abolitionmedia

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/author/abolitionmedia/

Blog: [abolitionmedia.noblogs.org](https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/ )
Profile: [abolitionmedia.noblogs.org](https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/author/abolitionmedia/ )

Public Key

npub1gktyvyeaeyekml05cfqwftqercjsrc7enahkk94rr8u9jhz3gktshch26x

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsyt9jxzv7ujvmdlh6vys8y4sv3ufgpu0ve7mmtz633n7zet3g5t9cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds28n5q2

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1gktyvyeaeyekml05cfqwftqercjsrc7enahkk94rr8u9jhz3gktshch26x

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-08-18 06:11:55

Let us recommence, then with some aphorisms from decades ago. See if what was said then, helps or not to understand what is happening now.
**I**
The aim of critical thinking is not to find the truth (and, therefore, to build a new alibi for the arbitrariness of the moment), but to question “truths”, confront them, dismantle them and show them for what they are: the idiotic opinion of one or several idiots (of course, not forgetting gender parity -) and with many or few followers. Critical thinking is not only a theoretical position. It is, above all, an ethical position in the face of knowledge and reality.
**II**
That which they call “History” (with capital letters) is only a corpse clumsily made-up by politicians and their scribes. However, at the table of the politician in power, a skeleton does not sit. Just a mirror. The frame can be embellished, but the mirror will continue to reflect the same decomposition of reality. The difference between caskets does not change the similarity of their contents. When governments accuse the mirror, because it is concave, of distorting reality, they pretend to hide the fact that it is their gaze that excludes distortions. The same gaze in which HE is the one who illuminates and colors everything.
The past history, with small letters, is nothing more than the antecedent of the present nightmare. Today the death and destruction of tomorrow are being wrought.
**III**
The idea does not precede the matter. On the contrary. It is not a social or philosophical theory that gives rise to capitalism as the dominant system. Nor to its different stages. Social theory is a gigantic shelf of ideas to which the different political proposals turn in search of reasons that give sense to senselessness. The dominant systems are but one and the same body with different garb in their presentations, but the same in their hypocrisy.
The fashionable social theory is only a momentary bestseller, which coexists with theories of self-help, of how to win friends (“followers” as they now say), and of justifications that the end justifies the means depending on whether it is conservatism or progressivism (which is nothing more than a soft conservatism).
What gives rise to capitalism is a crime. And each stage of its development resembles that of a serial killer — each time it acquires more and more experience. The work of the officialist theoreticians is to embellish this crime with some romanticism, adventure and, of course, frivolity.
In social theory, more often than not, the aim is not to understand in order to revolutionize, that is, to change the material bases of a system. What the “theoreticians,” yesterday of the opposition and today pro-government, are looking for is a change in the confraternity. That is why yesterday’s attachés are today’s cartoonists. The names and offices change, but the defense is the same. And, of course, the pay. The reaction of the enlightened right is that of a couple scorned, indignant because others were chosen. And those others, what they aspired to was to take the place of yesterday’s chosen ones. They share the same intellectual anemia, so there is no problem.
Today’s historian adapts the historiography to the taste of the boss. He goes to the bookshelf of ideas looking for characters, either to create villains or to construct heroes. That female villains and heroines are now included is a benevolent concession to a feminism that settles for little or nothing. The greatest fear of an historian today is to find groups, collectives or entire peoples responsible for a period. Who can sell a book with the biography of a non-individual? Because that is a community.
Today’s historian sells alibis and is the promotional support of the papier-mâché cartoon of Power. For him, history is only the set design that adorns his luminous present. The literary equivalent of the lavish scenes about the indigenous peoples are the biographies and the investigations cultivated in the circles of Power. Thus the calendars are adjusted to their convenience and the defeats of one empire against another are converted into victories.
The confusion is such that there are those who think, sustain and argue, that the Aztec Empire was the panacea of the indigenous peoples before the Spanish conquest, that Russia is the USSR and that China is a geography with communism as the dominant system; that the people are wise if they vote for Lula, Kirchner, PSOE, Macron, and Harris; and ignorant if they vote for Bolsonaro, Le Pen, Milei, Trump. Few things are as prostituted as “democracy,” but none is more expensive.
In the unknown history of the capitulations, those who keep silent and mature (this is how it is taught in the school of cadres of the Party), go to the shelf of ideas to buy something that will serve them. It is futile: the betrayal of principles and convictions is a capitulation, even if it is dressed up as Poulantzas [1](https://schoolsforchiapas.org/adagios/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-47383 ). The nickname “leftist” does not change the essence of a fact: it is complicity with a crime, the worst of all: that of a system against humanity.
**V**
In politics there are no dead people, only recidivist corpses.
As Pedro Infante used to say: the PRI is not dead, it lives on in the heart of all political parties. That is why professional politicians change their acronyms as they change their underpants without any problem. And even if they wash their underpants… or maybe not even.
There is no difference between progressive and right-wing politicians, just as there is no fundamental difference between good and bad bosses. Both administer a plundering.
The political options do not change in their objectives (to have the government), nor in their tasks (to serve the economic Power). Only the alibis change.
**VI**
In its current stage, the system carries out a new war of conquest, and its objective is to destroy / rebuild, depopulate / repopulate. **Destruction / depopulation and reconstruction / redevelopment **of an area is the destination of that war.
The government of Israel is not avenging the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, it is destroying and depopulating a territory. The business is not only in destruction and mass murder, it will be in reconstruction and redevelopment. That is evident in the complicity of the Nation States of the world. When the “nations” send military supplies to Israel they are not only supporting the genocide against the Palestinian people. They are investing in that crime. The dividends of this business will come later.
**VII**
There is no “good” or “bad” destruction. The excuses and colors change, but the result is the same. There are no substantial differences between Porfirio’s Isthmus Train, Fox’s Plan Puebla-Panama and Moreno’s Transisthmus Corridor. Some failed and the other will fail as well. Their objective is not welfare (other than that of big capital), nor the Porfirian modernization of dispossession: it is simply one more border among those that already exist. And, like its counterparts, it will also be perforated. And not because of the thousands of migrants, but because of the corruption and cynicism that, centuries later, today’s neo-enslavers discover: human trafficking is a business with an immense source of raw material (obtained through wars and the policies of the different governments). And the capital investment is minimal: all you need is bureaucracy, cruelty and cynicism. And there is an abundance of that in Capital and in the State.
The so-called mega-projects do not result in development. They are only commercial corridors opened for organized crime to have new markets. The dispute between rival cartels is not only for the trafficking of people and drugs, it is above all the dispute for the monopoly of the “Tren Maya” and “Corredor Transístmico” (Transisthmian Corridor). Trees and animals cannot be charged fees, but the communities and companies that settle on this other useless border in the Mexican southeast can.
This ensures the growth of wars for territorial control, in which the hologram of the Nation State will be absent.
To start from the premise that the violence of what is called “Organized Crime” is an anomaly of the system is not only false, but also prevents us from understanding what is happening (and acting accordingly). It is not an irregularity, but a consequence.
The objective is consensual: the State wants an open market (“free” of intruders -i.e. native peoples-), and the others want control of a territory.
In the image and likeness of what was called State Monopoly Capitalism, in which Capital waited for the State to create the conditions for its implementation and development, now it is what the military call a “pincer maneuver”: both – State and Organized Crime -, they hold a territory, destroy and depopulate it, and then big Capital enters to rebuild and reorder.
Those who say that there is an alliance between governments and organized crime are lying. Just as there is no alliance between a company and its clients. What there is is a simple – albeit costly – commercial operation: the State offers an absence and the cartel in question “buys” that absence and replaces the presence of the State in a locality, region, zone, country. The gain is mutual between seller and buyer, the loss is for those who survive in those places. “He who pays or loans, rules,” is the old aphorism that analysts and “social scientists” “forget.”
As for what is called “Organized Crime”, the State and Capital make a miscalculation (as usual): they assume that the employee will subject themselves to the agreement. And not that he will operate on his own account.
As happened with the encouragement and creation of paramilitary groups, which, as they were made up of indigenous people, it was thought that they could be controlled. After all, they were ignorant and manipulable people. And then Acteal. The Abejas are right, the Acteal massacre in 1997, with its cruelty and consequent impunity, was only the prelude to the current nightmare. The State thinks that those of the so-called Organized Crime are its servants and come and go as instructed or forced. It is because of this belief that they receive the surprises they suffer.
Now, try to answer this question: Why is it that in a federal state militarized for 30 years, cartels and their clashes now flourish with the governmental approval of those who invaded the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, claiming to avoid the “balkanization” of the republic? Yes, it seems that the Mexican territory is more fragmented than ever.
(To be continued)
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
The Captain
August 2024.
[Original text published by *Enlace Zapatista *on August 15th, 2024.](https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2024/08/15/adagios/ )
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/18/adagios/
#chiapas #ezln #mexico #northAmerica #subcomandanteMarcos #zapatista
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/08/ezln.cleaned-2.png

2024-07-21 00:46:47

Zionist war jets launched a series of airstrikes on Saturday targeting Yemen’s province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast.
The aggression targeted an oil refinery, leading to a massive fire that can be seen kilometers away.
Reports state that the strikes targeted the Ras Kathib power station in Hodeidah, igniting the oil storage facilities.
The Yemeni Ministry of Health reported martyrs and wounded as a result of the aggression, confirming that civilians suffered severe burns due to the fires.
Zionist *Kan 11* channel citing a US official reported that the occupying regime conducted the attack in Yemen.
Civil defense teams were battling to extinguish the fires and flames engulfing the targeted zone, our correspondent added, noting that the size of the blaze is making the task extremely difficult.
Yemeni source stated that the airstrikes were coordinated between US and Zionist forces, indicating that the nature of the targets hit by the aggression shows the blindness of the enemy.
They emphasized that there will be a response to the aggression.
Zionist media quoted official American sources stating that 25 F-35 fighters attacked multiple targets in Yemen in several attack waves.
Furthermore, a Zionist media platform mentioned that Italians assisted the regime with refueling aircraft in Yemeni airspace.
Following the aggression, the head of Yemen’s negotiating delegation, Mohammad Abdul-Salam, affirmed that pressuring Yemen to cease supporting Gaza is “a dream that will not come true for the Zionist enemy.”
“The brutal Zionist aggression will only increase the determination and the steadfastness of the Yemeni people and its brave armed forces in an escalating manner.”
The Yemeni Armed Forces reiterated that occupied Yafa (Tel Aviv) is an unsafe zone and that a response to the aggression on civilian facilities in the Yemeni coastal province of Hodeidah is undoubtedly coming, spokesperson General Yahya Saree stated.
His televised statement came in light of the air aggression that targeted the civilian Hodeidah port and a power station in the city, resulting in dozens of Yemeni casualties and massive fires.
Saree emphasized that the armed forces “will not hesitate” to strike vital targets in the Zionist entity and that operations in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza will not stop regardless of the consequences.
The Yemeni people “are preparing for a long war with this enemy until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted and the crimes committed by the Zionist enemy against the Palestinian people in Gaza are over.”
The general concluded by expressing confidence that the Yemeni nation will overcome this challenge just like they did many others over the past years, referring to the US-Saudi-UAE decade-long ongoing war and blockade on the country.
Hezbollah affirmed on Saturday that the aggression against Yemen is a continuation of the American-British aggression against the Arab country.
In a statement, Hezbollah said that the attack was backed and supported by the United States, emphasizing that “the foolish step taken by the Zionist enemy signals a new and dangerous phase of a highly significant confrontation in the region.”
Hezbollah extended condolences to the “free and honorable Yemeni people and its brave and wise leadership” over the martyrs who ascended in the bombing, adding that “the aggression underscores the utmost importance of [the] support fronts across the region and their great role in defending the Palestinian people.”
“The aggression will not pass without a harsh and deterrent response,” Hezbollah concluded.
Below we publish several statements from factions battling the Zionist regime.
**Kataeb Hezbollah in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq:**
—
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“And indeed We destroyed generations before you when they wronged, and their messengers came to them with clear proofs, but they would not believe. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.”
The zionist entity continues to perpetrate its criminal acts in the region with the support and backing of America and the normalizing countries, reaching today the proud and dignified Yemen by bombing a civilian facility in Al-Hodeidah Governorate, in a desperate attempt to dissuade the men of Yemen from performing their role in supporting the steadfast Palestinian people.
The Yemeni people and their courageous leadership possess the will and effective power to deter the forces of arrogance, qualifying them to rub the the zionists’ noses in the mud and defeat them, just as they did before with the Americans in the Red Sea. The criminal aggression of the zionist entity against civilian areas in Yemen is a sign of its confusion, and it is an attempt to restore its arrogance, which has been torn apart by the forces of the Axis of Resistance, in support of the Palestinian people.
As we extend our condolences to the families of the martyrs who ascended in this sinful aggression, we affirm our support and readiness to stand united in all arenas of confrontation against the enemy, especially the front of resistance in the steadfast Yemen. “And victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.”
Islamic Resistance
Kataeb Hezbollah
**Palestinian Islamic Jihad:**
—
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
We condemn the criminal zionist aggression against the Yemeni people, targeting civilian facilities and leaving a number of martyrs and wounded among the dear sons of Yemen.
This new zionist crime confirms that this criminal entity is not a danger to the Palestinian people alone, but to all the peoples of our Arab and Islamic nation. This aggression would not have been possible without the blatant Western support for the criminal entity, primarily the support of the American administration and the British government.
We also condemn in the strongest terms the governments that allowed zionist aggression aircraft to pass through their airspace to carry out their crime.
We are confident that zionist barbarism will not discourage the brotherly Yemeni people, who are paying the price for their honorable positions in support of our Palestinian people, from continuing their support and backing of our people and our cause, but rather will increase their determination to adhere to their courageous and honorable positions.
As we in the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine praise the resistance of the Yemeni people, their honorable positions, and the sacrifices they make by supporting our Palestinian people and supporting them in light of the zionist aggression they are exposed to, we pray for mercy for the martyrs of Yemen and for their wounded to recover quickly.
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Saturday 14 Muharram 1446 AH, 20 July 2024 AD
**Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:**
—
**The Popular Front strongly condemns the brutal zionist aggression against Yemen and asserts that it will not go unanswered without a severe and deterring response.**
– The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly zionist aggression that targeted the port of Hodeidah in Yemen, affirming that this aggression will not go unpunished without a severe and deterring response.
– We with all pride and honor, we mourn the martyrs of this aggression, wishing a speedy recovery for the injured, and expressing our full solidarity with the resilient Yemeni people facing this brutal aggression, which is carried out in coordination with the United States of America and the complicity of some Arab countries that have betrayed the Palestinian cause by opening their airspace to zionist aircraft to carry out its cowardly strikes.
– The heroic Yemeni people and their brave armed forces have proven that they will not retreat in the face of this brutal aggression, which will only strengthen their determination to continue depleting the Zionist enemy and its allies, standing alongside Palestine and its resistance.
– The zionist entity, by its aggression against Yemen, has miscalculated by thinking this aggression will go unpunished. This cowardly and treacherous enemy will certainly pay a high price, and in the coming hours, it will receive painful blows that will teach it a lesson it will not forget, not only from the Yemeni army but also from the factions of the Axis of Resistance and support fronts.
– Yemen will remain free, noble, and unbreakable, a constant thorn in the throat of the zionists, Americans, and Arab reactionary regimes. The Yemeni people, who have endured years of aggression and siege, cannot be defeated and will continue their struggle and resistance without retreat.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
July 20, 2024
**Hamas Political Bureau member, Izzat Al-Rishq:**
**—**
Yemen and its people, especially the brothers in Ansarallah, are paying the price for their stance of honor, dignity, and defense of Palestine and the Palestinian people who are being subjected to a Nazi genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The occupation state will undoubtedly suffer from the fire that ignited in Hodeidah today, and the accumulation of zionist crimes means changing the dynamics of the entire equation.
May Allah accept the martyrs of the people in Hodeidah, who are martyrs of both Palestine and Yemen, and heal their wounded. May He reward them for their heroism and bravery with the best reward.
Yemen is from us, and we are from Yemen.
**Hamas:**
—
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
We strongly condemn the brutal zionist aggression against the sovereignty of the brotherly Republic of Yemen, and the targeting of oil facilities and civilian infrastructure including the port and electricity company in the port of Hodeidah, resulting in martyrs and injuries among civilians. We consider this zionist recklessness and a dangerous escalation, a desperate attempt to dissuade the free resistance forces in our nation from fulfilling their sacred duty towards Al-Quds and the oppressed Palestinian people who are facing a genocidal Nazi war.
We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), affirm our full solidarity with the brotherly Yemeni people and the Ansarallah group, mourning their martyrs and appreciating their brave stances and decisive decision to provide all means of support and backing to our oppressed Palestinian people.
We hold the Nazi zionist occupation and the American administration fully responsible for the ongoing escalation in the region due to their continued provision of political cover and open military support to the occupation, enabling it to commit the most heinous crimes and violations of all international laws.
We call upon all countries, and the forces of our Arab and Islamic nation, to condemn this fascist aggression, unite, mobilize capabilities, and engage in confronting this usurping zionist entity until it is expelled from the land of Palestine, our occupied Arab lands, and to protect our Islamic and Christian sanctities, foremost among them the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Saturday: 14th Muharram 1446 AH
Corresponding to: July 20, 2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/21/zionist-regime-attacks-yemeni-civilian-facilities-regional-resistance-vows-revenge/
#aggression #hamas #hezbollah #palestine #pflp #resistance #westAsia #yemen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/yemen.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-21 00:32:17

In his first speech after Al-Aqsa Flood, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stated that the support front from Lebanon operates according to two criteria: one related to the scale of the enemy’s attacks, and the other concerning the support needed to prevent the breaking of the resistance in Gaza. The leader of Ansarallah, Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, was quick to announce that Yemen’s involvement in the battle aims to stop the aggression and lift the siege on Gaza. Both parties, in all subsequent statements issued by their respective war media, emphasized key phrases: supporting Gaza, backing its resistance, and striving to stop the aggression and lift the siege.
Later, Nasrallah and Al-Houthi developed their stance in several speeches, linked to various events, most importantly, the coordination between the forces of the Axis of Resistance, which took a different form and settled on mechanisms that included all fronts, including Gaza itself. It won’t be long before some of the daily operational coordination, both politically and on the ground, between the parties of the Axis is revealed, from the center in Iran, passing through Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and reaching Gaza and the rest of Palestine.
Over the past nine months, the resistance in Gaza has provided one proof after another of its steadfastness, patience, and effectiveness, supplying allies with sufficient information about its conditions until the moment when the leaders of the Axis realized that the idea of crushing the resistance in Gaza was behind everyone. The focus then shifted to the support mechanism that benefits the resistance in Gaza from two aspects: the first involves the attrition of the enemy and pushing it to stop the war, and the second concerns the position of the resistance in the ongoing negotiations to stop the war, especially since the political pressures on the resistance are immense, involving Palestinians, Arabs, and the American and “israeli” enemies.
The recent weeks have shown that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government does not intend to proceed with a deal to end the war, and its head openly rejected a settlement he said achieves Hamas’s goals. He then engaged in a new maneuver that became more tied to the event of the American election, and his government members no longer hide their bet on the fall of Joe Biden’s administration, relying on Donald Trump’s victory. They are now acting on the basis of continuing the war until these elections, with “israeli” Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir going so far as to reveal the big secret by stating that agreeing to the proposed deal would be a stab in Trump’s back.
Alongside the constant question about the most beneficial form of support for Gaza and its resistance, regional and international items were added to the Axis of Resistance’s agenda, including how to deal with the American event. Axis leaders are acting on the basis that there is no point in waiting for any change in the positions of the official Arab system, as Saudi Arabia and the UAE show readiness to take revenge on Yemen, while Jordan cooperates with the Ramallah [Palestinian] Authority and its Security Forces in plans to suppress the resistance in the West Bank, and everyone, under Egypt’s patronage, is involved in searching for an alternative authority to Hamas in Gaza, despite all being aware that achieving this would lead to a Palestinian-Palestinian civil strife that the enemy wants to be the first line in the “Day After” program.
Hezbollah and Ansarallah were very frank when they said from the early days of the war that breaking the resistance in Gaza is forbidden.
All this necessitated reconsidering the field programs of the resistance forces, imposing changes that can be implemented according to an arrangement that does not contradict the specificity of each party in the Axis of Resistance, without necessarily leading to a wide-scale war.
The resistance in Gaza has started transitioning from confronting the infiltration operations carried out by occupation forces to striking the gathering centers of these forces across the Strip. In the past two weeks, they have provided models of this new pattern, reflecting continued reconnaissance capabilities and ambush setups, including planting explosives and carrying out precise attacks by commando groups or by shelling with various projectiles. Additionally, a symbolic step in the battle involves continuing to launch rocket salvos towards the settlements of the envelope.
On the eastern front, the Iraqis are involved in a special cooperation program with Ansarallah to carry out operations targeting vital enemy sites at multiple points within the entity, from Haifa in the north to “Eilat” in the far south, sending messages that targeting American bases is possible at any moment. The qualitative Ansarallah operation of bombing “Tel Aviv” at dawn yesterday indicated it was not random, nor a “one-time thing,” but was prepared with precise calculations, including how to choose from the abundant target bank available to the Axis of Resistance. It is enough to note that what Hezbollah presented about sensitive sites in the enemy entity represents a “natural yield” in the resistance units’ papers, where there is no problem named targets in the entity.
In Lebanon, the enemy entity may still doubt what Hezbollah’s Secretary-General meant in his last speech, so the bombing of new settlements came as a first message, simply stating that the resistance in Lebanon, when it announces its readiness to strike new civilian centers, it understands that the likelihood of the enemy responding with bigger strikes is possible and serious. Accordingly, the resistance has prepared itself for a counter-response targeting new centers with greater force. If the new bombing warrants a new “israeli” response, the resistance in Lebanon is saying, in advance, that it is ready to go far in this duel, up to a comprehensive war.
Between the bombing of “Tel Aviv” and the bombing of new settlements in the north, there is a very thick thread extending to Gaza, where the enemy first, and Gaza’s resistance second, know that the Axis of Resistance bears its responsibility not only in supporting Gaza but in doing more to serve the primary goal, which is stopping the aggression in all its forms. The resistance clearly stated that the cessation of war becomes effective after an announcement issued exclusively by the resistance in Palestine.
Yesterday, the Al-Aqsa Flood battle entered a new phase. According to simple field calculations, what happened in “Tel Aviv” and the new [targeted] settlements indicates the resistance forces’ ability to carry out operations that the enemy cannot prevent. Everyone should act on the basis that what the enemy could not achieve after nine months of killing and destruction will not be achieved in specific operations and a harsh starvation war aimed at the people of Gaza’s surrender. As for the friends of the resistance who “believe” that it has become necessary to prepare a political program for the next day, they must move from their current square to a very clear square, requiring a political program to support the option of resistance. Any talk about the cost of resistance serves the enemy’s interest and will not help revive all the illusions of negotiation, reconciliation, and political solutions… For what remains of the entity’s lifespan is much less than many imagine.
Ibrahim Al-Amin
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/21/the-tel-aviv-operation-and-expanding-hezbollahs-attacks-the-first-signs-of-the-new-program/
#alAqsaFlood #gaza #hezbollah #palestine #resistance #telAvivAttack #westAsia #yemen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/telaviv.cleaned-e1721514631413-693x1024.jpeg

2024-07-21 00:14:24

Congratulations on the 12th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution, especially to our martyrs, to the families of the martyrs who gave a piece of their lives to the revolution, to our veterans, to all women and peoples.
When the peoples all over the Middle East lit the fire of revolt against anti-democratic practices, oppression and persecution, we stood up in Syria and demanded a humane life. With the intervention of the imperialists and reactionary states in the region, our revolt was manipulated and a dark gang like ISIS was created. When the darkness of ISIS enveloped the entire Middle East, the security forces of the Syrian regime fled, leaving the people living in the region in the hands of gangs. It was precisely in such a process that the People’s Defense Units organized the resistance of Armenians, Arabs, Kurds, Ashuris and Assyrians around themselves and showed an epic resistance against this darkness. Our immortal Commander Nubar Ozanyan came to Rojava in such a process and started to weave a line that would take us Armenians out of the line of betrayal and surrender and laid the foundations for us to establish our own self-defense force.
Thousands of women like Arin Mirkan and Avesta Xabur, who were immortalized in the war against ISIS, have turned the Revolution into a tool of struggle against the darkest face of patriarchy in our region. The Rojava Revolution is also a revolution that created the possibility for Armenians who were assimilated by forgetting their language, culture and history to return to their roots. After the neutralization of ISIS darkness, the direct invasion attacks of the Turkish state led by Erdogan, who fed and raised these reactionary gangs, began. The villages that we rebuilt after years of struggle were demolished and the trees we planted were uprooted. In addition to the ongoing occupation in Afrin, Serekaniye and Gire Sipi, Ayn Isa, Kobane, Minbiç, Til Temir and other cities are being bombarded. Our people are being forced to migrate through embargoes and border closures, cutting off our water, targeting our infrastructure and energy sources. But despite all this, the resistance of the QSD, of which we are a part as an Armenian self-defense force, continues.
The Turkish State is imposing Pashinyan’s and Barzani’s line of surrender and compromise on all the peoples of the region and on us Armenians. However, as soldiers of Nubar Ozanyan, we do not accept this surrenderist and betrayal line. It is our duty to enlarge the determination of our martyrs who did not succumb to the darkness of ISIS. It is our duty not only to train and equip our existing self-force militarily and politically, but also to ensure the unity and organization of Rojavan Armenians against occupation and betrayal. We take the determination to fulfill these duties from thousands of our immortals, especially Nubar Ozanyan and Oskan Bagirian. We once again celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution by reiterating our promise to defend and advance the revolution.
**Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Armenian Brigade**
**18.07.2024**
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/21/martyr-nubar-ozanyan-armenian-brigade-happy-12th-anniversary-of-the-rojava-revolution/
#armenianTabur #kurdistan #nubarOzanyanBattalion #rojava #rojavaRevolution #tikko #tkpMl #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/armenian.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-21 00:06:30

