitism the moment they happened but quickly closed their eyes when they were over.** > >More importantly, **it seems that they did not believe that a civilised nation could regard anti‐Semitism as an acceptable or even attractive political stance. Nor did they expect the [German Fascists] to turn their Jew‐hatred into practical politics.⁵² The extent of the assault on the Jews after Hitler’s seizure of power therefore came as a shock.** > >[…] > >From the first day of Hitler’s rule the *Manchester Guardian* was suspicious of his designs. Referring to the [German Fascists’] previous exploitation of anti‐Semitism, the paper asked: ‘What is to be expected of this Government […]? Will Hitler […] drive the Jews out of Germany and distribute the profits and property of capitalism among the impoverished middle class?’ [*sic!*] Yet **the paper believed that it would be difficult for the [German Fascists] to realise their racial ideals in a Cabinet dominated by the conservatives.⁵⁷** > >The *New York Times* was initially relieved that ‘Herr Hitler’s attainment of the Chancellorship [had] not provoked any anti‐Semitic outbreaks’. Like the *Manchester Guardian* it argued that Hitler’s moderation was due to the weakness of the [Fascists] in the Cabinet: ‘[… Hitler] will have to compromise with those who are opposed to isolating the Reich from the rest of the world. **He is not expected to carry into effect the rabidly anti‐Semitic part of his program**’.⁵⁸ > >Moreover, the *New York Times* claimed that ‘perhaps the post of great responsibility which the leader of the German [Fascists] now held might curb his avowed extremist policies and particularly his anti‐Semitism’.⁵⁹ **The other three papers reported very little during February 1933.** The *Chicago Daily Tribune* briefly mentioned that the Völkischer Beobachter predicted an exodus of the Jews from Germany.⁶⁰ > >The *Manchester Guardian* reported sporadic anti‐Semitic incidents provoked by [Fascist] students.⁶¹ *The Times* referred to [Fascist] anti‐Semitism only once in passing.⁶² **It reiterated its conviction that Hitler deserved a chance to prove his statesmanship and warned that it was too early to judge ‘whether the street‐orator will become an efficient ruler’.⁶³** > >In early March reports of [Fascist] anti‐Semitism increased in number. […] Yet **the *New York Times* qualified such disquieting reports by printing a statement by James W. Gerard, American Ambassador to [the Second Reich] during 1913–1918, who argued that Hitler would eventually dissociate himself from the anti‐Semitism of his party as ‘Nothing sobers like the attainment of high office.’ Moreover, world public opinion would not tolerate ‘a return to the prejudices and policies of the Middle Ages’.⁶⁶** > >**Both arguments — that the takeover of political responsibility would render the [Fascists] more reasonable and that world public opinion would have a restraining effect on Hitler — mirror once more the liberal understanding of government politics by the journalists.⁶⁷** > >[…] > >*The Times*’ coverage was marked by the following points: First, the anti‐Semitic outburst was treated as a passing revolutionary side‐effect. Although the paper reported the [Fascist] boycott of Jewish department stores and shops and acknowledged that incidents of violence and intimidation in relation to Jews were occurring daily, it argued that ‘much of this, as Government circles suggest, is inevitable in present circumstances […]; fine distinctions cannot always be drawn in the stress of a national revolution’.⁸³ A leader of 15 March acknowledged that ‘indiscriminate violence and persecution’ was occurring but insisted that ‘no one expects revolutions to be made with rose‐water’.⁸⁴ > >Second, **the paper maintained that Hitler was a ‘moderate’ who initially had difficulties in controlling his radical followers but who would soon restore order.⁸⁵** > >Third, *The Times* **considered the treatment of the Jews an internal German affair in which Britain had no right to interfere.⁸⁶** The paper was alarmed at Hitler’s unpredictable foreign policy and worried that he might upset the international status quo. **It therefore held that ‘the internal excesses of [Hitler’s] regime should not debar foreign statesmanship from examining with an open mind the external claims of the German, as they would of any other, Government’.⁸⁷** > >In this *The Times* followed the official line of the British government that strongly favoured a policy of non‐intervention on behalf of the German Jews for fear of worsening diplomatic relations with the new [Fascist] rulers.⁸⁸ (Emphasis added.) In addition to these, it is worth noting that [the *Wall Street Journal* published an article reading ‘BERLIN VIEWS HITLER CALMLY’; ‘Rise in Stocks Reflects Confidence He Will Not Disrupt Nation’s Affairs’.](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-1933-wsj-article) :::spoiler This thread would be incomplete without Michael Parenti’s own exposé. Click here to read it. Quoting Michael Parenti’s [*Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media*](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2CC8C6A49D1C01074CDD9686729A8E3F), pages 114–5: >In marked contrast to the flood of horror stories about the Soviet Union was the treatment accorded fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. In the 1920s, major publications like the *New York Times*, *Wall Street Journal*, *Fortune*, *Saturday Evening Post*, *Chicago Tribune*, and *Christian Science Monitor* hailed Mussolini as Italy’s savior, the man who had suddenly brought his nation from poverty and unrest to harmonious prosperity, rescuing his people from the perils of anarchy and radicalism.