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“We were trapped, so there wasn’t any way in or out for us,” they said. “They stormed both sides of the alley in full riot gear, with batons. Students were dragged, ripped from the front line. I was thrown to the ground with a knee on my back. Somebody that I was thrown into the wagon with had a bloody nose and wasn’t given medical attention until we were at the precinct. It was horrific. People were screaming that they couldn’t breathe while they were being arrested.”

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Per students, CUNY president Felix V Matos Rodriguez has called for the NYPD to clear their Gaza Solidarity Encampment today at 5pm. For context, City College of New York is currently on spring break until 4/30, so there’s no disruption of classes or operations happening.

Via Talia Jane

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April 25, 1974: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the opening of an enormous class battle that was profoundly influenced by the anti-colonial liberation struggles in Africa. ----------------- Sam Marcy, writing in 1975:

“A Communist takeover of Portugal,” said the New York Times on February 17, “might encourage a similar trend in Italy and France, create problems in Greece and Turkey, affect the succession in Spain and Yugoslavia and send tremors throughout Western Europe.” The Soviet Union is then warned that “détente will be the first casualty.”

In the face of brutal frankness and open threats, can there be any doubt that the imperialist powers are preparing the ground for another Chile on the Iberian Peninsula? Do not the working class parties have the right – in fact the sacred duty – to prepare the mass of the people in advance for precisely this eventuality in the kind of manner which would put an end not merely to fascist threats, but to the ruling class and the system of exploitation upon which it rests?

The way Lenin and Trotsky prepared for the Constituent Assembly in 1917 offers an exceptionally instructive lesson. While utilizing all the legal and electoral opportunities offered, the Bolsheviks, knowing full well the counter-revolutionary nature of the bourgeoisie, armed the masses ideologically, politically, and physically for the insurrection. It was thus that they put an end to bourgeois rule and transferred the real power into the hands of the workers and peasants.

Free PDF pamphlet of "Portugal - Revolutionary Developments April 1974-July 1975" by Sam Marcy

#Portugal #Carnation Revolution #imperialism #colonialism #Angola #Africa #national liberation #military #Lenin #Trotsky #Marxism #revolutionary #Struggle La Lucha

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By Stephen Millies

Over 20 people were killed by the Colorado National Guard in Ludlow on April 20, 1914, during a coal miners’ strike. Eleven of those murdered were children. The next day, April 21, 1914, the U.S. began a military occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. Hundreds of Mexicans were killed during the invasion.

These two atrocities 110 years ago were committed on behalf of Wall Street banksters who are still running the United States today.

#Ludlow massacre #Veracruz #Mexico #invasion #strike #workers #imperialism #capitalism #FreePalestine #Struggle La Lucha

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By Che Gossett

It is rather convenient for queer and/or trans counter hirstory to be erased, depoliticized and co-opted. Yet, Leslie Feinberg’s work resists neoliberal depoliticization and instead forces a reckoning with histories of Black radicalism, Palestine solidarity and the legacies of revolutionary trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera. As Leslie stated: “wherever racism rears its ugly head, our movement must be there.” And Leslie meant it and was always there — present in solidarity against trans misogyny, Islamophobia, white supremacy, the silencing of the AIDS epidemic, Israeli apartheid and US imperialism.

#FreePalestine #solidarity #Leslie Feinberg #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ #pinkwashing #Black liberation #Sylvia Rivera #GazaGenocide #queers for palestine #communist #revolutionary #jewish #jewish antizionism

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Pro-Palestinian protests continue at major US universities, with nearly 100 people arrested at the University of Southern California and dozens arrested at the University of Texas in Austin on Wednesday.

More than 100 people were arrested and four police officers were injured Wednesday at Emerson College in Boston during a pro-Palestinian protest, according to the Boston Police Department.

Protesters at Columbia University, the epicenter of demonstrations that began last week, said they won’t disperse until the school agrees to cut ties with Israeli universities and commits to divesting funds from Israel-linked entities, among other demands.

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This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers. In the three years that we have been organizing against Project Nimbus, we have yet to hear from a single executive about our concerns. Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms and conditions of our labor. These firings were clearly retaliatory.

#Google #workers #protest #Israel #Project Nimbus #No Tech for Apartheid #Gaza Genocide #repression #solidarity #Struggle La Lucha

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Turkish revolutionary musical group Grup Yorum reports from Donbass:

"After Donetsk and Lugansk declared independence, rocket fire by imperialist-backed neo-Nazi gangs and the Ukrainian army directed directly at the residents of these regions has never ceased.

"From 2014 to 2022, about 14,000 ordinary people were killed.

"We support the people of Donbass, who are resisting the imperialism of the US and EU and its accomplice, the fascist Ukrainian state."

#StandWithDonbass #Ukraine #proxy war #imperialism #Genocide Joe #Donetsk #Lugansk #antifascist #neo-nazis #Grup Yorum #Alexey Albu

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At the University of Texas at Austin, dozens of local police and state troopers formed a line to prevent students from marching through the campus, eventually clashing with the protesters and detaining multiple people.