The Co-Presidency of the KCK Executive Council issued a statement to commemorate the martyrs of the Suruç (Pirsus) massacre its 9th anniversary.
The KCK said: “On 20 July 2015, 33 members of the socialist youth movement of Turkey, who stood in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution and who came to Pirsus (Suruç) for the reconstruction of Kobane, were killed in an attack.
On the 9th anniversary of this massacre, we once again condemn this dastardly attack with all anger and, at the same time, commemorate with great respect the 33 precious friends who were martyred in the attack. By commemorating them with respect and gratitude, we want to commemorate all the martyrs of revolution and democracy, and we bow with respect in front of their precious memories.”
The statement added: “The attitude and struggle of the socialist, revolutionary and democratic forces in solidarity with the Kurdish people and the Rojava Revolution has played a very important role in the development of a united struggle against exploitation, reaction and fascism. This struggle has frustrated the fascist order that want to dominate in Turkey, Kurdistan and the Middle East. The martyrs of Pirsus are the symbol of this struggle. Their struggle is the continuation of the struggle that was developed by Deniz Gezmis, Mahir Cayan, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, and Hikmet Kivilcimli. Deniz Gezmis expressed the importance of this by shouting that “the unity of peoples and the revolutionary struggle shall live long,” as he was taken to execution. Rêber Apo highly valued this attitude and developed the Kurdish freedom struggle in this spirit. The Rojava Revolution is a united common revolution of the peoples that emerged from this line. On this basis, defending the Rojava Revolution is the most correct revolutionary attitude. This is definitely the most correct attitude of loyalty to the martyrs of Pirsus.”
The statement continued: “The efforts and struggle of the socialist revolutionary movements on behalf of the people of northern Kurdistan and the peoples of Turkey have been a determining factor in the breaking of ISIS attacks and liberating Kobane. This struggle and the results of this struggle created a break in the reactionary, fascist, and colonialist system and smashed the plans of the fascist AKP-MHP government. The liberation of Kobane has been one of the most important turning points in history. Because it was aimed at building a reactionary, racist, and fascist regime through ISIS that would spread all over the Middle East after the fall of Kobane. The attacks carried out by the AKP-MHP government, especially the Pirsus Massacre, are the result of the defeat of this project. The attacks and massacres carried out in northern Kurdistan and Turkey after this date were aimed at activating this project again. The attacks of the AKP-MHP government that continue today are still within this scope.”
The statement underlined that “the united struggle of the Kurdish people and the peoples of Turkey, which developed in memory of the martyrs of Pirsus, has brought the AKP-MHP fascism to the brink of destruction. The fascist power is in shock and obstruction. It has entered a process of decay and disintegration. But it is trying to get out of this situation by making new plans, increasing its genocidal attacks and trying to achieve its fascist, reactionary and colonialist projects. The intensifying occupation attacks against southern Kurdistan need to be seen in this context. Again, the policy of appointing trustees and the absolute isolation of Rêber Apo in Imrali is within this scope. On the other hand, new plans are being made for Syria and Rojava. It is for this purpose that fascist chief Tayyip Erdogan wants to establish relations with the Syrian state.
It is the most correct revolutionary attitude to develop a united struggle against these policies developed by the AKP-MHP government which intends to achieve its fascist, racist and reactionary projects in new versions. All revolutionary, democratic, socialist and libertarian forces should act with this historical responsibility and further develop the united anti-fascist struggle. We call on everyone to further raise the struggle on this basis.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/21/kck-commemorates-33-suruc-dream-travelers-lets-grow-the-united-struggle/
#kck #kurdistan #pkk #rojava #suruc #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/suruc.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-20 23:51:48

On July 6, liberatory movements against $hile honor the life of Luisa Toledo, who was for decades a living link between the movements against the repressive dictatorship of Pinochet and the repressive democracy of the present. About her legacy, learn more here: https://crimethinc.com/2021/07/09/remembering-luisa-toledo-sepulveda-the-mother-of-combative-youth-a-eulogy-and-report-from-chile
This year, the state raided and ransacked numerous spaces, arresting at least 10 people.
Excerpt from https://actforfree.noblogs.org/2024/07/19/9-7-update-raids-for-investigation-about-explosive-artefacts-chile/ :
“– Raid of Villa Francia Radio, Luisa Toledo Popular Cafe and various households in the neighborhoods of Estación Central, Macul, Santiago Centro, La Granja, Cerrillos y Maipú.
– In one place, artisanal and industrial pistols and revolvers, a rifle and submachine gun were found, in addition to ammunition.
– In another household, industrial explosives for use in mines was found
– And in another raid a DIY grenade with black powder and a teargas bomb were found.
The same afternoon of July 6 those arrested were processed, except for one person who as of now (07/08) remains in the hospital. One of the comrades remained in pre-trial detention, two with nocturnal house arrest, 9 were declared illegal arrests and one comrade awaits appeal.”
More context from https://actforfree.noblogs.org/2024/07/19/raids-in-villa-francia-toha-praises-blow-to-social-organizations-chile/ :
“The chilean postdictatorship isn’t ‘democracy’ understood as a non-repressive regime. It’s been a design of political dis-articulation and annihilation of dissident and revolutionary movements that endows the civil tribunals with the power to execute high sentences to those who are named – by their governments – ‘terrorists’. They’ve permitted military cases against civilians, and today we are witnessing – once again – episodes in which the FFAA act as the judge and impart judgment and torture and assassination that they themselves execute against young conscripts. Likewise, those who defraud from their high military ranks, retain impunity and the millions granted to them remain ‘reserved’ while raising the cost of electricity, food, and fuel for civilians.”
El estado $hileno (chilean state) is also continuously engaged in violent suppression of the indigenous Mapuche movement for autonomy in Wallmapu (the homelands occupies by “Chile” & “Argentina”). Facundo Jones Huala, a Mapuche Lonko, is in critical health after beginning a hunger strike to be released from prison : https://radiokurruf.org/2024/07/18/lonko-facundo-jones-huala-se-descompensa-y-es-trasladado-a-hospital-intercultural-de-nueva-imperial/
source: [Indybay](https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/19/18868103.php )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/20/occupation-regime-in-chile-raids-movement-spaces/
#anarchism #chile #resistance #southAmerica
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile.cleaned-1.png

2024-07-19 16:50:34

To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
To the National Indigenous Congress
To the Indigenous Governing Council
To the Sixth Worldwide
To those who signed A Declaration for Life
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion
To human rights organizations
To the People of Mexico
To free and autonomous media
July 18, 2024
Brothers and sisters of Mexico and the world: Around 8:49 a.m. today, July 18, 2024, the narco-paramilitary group Los Ardillos murdered two of our siblings as they arrived in the municipality of Chilapa. María de Jesús Pasado Margarito, 43, and Alberto Verales Tepetitla, 32, from the communities of Alcozacán and Buenavista respectively, both belonging to CIPOG-EZ.
After threats were made against members of our organization just last Tuesday, July 15, the threats have become in reality pain and death for our communities. We warned the authorities of the state of Guerrero of the threats, we pointed out the aggressors and also their links with the state authorities. Again we receive their indifference, their silence and here are the results: the ardillos murder two of our siblings again, don’t they care about our lives? Isn’t it the responsibility of the authorities of the state of Guerrero to ensure, at least, the safety of those who inhabit the territory? Or is it that for the Federal and state authorities, Guerrero is only Acapulco and the tourist sites? Why so much contempt for our territories, for our lives?
We want to emphasize that where our sister María de Jesús and Alberto Verales were murdered, it is a place where there is a presence of the National Guard as well as the Ministry of National Defense; obviously there are also municipal, state and ministerial police, but that is equal to nothing, because many of these elements work for crime, that is why we say that the municipal and state authorities are linked to those who murder and sow terror in the state of Guerrero. There is then the presence of federal authorities: in Colotepec-Tula there is a checkpoint of the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), at the entrance of Jaguey-Quechultenango there is another checkpoint of the SEDENA, in Ajo, entrance to Chilapa, to enter the municipality, there is the National Guard (GN) and members of the army (SEDENA); then, we say very clearly that if there are executions in the state of Guerrero, they occur with the approval and complicit silence of the Municipal, State and Federal authorities.
We want to make it clear that we are alone, that the STATE has abandoned us to our fate, that it leaves us in the hands of crime, as is happening in Chiapas, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Colima, Oaxaca, the State of Mexico and practically the entire country. That is why we call on the different human rights organizations and organizations, collectives, in Mexico and the world, to denounce what is happening in our state, in our country; because the current government, that of Morena, headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, says that nothing is happening, that we exaggerate, that we want to stain his government, that things are changing, that’s how easily he wants to erase the blood of our dead; we do not know if he would maintain that position if the murders were of a governor, his children, his granddaughters, his spouse or himself; if the bullet that kills us was for one of their loved ones, we are sure that whoever fired that bullet would have been arrested immediately, and why is there no justice for us? Are our lives worth less than theirs?
We continue to hold the municipal president of Chilapa, Evelyn Salgado, governor of the state of Guerrero, and the federal government headed by Morena responsible for these deaths and for what may happen in the coming hours and days. We remain on high alert against these attacks; here we continue with our history of resistance and we will stand firm, for the life of our communities.
Attentively
INDIGENOUS AND POPULAR COUNCIL OF GUERRERO EMILIANO ZAPATA.
[Congreso Nacional Indígena](https://www.congresonacionalindigena.org/2024/07/18/cuando-las-amenazas-se-vuelven-realidad-y-la-respuesta-del-estado-sigue-siendo-el-silencio-asesinan-a-dos-de-nuestros-hermanos-del-cipog-ez/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/19/when-threats-become-reality-and-the-states-response-continues-to-be-silence-two-of-our-siblings-from-cipog-ez-are-murdered/
#CIPOGEZ #cni #indigenous #mexico #northAmerica
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/cipog.jpg

2024-07-19 07:17:47

Ansarallah, the armed forces of Yemen, launched a drone strike that breached the airspace of occupied Palestine from the sea and crashed into a building on Shalom Aleichem Street in Tel Aviv, causing significant damage.
Zionist emergency services reported eight people injured by shrapnel from the explosion, while Zionist media reported one person dead. According to the police, who corroborated the information of the Zionist media, the body was found in a building near the explosion and showed signs of shrapnel wounds.
The targeted building is located on Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, and a state of panic among settlers in the city due to the loud explosion, which was heard as far away as the West Bank.
Zionist media sources revealed that a large drone approached Tel Aviv from the sea at a low altitude. It is still unclear how the drone managed to bypass all defensive systems and strike the building.
Footage of the explosion and its aftermath showed the drone’s engine noise before the impact. Zionist media reported that multiple drones targeted the area, but the occupation military has yet to provide official details.##
Near the US embassyPalestinian journalists noted that the explosion occurred on one of Tel Aviv’s major streets in a heavily secured area with additional air defenses, including the nearby US embassy, as confirmed by journalist Samer Khowaira.
About an hour after the explosion, all initial speculations about the incident being a bomb or having a criminal background were ruled out. Zionist media also reported that the occupation’s Prime Minister Netanyahu postponed his trip to the United States following the explosion.
The spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces announced that he will make an official announcement for a major military operation in the coming hours. The spokesperson noted that the special operation, the details of which will be announced, targeted Tel Aviv in occupied Palestine.
Later Zionist media reported that the US military had allegedly intercepted 4 Unmanned aircraft on their way to “Israel”.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/19/ansar-allah-attacks-tel-aviv-in-solidarity-with-palestinian-resistance/
#alAqsaFlood #ansarallah #gaza #palestine #resistance #telAviv #westAsia #yemen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/ansarallah.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-19 07:11:59

**Hamas:**
—
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The decision by the zionist Knesset not to allow the establishment of the Palestinian state is an invalid decision issued by an occupying entity that has no legitimacy on Palestinian land. It is a zionist affirmation of the ongoing policy of denial of the rights of our Palestinian people and their right, as guaranteed by international law, to self-determination like the rest of the peoples of the world.
We affirm that our Palestinian people will continue their resistance, struggle, and legitimate defense of their existence in the face of the fascist genocide war waged against them by the zionist terrorist government. They will reclaim their right to establish their independent state and will continue their path to thwart all plans of displacement and erasure of Palestinian national identity.
This audacious decision is a challenge to the international community and a disdain for the decisions of the United Nations General Assembly that supported granting Palestine full membership in the United Nations. It necessitates a serious international movement to halt these criminal decisions and actions and to enable our Palestinian people to achieve all their rights.
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Thursday: 12 Muharram 1446 AH
Corresponding to: July 18, 2024 AD
**Hamas:**
—
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
**In response to the Knesset’s decision not to recognize a Palestinian state:**
**Hamas and Jihad call on the PLO to withdraw its recognition of the zionist entity**.
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements called on the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to withdraw its recognition of the zionist entity. This came in response to the Knesset’s decision not to recognize a Palestinian state. The announcement was made during a meeting between the leadership of both movements in Doha, where the brother and fighter Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, and a delegation from the movement, received brother fighter Ziyad Al-Nakhaleh, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and his deputy, Dr. Mohammad Al-Hindi, on the evening of Thursday, July 18, 2024, where they discussed the overall political and field developments related to the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood.
The two delegations paused to reflect on the heroic steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of escalating bloody massacres perpetrated by the occupation, the systematic destruction carried out in the Gaza Strip, and the attempt to destroy all components of human life. Conversely, they noted the brave resistance that delivers qualitative strikes to the occupation daily and has managed to thwart the declared objectives of the occupation.
The two leaderships also discussed the political efforts made at all levels to stop the aggression against our Palestinian people, particularly the efforts undertaken by the mediator brothers, confirming that the delegation of the resistance is relying on the steadfastness of our people and their resistance, as well as the achievements made over the past ten months.
The two delegations emphasized that the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood has constituted a strategic national achievement and created new realities in the struggle with the occupation that must be built upon and accumulated in the coming phase.
The leaderships viewed that, in light of the Knesset’s declared position rejecting the Palestinian people’s right to establish their independent state, the national collective is required today to take a unified stance to confront these attempts to erase the Palestinian cause, building on the achievements of the battle. They called on the leadership of the PLO to withdraw its recognition of the zionist entity, reaffirming at the same time our people’s right to establish their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital, and the right of return for refugees.
The attendees also extended greetings to the steadfast and resilient Palestinian people in this battle for their patience, endurance, and steadfastness in these critical moments of our national history.
**Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine political bureau member Omar Murad to Sawt Al-Shaab Radio in Lebanon:**
—
**Whoever bets on the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state through legitimate resolutions, the international community, the United States, or a political solution is delusional.**
If there is no balance of power in favor of the Palestinians and Arabs, nothing of this kind can be achieved.
This “israeli” entity functions as a police officer and a colonial military base that ensures American and European imperialist hegemony and prevents the development, growth, and unity of Arab states.
Oslo gave us an Authority with a security function benefiting the occupation in addition to managing the civil affairs of the population, but it has no authority over the land or underground.
**The goal of liberating Palestine has become realistic, and establishing a democratic Palestine over the entire land of Palestine is a realistic goal. Removing this ugly, bloodthirsty, racist, fascist zionist entity has become a realistic possibility.**
The “israeli” national identity that the entity has been building for more than 75 years is weakening, fading, and declining in the face of the emergence of sub-identities.
Gaza has been besieged for more than fifteen years, fighting and never raising the white flag, which gives us hope.
**The goal of liberation is now the reality, and the issue of the state comes after that. No state comes through begging.**
The Palestinian narrative is triumphing today through the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, their blood, and their flesh.
Today, the “israeli” is not the victim but the criminal and butcher, responsible for this holocaust, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.
**Al-Aqsa Flood, along with the emergence of resistance movements in the region and the changing public opinion, will bring victory to the Palestinian people.**
Our main problem is that as long as the Palestinian Authority and the official leadership bet on Western imperialism for the possibility of a political settlement, it is difficult to translate everything we agree upon because the Authority is responsible for implementation.
We call on the Palestinian Authority to establish a technocratic government of agreed-upon honest elements to manage affairs in the West Bank, Gaza, and Al-Quds. After that, we can move to the issue of reforming the PLO and the political line.
**Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine**:
—
**The enemy parliament’s decision opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state reaffirms the undeniable truth of the failure of the so-called two-state solution and that the struggle is existential, with the solution being a Palestinian state over the entire national soil**.
The decision by the enemy’s parliament “the Knesset” to approve a law opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state reaffirms the undeniable and established truth that the zionist entity is a colonial, settler, and replacement entity, that the struggle with it is existential, and that there is no solution except for its departure from our land and the establishment of a democratic Palestine over the entire national soil, with Al-Quds as its capital, after the expulsion of this entity.
This decision is further evidence of the failure of the so-called two-state solution and the great disasters our people have suffered as a result of clinging to the illusions of this solution or continuing with surrendering solutions and negotiation tables, which have reinforced the occupation’s presence and escalated aggression and settlement on our people.
This decision should be transformed into a genuine national opportunity to rally around the option of resistance, as it is the most effective way to reclaim our rights. We also call on the leadership of the authority to abandon the disastrous negotiation and settlement square, not to cling to the illusions of negotiations or the infamous two-state solution, and to return to the commitment to our people’s constants and consensus. There are no solutions with this zionist enemy except through resistance and nothing else.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
July 18, 2024
**Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine:**
—
The Democratic Front calls for the withdrawal of recognition of the state of “israel” in response to the Knesset’s decision and in accordance with the decisions of the National and Central Councils.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine called on the political leadership of the Palestinian Authority to withdraw recognition of the “israeli” occupation state in response to the Knesset’s decision rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with Al-Quds as its capital, based on the June 4, 1967 borders. This call is also in accordance with the decisions of the National and Central Councils, which mandate a reconsideration of relations with “israel” as an occupying state, withdrawing recognition, ceasing all forms of security coordination, and disengaging from the “israeli” economy.
The Democratic Front stated that it has become clear, beyond any doubt, that Israeli fascist policies not only involve the execution of our people in the Gaza Strip, including children, women, and the elderly, and the destruction of infrastructure, but also, through the Knesset’s decision, announce the execution of the Palestinian national project and the legitimate rights of our people. This decision disregards all relevant international legitimacy resolutions and violates international law, which can no longer be confronted by mere statements, regardless of their source. Instead, the situation requires an effective and influential practical step that guarantees the embodiment of the Palestinian state, in accordance with the Algiers Declaration on 15/11/1988, proclaiming the independence of the State of Palestine.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine concluded by calling for liberation from the constraints and obligations of the Oslo Accords. Daily events and realities have confirmed that these agreements remain in place only through unilateral commitments by the Palestinian Authority and its political leadership, a situation that is no longer understood and is indeed resented by our people, political forces, and even friends of Palestine worldwide.
Central Media
18/7/2024
**The Palestinian Factions (The National and Islamic Action Factions)**:
—
More than three decades have passed since the settlement which was a disaster for the Palestinian cause. More than three decades of false American and zionist promises, more than three decades during which the zionist enemy gained the necessary time to eliminate any possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state, more than three decades of settlements and fragmentation of the West Bank and the Judaization and desecration of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Over three decades, the zionist enemy has proven that it never sought peace, but it only aimed to buy time. Despite this, the “Authority” attributed to the Palestinians insists on sinking further into the mire of this path, which was the main reason for the Palestinian political division.
Today, news emerges about a [secret meeting](https://qudsn.co/post/205841 ) held last week between the United States, the zionist entity, and the (Palestinian) Authority represented by its intelligence chief, [Majed Faraj](https://t.me/PalestineResist/34816 ), to discuss the reopening of the Rafah crossing. This is an attempt to impose a reality on the Palestinian people tailored to zionist-American measures. While all components of the Palestinian National Action Factions affirm that the issues of the day after and the Rafah crossing are purely Palestinian national issues that no one should interfere with, the (Palestinian) Authority insists on aligning with the plans of the enemy and the United States, which aim to strip our people of their national and political will.
We, in the National and Islamic Action Factions, in light of this disgraceful performance by the (Palestinian) Authority compared to the legendary steadfastness of our people and the heroic performance of our resistance, affirm the following:
1. The issues of the day after the war are purely Palestinian national matters, and we will not allow anyone or any entity to interfere or tamper with them.
2. The Rafah border crossing is a purely Palestinian-Egyptian crossing, and its management on the Palestinian side is determined by the living national forces of our people, not by the United States, the zionist enemy, or those who align with them.
3. The recent Knesset [decision](https://t.me/thecradlemedia/17913 ), which strongly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, takes us to the core of the struggle with the occupier, a struggle over land, a struggle over existence. It confirms to us that the zionist occupation will not even accept conceding 78% of the lands of Palestine that the Oslo team offered.
4. The time has come for a broad national movement aimed at reclaiming the Palestine Liberation Organization from the group that has hijacked it for decades, establishing a national strategy for liberation, and developing a national program based on the premise that we are in a stage of national liberation, redefining the functions of the [Palestinian] Authority, and freeing it from dependency on the Americans and the zionists.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/19/alliance-of-palestinian-resistance-factions-demands-plo-cease-recognition-of-zionist-entity/
#dflp #gaza #hamas #palestine #pflp #pij #plo #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pij.cleaned.jpeg

2024-07-19 07:03:19

On 23 June, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant began a [three-day visit](https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/06/23/israel-s-defense-minister-yoav-gallant-to-discuss-gaza-lebanon-tension-on-us-trip ) to Washington, DC, where he met with prominent US officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
According to statements from the US Departments of State and Defense, Gallant’s discussions centered on three key issues: [escalating tensions with Hezbollah](https://thecradle.co/articles-id/25847 ) on the northern front, the next phase of the Gaza war, and efforts to ease the strained relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden administration, particularly over the former issue.
**Lessons from Vietnam**
Any effective post-war plan must realistically consider the conditions and power dynamics that have emerged from a conflict. The success of a “day after” strategy relies heavily on acknowledging and adapting to these realities. Ignoring them leads to impractical and unfeasible strategies that will lose a war – by way of political defeat.
A case in point is the US strategy in the Vietnam War, particularly the implementation of the [Strategic Hamlet Program](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA228494.pdf ) in the early 1960s. This program aimed to create “fortified villages” to reduce the influence of the North Vietnam-supported National Liberation Front (NLF) on rural villagers.
Despite its intentions, the program failed to account for the complex social and cultural dynamics of Vietnamese rural life. Forced relocations disrupted traditional lifestyles and agricultural practices, leading to widespread resentment, ultimately strengthening popular support for the NLF while reinforcing the notion of a [people’s war](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/guerrillawars/giaptranscript.html ).
Because US planners underestimated the NLF’s deep-rooted influence and support within rural communities, the program inadvertently pushed more villagers to support it. Naturally, the NLF exploited the program’s failures as propaganda, highlighting the incompetence of the US-backed South Vietnamese government.
To demonstrate that the US “fortified villages” lacked proper protection and adequate security, the NLF infiltrated these hamlets, undermining their intended purpose, exposing villagers to further danger, and reinforcing the belief that the puppet government was unable to protect its people.
The failure of the Hamlet Strategic Program can largely be [attributed](https://books.google.com.lb/books?redir_esc=y&id=FLwcZrVIeAYC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=local+communities ) to its neglect of the cultural and social backgrounds of the Vietnamese people, which led to its abandonment by the mid-1960s.
**Israel’s next phase in Gaza**
Israel appears to have learned little from these past experiences. Despite American efforts to share its historical lessons to [avoid repeating mistakes](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/joe-biden-warning-israel-nod-mistakes-made-in-war-on-terror ) – such as those made post-9/11 – Israel’s post-conflict plans for Gaza suggest a determination to push ahead toward strategic failure.
According to the [*Washington Post*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/27/netanyahu-gallant-israel-united-states-gaza-war-ceasefire/ ), “The least visible, but perhaps most important, subject Gallant discussed during his visit was a detailed plan for postwar transition in Gaza.” The plan would proceed even if Hamas continues to reject unfeasible and unfavorable ceasefire proposals and the release of Israeli captives.
The plan reportedly includes the following components: The transition process in Gaza will be overseen by a steering committee led by the US and its allied Arab partners. An international force, potentially including troops from Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, and Morocco, will oversee security, with US forces providing command, control, and logistics support from outside Gaza, possibly in Egypt.
A compliant Palestinian force will also be established to gradually take on local security responsibilities. This Palestinian security force is expected to be trained under the existing security assistance program of the [collaborative Palestinian Authority](https://thecradle.co/articles-id/1014 ) (PA), headed by US General Michael Wenzel, stationed in Jerusalem as the security coordinator for Israel and the PA.
The transitional plan will be implemented in phases, starting in northern Gaza and expanding south as conditions improve. Finally, the security “[bubbles](https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-reportedly-try-creating-hamas-free-bubble-zones-in-northern-gaza/ )” will be expanded to eventually encompass 24 administrative districts in Gaza.
**Bursting the bubble**
Earlier this month, an article in the [*Financial Times*](https://www.ft.com/content/d6a5d6d6-2df0-45eb-ad95-67b6d159f297 )* *hinted that Israel is preparing to test these “bubbles” for managing Gaza in the post-war phase. The pilot scheme for these “Hamas-free” bubbles will soon be launched in the Al-Atatra, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia neighborhoods of northern Gaza. Notably, both the article and sources familiar with the plan express skepticism about the feasibility of this approach, with some even considering it an “imaginary project.”
The initial phase involves the occupation forces directing aid from the nearby western Erez crossing to vetted local Palestinians. These individuals will be responsible for distributing aid and gradually taking control of civilian governance in what’s left of Gaza.
Tel Aviv hopes that if this experiment proves successful, the “bubbles” can be expanded southward to other parts of Gaza, thereby replacing Hamas rule.
Under the full plan, PA officials and other local leaders inside Gaza would manage the new system, leading to the formation of a technocratic government. This local government will include representatives from the international and Arab coalition, the PA, private sector contractors, and businessmen.
Supported by the Israeli security establishment and Defense Minister Gallant, this strategy envisions the establishment of a comprehensive international and Arab coalition to provide the necessary support for a sustainable post-war regime in Gaza.
Security arrangements are also a crucial element of the plan. There are schemes to train a local Palestinian security force from inside Gaza, consisting of former PA security personnel who were trained in Jordan or the occupied West Bank under the supervision of General Wenzel.
Majid Faraj, head of Palestinian intelligence, has reportedly begun [screening candidates](https://www.ft.com/content/d6a5d6d6-2df0-45eb-ad95-67b6d159f297 ) for this security force and identified several thousand men as potential recruits.
According to Lebanese daily [*Al-Akhbar*](https://www.al-akhbar.com/Politics/384421 ), citing Palestinian sources in Ramallah, the occupation state is openly coordinating with the Palestinian security services to “create a wide circle of communication with specific Gazan families, businessmen and local companies,” and the goal is to “form the nucleus of an alternative authority.”
**Risk of repeating history**
If Israel tries to implement the US “fortified villages” model through Israeli “bubbles,” it will likely run into the same problems as the Strategic Hamlet Program. A major reason for its potential failure is that Palestinian factions refuse to let any international or Arab force enter the Gaza Strip, viewing these troops as “unacceptable and tantamount to an occupying force.”
The [Follow-up Committee of the National and Islamic Forces](https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/3/30/%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84-%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%86-%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%AD-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A3%D9%8A-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A9 ), which includes most Palestinian factions, clearly expressed this sentiment in a statement from March. Ignoring this reality and pushing forward with the “bubbles” idea would be a serious mistake. Moreover, any non-resistance Palestinian leadership to emerge from the scheme would likely be painted as “collaborators,” reducing any prospects of Gazans supporting their authority.
Despite Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan’s support for deploying an international force in Gaza through a UN decision to support the PA, Palestinian resistance factions have rejected this proposal.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, for instance, [reiterated](https://samanews.ps/ar/post/585853/%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84-%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B6-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9 ) that “the Palestinian people are the only body authorized to determine the future and form of the ruling authority in the Gaza Strip.”
Given the steadfast resistance of Palestinians in Gaza over nearly nine months of constant bombardment and Israel’s failure to achieve its declared war goals, coupled with Netanyahu’s unrealistic insistence on “achieving absolute victory,” it appears the Israeli government is heading toward another failure with its day-after plan for Gaza.
An [opinion poll](https://www.pcpsr.org/ar/node/981 ) published last month by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed that 75 percent of Gaza’s population opposes the deployment of an Arab security force and that Hamas still garners significant popularity in the region.
Therefore, if the occupation state continues to deny the realities on the ground, it will likely add another failure to the west’s collective history of conflicts with local populations and struggles against people’s wars.
source: [The Cradle](https://thecradle.co/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/19/lessons-from-vietnam-why-israels-gaza-security-bubbles-will-fail/
#guerrilla #palesitne #resistance #vietnam #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/cradle.cleaned-1024x485.jpeg