¹⁰ > >Likewise the stories that greeted Hitler’s ascension to power in 1933 were strikingly different from the shrill press treatment of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. With a few notable exceptions like the *Baltimore Sun* and the *Boston Globe*, American newspapers and radio news reports were optimistic about Hitler. In an editorial entitled “The Tamed Hitler,” the *New York Times* (January 30, 1933) told its readers to expect a “transformation” in Hitler as he begins “softening down or abandoning” “the more violent parts of his alleged program.” > >There swiftly arose the give‐Adolph‐a‐chance press claque. The *Houston Post* pleaded, “Let Hitler try his hand.” CBS national radio interviewed the *Times* Berlin bureau chief, Frederick Birchall, who said the Nazis were not intending “any slaughter of their enemies or racial oppression in any vital degree.” While the Soviets were being portrayed as ever on the edge of launching aggressive attacks against any and all, Birchall reassured listeners that the [Fascists] had no desire to go to war and Hitler could not be called a dictator. > >With that keen eye for the irrelevant that is the hallmark of American journalism, he observed that Hitler was a vegetarian and a nonsmoker, attributes that were supposedly indicative of a benign nature. And he noted that Hitler had taken upon himself “the hardest job that ever a man could undertake.” The *Los Angeles Times* (April 4, 1933) also looked at the brighter side of things, seeing Hitler as a stern opponent of communism. And even though violent attacks had begun against the Jews, [Fascist] anti‐Semitism was “understood to have been mainly rhetorical.”¹¹ > >While denouncing the Soviet Union as a menace to civilization, the U.S. press manifested an open admiration for fascism in Italy and a hopeful tolerance of [it] in Germany. Unlike the Soviets, Mussolini and Hitler were attacking not the capitalist system but its enemies. Both of them murdered leftists, imprisoned dissenters, and abolished all democratic political organizations, including opposition political parties and newspapers. They also destroyed labor unions, cut wages, reduced upper‐bracket income taxes, practically abolished inheritance taxes for the wealthy, subsidized big business enterprises, and privatized large portions of the public sector, thereby winning the approval of industrialists and press moguls in the United States and elsewhere. > >Some U.S. business leaders like Henry Ford accepted honorary decorations from Mussolini and Hitler, while others longed to emulate their rule. Former president of the National Association of Manufacturers, H. W. Prentiss, announced, “American business might be forced to turn to some form of disguised Fascistic dictatorship.”¹² > >After Hitler built up [the German Reich’s] war machine, occupied the Rhineland, annexed Austria, and grabbed Czechoslovakia, the U.S. press belatedly began treating him as a threat to peace and freedom. Yet even as late as 1939, *Time* magazine could claim that Hitler’s régime “was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning.”¹³ ::: --- :::spoiler Click here for events that happened today (October 18). **1870**: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese profascist, was born. [**1887**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/18/1887): Takashi Sakai, the Axis’s governor of Hong Kong, was delivered to the world. **1902**: Ernst Pascual Jordan, Fascist physicist, started his life. **1909**: Norberto Bobbio, Fascist philosophist and historian, existed. [**1941**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/18/1941): Axis Colonel General Erich von Manstein launched his Eleventh Army against the Perekop Isthmus but fierce Soviet resistance on a narrow front caused the Axis advance to proceed extremely slowly. On the other hand, SS Reich and 10th Panzer Divisions captured Mozhaysk, Russia. In the evening, a motorcycle battalion of SS Reich Division found the Minsk Highway toward Moscow, ninety kilometers to the east, undefended. Axis submarine *U‐101* attacked Allied convoy SC‐48 west of Iceland, damaging destroyer HMS *Broadwater* with one torpedo at 0420 hours; 46 crew and 11 previously rescued survivors died, 85 crew survived. Axis submarine *U‐132* sank Soviet ship *Argun* in the Barents Sea five miles off the Russian coast at 1320 hours; all aboard survived. At 2017 hours, *U‐132* struck again, sinking trawler RT‐8 Seld; all aboard were died. Finally, Hideki Tojo became 40th Prime Minister of Japan. [**1942**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/18/1942): Berlin’s Ministry of Justice transferred the responsibility for Jews and citizens of Eastern European countries within the Third Reich to the Gestapo. Additionally, the Chancellery issued its Kommando Befehl, ordering that any captured Soviet commandos be shot. [**1943**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/18/1943): The Axis continued deporting Roman Jews to concentration camps. [**1944**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/18/1944): The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel happened in Ulm as the Axis started losing Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union. **1947**: Michiaki Kamada, Axis vice‐admiral, was executed. [**1948**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/18/1948): Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch, Axis field marshal and the Wehrmacht’s Commander‐in‐Chief, dropped dead. :::