And at the University of Southern California, police removed several tents, then got into a back-and-forth tugging match with protesters over tents before falling back.

Keep fighting. Keep resisting.

#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #Austin #UT #USC #students #protest #arrests #repression #Texas #California

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By Lallan Schoenstein

Berta Joubert-Ceci began her U.S. tour speaking on the conditions and crises facing the people of Puerto Rico. The first stop, on April 10, was a presentation to Latin American students at Hostos Community College in the Bronx, New York. 

Joubert-Ceci spoke about history, starting with the 1898 U.S. invasion during the Spanish-American War and then focusing on the current $72 billion debt crisis. Her talk — illustrated with visual documentation — opened an intense discussion. Many students asked questions that proved their education on the colonization of Puerto Rico was obscured by deliberate misinformation.

#Puerto Rico #Berta Joubert-Ceci #NYC #Speaking Tour #FreePuertoRico #imperialism #colonialism #Struggle La Lucha

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By Andreína Chávez Alava

For over two decades, Venezuela has been the target of the “free elections” broken record alongside regime change operations and economic sanctions, leaving a long trail of destruction behind. How does the U.S. get away with this “free elections” scam? With the unconditional support of the remorseless corporate media.

#elections #Venezuela #imperialism #media #sanctions #Donald Trump #Genocide Joe #Hillary Clinton #propaganda #regime change #Bolivarian Revolution #Struggle La Lucha

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

#JVP #protest #antiwar #GazaGenocide #Chuck Schumer #imperialism #Brooklyn #arrests #repression #NYPD #Israel #FreePalestine #seder #Passover

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Over 100 faculty members from Barnard and Columbia gathered on Low Steps at 2 p.m. Monday for a “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University.”

aculty in the Barnard and Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors voiced support for students’ freedom of assembly and condemned the suspensions and arrests of “peaceful” protesters. At around 2:40 p.m., faculty members marched in a procession toward Barnard to deliver a letter to Barnard President Laura Rosenbury and Dean Leslie Grinage demanding that Barnard lift all student suspensions. As of Tuesday, Barnard has suspended at least 53 Barnard students.

“Barnard members of the AAUP are shocked and outraged at the illegitimate arrest, suspension, and eviction of over 50 Barnard College students who are engaging in a peaceful protest on the designated free speech zone of Butler lawn,” the letter states. “These actions have disrupted our ability to teach and our students’ ability to learn far more than any protest has.”

#Columbia University #students #faculty #protest #Gaza Solidarity Encampment #GazaGenocide #repression #censorship #solidarity #AAUP

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Google has fired more than 50 staffers in the wake of in-office protests over the company's cloud computing deals with Israel, according to an activist group representing the former employees. No Tech for Apartheid has protested the cloud computing contracts Google and Amazon have with the Israeli government since 2021. The group said that Google fired more than 20 employees Monday night, bringing the number of total firings to more than 50 since last week, the group said in a statement posted on Medium. The firings came after nine employees were arrested on April 16 during sit-in protests at Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, The Washington Post reported.

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On April 22, 2024, hundreds of workers in Havana, on behalf of the Cuban working class, paid tribute to the leader of all workers of the world, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, on the occasion of the 154th anniversary of his birth.

The traditional ceremony, which takes place every year on Lenin Hill, in the Havana municipality of Regla, was attended by members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, General Secretary of the Confederation of Cuban Workers Ulises Gilarte de Nacimiento, First Secretary of the Havana City Committee of the CPC Lebanon Izquierdo Alonso and Governor of Havana Yanet Hernandez Perez.

Via Communist World

#Lenin #Cuba #socialism #workers #anniversary #communist #revolution #class struggle #Havana #Marxism #PCC

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By Erin Reed

The anti-trans frenzy is peaking in England this week following the release of a much-anticipated review by Dr. Hillary Cass on transgender care. Many anticipated that the report would serve as a pretext to ban transgender care in England, and it appears to have been crafted to provide just such a rationale. Nations already enacting restrictive laws against transgender individuals will likely use it as justification for further discrimination. In the United States, far-right Christian nationalist groups, including Heritage Foundation (retweeted), Association of Christian Schools International, and the Alliance Defending Freedom, have cited it to support anti-trans legislation they are involved in drafting or lobbying. The Cass Review is an exercise in politics with predetermined conclusions, not science and medicine, and health authorities worldwide should reject its findings.

#ProtectTransKids #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ #Cass Review #gender affirming care #Britain #Ron DeSantis #discrimination #propaganda #Struggle La Lucha

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Several hundred NYU students, faculty and supporters are rallying in Washington Square Park after last night's mass arrests and destruction of the Gaza solidarity encampment, April 23.

The plaza is barricaded and NYPD is stationed at the entrance of every building on campus.

Photos and report by redguard

#nyu4palestine #students #protest #gaza solidarity encampment #nyc #repression #gaza genocide #free palestine