2024-07-19 06:59:58

The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party Kurdistan (MLKP) Kurdistan released a statement vowing to resist the Turkish occupation campaign in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
“The colonialist fascist Turkish bourgeois state, with the support of the KDP and the Iraqi government, is expanding its occupation attack on the territory of South Kurdistan. Our mountains are bombed, our villages are evacuated, our people are forcibly displaced. A genocidal attack is being carried out with chemical gases and tactical nuclear bombs,” said the statement on Thursday.
MLKP Kurdistan pointed out that the colonialist Turkish state’s invasion attacks are based on the ‘centuries-old Ottoman dream’ and said: “The Turkish state is heading towards annexing the lands of South Kurdistan up to Mosul and Kirkuk. NATO states, which have recently convened and openly declared their intention to bring the world to the brink of the third world war, support the genocide policy and occupation of the Turkish state.”
MLKP Kurdistan stated that the Turkish state also carried ISIS gangs to South Kurdistan and that the KDP-Barzani family ‘deepened in the collaborator treacherous line’.
“The KDP has become desirous of becoming a colonial governor. If the Turkish state gains full sovereignty in South Kurdistan, they will not even have as much authority as the trustee appointed to Hakkari Municipality, let alone maintain their bourgeois power,” MLKP said.
Emphasising the resistance of the guerrillas against the occupation, MLKP Kurdistan celebrated the 19 July Rojava revolution on its twelfth anniversary and said: “Our freedom guerrillas will take strength from the strong popular actions in North Kurdistan, Rojava, Turkey and European metropolises against occupation and colonialism and will further increase their resistance.”
The statement concluded: “We call on all our people in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, especially our labouring peoples from Turkish and Arab sovereign nations, to raise the struggle against these genocidal, occupying and colonialist attacks. Unless colonised Kurdistan is free, no people will be free. We call on all progressive, revolutionary parties and organisations, democratic mass organisations and honourable intellectuals in the four parts of Kurdistan and the region to stand up against this war and occupation.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/19/we-will-resist-occupation-and-defend-the-lands-of-kurdistan-mlkp/
#kurdistan #mlkp #rojava #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/ifb.cleaned.png

2024-07-19 05:13:43

On Friday, July 12, after the occupation of the establishment by students, barricades and clashes against COP were held in commemoration of Luisa Toledo and Pablo Marchant. A statement written by the rank and file of the high school explains in depth the events that took place that day:
> “STATEMENT BY LICEO 7 BASES
> 12/07/2024
> Comrades, we are writing to you in order to report on the events that occurred today, Friday, 12/07/2024 in our establishment. In the first recess, an informative assembly was held, in which they talked about the realization of a black occupation, as a method of demonstration in the face of the social problems that we are currently experiencing, the price increases, the raids and the political and social set up of the government towards spaces of popular organization, such as the Luisa Toledo Popular Dining Room, Espacio Pablo Vergara and Radio Villa France, carried out on 06/07/2024, the same day that marked 3 years since the death of our comrade Luisa Toledo.
> After the occupation took place, we decided to take to the streets, interrupting the passive daily life that sustains this system, against which the repressive forces of the state did not wait for their arrival and as students we confronted them; after that pacos and civilians attacked a comrade; in response two comrades came to defend her, and were beaten and kicked, and one of them ended up being arrested, at the same time that another student was arrested. Then the students entered the high school to protect ourselves from the repression, where we were locked up for approximately 2 and a half hours, since outside there was a large contingent of cops around the perimeter of our high school; we were finally able to leave when parents and management spoke for the cops to leave.
> We want to make a call not to let go of the streets, to continue activating the spaces of struggle and organization, not to fall into fear and passivity, to show solidarity with our comrades and to assume ourselves in the social war against the state and capital. Regarding the situation of our detained comrades, at this time, one of them has already been released, while the other will go to detention control tomorrow.
> FREEDOM TO THE SUBVERSIVE MINDS IMPRISONED IN THE CAGES OF THE MURDEROUS STATE!
> COMRADES WHO FELL IN WAR PRESENT!”
Here are some records:
Photographs by Futuro Gris, Insu y Pirinomas
[Informativo Anarquista](https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/17/chile-salida-incendiaria-en-liceo-7-en-memoria-de-luisa-toledo-y-pablo-marchant/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/19/chile-incendiary-outing-at-liceo-7-in-memory-of-luisa-toledo-and-pablo-marchant/
#chile #luisaToledo #molotov #southAmerica #students
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile.png
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile2.png
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile3.png

2024-07-18 07:24:24

Once again the prison revolt is silenced with beatings, blood and death.
After March 2020 in which 14 people were brutally killed by the police following the revolt in the Modena prison, also in Trieste in the prison of Coroneo, on Thursday 12 July 2024, the revolt is suffocated with violence and ends in death. For the propaganda of the police headquarters there is the same script, assault on the infirmary and death by overdose.
Screams, flames and human demands are silenced in the dark of night behind those bars and walls where more than ever it is evident that some human beings are worth more than others, where class difference remains a prerogative, where the exploited are locked up – and to reaffirm what their role is in this capitalist society that squeezes and kills without any hesitation, which finances wars for its economic interests, which destroys woods and forests, seas and oceans, exterminating human and animal populations. Prisons, CPR and REMS become “banal” places of criminal and administrative confinement where to amass and lock up anyone who decides or is forced to live outside its logic or to fight to destroy it. Factories of a sub-humanity not only expelled from the common world, but mutilated and destroyed, abandoned and at the same time exposed as a tribute paid to the State. Yet, within the security discourse that thrives today, the State is far from having done away with the dangerous classes, with the indolent, uncontrollable plebs. This is confirmed by the 5 riots in Italian prisons that took place in the last week.
Even in Trieste the heat is suffocating (reaching 40 °) and wasp nests prevent you from opening the windows, bed bugs and rats are unbearable tenants and the rhythms and needs of daily life are imposed by those who exercise power: television, psychotropic drugs, air, sociality, conversations…
It is useless for the guarantor of the prisoners to try to lick our asses, claiming to be on their side and on our side, for the bishop to waste empty words of closeness or any of these false figures to fill their mouths with futile words of circumstance. They are all accomplices of this system, of its brutality and of the horror that is imprisonment. The question is not to know what to do with prison, how to improve it, to reform it, it is instead a question of how to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Our solidarity and closeness goes to those who have revolted and to those who will revolt until the bars and walls of all prisons are destroyed. Because the only solution to the problems of prisons is to eliminate them.
The bill has been presented to us, now it’s up to us to pay it.
For the struggle and for freedom.
Solidarity with all the prisoners in struggle.
*Anarchici e Anarchiche de Trst*
[Il Rovescio](https://ilrovescio.info/2024/07/17/da-trieste-sulla-rivolta-nel-carcere-del-coroneo/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/from-trieste-italy-on-the-revolt-in-the-coroneo-prison/
#europe #italy #prisonStruggle #revolt
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/trieste.jpeg

2024-07-18 07:13:04

**The Zapatista and Palestinian struggles share as signs of identity: territory, dispossession as a shared form of oppression, and the importance of memory and history to imagine other futures.**
* “I don’t know how to explain it, but it turns out that yes, words from afar may not be able to stop a bomb, but they are as if a crack opened in the black room of death and a little light slipped in.”*
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Mexico, January 4th, 2009.
With these words, the then insurgent Sub-commander Marcos spoke about Palestine in 2009, during the first Dignified Rage (Digna Rabia) festival, in the context of the fifteenth anniversary of the EZLN uprising. He prioritized this speech over the one he was going to give at the festival, reiterating that, for the Zapatistas, in Gaza there was a professional army killing a defenseless population. He added: “*Who* that fights for justice and equality can remain silent?” This speech, entitled “Of Sowing and Reaping” – taken up in a statement by Sub-commander Moisés in 2023 – linked the two struggles by showing the solidarity of the Zapatistas with Palestine and their position on the murder of the Palestinian population.
In a context in which international struggle and solidarity are more necessary than ever, Chiapas and Palestine have been beacons of continued resistance for social movements internationally. The Zapatistas, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, have been since their uprising in 1994 a symbol of the fight against the capitalist system, a hope for social movements in a world increasingly devastated by savage capitalism. One of his ideas that has permeated these movements is the call to organize, “each” in their geography. Palestine, meanwhile, has been an example of dignity and resistance for social organizations around the world, resisting the occupation for 76 years and fighting for its liberation from the Zionist state, putting on the table the legitimacy of fighting against occupation by all means. Both movements are a reference, resistance and space for utopias to imagine and build other worlds.#####
**Echoes between Resistances**The Zapatista and Palestinian struggle have very significant echoes of common resistance. The first of them is the importance and centrality of land for both movements, the second is dispossession as a shared form of oppression and finally, a third echo is the importance of memory and history to imagine other futures.
Land plays a central role in the Palestinian struggle. In addition to its meaning as a physical space, it has a very important symbolic power. Palestinian culture is conceived and transmitted around the land and all the activities of those who work the land: the Palestinian costume is originally that of peasants, as is the *dabke*, the traditional dance. The fruits of the earth are an integral part of culture and popular vocabulary. Olive trees and their roots, deeply rooted in the earth, are the quintessential symbol of Palestinian resistance. Every year, March 30 is commemorated as Land Day, remembering what happened in 1976, when the Israeli army murdered seven Palestinians during the strike that denounced the systematic theft of Palestinian land. A theft that has not stopped and that increases every year through the illegal settlements of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine.
For the Zapatistas, their very name refers to Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary whose main demand was the distribution of the land. Thanks to his struggle, post-revolutionary Mexico saw an improvement in the conditions of agrarian distribution; the peasant movement achieved a change. However, during the rest of the century, state capitalism – and later in its neoliberal phase at the end of the 20th century – was responsible for privatizing the *ejido,* education and removing the fundamental basic rights that were in the Mexican constitution, which stood out for the social rights it granted compared to its time. Article 27 of the constitution is mentioned at various times in Zapatista history and in the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of 2005 the progress that has been made thanks to the work of the Zapatista communities is recounted, and now in 2024 a new phase will be inaugurated with “the common and the non-property”, a new proposal from the communities for working the land.
Regarding dispossession, both the Zapatistas and the Palestinians recognize themselves as the dispossessed of the land.
The *Nakba*, a word that means catastrophe in Arabic, was introduced into the Arabic vocabulary by Constantin Zurayk and has already been incorporated as part of the vocabulary used around the world to refer to the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. However, the word *Nakba* is used not only to refer to the historical event of 1948, but as a constant process of dispossession by the State of Israel, which also involves the policies of apartheid, the demolition of Palestinian homes, and the constant arrest of Palestinians, among other policies that seek the oppression and extinction of the Palestinian people. Even now, in the context of the current Zionist offensive that began in October 2023, the genocide is spoken of as a second *Nakba *that is having more fatalities than the first in 1948. At the beginning of July 2024, The Lancet magazine published an estimate that places the real death toll in Gaza at 186,000 or even higher.
“The world that began to be built on October 12th, 1492 is the one that made May 15th, 1948 possible, and it has been a catastrophe for humanity…” the Palestinians told the Zapatistas in a 2014 statement.
A group of Palestinians who attended the first Zapatista Escuelita, “Freedom According to the Zapatistas,” held in three sessions in 2013 and 2014, with the participation of about 6,000 people, issued a statement they sent to the Zapatistas in which they spoke of the relationship between the *Nakba* and the catastrophe suffered by the Zapatistas. In said statement, they expressed their solidarity with the Zapatista communities after the murder of teacher Galeano in 2014:
“What Galeano taught is what the Zapatista men, women, young people and elders teach every day: that the world that began to be built on October 12th, 1492 is the one that made May 15th, 1948 possible, and has been a catastrophe for humanity. This is a world that requires the annihilation of those of us who refuse to live by its designs, and the only way we can win this fight, the Zapatistas teach us, is by creating a new world together. A world again, as they tell us, “where many worlds fit.”
The fact that people from the Palestinian youth movement were students at the first Zapatista School reveals a lot about the connection and inspiration between both struggles. In this 2014 statement, addressed to the Zapatistas, the Palestinians referred to the so-called “discovery” of 1492 as a catastrophe for humanity, describing it as a moment of extermination.
Another echo of common resistance has to do with the value of memory and history in their struggle to build new futures. For Palestinians, memory is very important; the stories, images, smells and sounds are transmitted between generations of the peoples who were ethnically erased in 1948. Third or second generation Palestinians, who have not experienced the initial expulsion directly, know the details about their native peoples. And there are a series of dates that remember and commemorate, such as the already mentioned days of the Nakba, the day of the land, the day of the Naksa or the defeat of 1967, the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, the battle of al-Karameh , the first Intifada, the second Intifada and Independence Day, among the most important.
For Palestinians, commemoration is very important, and memory becomes a weapon against the occupation and the narratives that seek to erase them from the map.
The Palestinian poet Rafeef Ziadah, in her poem Chronologies, makes a very emotional poem on the topic of dates, saying when she introduces this poem that Palestinians “love dates.” For Palestinians, commemoration is very important, and memory becomes a weapon against the occupation and the narratives that seek to erase them from the map. Showing that the martyrs are remembered, that the keys to the houses, the family stories, the songs, the traditional dresses are kept, everything that constitutes and makes up Palestine.
For their part, the Zapatistas have not stopped at any time from recognizing their history and locating themselves in it. They have told it through their statements, they share it in their little schools, they represent it in their plays. Just as they said in that first declaration of war: they define themselves as the product of 500 years of struggles: *“TODAY WE SAY ENOUGH! We are the heirs of the true forgers of our nationality, the dispossessed are millions and we call all our brothers to join this call as the only way to avoid dying of hunger.”* In the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, for example, they make a very detailed review of its history, of the steps taken. Evaluations and diagnoses are something very Zapatista. In each of the statements, which is the way in which they communicate with national and international civil society, they recount their own history, what they have been through and the path to come. Likewise, during the Journey for Life – European Chapter, the Zapatista delegates strongly emphasized the importance of their dead in the journey towards a future, which is now looking at at least 120 years.
On January 1, 1994, the indigenous rebels of southern Mexico emerged as a ray of light, inspiring social movements around the world.#####
**Lighting the Way**One of the unmistakable shared elements of both struggles is the image of the engine of resistance in the international arena. Based on the example and tenacity of these movements, new movements have been mobilized and created. For example, if we think about the Tahrir mobilizations in Egypt in 2011 – one of the mobilizations that led to what is known as the Arab Spring – these were promoted by groups that came together to support Palestine, which constituted an initial articulating force that later took on a life and its own demands. The Zapatistas, for their part, marked the beginning of the alter-globalization movements at the end of the 20th century. Just in 1994, when the world thought that all was lost, that capitalism would end up swallowing us all, the indigenous rebels of southern Mexico emerged like a ray of light, inspiring social movements around the world.
In times closer to the present, the Zapatista journey through Europe meant a revitalization of the mobilization throughout the hundreds of territories they visited. The different social groups, in the midst of the global COVID pandemic, mobilized to receive the Zapatistas who traveled thousands of kilometers. This is not minor since, just at the time of the pandemic forced us all to stay at home, thousands of people in Europe chose not to remain immobile or silent and to organize to receive them. An organization was deployed from below and to the left of many groups that received the extemporaneous delegation made up of 177 Zapatistas and the CNI that accompanied the journey to share their struggles. The most important thing was that even after the departure of the Zapatista delegation, great ties were created that united the struggles throughout Europe. The Zapatistas sowed the seed of rebellion, which has flourished in mobilizations and has allowed Europe itself from below and to the left, which was very isolated and separated, to unite, now also to fight against the fascisms that want to subdue us.
Palestine today is a cause that is increasingly becoming part of all the agendas of social movements. In the wake of the bloodiest stage of the Israeli genocide that began in 2023, people have mobilized and included Palestine in their initiatives. This year, the 8M, one of the largest and most important mobilizations of the Spanish State, has made a human chain against the genocide, it has marched with the Palestinian kufiyas, the slogan ‘Patriarchy, Genocide, Privilege, It‘s Over’’ has been included as part of the feminist demands. The demonstration on Critical Pride Day in Madrid had a sign with kufiyas, against Israeli pinkwashing. More and more social movements are becoming aware of what Palestinian resistance means and what they are fighting against. It is also worth mentioning that one of the issues that has been put on the table during the Israeli genocide is the need to reclaim armed struggle as a form of resistance. Thanks to Samidoun, the movement that emerged to support and defend Palestinian political prisoners, assemblies are increasingly questioning how certain uses of force are legitimized and others are not, and how the discourse around legitimate defense has been hijacked.
Comandante Tacho and Subcomandante Moisés led the closing ceremony of the Zapatista meeting with other indigenous peoples of Mexico on Saturday, August 9. Photo by Elizabeth Ruiz#####
**The hope that exists is ourselves.**“We know, as indigenous people that we are, that the people of Palestine will resist and will rise again and walk again and will know then that, although far away on the maps, the Zapatista peoples embrace them today as we did before, as we will always do, In other words, we embrace them with our collective heart.”
With these words, Commander Tacho of the Zapatista National Liberation Army inaugurated the first sharing of indigenous peoples of Mexico with the Zapatista peoples in 2014. Framed in a speech welcoming the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Commander Tacho united Zapatistas and Palestinians as peoples who suffer destruction, death and dispossession. However, the most important thing is that these movements seek a solution in an alliance in which both are protagonists. Just as Tacho said: “The hope there is ourselves. No one is going to come save us, no one, absolutely no one is going to fight for us.”
These words not only resonate as a cry of resistance, but also as a call for active solidarity. The Zapatistas and Palestinians teach us that true hope lies in the union of peoples, in the joint construction of a world where many worlds fit.
[Original article by Danae Fonseca at El Salto, July 14th, 2024.](https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ezln/grietas-luz-zapatismo-resistencia-palestina-inspiracion-movimientos-sociales-30-anos-levantamiento-ezln?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR16gkD5eoVWxWSaUU-XgxrCvxCNbc71yUXfznALGOZOCEXu3kdkJlMOigs_aem_Ud1NDCaDIPv_aCk4IFD9cw )
Translated by [Schools for Chiapas](https://schoolsforchiapas.org/cracks-of-light/ ).
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/cracks-of-light-zapatismo-and-palestinian-resistance-as-inspiration-for-social-movements/
#indigenous #internationalSolidarity #northAmerica #palestine #westAsia #Zapatistas
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/Grietas-de-Luz-1024x579.jpeg
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/EZLN-1-1024x682.jpg