Capitalism in Decay AnarchoBolshevik • 3d ago • 100%

Jews experienced “accelerated aging” as they were trapped in an Axis ghetto

([Mirror.](https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8020033)) >Dr. Arline Geronimus, professor of Behavioral Health and Health Education at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, proposed the concept of “weathering” to explain why **people of color in the United States experience deteriorating health at earlier stages of the life course and premature aging at higher rates than white Americans.** > >According to Geronimus, “weathering” is “a process that encompasses the physiological effects of living in marginalized communities that bear the brunt of racial, ethnic, religious, and class discrimination […]. Weathering afflicts human bodies—all the way down to the cellular level—as they grow, develop, and age in a racist, classist society […]. Weathering is about hopeful, hardworking, responsible, skilled, and resilient people dying from the physical toll of constant stress on their bodies, paying with their health because they live in a rigged, degrading, and exploitative system” (Geronimus 2023, pp. 20–21). > >Human bodies naturally produce stress hormones in response to instances of oppression. **Continual exposure to such instances of racial oppression results in prolonged elevated stress levels and has detrimental effects on the body, including muscle atrophy, immunosuppression, and premature aging.** Geronimus’ research suggests that while the broad spectrum of coping mechanisms exact a protective function for individuals in the short term, in the long term, such strategies ultimately hasten physical [senescence](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/senescence#Noun) (Geronimus 1992). > >When Geronimus first introduced her hypothesis in 1992, challenging traditionally accepted explanations for observable deterioration among marginalized populations, it was met with skepticism. However, subsequent research has produced compelling evidence in support of the theory.¹ > >**Historical evidence from the Łódź ghetto lends further credence to the idea that prolonged exposure to a racist society and violence produces a weathering effect in individuals. Widespread individual weathering in the Łódź ghetto, particularly after 1941, culminated in a process of collective weathering that decimated the Jewish community.** The historical case study presented below suggests that a broader application of weathering theory could be instructive for understanding the effects of racism on marginalized communities in contemporary contexts. > >[…] > >Death became a routine part of daily life. And **those left behind suffered from accelerated aging and failing health no matter their age.** Łódź ghetto survivor Sarah Selver‐Urbach remembered how **her father’s death in the fall of 1941 hastened the decline of her paternal grandfather.** > >In a postwar memoir, Selver‐Urbach wrote: “Following father’s death, my tall, stately grandfather grew stooped; his hair, which had turned grey by father’s grave, became whiter and whiter till his head and long beard looked snow‐white. The permanent pain etched on his face augments further his naturally dignified appearance; it was sad to see him wasting away, he who had been so hale and so tough” (Selver‐Urbach 1984, p. 75). **The cumulative effects of starvation, fear, and death were manifest in the greying of the population.** > >**In the Łódź ghetto, physical weathering emerged as a widespread phenomenon that often occurred at a shocking pace.** Among the most vulnerable to accelerated aging were the 20,000 German‐speaking Jews from cities in the Reich who were deported from their native lands and forcibly integrated into the Polish‐ and Yiddish‐speaking native Jewish community of the ghetto. > >For the newcomers, the reality of occupied Poland was wholly disorienting. Still used to home‐cooked food and other creature comforts from their former lives, in the beginning, they scoffed at the meager portions of thin, watery soup that passed as food in the ghetto. The deportees from the West quickly realized that the material conditions they had left behind in Berlin, Vienna, and Prague were far superior to those they faced in the Łódź ghetto. > >**Fellow residents of the ghetto observed that the rate of decline among “foreign” Jews outpaced even the most vulnerable within the native Polish community.