2024-07-18 07:04:31

*Martyred Black Panther, George Jackson told us long ago that fascism has been the de facto political state of the US for some time. Today we can clearly see that both Trump and Biden are, quite simply, fascists.*
The F-word – *fascism* – is often used to describe political moments in the past, or a political moment just beyond the current historical horizon. It describes Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, or Trujillo – or it is attached to the second coming of Donald Trump, a figure who has carefully (and successfully) cultivated his persona as an authoritarian strong-man, and who was once called the “American Hitler” by his own vice presidential candidate, the neoliberal, neo-confederate tech-honky J.D. Vance.
Yet we do not need to look to the past, or beyond the horizon, to find fascism. Fascism is currently being nurtured by Joe Biden, the doddering but cynically ruthless politician who has enabled a genocide, said nothing as protests and dissent against that genocide are brutally crushed, and overseen the expansion of corporate power and wealth, while the rest of us face an ever-tightening economic and political squeeze.
Fascism is not beyond the horizon. Fascism is here. We have only been unable to name its existence because we have long been narcotized by the ideological vapors released by a corporate-controlled media, an underfunded system of education, and our own spiritual beliefs in the myths of “democracy,” the “free market,” and the “individual.”
Above all, we have lacked the correct analysis of fascism – and we have lacked the correct analysis of combating fascism.
Which is why we are grateful for the words of George [Jackson ](https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneyjackson.html ). Jackson argues that three hundred years of capitalism initiated fascism and the more recent rise of monopoly capitalism led us to the current moment of its particular articulation in “corporativism.” “I’d like to emphasize,” Jackson said, “that fascism right from the beginning – and when I say beginning, I’m going all the way back to the point where monopoly capital first started its formation – the culmination of monopoly capital was the fascist corporative.”
Before his assassination by San Quentin prison guards on August 21, 1971, Jackson made a tape-recording outlining his understanding of fascism.The recording was played at Jackson’s memorial services and printed in the *Black Panther Intercommunal News Service*. It is a stunning document whose resonances for the present are harrowing. Jackson not only describes the uses of both co-optation and violence as strategies of fascist repression, but he allows us to understand the malleable, changing, circumstantial, and conjunctural forms fascism assumes. While its constants remain the same, it also changes shape according to, and in response to, time and place.
We can understand, then, that despite outward appearances and slight differences of rhetoric, both Trump and Biden are, quite simply, fascists, and facism has been the de facto political state of the United States (and the white west) for some time. As the corporate crooks quickly lined up behind Trump’s presidency in the wake of the assassination attempt against him, we must recognize that we are at the stage, as Jackson stated, “wherein fascism is a secured thing, corporativism.” “Can anyone look around the United States and say that this is not a corporative state?” he asked.
It is depressing –and certainly, much of the world is hurtling towards a terrible and unknown place, far worse than many of us can imagine. But Jackson leaves us with, if not hope, at least possibility– the possibility of resistance in many forms, the possibility of the reconstitution of the people’s world after this world, after this world of corporations and police and co-option and repression is completely destroyed and formed anew. Please read George Jackson’s words below.###
**Analyzing the Correct Method in Combating American Fascism**####
**George Jackson**The co-optation thing is a mechanism of the American brand of fascism. We have to understand that first. In essence, how it works is that each group, each social unit, larger than two, the powers-that-be will approach the element that’s guiding that social unit, and attempt in some way – and we’ll get possibilities, there are a thousand ways of approaching: playing on loyalties; or, let’s say, the money thing, the money syndrome, we’ve had that trained into us from infancy; or they’ll attempt to show us the futility of our actions; and then perhaps, if that doesn’t work, they’ll explain to us how actually our goals are the same as theirs and that they’re not such bad guys after all. But it worked. It’s worked in the past. You’ve heard the stories, the tales about white America and the establishment being able to deal with Black nationalists. Well they have been. They’ve built foundations, you know, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and so forth. They bought them off. How do we stop those things from happening? As far as I’m concerned our dialectic, our intentions, our goals are so mutually exclusive to those of our opposition, that I can’t see anywhere we can find anything to agree on. And, we have to stop it right from the beginning. In other words, no acceptance of tokens, none whatsoever, in the building of the People’s world. We do it on our own. We do it with our own facilities. And to say that we can’t do it, to say that we don’t have the personnel, that we don’t have the financial means is just like saying that producers can’t produce, that breadmarkes can’t make bread. We don’t need them. That’s the whole point. So we stop them by barring them completely from our program.
We can’t limit ourselves to anyone particular form of struggle; but I’m saying that the people who are given the responsibility of deciding which facilities that we’ll take and use for our own, for the building of the infrastructure, for our own, I think that these people should use extreme caution and always bear in mind that the underlying motive is tokenism, and at all times be– cynical. Take, yes; but, take it in the spirit of reparations, and reparations only.
We have a very, very, very touchy fundamental problem; and, I think it begins with the ideal – I don’t think we fully understand the period or stage that we’re in right now, the stage of struggle that we’re in right now. The ideal situation, where each man can be a man, can be an individual – and I don’t mean in the existentialist sense – where each man can be truly free, to make decisions on his own. Make decisions on his own, and from his own mind. We haven’t reached that point yet and it might be 2,000 years before we reach that point. Right now, at the present, to think that that thing is possible is verging on anarchy. And I seriously feel that the problem lies in the fact that we don’t understand what Democratic Centralism means, and its function and its power, and its power to all of our movement. I really, seriously don’t believe that anything can be accomplished without Democratic Centralism at this stage, because we’ve inherited things from thousands and thousands of years ago into our character, into our beings. In particular, we’ve inherited things over the last 300 years of capitalism and over the last few decades of fascism, corporativism. We’ve inherited things that disallow us from, let’s say, egalitarian conduct. I think we have to recognize that, and understand that our movement has to be carried by, guided by disciplined and sincere, but organized, Democratic Centralism.
Power, in its essence, has a growth process, just like everything else. If we snatch that thing up out of its process and look at it as it WAS, we’re looking at a thing that’s dead. It’s a thing in process, just like everything else. It goes through a state of infancy, maturity and then, of course, decline. The prestige of power at its maturity is a thing that will prevent people from acting against that power. This pig is a psychological thing, a state of being wherein the bourgeoisie reign of terror need not rely on violence to sustain itself. It’s relying on something that happened in the past, or some accomplishment, or some, let’s say, coup, that went down in the past, where it secured itself. And it’s drifting at this point, the prestige of power means that it’s drifting at this paint and living off its laurels. At this stage, people just are not inclined to attack that power. So, consequently, our first attack is on the prestige of power. That was Jonathan’s job, to destroy the prestige of power, the iconoclastic act of crushing symbols. Once these symbols are crushed, and people see that they are vulnerable, then we can move on to the actual destruction of the basis of power. Because power, after, after the destruction of the prestige of power, power will be forced to revert back to its original force, raw brute force–violence.
First of all, I’d like to clear up a couple of points in that area that have come up, criticisms of my particular analysis of fascism. First, I would like to state unequivocally that complete totalitarianism, the perfect totalitarian state is impossible. We’ve had 6,000 years of hierarchy; we’ve had 6,000 years of attempts, of men making attempts to Place themselves above society. It’s never worked; it’s never worked. So, in essence, pure fascism, pure totalitarianism is impossible, first of all. Then I’d like to emphasize that fascism right from the beginning–and when I say beginning, I’m going all the way back to the point where monopoly capital first started its formation–the culmination of monopoly capital was the fascist corporative. And it took different forms in different countries; and those different forms were principally accountable to the differing national situations, the differing crises that the particular nations were facing; and, of course, the difference in time and place in history. And they each took a different form. In Spain, Francoism and the Spanish new state, that was one form; Italian fascism, that was one form; the Rumanian armed guard, that was one form; then, of course, the national socialism of Germany, that was another form altogether; Peronism, that was another form -that has to be examined very carefully, because there were several asides that altered it from thL other forms that swept Europe. The principal difference between Peronism and the thing that Vargas pulled off in Brazil is that though both those countries were under the influence, the sphere of influence of the United States, and, in effect, they were really neo-colonies and had been ever since the Monroe Doctrine –actually their (Argentina’s Peronism) particular brand of fascism was in a way (this a very abstract and complicated question)–this particular form tended to mirror the same thing that went down here in this country. Peron disguised his particular fascism almost, as a benefit to the workers. I mean and disguised it more so than the thing in Germany. The thing in Germany was outright slavery. It was like, as far as I’m concerned, my reading of history, it looked like almost a reversion to the slave state. Whereas Peron was shrewd enough to try to keep a balance–a real balance, no, real, but, let’s say, a superficial balance–between the working class and the ruling class-which is just about what happened here in this country -and paralleled a brand, the particular brand of corporative fascism here in this country.
Important in the understanding of fascism, I believe, is not to confuse the different dimensions of the movement. And, we firstly concede that it is a movement, a thing, like I said, at the opening of monopoly capital. First it’s obvious that once monopoly capital started forming, old bourgeois democracy began to die, in process. As monopoly capital took over political rule, the political rule of, let’s term it, bourgeoisie democracy started diminishing. And at the end of that process, like I said, the culmination of that process, was almost total centralization. So it’s not a question of coup, it’s not a question of a certain uprising of a small political economic ascendancy destroying the old bourgeoisie, democratic rule – that rule was being destroyed in process right from the inception of monopoly capital. From there I think it’s important to understand that the men who assimilated themselves are fascists, the fascist man, who assimilated himself upon the society, the character who pictured himself or projected himself as being eventually that cat mechanating at the center and above society, he knew all along what he was doing. In the first stage, the first dimension, he emphasized the decadence of laissez-faire capitalism; he emphasized the decadence, I suppose, the death of bourgeois democracy. He emphasized that. And some of those statements that were made prior to fascist takeover, prior to the fascist sweep in Europe, some of those statements can almost be considered anti-capitalist statements.
Now, that’s the first face, the first dimension right there. The second dimension would come after they’ve seized power, but were yet insecure. That’s the spectacular stage that we see on T.V., that we see in the movies, where doors are kicked down and people are being machined-gunned, herded off to camps– like here in this country, put in jails– the Communist Party banned, and forced to write into their constitution a statement that went like this, “Anyone who advocates the violent overthrow of the United States is subject to expulsion from the Party.” That’s the second, spectacular stage. But the third stage is the stage wherein fascism is a secured thing, corporativism. Can anyone look around the United States and say that this is not a cooperative state? With the old guard, the point they attempt to use to persuade us that fascism is not a mature fascism in this country yet is a very simplistic idea, that FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the New Deal and the thing during the war were actually an attempt to create a welfare state. Nothing could be more ridiculous. Can you believe the United States would today encompass a welfare state. Nothing could be more ridiculous. FDR was a fascist. Roosevelt was a fascist. And the thing that went down during the thirties and forties was not just similar, but it was exactly the same thing with national differences, national differences, it was the same thing that went down in Italy, Rumania, Spain, Germany, or Argentina, Brazil. It’s the same thing. They first attempt to close the economy and use the surplus capital of accumulation to work out problems that should have been worked out long ago right here in the United States. And that’s the essence of the whole closed economy idea. Expansion, at that point, wasn’t working any more; it wasn’t possible because the various Western nations, or advanced industrial states, had expanded to the point where expansion was no longer possible. So they closed their economy and started such projects as the electrification of a railroad in Italy, remember; and the draining of marshes, remember. And then (of course, you don’t remember, but you’ve read about it), in Germany, rearmament was the thing. In the United States, we had T.V.A. (Tennessee Valley Authority)remember – you know, they built the big dam over the Tennessee River and put people to work, make work. They were re-allocating investments, turning them inward, the closed economy idea. And then, the CCC camps, so forth like that, the same type of projects, the same type of economics, stiff regulations on the import-export thing. To be certain that the balance that existed in a particular nation’s favor, the politics and the economics were the same, the exact same, with just slight variations, according to the particular national state of capitalist dilapidation.
Once secure and in power – in the United States that point was reached during the McCarthy era–once secure and in power, it was possible for them to allow some dissent. It was possible then for them to have a C.P. (Communist Party), just so long as that C.P. didn’t have any teeth it was possible, then, for them to allow us to form what appeared to be an opposition party. But, now, to make my point very clear, a real opposition party did come into existence. The BPP, Black Panther Party. What happened? What happened–they reverted back to the second stage, back to the second dimension. They were kicking doors in and killing people. It’s pretty obvious, it’s pretty obvious that mature fascism exists in this country and it exists in disguise, and the disguise takes the form of all those idiotic ridiculous statements about a welfare state. If anybody with any intelligence at all can look at the United States and come up with a conclusion that this is a welfare state or any semblance of a welfare state, it’s pure chicanery, an evasion of fact, dereliction of duty and in most cases what they’re doing is really cleaning up the fact that they didn’t oppose capitalism, they didn’t oppose hierarchy when they should have opposed them, in the thirties and forties. They didn’t fight them.
You’ve heard of Ho Chi Minh’s line, I think he wrote it while he was in prison, it goes something like this, in part: “When the prison gates blow open, the real dragon will fly out.” You’ve heard that. Panther was a counter-terror. The first act of terror was committed against us. I understand, I’ve read all the arguments about violence being immature, and violence being non-scientific; but of course, I disagree. There is a way of approaching violence, scientifically; and, of course, my position, wherein I accept the existence of a mature fascism in this country, means that in essence I understand that the only way one can, an organization or people can move against fascism is with counter terror. Counter terror. Panther wasn’t a terror. Panther was a counter terror. The first act of terror was created against us. I’d like to suggest that the violence perpetrated against us all–not just the Black community, but the poor, period, people, ordinary man in the street, the ordinary man in society– the violence perpetrated is through the institutions, through the fascist institutions, the corporative institutions that were intended to perpetuate their own existence. The violence that they forced on us in the maintaining of their power and the prestige of their power. There’s one way to combat it– counter violence, counter-terror, when we can, where we can.
On top of all this, we have to consider a couple of very, very important points in allowing these men who mechanate at the center and above society to perpetrate their violence, which is much, much more damaging and much more severe than anything we’ve ever done. And really, we’ve done nothing to deserve the violence; and considering that –we have to consider that also, right –let’s consider that in taking steps, namely arms, whatever, to stop their violence. I sincerely believe, I stand on the principle, on the fact that in stopping them, and stopping them now, rather than stopping them over the next 50 to 75 years, will save more lives, will save more destruction of minds and of property and of innocent people, human potential.
That’s just what happened during World War II. Socialist consciousness was building to the point where it had to be distracted, so they offered foreign war, and it appealed to loyal instinct, patriotic instinct, to divert the people from their real interests. Because, of course, it’s easy to understand that in protecting the state, we’re protecting the right of the people who own and run the state to continue to own and run the state. It comes right down to protecting hierarchy. In the event of violent, people’s war, we’re building an infrastructure, the separating of the people’s world from the government, from the enemy state. If the corprative powers, the fascist powers saw this thing happening, it’s very possible that they would start a war with someone else, and try to appeal to our loyalty instincts. But that will no longer work. Socialist consciousness all around the world has grown now to the point whereas ideas like that are no longer, it’s no longer possible to foist ideas like that on people. I believe, I sincerely believe that socialist consciousness around the world has – and in this country, when I say the world I’m including this country too, although they do separate themselves, that includes this country too– I believe the socialist consciousness has grown to the point where we won’t go for it a second time. We can see that right now. I think we have something like 30,000 draft resisters right here in San Francisco. Correct? And there’s nothing the government can do about it. Nothing whatsoever.
The power of the establishment, the power of the hierarchy depends upon us. They can’t do the things that they’re doing without some consent from us, some consent. That consent can be extracted with brutality; it can be extracted with propaganda, brands of agit-prop; it can be extracted through appealing to short-term interests, but I don’t think it will work this time. We have powerful forces working on our side that won’t let it happen again. But to get back to the question of fighting, of resisting, of finally saying no, and meaning it, and getting out in the street, if necessary, if necessary getting out in the streets and turning tanks inside out with our specialized weapons, ones that we can make right in our basements. I say right on. If we have to do that, we’ll do it; we’ll stop the streets; we’ll bust the bridges; we can’t uproot all the pigs, we don’t want to – we might want to use them later, after the revolution. We will break down the viaducts and bridges. And, we can stop transportation; we can stop everything, every utility that every city in this country depends upon to maintain order. And as we’re doing that, we can rebuild the people’s world. We can, we will. Che had ideas about the new world, so did Lumumba, so did Jonathan. Huey’s got ideas about the new world. But the pressing problem right now, I believe, is dealing with this one right here. But, in general, what we want, I think, is a world where there won’t be any war.
Well, one other thing. My reading of the revolutionary literature of Che, Giap, Huey, Angela – I like to mention them – and Jonathan – they envision a world where it adds up. Our principal concern, their principal concern, our really principal concern right now is with the living and the present. But we do have ideas of the way things should be; and principal among those ideas is that terrorism from any quarter should be acknowledged; and that as long as we have to have administrators, those administrators should be chosen from the people, should have distinguished themselves in some way for the people. They’re not administering people; they’re not administering our lives, really actually what they’re doing is, as far as I’m concerned, they should be administering things – they can see the big picture, as an individual, and make the ideal feasible, so it will hang together. I would say that each one of the positions should be dependant [sic] upon meritorious conduct of duty, and they’d have to be replaceable.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
“Field Marshall George Jackson Analyzes the Correct Method of Combating American,” Fascism,” *The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service*, 6 no. 2, (4 September 1971).
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/analyzing-the-correct-method-in-combating-american-fascism-george-jackson/
#blackLiberation #blackPanther #georgeJackon #nothAmerica #politicalPrisoner #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/george.cleaned.png

2024-07-18 07:02:24

Making a written statement on the 12th anniversary of the 19 July Revolution, the Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) emphasised that many gains were achieved in the 19 July Revolution, which started in Kobanê in 2012 and raised the hopes of the peoples.
The statement noted that the revolution was a very important experience in which great changes took place at the social, cultural, political and self-defence levels and in which women and youth played a leading role.
The statement emphasised that the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), which has become an active political and social power, is waging a great struggle to protect the gains of the revolution.
Drawing attention to the occupation attempts of the Turkish state, TEV-DEM said that the occupying Turkish state, which attacked the region and took advantage of the international conditions to frustrate the will of the revolution, pursued an unlawful policy to take revenge on the people of the region and to drive Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan apart from the people.
TEV-DEM pointed out that the main aim of the Turkish state, which is carrying out invasion attacks against the Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and attempting to re-establish relations with Assad in Syria, is to legitimise its occupation, break the will of the people of the region and frustrate the 19 July Revolution.
Calling on the people of the region to celebrate the 19 July Revolution, TEV-DEM called for active participation in the freedom campaign against isolation and to organise and raise the struggle on the basis of revolutionary people’s war to protect the historical heritage and to prevent the occupiers and betrayers.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/tev-dem-calls-for-revolutionary-peoples-war-against-occupation-and-isolation/
#kurdistan #pkk #rojava #syria #tevDem #westAsia #ypg
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pkk.cleaned-6.jpg

2024-07-18 06:59:17

**THE FOURTH OF YOU-LIE (2024)**
By Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson
You call it independence day
Oh my how you lie
Cuz Black folks were still your slaves
On that day in July
If taxation without representation
Was just cause for outrage
How about being enslaved
From cradle to grave
To enrich people with our labor
Who refused themselves to work
Babies sold off at a whim
Sleeping in crude shanties lying on dirt
No security no creature comforts
The most precarious lifestyle
White men enter your abode
Take liberties with your wife or child
Our only respite cast our eyes
To the sky
We cry we die
That was our fourth of July
This day you cherish
Elate celebrate
We hate because it was our bondage
That it commemorates
Destroyed families
Bullwhips packs of negro hounds
To ensure we remained in bondage
Trained to run us down
If we even entertained the idea
Of going free
We were stripped and whipped
Bound fast to a tree
And dare we fight back
In an urge to protect
Our families ourselves
We’d be hanged by the neck
In misery unfree
We lived and died
That’s the meaning to Black people
Of your fourth of July
But you gloss over this history
Celebrating our tragedy every year
Like memorializing the Nazis
The analogy so clear
A federal holiday
Fireworks blasts of light
Like the gunfire across the brows
Of slaves daring to take flight
Murder and mayhem being chased
Into the night
For pursuing the independence you now celebrate
That your fathers took as their right
A day to parade about freedom
Oh how you lie
Slavery then cellblocks now
The hypocrisy of your fourth of July
**REGIME CHANGE (2024)**
By Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson
Invade and topple governments you dislike
-regime change
But you’d never accept
the same done to you
-how strange
Then you ask
Why do they hate us?
well…you just bombed their lands
Killed their kids
razed their towns
but you don’t understand?
Do you know what imperialism is?
white supremacy
thinking you’re better
Entitled to dominate others
to determine whether
They should live or die
how they should live their lives
While you broadcast lies
slaughter their
kids and wives
Skin color is still the litmus test
for who you think is best
Now instead of saying ”us white folks”
you just say ”the West”
Or ”the civilized world”
who the fuck gave you the right
To police the entire planet
decide other’s quality of life
A bully
world domination
through nuclear blackmail
While the lives of Black males
are spent in jail cells
Who the hell can tell
what’s real from what’s
pretend
We BEEN trying to mend
our communities
since way back when
You had must like cattle
plantation slaves
On land stolen from millions
of Natives you put in graves
Then segregated us
while lying to the world
Claimed this was a melting pot
where every little boy and girl
Could live equal in spite of color
yet another lie
Which is the reason why
Malcolm X had to die
He showed the wool you was pulling
over the whole world’s eyes
And refused to compromise
in exposing your lies
Just like today
ain’t shit changed
You hold a quarter of the world’s entire
prison population
-ain’t that strange
For a place that trumpets
Freedom
Democracy
And all the tripe
Grandiose lies
smoke and mirrors hypocrisy
industry hype
But to return to the matter
of the world’s
basic rights
Especially those
whose skin ain’t white
All you gotta do
is claim their rulers ain’t right
and pick opponents too weak to fight
A regime you can overthrow
overnight
But in evey case
your motives are revealed
It’s their resources you want to steal
for which you’re willing to kill
But overthrowing their governments
won’t secure your hold
On their lands
this demands population control
And this is where
your schemes fall flat
The peoples of the lands you invade
ain’t going for that
So you end up with a resistance
on your hands
Opposition to your imperialist position
from every child woman and man
To protect what’s theirs
they take up the gun
The end result in every case
you turn tail and run
But you boast the world’s greatest military
now that really seems strange
Can’t defend the puppets you put in power
what’s the point of regime change
You did it in Vietnam Haiti Somalia
Afghanistan Iraq
Why not places like Cuba and North Korea?
cuz they can fight back
But keeping puppets at the helm
that’s your tool
Of robbing and exploiting other peoples
-neocolonial rule
So how do we create a peaceful word?
you don’t care nor have a clue
Well I do
cuz
Amerika
The regime that needs changing is you
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/two-poems-by-kevin-rashid-johnson/
#blackLiberation #kevinRashidJohnon #northAmerica #panther #poem #repression #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/rashid.cleaned-1-1024x576.jpg

2024-07-18 06:57:18

Just over three weeks after he was sworn in on Jun. 3, Haiti’s [de facto Prime Minister Garry Conille](https://haitiliberte.com/imperialism-has-appointed-garry-conille-as-its-haitian-prime-minister/ ) – [without even the knowledge](https://haitiliberte.com/qui-dirige-haiti/ ), much less the approval, of [the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT)](https://haitiliberte.com/roping-haiti-into-the-global-fragility-act-is-washingtons-end-goal/ ) that appointed him – boarded a plane on Jun. 28 to visit Washington, DC, where he reported to his bosses in meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols, Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer, and paymasters from the World Bank and Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), among others.
He then traveled to New York, where he [addressed the UN Security Council](https://www.youtube.com/live/rSd29bPlJWg?si=UjQ1VuQyVmm43zeT ) on Jul. 3. “The arrival of the Multinational Security Support [MSS] mission’s first contingent is the dawn of a new era in Haiti,” Conille said in his address in French to the body. “Haiti is currently at a critical point with 12,000 armed individuals holding a population of 12 million hostage.”
“We will restore our territory house by house, neighborhood by neighborhood,” he continued. “This isn’t just a security operation; it is a renaissance of the national spirit.”
Such hyperbole aside, with the honeymoon hardly begun, it already looks like the MSS may “*monte yon resif*,” as the Kreyòl proverb says: hit a reef.
First, all hell continues to break loose in Kenya itself, where massive demonstrations occupied and partially burned the Parliament in Nairobi on Jun. 25 in response to massive tax hikes and austerity cuts that the government proposed so it can try to pay off its crushing $46 billion external debt, owed largely to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
At first defiant, President William Ruto, whose resignation many are demanding, has bowed to popular ire, rescinded the tax hikes for now, and promised to overhaul his cabinet, although impatience grows with his sluggishness in doing so.
“The disbandment of the Cabinet is not an expectation but a demand from the people of Kenya,” Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna [told *The Standard.*](https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001498611/kenya-awaits-cabinet-changes-as-ruto-takes-time-to-act-his-word#:~:text=Keny ) “He starts off with a serious deficit of trust from citizens; he must convince us otherwise.”
But other opposition leaders think the problem is deeper than a mere lack of sincerity.
“The only reason why Ruto has not changed his cabinet is because the power brokers around his office are blackmailing him,” said Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka, alluding to the deep corruption that permeates the Kenyan state.
Indeed, violence and greed are at the heart of Kenya’s political culture today. “At least 39 people were killed during clashes with the police in June, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights,” the *New York Times* reported in [a long article July 6 article](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/world/africa/kenya-protests-abductions-taxes.html ). “At least 32 people, including activists, medical workers and social media influencers, have been abducted or arbitrarily detained, according to interviews with human rights monitors and dozens of activists, including five who recounted being seized.”
Meanwhile, money is the carrot for the Kenyan police being deployed to Haiti. In short, they are mercenaries.
In Kenya, [General Services Unit](https://kenyansconsult.co.ke/gsu-salary-in-kenya-and-allowances-new-payslip-update/ ) (GSU) cops – who comprise much of the MSS – [make between $373 to $500 monthly](https://www.tuko.co.ke/269415-kenya-police-salary-scale-allowances.html ), after they just received a 40% raise starting Jul. 1. (Another MSS component, Kenya’s Administration Police or AP, make even less, starting at $189 monthly). While deployed, they will receive their normal salaries plus between $1,170 and $1,559 monthly for the rank-and-file soldiers. In contrast, Kenyan MSS Commander Godfrey Otunge makes $7,797 monthly, in addition to other “huge perks and allowances.”
This wage gap and other bait-and-switch tactics have angered the grunts, as *[The Standard ](https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001497802/jitters-as-kenyas-haiti-mission-kicks-off )*[recently](https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001497802/jitters-as-kenyas-haiti-mission-kicks-off )[ reported](https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001497802/jitters-as-kenyas-haiti-mission-kicks-off ). There is “a standoff reportedly pitting junior officers against their seniors over the vexing subject of allowances,” the news site wrote.
For example, deploying MSS cops were promised a $780 (100,000 Kenyan shillings) “departure allowance” to give to their families, but just before leaving, the allowance was slashed by 80% to a mere $156. “This is not what they promised us,” one cop anonymously told *The Standard*. “What can it buy? Does it mean that we are leaving our families empty-handed?”
A Kenyan security analyst, George Musamali, complained that the Kenyan soldiers were not even given life insurance. “It is unheard of,” he told the outlet. “How do you send an officer overseas without life insurance? This is a life-and-death kind of mission. Let’s face it, not everyone will come out alive, and we have to be aware of this fact.”
It is certain that such grievances and the turmoil at home will impact the morale and effectiveness of the Kenyan troops in Haiti. But the inevitable massacres, abuse, pollution, and resistance that the MSS deployment will bring – as in all previous foreign interventions into Haiti – will likely stoke the growing protest movement back in Kenya, possibly leading to Ruto’s ouster.
If this were to happen, it would be a huge setback for Washington’s plans in Africa. Last Sep. 25, [U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Nairobi](https://haitiliberte.com/kenyas-police-death-squads-will-soon-arrive-in-haiti-if-washington-gets-its-way/ ) to ink a still shrouded security deal with Kenya, making it a key U.S. chess piece in East Africa. The Kenyan police deployment to Haiti and the drafting of Kenya into NATO were only parts of Washington’s larger plan to use Kenya as its regional cop to fight “terrorism” and stop the growing influence of Russia and China across Africa.
There are many other signs of trouble back in Haiti. After months of delay and missed deadlines, the first contingent of Kenyan cops finally arrived in Haiti on Jun. 25. Some reports said that it [was 400 troops](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/world/americas/haiti-kenya-police-officers.html ), while others reported [only 200](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/kenyan-police-arrival-haiti-marks-new-era-security-prime-minister-tells-un-2024-07-03/ ). Originally, 1000 Kenyans were supposed to deploy. They would lead other cops from Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Chad, Guyana, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Suriname, and the Bahamas. However, none of these small nations have made a firm troop commitment except for Benin ( 2,000 supposedly, more than Kenya) and Bahamas (150).
“The full force is set to number over 2,500,” [*Reuters* reports](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/kenyan-police-arrival-haiti-marks-new-era-security-prime-minister-tells-un-2024-07-03/ ), “but it remains unclear when these could arrive, while funding has lagged far behind requirements.” The U.S. has pledged $300 million, Kenyan officials say the cost will be some $600 million, while a UN fund for the force has [only raised $21 million](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/world/americas/haiti-kenya-police-officers.html ).
So far, the Kenyan cops have only made a couple of photo-op patrols with their Haitian counterparts around Port-au-Prince but have not engaged in any battles with Haiti’s armed groups.
In an effort to reassure, the Kenyan MSS Chief Godfrey Otunge and new Haitian National Police (PNH) chief Normil Rameau held a Jul. 8 joint press conference, but they offered little more than platitudes.
Otunge promised that his men would accomplish their mission “to support the efforts of the National Police, to reestablish security in Haiti, and build security conditions conducive to holding free and fair elections.”
He said the Kenyans and PNH would operate “joint security operations,” guard “critical infrastructure sites and transit locations” such as “airports, ports, schools, hospitals, and key intersections,” and that the MSS “will operate and comply with international law… and local laws while executing its mandate,” even though its very deployment[ violates Article 263-1 of Haiti’s 1987 Constitution](https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Haiti_2012 ), tramples a Kenyan Court stay, and disregards the UN Charter’s prohibition against foreign troops interfering in any nation’s internal affairs.
Rameau was somewhat on the defensive, saying that the “15 days [since his appointment] is not 15 months nor three years,” an apparent reference to his deposed predecessor Frantz Elbé lackluster performance.
He said that “we’re coming with new strategies to replace the old ones, which are obsolete, to track the criminals everywhere they are,” and that “we’re in a period of evaluation and planning” but “for strategic reasons, we can’t go into details.”
Rameau claimed to “know how [the armed groups] function” and explained that some armed group takeovers of police stations were because “police have not been present in 7 of Haiti’s 10 departments” but he was working to “allow all the police to return to their posts.”
Rameau wants “the population to accompany the police in reinforcing this marriage which already has the nickname of MPP, or marriage of the police with the population… So we will have the PNH, MSS, and MPP,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, on Jun. 27, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, a leader and principal spokesman of the *Viv Ansanm* (Live Together) coalition of armed groups which [prevented the return of former PM Ariel Henry](https://haitiliberte.com/ariel-henry-an-itinerant-ex-prime-minister-without-a-country/ ) on Feb. 29 and which the MSS is tasked with crushing, [released a viral video](https://x.com/windyphele/status/1806471843831771494 ) in which he explains his resistance to the Kenyan deployment.
“As people who love this country, we’ve arrived in a situation where we’re obliged to put our foot down to liberate this country for a second time,” he tells his troops. Sold-out politicians “have become the tool of the imperialists and have brought foreign troops into the country to continue stealing our resources and killing [founding father Jean-Jacques] Dessalines’ children… The same way they called Dessalines’ a gang and bandit leader, they call us gang and bandit leaders. But we are the ones here to liberate this country. Today the entire world is watching us, and we have the responsibility to write history. Never forget that!
“The battle is not a battle for ourselves. In a war, any one of us can die because it is a battle. But it is better to die fighting than to die as cowards. Die as good soldiers. And just as our ancestors said, anybody who dares step into or attack the quarter where we live, we’ll destroy this neighborhood, reducing it to ashes, and we’ll continue to fight them even amidst the ashes.
“We don’t care if you’re white or black. If you’re not Haitian, and you’re on our soil, we consider you to be an invader. An invader is never a helper. Remember they already did this to us. They came with MINUSTAH and gave us cholera, and raped young boys and young girls. Today, we are facing history. Remember that what is in your hands are arms to liberate this country…
“We’ll stand up and fight until our last drop of blood and to liberate this country.
“We will respect everybody, but we won’t be scared of anybody. We are always open to speak to everybody. But we will never lower our head before anybody. If you are someone who wants to talk to us, we’ll talk to you. But if you want to fight with us, we’ll fight you…
“And in this neighborhood where we live as Haitians, as people they have marginalized, who don’t have water to drink or houses to live in, the state makes no professional schools for us and doesn’t create the conditions for us to live like people. Today we have to take up arms to liberate our country.
“Remember that they brought the weapons into our neighborhoods, always with the goal of destabilizing the country. And that’s why every day, every minute, every second, we should always be on guard and ready for the first attack the adversary makes on us. We’ll respond to the adversary immediately.
“I repeated this already. Any one of us could die here, but we should die fighting. And I promise to every man here, and there are other guys who are in their posts, you guys have to carry the message to the other guys in their posts…
“Tell those guys this. I’m the first guy, when they attack, who will fall in the fighting, and I’m the last guy who will stop fighting…
“We will repeat for the entire world, contrary to what some would have people think. When we speak of dialogue, a lot of people say we are afraid and that we’re asking for a pardon, which is why we’re talking about dialogue.
“Today I think that people who have military training, or at least have a sense of police security, you know that even when you are fighting, you have to always leave a door open for negotiating.
“The response we give is clear. We are patriots and nationalists that love this country. Everything that is good for the country, we are ready to enter into dealings which will be good for the country. They are not little personal dealings, dealings where we get money or nice houses. What is important for us today is the majority, the collective. As Thomas Sankara said: ‘Rather than drink champagne with a small group of people, I would rather drink water with everybody’…
“Today, those of us with arms in *Viv Ansanm*, we are fighting to get water for everybody. I know that a number of groups in *Viv Ansanm* have done bad things, which society decries. But today, as Dessalines’ children,… we can’t let any foreign troops come and assassinate people in the nation.
“Putting our lives on the line, whether our blood flows, we’ll continue to fight until our last drop of blood to defend the country’s sovereignty and integrity.”
On Jul. 5, dressed in a natty red suit, Cherizier made [another more formal formulation of the dialogue gauntlet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2pa7-MsfOY ) he was throwing down before Conille.
“We want dialogue because we want peace,” he said. “Those who don’t want dialogue always rely on war… and want war… Since 1806 [when Dessalines was assassinated] until 2024, it’s been 218 years since the weakest have suffered under the war that the economic, political, social mafias, like the Church mafia, the Media mafia, the human rights mafia… have waged…. The political and economic mafias that promise democracy in the place of dictatorship have not stopped putting strategies in place to sow war among Haitians…
“The suffering we have endured has opened the eyes of us former slaves around the country, and we have decided over several years to follow the example of the Cacos and the Piquets, to revolt and take up arms around the country, above all here in the West Department [Port-au-Prince]….
“Today, let’s focus rather on the true solution, which is national dialogue, where every Haitian without discrimination has the right to speak, and that’s what the mafias don’t want… We want dialogue because we want to fight against war… because we want peace…
“Why doesn’t PM Garry Conille take the opportunity to have a national dialogue to stop war and create peace across the country?… As we wait for Dr. PM Garry Conille to see and understand clearly that national dialogue is the only way the mafias aren’t going to control him and lead him down the same road as previous authorities like former Prime Minister Ariel Henry, we have decided to announce publicly that the strategy to silence the guns, put down the guns, and facilitate national dialogue, destroy the mafias’ war, and encourage peace is already written in black on white in our agenda… We want dialogue because we want to stop war and have peace.”
Source: [Haïti Liberté](https://haitiliberte.com/haiti-may-end-up-foiling-u-s-plans-for-kenya/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/haiti-may-end-up-foiling-u-s-plans-for-kenya/
#caribbean #haiti #imperialism #kenya #occupation #usImperialism
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/kenya.cleaned-e1721278546136.jpg

2024-07-18 06:50:24

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine strongly condemns and categorically rejects the report issued by Human Rights Watch in which it accuses the Palestinian resistance factions of committing “crimes against humanity and war crimes on the seventh of last October.”
We hold the organization fully responsible for the repercussions of this suspicious report and demand that it apologize for it and withdraw it immediately. It is clear that this report was drafted by Zionist hands, and its goal is to divert attention from the ongoing Zionist war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip, and to provide cover for the enemy to escape punishment.
– After reviewing the report, it was proven that this report is highly biased towards the Zionist narrative, and ignores the true dimensions of the Palestinian conflict, as it ignored the horrific crimes that the occupation has committed and is still committing against our people, such as indiscriminate killing, arbitrary arrests, forced displacement, the economic siege of the Gaza Strip, and what is happening. Of atrocities against Gaza detainees in extermination camps, in which all forms of violations are practiced, including the policy of slow executions, which confirms that what was stated in the organization’s report is based on weak, non-multiple and discussed evidence and evidence, and lacks objectivity and impartiality.
– The organization has a confusion between describing the political and legal status of the Palestinian people who are suffering under occupation, and classifying “Israel” as a brutal occupying force and a colonial entity that practices all forms of crimes and war of extermination. Therefore, the organization deliberately equates the victim with the executioner in its report, and describes the legitimate resistance of our people as terrorism, which insults the sacrifices of our people. Therefore, the Popular Front affirms the right of peoples subject to foreign occupation to use all available means to defend themselves and restore their legitimate rights in accordance with international law.
Ignoring this right in international reports, especially Human Rights Watch reports, encourages the occupation to continue its repressive practices without any accountability. According to international conventions related to civil and political rights, peoples have the right to self-determination and to use all legitimate means of resistance to resist occupation, which is what the organization’s report ignores.
The organization uses a lot of unreliable testimonies and evidence, including accounts from within the Zionist entity. The report relied on testimonies from Israeli relief organizations whose claims were proven to be incorrect, and some of whom retracted their statements. The occupation also prevented the work of international investigation committees.
– Contrary to the false and tendentious accusations stated in the report, the Palestinian resistance respected the standards of international humanitarian law and dealt ethically with the events of October 7, even with the testimony of international organizations and newspapers that were initially influenced by the Zionist narrative, but retreated after the occupation’s lies were proven.
Blaming the Palestinian factions constitutes a kind of incitement and deliberate distortion that serves the occupation’s agendas and justifies the continuation of its crimes against our people. Therefore, we reject this one-sided narrative, and consider it achieving the goals of the occupation with impunity.
– Human Rights Watch continues to make many fatal mistakes, and in many cases they constitute a net profit for the occupation, which the occupation exploits to distort the resistance and escalate its aggression.
In light of this suspicious report, we demand an independent and impartial international investigation that includes all violations against the Palestinian people, with a focus on the ongoing Zionist crimes. Human Rights Watch has proven that it is not an impartial body or authorized to deal with the Palestinian issue in light of the lies contained in the report and an attempt to beautify the ugly face of the occupation.
The Front, along with all resistance factions as a national liberation movement, affirms that it will continue to defend the rights of our people by all legitimate means in accordance with international law, and will not stop until their right to self-determination, freedom, and independence is taken away and the enemy is defeated from our land.
We call on the international community and human rights institutions to stand by truth and justice and hold the Zionist entity accountable for its crimes against humanity and the Palestinian people, not to justify its crimes and contribute to its impunity.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Information Department
17-July-2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/pflp-strongly-condemns-and-categorically-rejects-the-human-rights-watch-report/
#alAqsaFlood #gaza #palestine #pflp #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pflp.cleaned-5.jpg

2024-07-18 06:43:07

Today, July 16, 2024, [Samidoun’s Europe coordinator, Mohammed Khatib](https://samidoun.net/2024/04/statement-hands-off-mohammed-khatib-stand-with-palestine/ ), has been called for a hearing before the Belgian asylum office, after he – a Palestinian refugee born in Ein el Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon – has been targeted for political repression, with the Belgian Minister of Immigration, Nicole de Moor, seeking to withdraw his refugee status in the country due to his activism and organizing for Palestinian liberation.<li>Read the full Samidoun statement: <a href="https://samidoun.net/2024/04/statement-hands-off-mohammed-khatib-stand-with-palestine/"> Hands off Mohammed Khatib! Stand with Palestine!</a></li>
Of course, Mohammed’s case is not unique – there are dozens of cases in neighbouring Germany, where Palestinians and supporters of Palestine face daily police violence, severe repression, political bans, and numerous attempts to strip residency status or impose deportation, often times upon Palestinian refugees who, like Mohammed, have been denied their right to return to their homeland, Palestine, since birth.
The asylum office has refused to provide Mohammed and his lawyer with evidence and documentation as to why the asylum office is seeking to withdraw his residency and status, despite numerous requests and filings with the court. Instead, the Belgian government has insisted that they do not need to turn over the files from the “state security” office, creating a form of “secret evidence” akin to that used to hold Palestinians under administrative detention in occupied Palestine. All of this is made even more outrageous by the [note by Belgian public broadcaster VRT in an interview with Mohammed Khatib](https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/03/29/palestijnse-organisatie-samidoun/ ) that “the security services mainly estimate that the organization [Samidoun] can damage Belgian international relations with Israel.”
The allegations against Mohammed read like Zionist propaganda or a statement from NGO Monitor or the Zionist ambassador to Belgium, showing no regard for fundamental principles of human rights or international law and instead seeking to criminalize Palestinian existence, resistance and organizing.
They include his status as the European coordinator of Samidoun, citing that the Zionist regime labels Samidoun a “terrorist organization,” something that has no legal status or meaning in Belgium. Further, they target his role in the [Masar Badil](https://masarbadil.org ), the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, labeling it an “extremist organization” because of its clear position on the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea and the legitimacy of the Palestinian armed resistance forces.
They cite his public speeches and activities about Palestinian armed struggle – a right recognized by the United Nations for people under colonization and specifically the Palestinian people – as a reason to strip him, a stateless Palestinian refugee, of his protection in Belgium. Perhaps most egregiously, they state, on the basis of no evidence at all, that he “calls to target Jews around the world,” despite the fact that Mohammed has never spoken of “Jews” as the enemy but only Zionism, imperialism and colonialism, and they are unable to produce even a single statement to back up this charge, which relies entirely on the conflation of Judaism and Zionism.
**We note that this is not only an attempt to target Mohammed as an individual and Samidoun as an organization. It is primarily an attempt to silence the growing, massive voice of the people standing together with Palestine against genocide. It aims specifically to silence the movement to liberate Palestinian prisoners and to uphold the legitimacy and justice of the Palestinian resistance, especially the armed resistance, as part of the international, Arab and Palestinian global intifada.**
Mohammed has received widespread support in Belgium and internationally. [Over 250 academics wrote an open letter](https://medium.com/kif-kif-english/open-letter-withdrawing-refugee-status-because-of-political-affiliation-jeopardizes-our-civil-83131232cc43 ) denouncing the targeting of refugee status on the basis of political activity: “In this case, Nicole de Moor’s announcement is targeted at delegitimizing the Palestinian struggle and support for Palestine in Belgium. In Belgium, everyone, refugee or not, Palestinian or not, must be free to express themselves and to organize, must be free to defend the Palestine cause, the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to their land, or to denounce the genocide in Gaza.”
The [Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine declared](https://charleroi-pourlapalestine.be/index.php/2024/03/19/soutien-a-mohammed-khatib-et-samidoun/ ), “These attacks should seriously worry all those who carry out militant political and social work, who oppose imperialism and challenge capitalism; all those who fight for new rights or the defense of acquired rights; all those who oppose austerity. These attacks against Samidoun today are part of the current and future attacks against all these social movements, they carry the violence of censorship, and aim to make us accept resignation as normality.”
[Bruxelles Pantheres issued a strong statement](https://www.instagram.com/p/C50wykBt-f4/ ) in solidarity with Mohammed calling for escalating the movement for Palestinian liberation in order to confront repression. Een Andere Joodse Stern (Another Jewish Voice) issued a statement, [No to the political silencing of Palestinian refugees!](https://www.facebook.com/EenAndereJoodseStem/posts/pfbid0tfa6o1KFKAX2BTkwSsddF5TdggTSNB14QCbwsuShVHsTQRBgPwo6GaRqhaf34acUl?__cft__[0]=AZW_iJBXkEx8w4eLp-loZTUeF89_GWNndzA4rqnHSdaOTxQkplFs1kHpTr7NiSOGfnzQZ5d9IiUYc75eFYYjpYEmHesoPzzJnZ63qE9l8ZERq6ltcl5PVKbc07q7_PVGLe0HMifsepjbvTPBeXRjgiNoYoC3EXmQipkuKYgxUtFhrNU8g0OkE2gs9vn7jgmdUPM&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R ) In the statement, they note that Mohammed’s case presents a “template for racial discrimination against refugees” and note that it seems to be responsive to the comments of the Israeli ambassador to Belgium amid the genocide in Gaza.
The [Union des Progressistes Juifs de Belgique](https://upjb.be/solidarite-avec-mohamed-khatib/ ) issued a statement in support of Mohammed, noting that “This smear campaign does not only target him personally; it endangers freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of association for everyone in Belgium.” The [Association Belgo-Palestine penned an open letter](https://www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be/ettre-ouverte-a-mme-de-moor-secretaire-detat-a-lasile-et-la-migration/ ) to de Moor noting that the attack on Mohammed is an attempt to criminalize solidarity with Palestine.
LABO vzw, the Centre for Critical Citizenship, [issued a statement of support](https://www.instagram.com/p/C58LhPLNIqW/ ) for Mohammed: “Currently Israel is committing genocide in Palestine. It is crucial that we can continue to express our support for Palestine in Belgium and organize for it. These rights must be protected. As LABO, we therefore condemn the application to revoke Mohammed Khatib’s refugee status and express our support for Mohammed and Samidoun.”
Lotta Basel in Switzerland [released a statement](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ZKEqci7e_/ ) in support of Mohammed, who was nearly simultaneously targeted by Swiss authorities, who issued a 10-year travel ban against him, seemingly at the request of the Zionist regime. Over 20 Swiss organizations [issued a joint statement denouncing](https://www.instagram.com/p/C8EuXUcoFqp/ ) this form of silencing targeted at the entire Palestinian movement in Switzerland and Europe.
The [Front d’action revolutionnaire](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6EiPp6tm1M/ ) issued a statement in solidarity with Mohammed and Samidoun, labeling the attacks as ones upon “the entirety of the revolutionary camp.” [Leiden for Palestine](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6dmooAI2pC/ ) urged support for Mohammed drawing attention from the Netherlands to this disturbing action in Belgium.
Mohammed participated in and spoke at student encampments for Palestine throughout Belgium and the Netherlands following the announcement by de Moor, refusing to be silent alongside his comrades in Samidoun Brussels, Samidoun Belgium, the Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, ZIN TV, the Popular Committee for Palestine, the Masar Badil and other organizations and movements subjected to repression.
**Let us be clear: No matter what the decision of the asylum office hearing on July 16, Mohammed Khatib and Samidoun will not stop nor silence our work for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and to build the widest possible for support for the struggle of the Palestinian people, led by the armed resistance, until liberation and return. **##
**TAKE ACTION:**<li>The most important thing to do is to continue and escalate mobilizations, direct actions, encampments and all forms of organizing to bring an end to the genocide in Gaza and liberation for Palestine. Within that context, take a stand against repression and speak about this and other cases in your area.</li><li>Sign on to the campaign in support of Mohammed. <a href="https://samidoun.net/2024/07/samidoun-europe-coordinator-mohammed-khatib-threatened-with-revocation-of-asylum-in-belgium-speak-out-to-defend-palestine/#signon">Click here</a> or use the form below to add your support!</li><li>Issue a statement of solidarity. Organizations like <a href="https://charleroi-pourlapalestine.be/index.php/2024/03/19/soutien-a-mohammed-khatib-et-samidoun/">Charleroi Pour La Palestine</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C58LhPLNIqW/?img_index=1">LABO</a>, <a href="https://upjb.be/solidarite-avec-mohamed-khatib/">UPJB</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C50wykBt-f4/?img_index=1">Bruxelles Pantheres</a>, <a href="https://www.association-belgo-palestinienne.be/ettre-ouverte-a-mme-de-moor-secretaire-detat-a-lasile-et-la-migration/">ABP</a>,  have done so already. Issue your own statement and make it clear that Nicole de Moor does not speak for the people.</li><li>Invite Mohammed to speak. Whether this is a local event in Belgium or elsewhere in  Europe or a virtual event, Mohammed can speak about his case and the broader struggle for liberation. Email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> to plan an event.</li><li>Speak about the Palestinian prisoners and about the Resistance. Highlight the cases of Palestinian prisoners and their ongoing struggle for freedom and liberation. Emphasize the demands of the Palestinian people and their resistance for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners in a real prisoner exchange. Emphasize the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance in your demonstrations and actions.</li><li>Demand to delist Palestinian, Lebanese resistance organizations from “terrorist lists” in the United States, European Union, Canada, Britain and other countries. These organizations represent the will and commitment of the Palestinian people to liberate their land from an illegitimate Zionist occupation. These listings are used not only to justify the ongoing Zionist genocide and imperialist funding and support but also to target Palestinian and solidarity activists and organizations.</li>https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/18/samidoun-europe-coordinator-mohammed-khatib-threatened-with-revocation-of-asylum-in-belgium-speak-out-to-defend-palestine/
#europe #palestine #repression #samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/samidoun.cleaned-1.png

2024-07-17 23:27:14

**Incendiary Outing at Universidad de Chile (JGM) in Solidarity with July 6 Prisoners**
On Friday, July 12, at the Juan Gómez Milla faculty of the University of Chile, pamphlets were thrown, banners were unfurled, barricades were set up and clashes with Molotov cocktails were set up against the presence of the Carabineros (COP), in solidarity with the comrades arrested on July 6 in the framework of an investigation into the planting of explosive devices on a Nissan car and a police car.
On canvases and pamphlets, it was displayed: “Freedom for political prisoners”, “in the daily void we vindicate our comrades murdered, tortured and imprisoned”, “My children are in you, the rebels. Luisa Toledo mother of the combatant people” and “Behind the media show and police actions, the only thing there is is a political coup, against a social project of popular organization that carries the legacy of Luisa Toledo, on the same day that one more year of her death was commemorated. Miserable and deluded, we do not leave any aggression unanswered!”
**Here are some records:**
Photographs by Frente Fotográfico, Sin Rvmbo e Intangible
[Informativo Anarquista](https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/17/chile-salida-incendiaria-en-la-universidad-de-chile-jgm-en-solidaridad-con-lxs-presxs-del-6-de-julio/ )
**Incendiary outings at Manuel Barros Borgoño High School in memory of Luisa Toledo and in solidarity with those detained on July 6**
Both on Tuesday, July 9 and Friday, July 12, hooded students from the Manuel Barros Borgoño High School displayed canvases, pamphlets and set up barricades and clashes with Molotov cocktails against the presence of COP; the first day, in memory of Luisa Toledo; and the second, in solidarity with the comrades arrested and imprisoned in the raids that took place on July 6 in Villa Francia and other communes, the same day that the 3rd anniversary of the death of comrade Luisa Toledo was commemorated.
**Here are some records:**
July 9
July 12
Photographs by Sin rvmbo
[Informativo Anarquista](https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/17/chile-salidas-incendiarias-en-liceo-manuel-barros-borgono-en-memoria-de-luisa-toledo-y-en-solidaridad-con-lxs-detenidxs-el-6-de-julio/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/17/barricades-and-molotovs-in-solidarity-with-recently-arrested-comrades-in-chile/
#anarchist #AnarchistPrisoners #barricades #chile #luisaToledo #molotov #southAmerica
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/Captura-de-Pantalla-2024-07-17-a-las-16.07.35.png
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/Captura-de-Pantalla-2024-07-17-a-las-16.45.31.png
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/Captura-de-Pantalla-2024-07-17-a-las-16.45.49.png

2024-07-17 05:36:25

The People’s Defense Forces (HPG) have issued a statement to announce the deaths of guerrillas Yekbûn Şoreş and Rustem Hemdem. The guerrillas fell as martyrs in May while resisting the Turkish occupation in the Metîna region, the HPG said, expressing its condolences to the relatives of the martyrs and the Kurdish people. The guerrilla organization provided the following information about the biography of Yekbûn Şoreş and Rustem Hemdem:
Code name: Yekbûn Şoreş
First and last name: Nisan Ay
Place of birth: Amed
Names of mother and father: Ayhan – Mehmet Emin
Date and place of death: May 19, 2024 / Metîna
Code name: Rustem Hemdem
First and last name: Sedat Özen
Place of birth: Mûş
Names of mother and father: Perihan – Misbeh
Date and place of death: May 20, 2024 / Metîna
**Yekbûn Şoreş**
Yekbûn Şoreş was born in Amed. She grew up in a family close to the culture of Kurdistan and the Kurdish liberation struggle. She spent her childhood in her parents’ village. It was here that she first met the reality of the state, as a result of raids and violence by the Turkish army. Under this impression, the family migrated to Izmir, a city on the Turkish Aegean coast.
As she grew older, Yekbûn Şoreş’s confrontation with the state of war in Kurdistan and the omnipresent oppression there became even more apparent. The killing of an uncle on her mother’s side by the state had a formative effect in this phase. She herself experienced the repression of the system. This fact led to her leaving school and instead pursuing various jobs – also to support her family.
“While Hevala Yekbûn was working, she deepened her questioning of the system. She looked at the role assigned to women in society, firmly rejected the act of commercializing women and the abuse of their bodies as advertising media,” said the HPG. This was the period when the resistance for self-government in the Kurdish provinces in 2015 took place. Even then, Yekbûn Şoreş wanted to join the liberation movement, but had to postpone the implementation of this decision for several years. In 2019, she managed to overcome the hurdles and join the guerrillas.
In the mountains, Yekbûn Şoreş initially underwent basic military and ideological training. During this time, she intensively studied the women’s liberation paradigm of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan. Over the years, the Kurdish leader often underlined that the degree of women’s liberation is a measure of the liberation of society. Yekbûn Şoreş became part of the women’s party PAJK and the autonomous women’s guerrilla YJA Star (Free Women’s Units) with the motto ‘Social freedom and women’s liberation are inseparable’. With the escalation of the war in Southern Kurdistan, she went to Metîna at the beginning of the 2020s. Here she fought against the occupation on various fronts. On 19 May 2024, she was seriously injured in an enemy attack on Metîna. Nevertheless, she fought until her last breath.
The HPG said: “Hevala Yekbûn was an apoist militant. With her selfless nature, her unwavering love and friendship, she has written her name into the history of our resistance and left lasting traces in the hearts of all her companions.”
**Rustem Hemdem**
Rustem Hemdem came from the Tîl (Korkut) district in the province of Mûş. He grew up in a family environment that was committed to the Kurdish cause and, even as a child, felt sympathy for the liberation struggle. This was also the time when he first encountered the Turkish state’s assimilation policy towards the Kurds.
As a student, he recognized the contradictory role of the school as an authority for assimilation and enlightenment at the same time. He himself felt the assimilative function of the school in particular, as it forced the denial of Kurdish identity.
These experiences continued when Rustem Hemdem’s family left Mûş and migrated to western Turkey. He took this as an opportunity to examine his identity and culture even more intensively. While studying computer science at Trakya University in Edirne, he had the opportunity to analyze the reality of assimilation even more clearly. He viewed the education system in Turkey as a mechanism of alienation from one’s own identity; he saw the schools in Kurdistan as a component of the state’s “security policy” to keep the region under control.
Rustem Hemdem provided his own political answer to this by joining the Revolutionary Youth of Kurdistan. It was the late 2000s when the Kurdish movement led its “Edî bes e” [Enough] campaign. In 2008, he was arrested in the course of these activities and spent the next ten years in Turkish prison, including in Edirne, Tekirdağ and Bandırma. After his release in 2018, he went to the mountains.
Guerrilla Rustem Hemdem first underwent basic military training, and also intensified his knowledge in the ideological field. He gained his first practical experience in combat during the resistance against the occupation operation in Gare that began in February 2021. After successfully repelling the Turkish invasion, he initially went to the Academy for a while before returning to the front – this time in Metîna. He was part of the mobile guerrilla teams in Girê Hekarî and was deployed in Golka against the invasion. When the Turkish army’s recent offensive on Metîna began on 16 April, he was among the first guerrilla units to take action against the occupation.
On 20 May, Rustem Hemdem was seriously injured in an enemy contact and subsequent fighting. To avoid being taken prisoner, he blew himself up with a hand grenade.
The HPG said: “As Hevalê Rustem’s comrades, we repeat our promise that we will follow the dreams of all our fallen soldiers and march to the victory line with the banner of struggle that they have entrusted to us.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/17/hpg-pays-tribute-to-two-martyrs-of-metina/
#guerrilla #hpg #kurdistan #pkk #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pkk1.cleaned-1-e1721187300830.jpg