** In a report for the *Daily Chronicle*, a collective effort to document [Fascist] injustices against the Jews of Łódź spearheaded by Rumkoswki’s administration, Jozef Klementynowski **noted the speed with which Jews from Hamburg, Germany, succumbed to the process of weathering upon arrival in the ghetto.** > >Klementynowski reported: “**Events outpaced time; people changed visibly, at first outwardly, then physically, and finally, if they had not vanished altogether, they moved through the ghetto like ghosts. […] And indeed, it was only half a year, only six months, that had proven to be an eternity for them!** Some of the metamorphoses could not be imagined, even in a dream…Ghosts, skeletons with swollen faces and extremities, ragged and impoverished […]” (Dobroszycki 1984, p. 166). Mortality rates among the “foreign” population in the ghetto corroborate anecdotal evidence. > >In addition to physical weathering, **ghetto residents also reported psychological impacts.** Oskar Rosenfeld arrived in the Łódź ghetto in the fall of 1941, a spry and healthy 57‐year‐old. **Within just a few months, Rosenfeld noted disturbing changes in his mental faculties in his diary:** >>I am myself in the grip of **the most widespread ghetto disease: dimming of the memory**…not being able to remember things just heard, the names just read. There is a flicker in front of the eyes, a drying in the ears, one hits one’s forehead, racks one’s brain, and attempts to conjure up the past. To no avail. (Rosenfeld 1994, p. 93) > >“Ghetto disease” became shorthand for the brain fog experienced by so many ghetto inhabitants due to severe, prolonged caloric deficit. Insufficient caloric intake was just part of the problem. Foodstuffs in the ghetto lacked the most basic nutritional value. **Jewish doctors working at medical facilities in the ghetto noted with dismay the emergence of “little‐known or disregarded illnesses” in the malnourished ghetto inhabitants**, including scurvy, pellagra, and famine edema, which they linked to lack of essential vitamins and minerals in ghetto rations (Ibid., 177–178). (Emphasis added.) Aside from showing us how Łódź’s Jews suffered under Fascism, this paper should also be useful for predicting how hundreds of thousands of their Palestinian kin must be suffering under neoimperialism right now: with food, potable water, shelter, sanitation, and healthcare in short supply, it is unfortunately reasonable to suspect that many Palestinians are suffering from the same complications as the inhabitants in the Axis’s ghetti did. On a minor note, here in Imperial America the word ‘ghetto’ is something that we typically associate with black communities, not Jews. I was almost surprised that the author did not explicitly mention this, but—as Herman ‘Hesh’ Rabkin crudely indicated to us in an early episode of *The Sopranos*—the at times eerie historic parallels between the experiences of Jews and black gentiles are already well known. --- :::spoiler Click here for events that happened today (October 17). **1892**: Theodor Eicke, SS general, burdened life with his presence. **1924**: Anton Geiser, SS‐Totenkopfverbände member who later settled safely in Imperial America after the 1940s, was unfortunately born. [**1941**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/17/1941): The USS *Kearny* became the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U‐boat. [**1943**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/17/1943): The Fascists closed down the Sobibór extermination camp after dozens of prisoners staged an uprising. [**1967**](https://ww2db.com/event/today/10/17/1967): Puyi (a.k.a. Yaozhi), head of the Empire of Great Manchuria, passed away. **1978**: Giovanni Gronchi, Fascist Italy’s (briefly serving) Undersecretary for Industry and Commerce, expired. :::

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 4d ago • 100%

Fracking increases Pentagon aggression

>It is well-known that the U.S. war machine is the biggest single polluter in the world. While [the People’s Republic of] China increasingly focuses on developing electric vehicles and other green technologies to reduce global warming, [neo]imperialists are intent on expanding wars and ecocide. > >In just over a week, two major hurricanes whose size, power and enormous rainfall is linked to climate warming — Hurricanes Helene and Milton — wreaked havoc on several states in the South. Rather than dedicate time, money and science to find ways to curb deadly and destructive storms stemming from climate change, Congress voted for billions of dollars more for weapons to Israel, while simultaneously cutting funds for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. > >Fracking has been blamed for leaking millions of tons of methane — a greenhouse gas considered more potent than carbon dioxide. According to a new major research study, exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal. The research by Cornell University environmental scientist Robert Howarth found that LNG is 33% worse than coal in terms of planet-heating emissions over a 20-year period. (Guardian, Oct. 4) > >The actual burning of natural gas only accounts for a third of total emissions. The process of drilling, moving, cooling and shipping gas from country to country uses twice as much energy. The review, published in the Energy Science and Engineering journal concludes that “ending the use of LNG should be a global priority.” > >Workers should demand that instead of passing laws to protect fossil gas fracking, legislatures across the U.S. should pass laws to protect the planet by outlawing fracking.

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 4d ago • 100%

Muslim organization questions firing of Jets football coach for displaying Lebanese flag

>Following the Al-Aqsa Flood that erupted in Gaza a year ago on October 7, 2023, Saleh wore a small Lebanese flag patch on the arm of his Jets’ sweatshirt shirt. This was part of the NFL’s Heritage Program in 2023 where players and coaches are encouraged to recognize their cultural backgrounds with patches and decals. He had worn the Lebanese flag patch on other occasions. > >But that all changed once […] airstrikes began pounding the densely populated areas of Beirut on Sept. 27, after which there was a major defensive military response from the liberation organization, Hezbollah — a justifiable action in their ongoing struggle. > >Joe Benigno, a former sports radio host at WFAN radio station, remarked in an interview on The Jake Asman Show on Oct. 8, that he believed that Saleh was fired due to the current situation in West Asia, particularly in Lebanon. Benigno told Asman, “There is no sugarcoating of what’s going on in the Middle East.” > >Those who have denounced Saleh over social media have equated the Lebanese flag with the […] anti-U.S. Hezbollah flag — which Saleh should also have the right to wear. > >The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demanded an explanation from Jets owner Woody Johnson — who had been accused of making racist and sexist remarks while he was a member of the Trump administration in 2020 — on the firing of Saleh. Notably, Johnson is staunchly pro-Zionist. > >The CAIR statement reads: “We commend Coach Robert Saleh for making history as the first American Muslim head coach in NFL history. Although no one should jump to conclusions about why the Jets fired Coach Saleh, the report that Jets security physically escorted Saleh out of the building does raise concerns about the possible motive for such unusual hostility—especially given that Saleh wore a Lebanese flag pin at a game just days ago and that owner Woody Johnson is a former Trump administration official who has been accused of making racially charged remarks. We encourage the Jets to thoroughly explain its unusually hostile reported treatment of Coach Saleh.” > >As of this writing, the Jets ownership has not responded to CAIR’s concerns.

US News AnarchoBolshevik • 4d ago • 100%

Jewish Voice for Peace tells Wall Street: Stop complicity with genocide

>Some JVP activists chained themselves to the outside doors of the Exchange before police arrested more than 200 of the participants, including elders and descendants of Holocaust survivors. One of the main chants at the sit-in was “Gaza bombed, Wall Street booms. Fund health care, housing, FEMA, not genocide!” Related: [*Support the students backing Palestine!*](https://www.workers.org/?p=81401)

Palestine AnarchoBolshevik • 4d ago • 100%

Palestinian resistance salutes Hezbollah attack on settler régime

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>This qualitative operation comes to direct a new security and military blow to the zionist enemy at the height of its arrogance and security alert and proves that the resistance still has the final say in the field despite the scale of the aggression and the great sacrifices. > >We praise the jihad and sacrifices of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, who are directing qualitative and painful blows to the zionist enemy in the field and deep within the usurping entity. > >The fascist zionist enemy must await more of the might of our fighters in Palestine and Lebanon, and the usurping entity must realize that it is in an open war with the nation and that the continuation of its aggression against our people and our nation will inflict more losses, defeats, disappointment and failure on it. > >We call for intensifying the qualitative and painful operations deep inside the criminal zionist entity, as the corrupt enemy only understands the language of force and spears and will not be deterred except by more blows to its head.