2024-07-16 05:59:25

Today, the words of General Laura Richardson continue to resonate at the event held by the NATO think tank Atlantic Council in January 2023 referring to priorities in the region, a dissertation very close to the Monroe Doctrine, which considers Our America as its backyard.
A year after her statements, much has happened in connection with those words, the U.S. military expansion and military repositioning in the region is advancing, the Commander of the Southern Command has extended her presence trying, perhaps belatedly, to counter the advance of China and Russia in the region.
The US and the West have lost positions and dominance in important regions of Africa, Asia and some Latin American countries. It is worth highlighting Saudi Arabia’s recent refusal to renew the inter-party agreement in which the so-called “Petro-dollar” was established, this agreement established in 1973, as the official currency of exchange, the dollar. This was an agreement that fully benefited the United States, as it consisted of Saudi Arabia setting the price of its oil exports exclusively in dollars and the surpluses would be invested in US Treasury Bonds in exchange for security and defense. A circular business that elevated the dollar to the category of the world’s “reserve currency”.
Now, for their part, the BRICS-Plus today manage to advance in a system of commercial exchange in their own currencies, this new dynamic of exchange between member states is increasing. BRICS-Plus is actually a threat to the dollar’s hegemony.
In this multipolar global scenario, the US only has the Latin American region as a direct zone of influence. It is therefore a priority to “do whatever is necessary” to maintain control of Latin America, capture its resources, its assets, keep at bay any action of resistance by the peoples and above all contain the joint advance of China and Russia.
Last March 2024, the document “SOUTHCOM Position Statement 2024” was issued, a report presented to the 118th Congress of the United States, specifically to the House Armed Services Committee.
This document is of special importance as it presents an overview of priorities and strategies to address the challenges, identify threats that put U.S. interests in the region at risk. It also outlines a route of action in which regional partners, military leaders and legislators, among others, are defined to do the job well.
The document highlights the collaboration of allied countries such as Colombia and Panama in trying to stop migration to the United States in the Darién nerve center. In this order, the document states that it works hand in hand with state and private organizations, and the international community, in order to counteract what they consider “malign activities” of powers such as China and Russia in the region.
The actions planned by the U.S. Southern Command seek to expose, counteract what they call “malign intentions” of Russia and China; they refer for example to the dual use of the infrastructure and spatial sites of China and Russia, while the U.S. is working to identify alternative solutions in allied countries, which counterbalance China’s offers in critical infrastructure, cyber-security and telecommunications that seek to improve the collective ability to operate in the face of what they consider China’s “multi-modal threat”.
The text refers to cooperation and collaboration with “partners in the region” to combat criminal and terrorist organizations such as the ELN. This is the concrete basis of why Colombia, its current government, does not want to recognize and name the National Liberation Army (ELN) as an insurgent group, but in official documents continues to categorize it as an Organized Armed Group (GAO), in direct obedience to the provisions of the needs and strategies of the Southern Command.
It is therefore a document that guides actions and the investment of resources to enhance strategies in 2024. That is, to strengthen the U.S. Southern Command in its new stage of defensive and offensive re-colonization.
In this order, regional allies are defined to defend the interests of the United States, this includes NGOs, the private sector, academia and the so-called inter-institutional community of the United States, all, according to the document, to stop the “malign activities” of China and Russia.
That is, they prepare the region to allocate resources, capacity installed, infrastructure, which implies, among others, greater debt, to blindly defend gringo interests over the needs of the peoples, the communities and the real conservation of nature. At this point, it is even necessary to unveil the false military-green discourse that was drawn up by the Atlantic Council as a measure or use of dissuasive language to continue with the dispossession but with a conservation, environmentalist face.
It is in this context that one must read the pre-fabricated instability in Ecuador, Peru, the attempted coups in Bolivia, the irrational military agreements in Argentina and Chile, the expansion of military bases and more recently the demonstration of force and power in the Pacific, today a strategic area, by moving the nuclear aircraft carrier through Argentina, Chile and now in Colombia within the framework of the agreements of the current Petro government with the Southern Command.
The re-engineering of the Monroe Doctrine, now energized and empowered by right-wing and extreme right-wing governments, but also progressive governments, all, without distinction, surrendering sovereignty, returning to those colonial logics that subjugate peoples, destroy the environment and guarantee chaos and instability.
Social and popular organizations must activate their forces to include in their agendas of struggle and dignity the withdrawal of the Bases, of all foreign presence, redirect military investment towards collective well-being. Not to continue being anyone’s backyard, is the slogan of struggle.
[ELN Voces](https://eln-voces.net/?p=11871 )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/16/comandante-antonio-garcia-the-military-discourse-of-the-southern-command-is-painted-green/
#colombia #eln #monroeDoctrine #southAmerica #usImperialism
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/yankee.jpg

2024-07-16 05:01:42

On July 6, at around 15:00, a recycling center and a carpet factory belonging to the fascist person in the Dereköy holiday resort of Bodrum were set on fire by the Kemal Pir Militia with a sabotage technique. In the action carried out in memory of the 14 July Death Fast resisters, both targets were destroyed and high material damage was detected.
The genocidal fascist Turkish state plans to liquidate the Kurdish people, workers and laborers, revolutionaries, democrats and opponents of the government by carrying out political and military attacks. The aggravated isolation of the Kurdish people‘s leader Abdullah Öcalan, which has been going on for years, and the extent of fascism and torture against revolutionaries and political prisoners in Turkish and Kurdistan prisons are increasing day by day. These annihilation attacks will not yield results in the face of the revolutionary popular movement that has paid a great price for freedom.
The spirit of resistance on July 14, which has increased the line of resistance against surrender, continues to inspire and strengthen our people who spend every day in serhildans, the resistance of the guerrillas who fight selflessly against the occupation and genocide attacks all over Kurdistan, and our guerrilla and militia army in the mountains and cities.
As long as the environment of isolation and torture continues, we will continue to be the ‘salute of Laz Kemal‘ and demand accountability from the enemies of the people at any time and everywhere!
Long live HBDH
Long live our united struggle!
The martyrs of the July 14 death fast are immortal!
We will destroy fascism, we will win freedom!
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/16/hbdh-kamal-pir-militia-we-set-fire-to-a-recycling-center-and-carpet-factory-belonging-to-a-fascist-in-bodrum/
#guerrilla #hbdh #kurdistan #resistance #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/hbdh.cleaned-1.png

2024-07-16 04:58:19

****
******A group called the Transit Liberation Front smashed 10 OMNY machines in subway stations across NYC in response to a call from Black revolutionaries in Atlanta calling for a summer of resistance against the US & Israel’s colonial/state violence & surveillance.**
**Recently, Black Revolutionaries in Atlanta sent out a call for a Summer of Resistance, a sustained, militant, and decentralized campaign targeting the multitude of appendages of the settler-colonial so-called United States, its Zionist client government, and their many accomplices in promoting a genocidal agenda in Palestine that is killing tens of thousands**.
In response, we turned our attention to the MTA and the touchless payment system, OMNY, that it is trying to shove down New Yorkers’ collective throat. These machines represent a world in which we must trade away our privacy for the right to move about our own city. The existence of OMNY and the city’s desire to phase out all other methods of payment is an obvious ploy to increase surveillance and further violate our communities by policing the main arteries of transit for everyday New Yorkers — as if the subways weren’t fucking crawling with police already.
**We smashed ten of these machines in multiple subway stations across the city. We estimate that this is equivalent to about $40,000 in damage**. OMNY is in part result of a contract between the MTA and Cubic Corporation, a sprawling multinational entity owned by the private equity firm Veritas Capital [9 W. 57th St.]
Veritas’s portfolio also includes Peraton, which is working with the Department of Homeland Security to build HART. This advanced surveillance system will compile and centralize biometric and other data on nearly 300 million individuals, further facilitating DHS’s campaign of terror against immigrants and communities of color.
This database, of course, will soon be open to Zionist security forces through DHS’s Enhanced Border Security Partnership, which promises rapid mutual biometric intelligence sharing among the Zionist entity, US, UK, and EU. Veritas is invested in the oppressive technologies shoring up the imposed colonial borders that have been constructed on Palestinian land and between the United States and Mexico, ripping apart traditionally Indigenous territories.
Here, at the margins, we see the extremity of state violence enacted against those it has decided to keep out by any means necessary, through both active violence—when the Zionist military murders Palestinians in cold blood—and passive, when US agents allow families to drown in the Rio Grande before their very eyes. These horrors are manifold, and Veritas is profiting from them. If your city has a public transportation system, it is likely to be linked to Cubic and Veritas. Chicago’s Ventra system, London’s Oyster, the Breeze card in Atlanta, and countless other systems inside and outside of the US are all Cubic endeavors.
Your governments are selling you out to a private company that actively promotes the imperialist projects from Palestine to Mexico. Why? In our view, they are rolling out an ever-more militarized version of the already extant police state. **Cops flooding the subway and National Guard bag-checks are only the beginning. They are relying on us growing accustomed to being controlled in every aspect of our lives, of us willingly giving up our privacy in exchange for their rotten idea of “safety.” There is no safety under occupation, and we are indeed living on occupied territory.**
We may not yet face the same violence in the metropole as we see at the margins, but, as the resistance grows and the intifada is globalized, they are certainly getting ready in case we get too rowdy, too ungovernable. We are the frogs in the slowly heating pot.**
****Disabling these machines is just one small act of resistance, one that requires no more than a good, heavy hammer (16 oz. or more, no wooden handles), some safety equipment (goggles and protective gloves), and a solid plan for concealing your identity.**
**Bring a friend to watch your back and go to town. Smash an OMNY, cover a camera, break one of their stupid video ads. Join the Transit Liberation Front today!**
–The Transit Liberation Front
[source 1](https://x.com/AshAgony/status/1812551105173483662 ) and [source 2](https://x.com/AshAgony/status/1812551105173483662 )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/16/transit-liberation-front-smashes-10-omny-machines-for-al-aqsa-flood-nyc/
#DirectAction #northAmerica #nyc #palestine #resistance #Solidarity
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/nyc.cleaned-1024x768.jpeg

2024-07-16 04:46:01

We publish below in full the excellent article published in La Flamme, political organ of the Communist Party of Benin, from July 5, 2024. This is an overview of the roots of the war in the East of our country.
Since 1998, the Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered aggression on its eastern flank, where the country’s significant mineral wealth is concentrated. This war, which lasted approximately 30 years, knew no respite. It fades away then resumes. Specialists estimate that it has caused millions of deaths since then, with some putting the figure at six, others at eight. There are also millions of displaced people fleeing the war.
To these figures, we must add the suffering of women who are victims of rape and abuse of all kinds, as well as children who die in abominable conditions or who are traumatized for life. All this is happening under the eyes of thousands of UN soldiers, either as spectators or accomplices, and a powerless Congolese army.##
So what is the origin of all this?**1) Unlike many other countries in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo began as the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium in 1885.** For 23 years, this cynical slave king committed abominable crimes in this country (labor forced, cutting of hands, heads, ears for poorly done work, insubordination, rebellion, etc.). An international campaign against these inhumane practices pushed him to hand over the Congo to the Belgian state, which made it its colony in 1909. For more than 50 years, Belgium engaged in systematic pillaging of this resource-rich country. .
**2) It should be noted that not only is the country full of minerals** (copper, iron, manganese, diamond, uranium), but recently, ** **coltan, lithium and cobalt, precious metals used in the manufacture of instruments participating in the fourth revolution underway, that of artificial intelligence. With its 2,345,410 km², its population of approximately 100 million inhabitants, it is one of the countries with an impressive hydrographic complex; the great Congo River, second in the world after the Amazon, lakes, varied flora and fauna (making it the second lung of the world after the Amazon).
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has untapped mineral reserves worth US$24 trillion, as well as half of Africa’s water resources. , half of Africa’s forest cover and 80 million hectares of arable land which has the capacity to feed the entire African continent.
**3) Naturally, when the country gained independence, neither Belgium nor any of the great Western imperialist powers wanted to let go of this great wealth** , especially since the prime minister of the young country was called Patrice LUMUMBA, a separatist and pan-Africanist. convinced who wanted to make his country a truly independent country controlling its resources for the happiness of its citizens.
When on June 30, 1960, Patrice Lumumba delivered his historic anti-colonialist speech to the King of the Belgians, his fate was sealed. On July 10, the young, manipulated Congolese army rose up against the government. On July 11, Belgium and France fomented the secession of Katanga, a rich mining province. Following this, the puppet president Joseph KASAVUBU, with the complicity of Western powers, dismissed Patrice Lumumba from his post as Prime Minister on September 5 and placed him under house arrest. The latter was assassinated in Katanga in January 1961 by the American and Belgian services, dissolving his body in acid so that no trace remained for posterity.
**4. When Lumumba died, his supporters took up arms** to free the country from the clutches of the imperialists. In April 1961, they occupied half of the Congolese territory. But they were betrayed by their leaders who reconciled with Lumumba’s assassins during the conclave of Lovanium (current University of Kinshasa) in July 1961, which appointed a new prime minister.
On January 22, 1964, the great popular uprising of the lumumbists occurred, led by Pierre MULELE and relayed in the east of the country by young leaders like Laurent-Désiré KABILA with his organization, the PRP (Parti Populaire Révolutionnaire). This movement quickly liberated two-thirds of the country. Panicked by the advance of the army of the National Liberation Movement, the USA massively helped its agent Joseph Mobutu to crush the uprising as leader of the army. He also took advantage of this to take power on November 24, 1965.
**5. Mobutu remained in power for more than 30 years** . If peace returned to the country, it was a peace of cemeteries. He established a dictatorial and corrupt power there with the protection of his Western masters. Prestigious spending, grandiose parties, squandering of public funds, support for reactionary organizations like UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola of Jonas Savimbi) and the FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola of Holden Roberto ), etc.
In 1992, the Western powers, faced with economic difficulties at home and growing discontent, imposed a national conference on Mobutu as we saw in many countries after that of Benin. All this appeared to be the regime’s swan song. Indeed, during this national conference we saw Mobutu in tears when he decreed a multi-party system and abandoned the leadership of his party.
**6. In 1994 the genocide took place in Rwanda** followed by the seizure of power of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led by Paul Kagame, trained in an American military school and having helped President MUSEVENI take power in Uganda, where he became responsible for intelligence services. It was the latter who helped him create the RPF and attack the Rwandan regime from Ugandan territory. When Kagame arrived in Kigali with his troops, the genocidaires fled towards the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, helped and protected by the French army which had armed and coached them.
Paul Kagame saw them as a threat to his power and decided to get rid of them, but it was difficult for him to attack directly in Congo. To do this, it was necessary to take the opportunity to put an end to the Mobutu regime. This is how the AFDL (the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo) was born, led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila, an old Lumumbist who led a maquis inside the Congo.
According to the latter, *“it appeared that the dictatorial regime of the Second Republic (the Mobutu regime) had been able to forge friendships with the neighbors, which did not facilitate the attempts of the Congolese revolutionaries aimed at changing the course of things in the country. internal, unable to obtain external help to carry out their actions The fact that the political situation changed in Rwanda (in 1994) was a determining factor, because the internal revolutionary forces could then have access to different sources of aid. supply. The alliance between Rwanda and the Congolese revolutionaries was born around a convergence of interests around, on the one hand, the imperative for the Rwandan political regime to survive in relation to the forces of destruction massed in the Congo, and on the other hand, for the Congolese revolutionaries, the need to find the means to acquire the weapons and equipment that would allow them to fight the dictatorship.*
**7. Indeed, after the creation of the AFDL, the Ugandan and Rwandan authorities armed and financed the Congolese revolutionaries.** However, nothing was free. As Kabila progressed towards Kinshasa, the Americans and the English, sponsors of the Ugandans and Rwandans, signed various economic agreements with him aimed at taking control of the Congo’s wealth once victory was achieved. In addition to helping with weapons, many Rwandan soldiers were part of the command of the Congolese military forces.
When Laurent-Désiré Kabila seized power and ousted Mobutu on May 16, 1997, many Rwandans surrounded him. The chief of staff of the new Congolese People’s Army was General James Kabarebe, current Rwandan minister of state for regional cooperation, who would later become his country’s chief of staff, minister of defense, etc. Many Rwandans also held positions in the Presidency of the Republic, in ministries, etc.
**8. Once he came to power, the old Lumumbist resistance fighter,** who had taken military training courses in China in his youth, knew that his compatriots did not much appreciate this presence of the Rwandans at his side. He always repeated that it was necessary to distinguish the main contradiction from the secondary contradictions. In a few months, he pacified the country, put in place a new administration and restored confidence to the Congolese.
He was so confident that he could declare on December 31, 1998: “The coming year will be the year of the start of the reconstruction of the Congo.” However, Kabila’s actions and his intransigent nationalism did not please the great imperialist powers. Arriving in Kinshasa, when the multinationals presented him with the agreements signed at the time of his epic journey to Kinshasa, he informed them that the agreements signed with the president of the AFDL did not bind the president of Congo and that they had to sign other agreements.
While Kagame was in the good graces of the IMF and the World Bank, Kabila was ostracized. It must be said that Kabila did them well, since he declared that the greater Congo did not need these institutions to develop.
**9. Meanwhile, relations between Kagame and Kabila continued to deteriorate.** Realizing the impossibility of manipulating him as they wished, the Rwandan soldiers present alongside Kabila began to foment plots to oust him from power. It was under these conditions that on Monday July 27, 1998, the President’s chief of staff who was also Minister of National Defense read the following press release: *“The Supreme Commander of the National Armed Forces, the Head of State of the Republic Democratic Republic of Congo and Minister of National Defense, informs the Congolese people that they have just put an end, as of today July 27, 1998, to the presence of Rwandan soldiers who assisted us during the period of the liberation of our country He thanks, through all these soldiers, all the Rwandan people for the solidarity they have shown us until now. He also congratulates the greatness of soul of the democratic Congolese people for having tolerated, sheltered and mentored. these friendly soldiers during their temporary stay in our country. This marks the end of the presence of all foreign military forces in the Congo.*
The next day, a thousand Rwandan soldiers embarked from Kinshasa airport for Rwanda. On July 29, 1998, Rwanda declared that in fact there were only about 100 soldiers left in Congo and that it did not want to interfere in the affairs of that country. In reality, the Rwandan Government, which had made this decision badly, had begun to prepare with Uganda and the complicity of certain Congolese Tutsis, the overthrow of the Kabila Government with the active support of the USA.
**10. In Bukavu, Goma, Kisangani, Rwandan soldiers provoked rebellions** in the garrisons. On August 3, units of the Rwandan army led by James Kabarébé who had just been dismissed by Kabila hijacked civilian planes to invade the Kitona military camp in Bas-Congo to prepare the attack against Kinshasa. On August 18, they occupied the Inga dam and deprived the capital of electricity.
As a former resistance fighter and close to the Angolan and Zimbabwean presidents, Laurent-Désiré asks for their help. On August 21, Angola sent nearly 2,500 soldiers with military planes and retook the Kitona camp. Zimbabwe, for its part, sends troops to protect Kinshasa. When the attackers arrived in Kinshasa, they were greeted by popular resistance that they did not expect. In the East, Rwandan and Ugandan troops take the towns of Goma and Bukavu and go as far as Kisangani where they will fight among themselves to share the spoils.
The Angolan and Zimbabwean troops will lend many strengths to the Congolese armed forces which will contain the invaders. The Lusaka Agreement signed on July 11, 1999 will put an end to the Second Congo War. He will authorize the sending of a UN contingent which continues to occupy the country until today even though the war has never stopped. On January 16, 2001, Laurent-Désiré Kabila was assassinated in his palace during a plot organized by Western powers. He will be replaced by his son Joseph Kabila, army chief of staff and apparently one of their agents.
**11. Today, the war continues in Congo with a new intervention from Rwanda.** The UN and the United States recognize this fact but do nothing, on the contrary. Faced with this situation, the Congolese political class with President Tshisekedi at its head (this entire class subservient to the imperialist powers) is powerless or complicit. In reality, the instability in Congo suits all the great powers. It has never prevented or stopped the plundering of the wealth of this country; on the contrary, it favors it. Most recently, Rwanda called into question the borders inherited from colonization by declaring that the Democratic Republic of Congo had benefited from territories belonging to it. He also affirms that he is ready for war. This is the real plan of the imperialist powers: to dismember the Congo.
A Democratic Republic of Congo, with its many riches and which would be master of its destiny, is a threat to the imperialist powers and a great asset for all of Africa. The only moment of stability that the Congo knew was when it was in the hands of Mobutu, one of their agents. Otherwise, it is physical elimination as with Lumumba and Kabila. But Africa is waking up and with it, the Congolese people. Awareness is growing of the fact that the harm that the imperialist powers and their agents Kagame and others are doing to the Congolese people is to all of Africa. This is why we must forcefully denounce this war imposed on the Congolese people and which must end immediately.
Afia
[Article published in the political organ of the Communist Party of Benin, “La Flamme” on July 5, 2024](http://www.la-flamme.org/images/La_Flamme_N557_du_05_Juillet_2024.pdf ) .
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/16/the-war-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-what-should-we-understand/
#africa #colonialism #congo #history #imperialism
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/congo.cleaned.png

2024-07-16 04:37:26

The HPG Press Center shared the following information about the aerial actions carried out in Zap:
“Our Martyr Doğan Zinar Unit carried out effective and productive air strikes in memory of the 14 July Resistance in Amed Prison.
Between 3 and 11 July, the bases of the invading Turkish army in the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region were targeted by aircraft. The invader bases in the Girê Amediyê Resistance Area were hit from the air twice, the bases in the Girê Bahar Resistance Area were hit from the air once, and the invaders in the Sergelê Resistance Area were hit from the air 4 times. In these actions, at least 5 invading Turkish soldiers were killed, 8 were injured, 2 Kirpi type armored vehicles were destroyed and the occupying bases suffered heavy casualties.”
The statement added: “The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla has gained a significant level in terms of tactical depth, creativity, technological mastery with its continuous air actions. The occupying Turkish state has not disclosed any losses in order to hide the level that the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla has reached and the impact the losses will have. Turkey wants to hide the heavy blows it received from the air when and where it was least expected. As the Kurdistan Freedom Guerilla, we will continue to inform about the aerial actions carried out by our Martyr Doğan Zinar Union, along with images, to our patriotic people and the public in general, as we have done so far.”
The Media and Communication Centre of the People’s Defence Forces (HPG) released a statement providing information about the latest actions by the guerrillas and attacks by the Turkish army in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). According to the statement, guerrillas carried out nine actions against Turkish occupation troops in various regions of Medya Defense Zones from 12 to 14 July and at least four soldiers were killed.
According to the statement, seven of the actions by the guerrillas were carried out on the western front of the Zap region. Several attempted advances of Turkish troops, including in Girê Cûdî and Girê Bahar, were thwarted by the guerrillas who also targeted Turkish military technology, destroying a surveillance camera system. The guerrillas struck the positions of Turkish invaders and targeted Turkish war technology with heavy weapons in Girê Amêdîyê.
In the area of Golka in Metîna region, guerrillas hit and disabled a construction vehicle that was being used to expand the Turkish military infrastructure in the region. The guerrillas also struck the invaders in Kanî Biyê near Heftanîn, where a soldier was shot dead by a guerrilla sniper.
Regarding the attacks by the Turkish army, HPG reported at least 27 air strikes by warplanes from 12 to 14 July. The aerial bombardments were mainly directed against areas in Xakurke, Zap and Gare, but also targeted populated villages such as Mijê and Spîndarê were also hit. Further attacks were carried out by combat helicopters.
According to the statement, the guerrillas’ resistance areas in Serê Metîna, Golka, Şêlazê and Dergelê in Metîna as well as Girê Bahar in Zap and Girê Şekif in Xakurke were bombed.
On the other hand, the guerrillas’ tunnels in Girê Cûdî Resistance Area was bombed with banned explosives on Sunday.
In other news, speaking to RojNews about the escalated attacks of the occupying Turkish state in southern Kurdistan, Raid Fehmi, Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party, said that the Turkish state and some neighbouring countries are increasing their attacks against Iraq.
Raid Fahmi remarked that these attacks clearly violate Iraq’s sovereignty, noting that the invading Turkish army is building new bases and expanding in the Kurdistan Region.
Fehmi emphasised that the Iraqi government should take a stand and immediately stop all Turkish attacks.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/16/martyr-dogan-zinar-unit-carries-out-7-aerial-actions-in-memory-of-14-july-resistance/
#guerrilla #hpg #iraq #kurdistan #pkk #resistance #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pkk.cleaned-4.jpg

2024-07-16 04:32:29

When whites who witnessed the brutal reality of Blacks suffering at the hands of the U.S capitalist imperialist and white supremacist system asked Huey P. Newton how they could help, he told them to go and start a White Panther Party to give revolutionary leadership to their own people, following the example of the Black Panther Party.
Huey’s advice reflected a lesson learned at great cost, that oppressed people must lead their own liberation struggles and that of those who traditionally oppressed them.
How many times have the struggles of Afrikan people, both on the Continent and throughout the Diaspora, been betrayed or sabotaged by ‘well meaning’ privileged whites imposing their own ideas on who should lead us and how? These whites often chose which Blacks they would lend resources, support and credibility to as our leaders. Most often these chosen Blacks were those who placated these whites; who uncritically submitted to their control, agendas and ideas; or who allowed these whites to use them to give themselves undue credit as having built a Black support base and alliances that they actually didn’t have and hadn’t earned, or simply because they could control these Blacks and use them to promote their own ideas in Blackface? They neither represent the interests of the oppressed nor speak with their voices.
This is both capitalist methodology and white supremacy writ large and Huey recognized its dangers. We must remember that we are not struggling against capitalist imperialism alone, but also against white supremacy and racial chauvinism.
Indeed it was to win approval and appease the ‘moral’ sensitivities of white liberals that Black civil rights leaders promoted Rosa Parks as the face of the anti-segregation Montgomery bus boycott, instead of women like Mary Louise Smith and Claudette Covin, both of whom had already received national attention for being arrested for refusing to give up their seats to white men on segregated Montgomery, Alabama buses months before Rosa Parks did the same. These women weren’t endorsed by civil rights lawyers and liberal whites because Claudette was an unwed pregnant teenager and Mary’s father was rumored to be an alcoholic. So unlike Rosa Parks, who was seen as a genteel, moral and quiet mulatto woman, their images weren’t acceptable to white ethical pretensions.
In her book THE NEW JIM CROW, attorney Michelle Alexander spoke to this issue, and how, despite the inherent and obvious injustices and racism of U.S. mass imprisonment, the causes of prisoners, because of their status as convicted criminals, receive little support from liberals, civil rights lawyers and the white left.
As she stated:
> ”The time-tested strategy of using those who epitomize moral virtue as symbols in racial justice campaigns is far more difficult to employ in efforts to reform the criminal justice system. Most people who are caught up in the criminal justice system have less than flawless backgrounds. While many black people get stopped and searched for crimes they did not commit, it is not so easy these days to find young black men in urban areas who have never been convicted of a crime. The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals early, often in their teens, making them ‘damaged goods’ from the perspective of traditional civil rights advocates. With criminal records, the majority of blacks in urban areas are not seen as attractive plaintiffs for civil rights litigation or good ‘poster boys’ for media advocacy.”
This reality is further evidenced by the fact that those prisoners who do receive such support and recognition, are typically those who were imprisoned for ‘political’ not purely criminal acts or those who adamantly deny guilt of their convicted crimes.
The problem with this is people of color are criminalized by the very fact of our existence in Amerika and the need of the status quo to justify our marginalization, brutal police containment, and mass disposal into prisons where we pose less of a threat to resisting this foul imperialist system. Not to mention that our living conditions, social neglect, economic exclusion and denial of access to needed basic resources compel many of us to resort to criminalistic lifestyles to survive and cope. And not just this, but Huey recognized that the advances in automation and technology that see machines taking jobs driven by the profit interests of the ruling class was pushing huge numbers of urbanized people out of employment and forcing them into criminalistic (lumpen) lifestyles in order to survive. It was these very people that the BPP was developed to politicize and organize to lead the fight to overthrow this socially destructive system.
Not just once have I witnessed and experienced white liberals and leftists sow division within, sabotage or undermine support groups and networks that I personally helped develop to bring help and attention to the rank injustices and abuses of prisoners, because they disagreed with my political views, were offended by my criticisms or flash of my temper when they betrayed the trust and needs of abused prisoners, or found me uncouth and unrefined compared to those who came to prison as politically conscious ‘activists.’
Well, like George Jackson, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton and others of our political leaders with lumpen origins, I unapologetically am from and represent the underclass, the unprivileged, and the ‘deviant’ element from the streets. I have not always been kind, gentle or moral. I am NOT a Rosa Parks. I emphasized this in the preface of my autobiography which I began writing many months ago. In fact a major aim in me writing my story is to show the reactionary backward person that I was and the principled person committed to serving the people that I’ve become as a result of my exposure to and practicing revolutionary politics, history and culture – it is a story of the redeeming power of revolution and the corrupting nature of capitalism and its institutions and culture. The person that I was reflects the world and class base that I came from while the person that I am reflects the communist world we aspire to build tomorrow. I have no fear nor shame of my background, who I am, and anything I have done, nor of the person I have become.
I do not and will not seek to appease the armchair and opportunist leftists who are looking for a Black figurehead or token who satisfies their artificial standards of moral purity. In my past I have killed, I have peddled drugs, I have hurt many people, I have been violently homophobic, I have exploited and disrespected women. I am the genuine article. I have no shame of anything I’ve done and have never tried to hide who I am. I am self-critical of my past, and have found and seek redemption in my political life. This is the process of remolding that we aspire to lead our lumpen subclass through, of ”Transforming the criminal mentality into a revolutionary mentality.”
It has only been the pigs, rats and turncoats who have tried to use my past and outright pig-generated fabrications to discredit who I am now and it means nothing to me. Those who live and struggle around and with me have always vouched for my sincerity, character and commitment to the common people, not the privileged, nor those who would use me to advance their own agendas which differ substantially from the interests of the masses.
I remain committed to this work and undeterred by the pigs, career rats, and scorned people who’ve turned into sabateurs and informants, or those who take offense to me, my past, my politics, and the fact that I put the well being of the people before the feelings of thin-skinned privileged whites and petty bourgeois ”house negroes” (which includes those negroes who are afraid to leave the comfort and safety of their own homes and join the people in the streets where the real suffering and struggle are).
Huey got so much right in his dialectical grasp of this decadent imperialist system, the massive numbers of people being forced into poverty and the margins by this system, and their need of revolutionary political leadership and that it must be drawn from their own ranks and not from white or Black privileged sectors.
And while we unite with all who can be united in this fight against the common enemy, the oppressed must lead our own struggles aimed at destroying this devious system and pool our resources and labor power to build this struggle, resources that the privileged have had preferential access to and often used as a mechanism to choose, manipulate and control our movements, organizations and leaders and water down our politics. This is the driving aim of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party and Pantherism.
Dare to Struggle Dare to Win!
All Power to the People!
Kevin Rashid Johnson
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/16/white-privilege-and-the-revolutionary-struggles-of-people-of-color/
#abolition #blackLiberation #kevinRashidJohnson #northAmerica #panther #repression #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/rashid.cleaned-1024x576.jpg

2024-07-15 05:22:05

The Palestinian resistance continues to confront the Zionist occupation forces that have penetrated various combat axes in the Gaza Strip, especially in Rafah and Netzarim, where they are inflicting heavy losses on the occupation.
The occupation has admitted that 3 of its troops were injured in battles within Gaza in the last 24 hours.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that it had bombarded the occupation forces that had penetrated the vicinity of the Tell al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, in addition to its command headquarters in the Netzarim axis, with short-range missiles.
In southwestern Gaza City, in Tell al-Hawa, occupation forces have launched another incursion into the neighborhood that has lasted for a couple of weeks. On Friday, occupation forces made it seem as though they had retreated from certain areas, luring citizens who had been displaced back to their homes,
Gaza’s Health Ministry on Sunday reported that over 140 people were killed and 400 were injured in Zionist strikes in the span of 24 hours.
“Over the past 24 hours the occupation has committed four mass murders of families in the Gaza Strip, 141 dead and 400 injured were taken to hospitals,” the ministry said in a statement
In eastern Rafah, the al-Qassam Brigades clashed directly with members of a Zionist special force, from point-blank range, using light weapons and individual shells, killing and wounding all of them.
The Brigades explained that its fighters were able to spot the Zionist force that had infiltrated disguised inside an aid truck, and clashed with it when it arrived at the project intersection in the area.
In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, targeted the occupation soldiers who had penetrated the airport area, east of Rafah, with a barrage of mortar shells.
The Al-Quds Brigades also targeted the occupation and their vehicles stationed at the Rafah crossing gate and its surroundings, with several mortar shells.
Also, the regular 60mm mortar shells targeted the positions of the occupation soldiers in the areas of Al-Abd Jabr, Al-Tuma, and Al-Asi Tower, southwest of Yebna camp, west of Rafah.
As for the Netzarim axis, the brigades targeted the occupation command headquarters at the Abu Oreiban site, with Ababil explosive devices and heavy-caliber mortar shells.
The Al-Quds Brigades’ war media published footage documenting the targeting of the occupation’s Fajjah military site, and the positions of Zionist soldiers in Netzarim with rockets and mortar shells.
The Brigades also published another video showing the targeting of settlements and occupation gatherings with rocket barrages and mortar shells, in cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the Ansar Brigades, and the Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, for its part, targeted a gathering of Zionists and their vehicles stationed around the Rafah crossing, with a barrage of 107mm rockets and heavy-caliber mortar shells.
It also targeted, with mortar shells, a concentration of occupation forces and their military vehicles stationed on the Palestinian-Egyptian border, north of Rafah city. It also targeted the occupation forces in the east of the city.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade also carried out operations against the occupation in Netzarim, where it bombed a gathering of Zionist forces on the supply line with mortar shells, and the headquarters of the occupation army with two 107 mm rockets.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades published footage of its shelling of the occupation forces’ vehicles that had penetrated the eastern part of the central Gaza Strip with heavy mortar shells.
As for the Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, they targeted the occupation and their vehicles west of Rafah with mortar shells.##
Palestinian martyrs in Al-Shati massacre rise to 22The number of Palestinian martyrs in the massacre committed by the occupation army at the Al-Shati refugee camp has now risen to 22.
The occupation bombed the Al-Abyad Mosque in the camp during prayer hours, on Saturday, slaughtering many of the worshipers that had been praying there.
The crime came shortly after the al-Mawasi massacre, which led to the martyrdom and injury of over 400 Palestinians after the occupation struck the tent city in what was designated earlier as a “safe zone.” Zionist news website Maariv reported that the bombs used in the airstrikes were US-made JDAM bombs.
In another crime in Gaza today, reports state that liberated Palestinian prisoner Nemr Hemadah, who was transferred to Gaza after his release, was among the martyrs in the Al-Shati Camp massacre.
After the al-Mawasi massacre on Saturday, the occupation claimed to have killed a high-ranking al-Qassam commander in the area. However, it later retracted the confirmation after sources within the Resistance confirmed that Commander Muhammad al-Deif was alive and well.##
Yemen continues assasultsThe spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that the naval forces, air force, and missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) carried out a joint operation targeting a Zionist ship in support of the Palestinian people and in response to the genocidal massacre in al-Mawasi.
The joint operation targeted the Zionist ship MSC UNIFIC in the Gulf of Aden with a number of ballistic missiles and drones.
In turn, the drone force carried out a joint operation against several military targets located in the Zionist-occupied Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) area in southern occupied Palestine. According to the spokesperson, the drone mission achieved its objective successfully.
The Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson further renewed Yemen’s call to all Arab and Islamic armies to fulfill their religious, moral, and humanitarian duty towards the Palestinian people and affirm their full readiness to carry out joint military operations with any Arab or Islamic party that supports the oppressed Palestinian people.##
Yemeni AF spox vows ‘necessary’ measures in championing PalestineEarlier, yesterday, Saree, stated that they are closely monitoring the developments in Gaza, including the recent massacre by the occupation forces, which resulted in hundreds of martyrs and injured Palestinian people.
“The Arab and Islamic complacency has encouraged the Zionist enemy to continue committing these crimes in full view of the world,” the spokesperson said.
The Yemeni Armed Forces affirmed their commitment to supporting the Palestinian people, vowing to “take necessary steps and measures” to achieve a “genuine victory for the blood of the Palestinian people.”
They warned they would “not hesitate to expand their military operations against the Zionist enemy and its backers” until the aggression ends and the blockade on Gaza is lifted.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/15/zionist-forces-suffer-heavy-casualties-in-rafah-netzarim/
#alAqsaFlood #ansarallah #gaza #guerrilla #guerrillaStruggle #hamas #palestine #resistance #yemen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/hamas.cleaned-2-1024x512.jpg

2024-07-15 05:05:01

Who does not want this in the 21st century, when opportunities for democracy and freedom are at their peak? Who is in love with his executioner and wants slavery? The example of this is most clearly seen in the person of the Barzani family. Resistance and refusing to give up their land and freedom are embodied in the guerrilla.
Throughout history, the most important factor in the suppression of revolts in Kurdistan was internal treachery. The collaborator line that emerged in Dersim in the person of Zeynel and Rayber continues today in the person of the Barzani family. The force that changes and never gives up on victory is the guerrilla. The occupying Turkish state and its ally KDP are experiencing a historical blunder. Because they think that they will put an end to the Kurdish Freedom Movement by besieging the regions, conducting air strikes and entering the Medya Defence Zones, but the guerrilla, which has been fighting with the least means and its own strength for 50 years, has rendered these attacks inconclusive and continues to do so.
The occupying Turkish state launched a new operation together with the KDP on 3 July. They aimed to achieve results with their arrival in Bahar Hill and Sergelê. They headed towards guerrilla areas in the territory of Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) as if they were in their own country. However, the Freedom Guerrillas, who always anticipate the moves of the Turkish state, were waiting for them with strong preparation. The guerrillas have been striking effective blows continuously since 3 July. They do not allow the invaders to deploy their soldiers with the blows on Sikorsky helicopters. They are also destroying the existing ones with effective blows on land. Again, they target the positions and troops of the invaders by aircrafs. It is seen that the guerrilla will fight until they clear the enemy from those areas.
The war is not only between the guerrillas and the occupying Turkish state; the collaborating forces are prolonging the life of the Turkish state and putting the lands of Bashûr (Southern Kurdistan) on the market. The Barzani family is paving the way for Turkish occupation. Forgetting Halabja and Anfal, and the mines that have been planted in Bashûr for hundreds of years and are still harming and killing people. The ruling power sees everything as its property and that is why the lands of Bashûr are being sold, bombed and burned today. They think that the Turkish state will congratulate them and hand over Kurdistan to them at the golden table. But the referendum process has shown that this does not reflect the reality. KDP forgets that the hand that reaches out to them today will turn into a sword tomorrow and cut their roots.
With their actions against the invaders today, the guerrillas are demonstrating that they will avenge both recent and distant history and the chemicals that have been rained down on them. As reported in the digital media, the Turkish state considers Bashûr as its own property. For this reason, they say “Welcome to Turkey” at the entrance of the region. The liberation guerrillas also say “Welcome to Kurdistan” with their actions.
The guerrillas, with the strength they receive from the resistance and struggle of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı, are today displaying a unique performance in the field of resistance. They are raising the level of war and victory with tactical creativity and modern guerrilla warfare. At the same time, they daily demonstrate their claim for victory and a free Kurdistan with new actions.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/15/while-collaborators-prolong-the-life-of-the-occupiers-the-guerrilla-continues-to-strike-blows/
#guerrilla #kurdistan #pkk #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pkk.cleaned-3.jpg

2024-07-15 05:03:15

On 14 July 1982, a death fast began in the prison known as “the hell of Amed”. With society outside still in shock after the 1980 military coup, the prisoners launched a campaign of resistance to protest the prison conditions. The action is considered the initial spark and a revolutionary sign that fueled the resistance in North Kurdistan.
55 days after the death fast began, PKK cadre Kemal Pir lost his life. Prisoners Mehmet Hayri Durmuş, Ali Çiçek and Akif Yılmaz also died in the course of the action. The Death Fast has since been referred to as the “Great Resistance of 14 July”.
The four hunger strikers died. At the age of 30, Kemal Pir died on the 55th day of the death fast, after losing his eye-sight. Until this day, he is honoured as an embodiment of the radical and internationalist spirit of the movement and a bridge between the struggling Turkish and Kurdish people.
The four PKK leading figures fell martyr as a result of the hunger strike. At the age of 30, Kemal Pir died on the 55th day of the death fast, after losing his eye-sight. He is an embodiment of the radical and internationalist spirit of the movement and a bridge for the struggling Turkish and Kurdish people.
Mehmet Hayri Durmuş had announced the start of a death fast in court. “There is violence in prison. – he had said – Dozens of friends have been killed, hundreds of people wounded and it is still unclear how many people will be killed. Yes, I say “Enough is enough” and I am entering the death fast from today.”
The court board did everything in its power to deter M. Hayri Durmuş from his decision, but he was determined: “No, I am determined. It is not an action that I have developed on an emotional basis, it is a decision I have made by thinking and concentrating deeply. The PKK is a serious movement, I am here as someone who is primarily responsible for this movement, I have to carry out my duties seriously. First of all, you have to accept the Kurdish people and recognize the PKK movement that is its representative, and therefore, our political identity. But I do not give up my decision because I know that your mentality will not change…”
Kemal Pir and Ali Çiçek, who were among the prisoners who listened to Hayri holding their breath in the great silence of the hall, joined the death fast together with three other prisoners.
When the judge asked Kemal Pir, “You too, Kemal?”, he replied: “Yes, yes, me too. I have said dozens of times before, ‘If someone raises the flag again, I’ll be the second one.’”
Akif Yılmaz, who was not in the courtroom, also joined the death fast. Representing the military council of Kenan Evren in the dungeon of Amed, Esat Oktay Yıldıran took Akif Yılmaz to the 36th Ward where Hayri, Kemal, Ali and other activists entered the death fast two days after 14 July.
The co-presidency of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council released a statement on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the July 14 resistance. July 14, 1982 marks the beginning of a death fast in Amed prison. It represented the height of prison resistance in the 1980s.
The KCK statement includes the following:
“On the 42nd anniversary of the Great July 14 resistance, a day which our movement has declared a national day of honor, we remember all the immortal martyrs of this historic fight. We honor the martyrs of the freedom revolution, including comrades Kemal Pir, Mehmet Hayri Durmus, Akif Yilmaz, and Ali Cicek, with love and appreciation. We bow respectfully before their treasured memories and renew the promise we have given to them.
We congratulate all of our patriotic people and humanity on this sacred day of national victory. The tenets of victory formed by this resistance are what protected, and continue to protect, the honor of our people who were left to face complete annihilation and genocide. In this regard, the July 14 resoluteness lives on in our people’s battle for national freedom.
The July 14 resistance is one of the most important events in Kurdish history. When seen in terms of national, social, political, cultural, and intellectual developments, the significance of this day becomes clearer. It is crucial to strive to understand and comprehend this resistance, it is also vital to remember and comprehend the great historical figures who spearheaded it. The comrades Kemal, Hayri, Akif, and Ali are pivotal historical figures not only for the Kurdish people, but also for humanity as a whole as they demonstrated human ideals in the most noble manner despite the most terrible circumstances. They should undoubtedly be viewed and appreciated as magnificent human monuments.
One of comrade Hayri’s last words, as he fearlessly went to his death, reveal the feelings, thoughts, and personalities of those behind this great resistance. He demonstrated his love and loyalty to the people, to freedom, and to the struggle by requesting that the word “indebted” be engraved on his tombstone. Despite having resurrected a nation, they felt indebted for having not done more. In this regard, the Kurdish youth, women, and society should always remember these great historical personalities and their battle with gratitude.
The historic resistance of July 14 is an important event that needs to be examined and researched in many respects.
The entire Kurdish society was sought to be completely annihilated through the fascist junta of September 12. In an atmosphere where Kurds, women or child, civilian or not, were being put through the most brutal and inhumane methods of torture, the heroes behind this resistance proved that victory can be achieved. Through their action, they defeated serfdom in Kurdistan. With the July 14 resistance, the Kurdish people achieved victory for the first time and began a new chapter.
The July 14 resistance served as the foundation for the subsequent victorious historical process. The tenets established on 14 July proved a deciding factor in the PKK’s formation and method of struggle. Based on these concepts, Rêber Apo [Leader Abdullah Öcalan] took efforts to strengthen the struggle, educating and deploying guerrillas throughout the country, and launching the August 15 offensive, achieving the resurrection revolution and accomplishing the Kurdistan freedom struggle.
Undoubtedly, one of the most notable aspects of the July 14 resistance was that it was an act of enormous bravery and heroism that was carried out fearlessly. The fascist September 12 coup d’état was imposing genocide on society. Thousands of revolutionaries were being thrown into prison, being tormented and tortured with the goal of forcing society to submit to the fascist regime. The prison of Amed (tr. Diyarbakir) was notorious for its barbaric torture methods. The anti-Kurdish, massacring, torturing, racist, and fascist mentality inside Diyarbakir jail had eroded human dignity to its lowest point. What was done to the revolutionaries and patriots of Kurdistan in Amed prison exemplified Turkish colonialism’s homicidal nature. Acting under such circumstances, and overcoming such a deeply ingrained and structuralized fascism at its peak, is unprecedented in human history. The actions and consequences of the July 14 resistance are distinctive.
The current AKP-MHP regime replicates the September 12 ideology, assaulting all cultures, particularly Kurdish society, women, humanity, and nature, in order accomplish this goal. Again, the most recent invasion attacks against Southern Kurdistan are aimed at annihilating the Kurds. The AKP-MHP-KDP-ISIS alliance’s invasion and genocidal attacks on Southern Kurdistan must be met with the spirit of the July 14 resistance.
If we join in our struggle, the murderous imperialist enemy will undoubtedly be defeated and the people’s resistance will prevail. On this basis, we call on all the patriotic people of Kurdistan, the Arab peoples, and the democratic libertarian socialist forces to take a strong stance against the occupation of Southern Kurdistan and to organize an all-out resistance.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/15/14-july-1982-the-day-the-great-resistance-began-in-amed-prison/
#guerrilla #kck #kurdistan #pkk #repression
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/kck.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-15 05:01:08

On July 10th it was reported that Cuba thwarted the attempts of a network of Cubans living in the United States who were trying to enter the island illicitly with weapons, and with the purpose of starting a reactionary outbreak. The Ministry of the Interior (Minint) disclosed details of a recruitment plan, neutralized in December 2023, directed, from U.S. territory, to promote and organize terrorist actions in Cuba.
In late November 2023, a Cuban citizen clandestinely entered Cuba by sea with firearms and ammunition. The individual, identified as Ardenys García Álvarez, entered the island through the Manuel Canal area, in the province of Matanzas, with a Jet Ski type nautical motorcycle, registered in the U.S. state of Florida.
Bullets and other arsenals were found during the seizure of the vehicle. Later, the authorities found that Garcia entered with five pistols of various origins and characteristics, cartridges including an American Tactical pistol and two different models of Smith & Wesson, manufactured in the United States, along with a Steyr, from Austria, and a Taurus, created in Brazil, along with rounds of ammunition.
Garcia was already known to Cuban officials. Before immigrating to the United States in 2014, he was already under suspicion for anti-social activities. He was discovered to have had contact with Willy González, a representative of the anti-Cuban group calling itself La Nueva Nación Cubana en Armas (The New Cuban Nation in Arms).
Garcia stated that the name of his recruiter was Dayan Quiñones, with whom he had exchanged messages via the social network Telegram. Subsequently, he had participated with the reactionary group in two military trainings.
During the training, the US-based Garcia mentioned a document that gave a reason for this paraphernalia. In this document of undefined authorship, those involved state their “determination to employ armed struggle, putting at risk the lives of a group of determined men, in order to save the lives of many others.” In essence, to launch armed attacks in Cuba.
Other real objectives behind this declaration of intentions were exposed in Willy Gonzalez’s multiple calls for the “awakening of the people,” through violence against offices, sugar cane fields, and the tobacco factories of Pinar del Rio…. “We are reaching the level when their will be physical harm,” he assured.
The story is even more sordid and involves many other reactionaries who roam the streets of Florida with the full complicity of U.S. authorities, despite Cuba’s denunciations. Another member of the New Cuban Nation in Arms, alluded to by the accused under the nickname of “El Lobo”, is Jorge Luis Fernandez Figueras, promoter and financier of aggressive actions directed against children’s circles, schools, polyclinics and the warehouses of the Basic Electric Organization, especially in the municipality of San Miguel del Padron, in the province of Havana.
On Monday, July 8th Venezuela News published a full interview that journalist Pedro Carvajalino conducted with the former commander of the paramilitary, and US-backed United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), Salvatore Mancuso.
In late June, he revealed details about the Venezuelan far-right’s plans to destabilize the administration of the late President Hugo Chavez in 2002. More specifically, Mancuso disclosed that the Venezuelan opposition sought to execute a coup d’état with the support of Colombian armed groups.
“There was significant interest from Venezuelan politicians and businessmen who came to Colombia seeking support from the paramilitaries to overthrow President Chavez… With the backing of some Venezuelan military members, they wanted to bomb Miraflores and kill Chavez at a bankers’ meeting,” Mancuso said.
Among the Venezuelan far-right politicians mentioned by Mancuso are Henrique Capriles, Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, Zingg Machado, and Alfredo Catalan. To carry out their plans, the Venezuelan far-right also sought advice on torture techniques from the ‘Israeli’ mercenary Yair Klein, according to the interview published by Venezuelan News
“They were taught to use different methods, which indeed involved torture, such as placing a bag over the head, water, and all these things,” Mancuso recalled.
Up to today, the imperialist plotting continued. There was also a plan that was aimed at creating the impression of a “civil war” in Venezuela on July 28, the day of the country’s presidential election, in which Maduro is a candidate.
Authorities opened the investigation after the Colombian paramilitary Autodefensas Conquistadores de la Sierra Nevada (ACSN) released a video on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that Venezuelan far-right groups had contacted its units in the department of La Guajira to destabilize the Venezuelan government. The group claimed that these groups made various requests, including attacking electrical infrastructure, acting against presidential candidate Nicolás Maduro, and, in the event of his re-election, infiltrating protests and creating chaos in the streets. They said that their organization does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and indicated that they would contact the Venezuelan diplomatic authorities to disclose further details.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/15/cuba-and-venezuela-face-us-backed-paramilitary-threats/
#colombia #counterRevolution #cuba #imperialism #repression #southAmerica #venezuela #yankees
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/cuba.cleaned.png

2024-07-15 04:42:25

*The following article is republished from Monsour Owolabi, a New Afrikan prisoner being held in Texas, which has [been laid out into a zine](https://samidoun.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Pal2Prison.pdf ) for easy republishing. *
***“International solidarity must not cease or slacken, even in prisons, because a ceasefire is not even the tip of the iceberg in bringing a solution to this conflict.”***
#LongLivethePalestinianPeople
#FreePalestine
—Monsour Owolabi
Ferguson Unit
Texas “Department of Correctional Justice”
When thinking about the connections between amerikkkan prisons and the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people at the hands of ‘israel,’ there’s a list of parallels that come to mind.
Both the ‘israeli’ occupation of Palestine and the human rights violations that fuel prison resistance and abolitionist praxis are fueled by gigantic industrial complexes [the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex]. These complexes and their profitability prevent human decency and human interests in equality and justice from taking precedence over corporate and capitalist-imperialist interests.
The role of the police and military, i.e. prison guard or “security force” as an occupying army. A mad-dog, militarized force utilized to be sicced on oppressed people, confined people, unbroken people, exploited people, and anyone on the wrong side of imperialist hegemony.
The usage of these agents of repression to instill terror in the people is the same in both instances.
In both instances, the enemy has demonized struggle, and de-regulated and criminalized self-defense. ‘israel’ screams, “Defend ‘israel’s’ right to exist,” and many run with that notion, never understanding that under international treaties and standards a nation does NOT have the right to defend itself against the attacks by a nation or people it is currently occupying or colonizing. In amerikkkan prisons, and on amerikkkan streets, a person cannot defend themselves from police attack, and in events where state agents attack the people, official law protects those agents with “qualified immunity.”
In a Texas town, police attempted to kill a man after his legal advocacy not only helped get one man off death row but exposed deliberate corruption in the local police force.
When an officer of that same police force went to kill this man, he happened to wrestle the weapon from the officer and shot his would-be assassin. The man who defended his life was arrested and sentenced to fifty years in Texas prison. That man has spent the last two decades in a u.s. torture chamber. He is political prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez, aka Xinachtli, a person denied the right to defend his right to life, similar to the denial of the Palestinian resistance as a legitimate liberation movement defending millions of lives.
In Florida, Othal Wallace is fighting the empire’s “legal” killing machine (death row) after courageously defending himself when an officer attempted to shoot him. After a quick tussle Othal “Ozone” Wallace killed the officer in self-defense. His defense of his life is considered illegitimate, much like those countless Palestinians who’ve lost life, liberty, limb, and safety at the hands of settler-colonialism prior to October 7th. To those people who support ‘israel,’ those people do not matter. The Palestinian people are now fighting death row at the hands of ‘israel’s’ “legal” killing machines.
Those captive in u.s. prisons and the Palestinian people are stateless human beings with no instrument of governance in existence that maintains, protects, or provides basic rights. Neither can vote for people who make decisions each day that dictate their lives. Both are second-class citizens at best. Both experience a separate and unequal existence in comparison to the rest of the amerikkkan/‘israeli’ populace.
In both experiences the power structure maintains a monopoly on the propaganda and thus warps the public opinion in its own favor.
Gaza has often been called an open-air prison. Palestinians there understand the meaning of a confined existence. They understand being born a suspect. They know what it means to be designated a “security threat group” or “terrorist.”
They understand the reality of living under constant surveillance. They know how it feels to be abducted from your community, held captive, and ripped apart from your family. They also know the “fire inside” that rages and plots victory over one’s enemies.
If observing the Palestinian struggles against ‘israeli’ domination doesn’t inspire you as a revolutionary, you may be another species other than human. I listened to a woman learn of her husband’s death, and begin to exclaim and shout as if a miracle had happened. She was proud. She was joyful. Her understanding of the liberation struggle of her people made her proud that her husband died for such a worthy cause. She could not bring herself to selfish self-pity.
Instead, in the midst of enemy onslaught, she compelled her neighbors, her friends to join her to break bread, sharing what would have been her husband’s portion. What a person! What a fighter!
When taking mental notes of the Palestinian liberation war I am being reminded of our need over here to intensify the struggle, intensify the contradictions. I am reminded there is no commonality between the imperialists and the people, between the enemy state, between the empire and its revolutionary subjects.
International solidarity must not cease or slacken, even in prisons, because a ceasefire is not even the tip of the iceberg in bringing a solution to this conflict.
May the fighting spirit of the Palestinian people become the fighting spirit of freedom fighters everywhere.
source: [Samidoun](https://samidoun.net/2024/07/pelican-bay-to-palestine-drawing-connections-by-monsour-owolabi/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/15/pelican-bay-to-palestine-drawing-connections-by-monsour-owolabi/
#blackLiberation #FreePalestine #internationalism #LongLivethePalestinianPeople #northAmerica #palestine #pelicanBay #samidoun #Solidarity #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pelican.cleaned.png

2024-07-15 04:34:17

Multiple locations of Chase Bank ceased operations due to lockout in a coordinated attack as a result of war profiteering in Gaza. Chase staff were forced to break their own windows in order to gain entry to the building.
This week, multiple locations of Chase Bank in Oakland had their operations temporarily halted in a coordinated effort to push for full divestment from Israel’s genocidal occupation in Palestine. Bank employees and customers found door locks and ATMs disabled, and statements permanently fused to glass doors and windows. These actions were undertaken in order to expose and indict Chase for its financial participation in genocide through its remaining investments in military contractors, including Elbit Systems and Israel’s economy.
The statements were adhered to glass doors and windows using a quick drying epoxy, resulting in a bond that cannot be removed. This caused Chase to have to remove and replace their own windows and doors. The method is similar to wheat-pasting: Glass is coated with epoxy, the message is applied, and then another layer of epoxy is added. Additionally, a thick layer of epoxy was applied over the buttons of the ATM, disabling the machine. Using this method is more discreet than breaking windows and results in the same amount of repair needs and financial damage to Chase. We value human lives over the capitalist’s private property and see these damages as a justified response to Chase’s complicity in genocide.
In the last 75 years, Israel has leveraged economic backing from the European and North American capitalist class to commit atrocities and the theft of 93% of Palestinian land. With 61% of the West Bank under brutal Israeli colonial control and Netanyahu laying waste to 74% Gaza, killing directly or indirectly up to 514,000 besieged, innocent people, we are witnessing Palestine enduring the Second Nakba (lit. catastrophe). As people of conscience and people of consequence, it would be obscene to remain neutral and complicit. Now is the time to act and escalate. We can no longer engage in civil entreaties with the so-called leaders of our own colonial governments or capitalists engaging in economic imperialism. Their affinity with fascism and genocide is clear.
While our actions this week are small, we seek to be at the least a stone in the shoe of the IOF soldier, and aspirationally a monkey wrench in the gears of war. We will continue to haunt the homes and businesses of those who politically back and bankroll genocide so that they know they are not beyond the people’s reach. We do not sympathize with the inconvenience of Chase customers. They’ve been prompted to divest and move their money for months and if their inability to bank with Chase is a vulnerability to exploit, so be it.
We are on the side of resistance to colonial oppression and fascism here, in Gaza, and the global south. Any and all acts of defiance from rockets bound for Jerusalem to a child brandishing a slingshot and a rock are justifiable self-defense.
It is clear that these actions targeting banks which are engaging in economic terrorism are working, as Chase recently divested 70% of its investment in Israeli owned Elbit Systems under the influence of public scrutiny. But we know that they continue to invest $1.44 billion, 5% of their overall portfolio in arms contractors that are sending weapons of mass destruction to ethnically cleanse Gaza. These contemptible ventures must be exposed and sabotaged in the name of human rights and the dignity and self-determination of the indigenous population of Palestine who deserve to stay on THEIR land: from the river to the sea.
We act in unequivocal solidarity with Palestine, which is under threat of total annihilation through military force, elimination of infrastructure, and engineered famine. We recognize that it’s up to us as Americans to take on the institutions that are enabling the subversion of Palestine’s sovereignty and very existence.
With congressional witch hunts and fascist pro-Zionist legislation marching forward, the period for open demonstrations seeking to sway public opinion has expired. The subjugation of Gaza and the West Bank is self-evident and anyone who remains undecided in the face of this modern Holocaust is complicit beyond redemption. Now is the time to focus on direct action to foment political and economic crises that force the hand of those in power to cease perpetuating massacre after massacre.
While a single stone in a slingshot or a shoe does not halt an army, enough of us acting as stones by being willing to risk our safety in taking a more direct approach can become a landslide. This is your invitation to get creative and start acting in ways that those in power will not anticipate. You can draw inspiration from indigenous-led action that seeks to sabotage and subvert operations like pipelines and clearcutting. We have so many tools at our disposal. We need but sharpen them and build affinity with those who hold similar convictions but have been ensnared in the trap of marching around in peaceful protest.
We honor the countless martyrs by fighting for the living and future of a free Palestine. Huriya Falastine.
some anarchists
source: [IndyBay](https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/11/18867944.php )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/15/chase-banks-smashes-its-own-windows/
#anarchism #bayArea #DirectAction #northAmerica #oakland #palestine #resistance #Solidarity #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chasebank.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-14 17:41:45

> The state could conceive of itself as the state of the only possible civic peace, but only at the price of a real ideological and theoretical mutilation based on the unstinting will to mask the class nature of power in order to maintain the fiction of the division of powers, or the illusion of the primacy of formal, individual liberty over the public freedoms
> – Anouar Abdel Malek
Since October 7, after 9 months of the genocide in Gaza and the violence wrought upon protesters in Western capitals who dare to challenge Zionism and imperialism, we are still presented with the ‘ideological and theoretical mutilation’ of the concept of state power in NATO countries. We are told that we are living in Karl Popper’s “open society” where there is civic peace and that NATO countries are the most moral, the most peaceful, and the most advanced.
How did this come to be? One particularly strong answer comes from the work of Anouar Abdel Malek, and his classic work Nation and Revolution. This article will explore and analyze Abdel Malek’s work in relation to State power in NATO countries, the armed struggle against imperialism, and thus how the illusion of ‘civic peace’ in the West fuels violence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and then pathologizes it when the violence is turned against the West.
As mentioned before, Palestine is one particularly illuminating case study, while the newly formed Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States is another.
In Palestine, there has been resistance against foreign colonialism since the early 20th century. Abu Jildeh and Al Armeet, along with Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Black Hand are some of the earliest folk heroes of resistance. Today, the eponymous Al-Qassam Brigades and their leader Muhammad Deif, fight alongside communist, nationalist, and Islamic forces against Zionist colonialism and its imperial sponsors.
The United States—as the premier imperial regime—has a vested interest in maintaining the Zionist colony in order to secure the flow of wealth towards the centers of power in Washington, London, Brussels, and Paris vis-a-vis oil, weapons, and rare minerals. One key strategy of the imperialist powers is to maintain the illusion of civic peace—this is done in two ways. Firstly, by creating a scenario whereby the majority of kinetic wars and imperialist violence are conducted abroad. Secondly, any attempt at national liberation, decolonization, and socialist construction by means of armed struggle is demonized by the NATO stenographers in the mainstream media.
These two tactics of imperialism serve multiple functions; the citizens of the imperial core are able to access cheap commodities and finished goods, while the origin of these goods is obscured through the ideology of “just-in-time production”. In a sense, this creates a weltanschauung among the people that the world has been created for them, blinding them to the violence necessary to maintain this status quo. The central function of these tactics is, as Abdel Malek said, to obscure class power in NATO countries.
In the case of Palestine, this is done by suppressing analyses by Palestinians and communists which point to Zionism as a class position. This then creates fertile ground for discussions of Zionism to be bogged down in culturalist and religious conversations about ‘anti-semitism in the left’ Further, by painting any anti-systemic movements as aberrant, excessively violent, and barbaric, the illusion of civic peace is maintained. This is exactly what happened in the aftermath of October 7, according to Dr. Susan Abulhawa:
“They said that they [Hamas] beheaded babies, that they eviscerated a pregnant woman, that they burned a baby in an oven, like really horrific violence that seemed just evil and gratuitous to kill Jews. That was the narrative.”
In this scenario, Palestinians are cast as unusually violent and sadistic, and thus categorically opposed to the establishment of a civic peace along the lines of the NATO states. To the West of Palestine is another rising anti-systemic movement: the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States.
Since the coups led by patriotic forces in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have taken power, they have taken an increasingly anti-imperialist stance. As of July 6th, 2024, they have declared themselves as a confederation, which is one step towards erasing the colonially imposed borders. The same imperialist strategies are used to discredit this anti-colonial, patriotic movement, albeit within a different cultural context.
The creation of a new type of political formation in the face of neocolonial structures is a challenging task. From the beginning of their alliance, the leaders of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have emphasized that they are interested in creating a new geopolitical reality which reunites people who have been divided by colonial borders. According to Abdel Malek, this task is fraught with difficulty, “The effectiveness of the political project – its ability to attain the status of an authentic national project- is only as great as its capacity to mobilise the potential nation.” This confederation has been able to mobilize the masses of their respective states, and meanwhile, the imperialists have used a similar toolbox as in Palestine.
The movement to shake off French influence in the Sahel has been characterized in most media outlets as full of ‘anti-French’ sentiment. That this is the focus point aims to conflate decades of racist, colonial rule with placards at protests which say ‘a bas la France’. The anti-colonial, patriotic movement to shake off French influence is then cast aside as one which is animated by a provincialist, anti-white racism. That this movement is being led by patriotic forces of the military has been pounced upon by the imperialist media, conjuring up bogeymen of the ‘African warlord’ to steer support away from a movement with very clear, liberatory aims. Not only are the aims liberatory, but the movement currently has the mandate of the majority of the peoples of these Sahelian states, and thus it poses even more of a threat to the imperialist order. Here again, the idea of the NATO countries as the only ones capable of bringing about civic peace is implicitly and explicitly put forward. Macron claims to be from a generation of French “that has never known a colonized Africa”, and yet he aided in instability in the Sahel by urging ECOWAS sanctions and military intervention against Niger after the popularly supported coup.
By promoting myths of civic peace in the NATO states, the imperialist governments of these states create an ‘ideological mutilation’ of reality which facilitates the drain of value from the peripheries towards the center of the capitalist world-system. The truth is that the majority of kinetic warfare is conducted abroad, but is often used against colonized populations within their own states. Police brutality is well documented in the USA, while the French police routinely harass, arrest, and murder African migrants living in the ghettos of French cities.
Reality shows us that the violence of the oppressor and the violence of the oppressed are incommensurable, and that armed movements for national liberation will be demonized by the imperialists in order to maintain their grip on the system. The myth of civic peace is one instrument of this ideological warfare against the renascent states and peoples of the global south.
[Al Mayadeen](https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/nato-and-the-myth-of-civic-peace )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/nato-and-the-myth-of-civic-peace/
#africa #nato #palestine #sahel #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/nato.jpg

2024-07-14 17:22:10

Jorge has been in prison for more than a year without trial, and urgently needs funds to cover legal expenses and prison costs (food, water, phone calls, visits, administrative fees, utility costs, etc.).
Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel is a beloved fellow comrade of the punk community, and a long-time participant in Okupa Che. He was arrested on December 8, 2022 by plainclothes police officers as he left the campus of Ciudad Universitaria (UNAM) in Mexico City, as part of a criminalization campaign against the Okupa.
**BACKGROUND**
On February 24, 2016, an operation was carried out in which plainclothes police arrested him, “planting” drugs to fabricate crimes, and accusing him of drug trafficking, as part of a campaign of repression against the Okupa Che squat auditorium of the UNAM (still existing). The whole case was plagued by irregularities. He was transferred to Oaxaca and then to a maximum security prison in Hermosillo, as a strategy to hinder his legal defense by distancing him from his support networks. Thanks to solidarity and legal work, he was reclassified from the crime of drug dealing to simple possession of narcotics, and was released on bail in March 2016.
Although he was no longer in prison, he was not out of danger. The constant threats and journalistic reports did not cease; the press even reported his death and accused him of participating in organized crime. Meanwhile, measures were taken to incriminate him again and re-arrest him for the same fabricated crime.
On December 8, 2022, he was arrested in exactly the same place – a few steps from Ciudad Universitaria, where the Squat is located, again by plainclothes police officers – on the grounds that the Attorney General’s Office appealed the decision to reclassify the crime.
The comrade’s health is fragile due to a prolonged hospitalization a couple of years ago and the havoc caused by prison conditions.
**CURRENT SITUATION**
Jorge is currently incarcerated in the Reclusorio Oriente in Mexico City. The judicial process is still in the evidentiary phase. Several hearings have been postponed and Jorge’s process is being delayed and prolonged to keep him in what is called “preventive detention” without a sentence, which is common for cases of political prisoners in Mexico. Despite the fact that there is no evidence to keep him in prison, the State’s strategy is clearly to extend it as long as possible, which is a tortuous level of uncertainty for all of us who are close to Jorge.
Thanks to the solidarity of individuals, groups and networks, it has been possible to cover Jorge’s expenses inside the prison, which have been very high due to the corruption that prevails in Mexican prisons. We are raising funds to support their legal expenses and basic needs so that they can survive this unjust incarceration, and rejoin the community abroad as soon as possible. We call for the solidarity of our friends and comrades around the world to help us support our comrade Yorch.
For updates and news:
Instagram: @yorchlibre
Blog: https://yorch-libre.espivblogs.net/
(blog with letters from Jorge)
https://gofund.me/ebca5f6d
[Cruz Negra Anarquista / ABC](https://cruznegraanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/llamamiento-a-la-solidaridad-con-jorge-yorch-esquivel-preso-politico-anarcopunk-en-mexico/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/call-for-solidarity-with-jorge-yorch-esquivel-anarcho-punk-political-prisoner-in-mexico/
#AnarchistPrisoners #JorgeYorchEsquivel #mexico #northAmerica #Solidarity
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/yorch-768x988-1.jpeg

2024-07-14 07:03:23

Latest estimates from Gaza’s Health Ministry reveal that the death toll in the al-Mawasi camp, a so-called “designated safe zone,” has risen to 90.
According to the Ministry, “half” of the dead are women and children, and at least 300 have sustained injuries, many of which are in “critical” condition.
Earlier today, the Zionist regime claimed to have targeted a senior Hamas commander, Muhammad al-Deif, claiming he was in the area but later retracted its statements after Hamas sources confirmed he was still alive.
In a statement, the Resistance clarified that the purpose of the regimes allegations was to cover up the horrific massacre committed by the occupation in Khan Younis.
Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri confirmed to *Reuters* earlier that the report broadcast by the occupation’s Army Radio, stating that a raid on Khan Younis targeted the general commander of the al-Qassam Brigades, is “nonsense.”
He further noted that “all the martyrs are civilians,” stressing that “what is happening is a dangerous escalation of genocide amid American support and global silence,” and further noted that the massacre is a practical message from the occupation indicating that it “is not interested in any agreement.”
Several Resistance factions released statements as well.
**Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine**:
—
The scorched earth policy and military pressure is a failed policy that will not break the will of our people.
The Khan Younis massacre is a new testament to the fascism of the zionist occupation and a call to take to the streets and squares globally to denounce the massacre.
– The zionist enemy committed a major massacre as part of its genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip, targeting the most densely populated area of displaced persons in Mawasi Khan Younis with heavy American-made missiles, resulting in massive destruction and the death and injury of a large number of people, most of them women, children, and Civil Defense teams.
– This major massacre forms part of a deliberate zionist policy to exterminate our people, destroy their daily lives, and attempt to use a scorched earth policy in the Strip amid international complicity, Arab silence, and direct American involvement in zionist crimes.
– This horrific massacre is a new testament to the fascism and criminality of this most brutal, terroristic, and cowardly zionist entity in history, which uses aircraft and missiles to bomb civilians and innocent displaced persons in areas it claims to be safe.
– The zionist enemy’s recent adoption of a policy of military pressure on our people in the Strip by escalating its unprecedented crimes against our people cannot be separated from its attempt to pressure the resistance in negotiations and hinder reaching any agreement. It is a failed attempt that will not achieve its goals.
– These zionist massacres and crimes will not break the will of our people or the determination of the resistance to continue defending our people and confronting aggression.
– We call on our masses, the Arab nation, and the free people of the world to immediately take to the streets and squares to denounce this major massacre, to press for the cessation of these crimes, to hold the criminal occupation leaders and all who support or fund them accountable, and to demand the cessation of arming this criminal entity.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
July 13, 2024
**Popular Resistance Committees**:
—
The massacres committed by the zionist enemy and the bombing of displaced persons’ tents in Khan Younis with tons of American missiles reveal that the zionist entity has surpassed all boundaries of Nazism and fascism.
The horrific massacres in Mawasi Khan Younis and the killing and slaughter of civilians in their tents are war crimes, acts of genocide, and ethnic cleansing that could not have occurred without American approval and participation, and international complicity that amounts to partnership.
The American administration has always been and remains a partner in the aggression against our people, and the recent arms deal delivered to the zionist entity, which includes bombs with significant destructive power, encourages the Nazi zionist army to continue its massacres against our people.
The criminal enemy and its fascist leaders and supporters will pay the price for their Nazism and crimes, and the blood of our martyrs will continue to pursue them until their Nazi entity falls and vanishes.
Media Office of the Resistance Committees in Palestine
Saturday, July 13, 2024
**Palestinian Islamic Jihad**:
—
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The terrible massacre committed by the criminal zionist entity in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis this morning is an extension of the continuation of the genocide war waged by the Nazi entity against the Palestinian people, after ten full months of the inaction of the entire world and its helplessness in the face of the brutal zionist killing and criminal machine, and its failure to stop the zionist killing machine and lift the siege on hundreds of thousands of people besieged by killing and starvation.
The occupation’s allegations of targeting leading figures prove its premeditated intention to commit this crime, on the one hand, and confirm, on the other hand, its disregard for all international norms and conventions that do not accept these shameless justifications for committing such crimes under any pretext.
The criminal Biden administration is primarily responsible for this heinous crime, because it spreads the view that martyrs and injured civilians, children, women and the elderly are collateral damage, with the complete complicity and silence of all those who provide the entity with all different types of support.
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Saturday 7 Muharram 1446 AH, 13 April 2024 AD
Hamas:
—
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
**The Mawasi Khan Younis Massacre: Continuation of the Nazi Genocide Against Our People, and the American Administration is a Direct Partner in This Crime**
We condemn in the strongest terms the horrific Mawasi Khan Younis massacre, which marks a dangerous escalation in the unprecedented series of crimes and massacres in the history of wars, being committed in the Gaza Strip by the new Nazis.
This heinous massacre, committed by the zionist occupation army, targeted the Mawasi area west of Khan Younis city, an area designated by the occupation army as “safe zones,” where citizens were encouraged to move. The occupation’s aircraft, artillery, and drones intensely and successively targeted the tents of the displaced with various types of weapons, resulting in hundreds of martyrs and wounded among innocent unarmed civilians.
The occupation’s claims of targeting leaders are false claims. This is not the first time the occupation has claimed to target Palestinian leaders, and it has later proven to be false. These false claims are merely to cover up the extent of the horrific massacre.
The Mawasi Khan Younis massacre, which targeted an area crowded with more than 80,000 displaced people, is a clear confirmation by the zionist government of its continuation of the genocide against our Palestinian people through the repeated and systematic targeting of unarmed civilians in tents, displacement centers, and residential neighborhoods, committing the most heinous crimes against them, indifferent to calls to stop targeting innocent civilians or adhering to any laws of war that impose their protection.
This disregard for international law and treaties, and the wide-ranging violations against unarmed civilians, would not have continued without the support provided by the American administration to the zionist extremist government and its terrorist army, by covering up their crimes, providing all means of political and military support, and paralyzing international justice from carrying out its role towards these crimes, making it a full partner in them.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Saturday: 07 Muharram 1446 AH
Corresponding to: July 13, 2024 AD
**Deputy Head of Hamas in Gaza, Khalil Al-Hayya to Al-Jazeera**:
—
Netanyahu wished to announce a fake victory at his miserable conference. He claimed to have targeted leader Mohammed Deif and leader Rafi’ Salameh, and said that we do not know their fate, clearly indicating the failure of this false targeting. This is an attempt by the criminal army to market its crimes against our people.
**We affirm that the claims of the occupation and Netanyahu are false. Despite the pain we feel for the dozens of victims and martyrs, we affirm that the blood of the leader Mohammed Deif is not more precious than the blood of the smallest Palestinian child.**
**We say to Netanyahu that Mohammed Deif is listening to you now and mocking your false and empty statements.**
The claim of targeting leaders here and there is a ridiculous justification for killing women and children, and every Palestinian, whether in Gaza, the West Bank, or anywhere else.
The occupation wants killing, destruction, and targeting women and children.
The resistance and our people have proven their steadfastness in Gaza, demonstrating the army as a puppet and targeting it everywhere, turning its tanks into rubble. This army, which appeared in such a weak state, wanted to restore its dignity after this defeat.
Netanyahu wants to shuffle the cards and embarrass the mediators and guarantors.
Netanyahu wants to embarrass the mediators and guarantors and put pressure on the popular base of the resistance.
We have shown all flexibility out of our conviction, not under pressure.
Netanyahu does not want an agreement or the return of the prisoners.
All options are open to us, and we will not give Netanyahu what he wants. We will not slide into what Netanyahu wants and plans for.
We are waiting for the mediators to return to us with a response after we presented a clear approach.
Netanyahu’s behavior is that of a cornered man.
Netanyahu wants to shuffle the cards, and we are still waiting.
Netanyahu and his government should respond to the mediators, not us.
Netanyahu is responsible if the deal fails, and our negotiating position is strong. An agreement can be reached if Netanyahu wants it.
Netanyahu shuffles the cards and sabotages stages at all times.
Netanyahu must realize that other fronts are open against him, and he is not in a comfortable position.
We are in a better position despite the pain and are on the path to achieving our goals.
The Rafah crossing is Palestinian-Egyptian, and we manage it to serve our people’s interests.
Netanyahu wants to disrupt negotiations, and the mediators consider what happened as unjustified.
###
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/death-toll-of-al-mawasi-massacre-rises-to-90-resistance-issues-statements/
#alAqsaFlood #gaza #hamas #palestine #pflp #pij #resistance
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/khanyounis.cleaned-e1720933014554.jpg

2024-07-14 06:54:05

In Puerto Rico, being a colony, each of our struggles has several ramifications and consequences. A simple strike conflict can become a real national conflict. This is the case of the strike of the Suiza Dairy workers who have been demonstrating since June 11.
Suiza Dairy is one of the three milk processing companies in Puerto Rico. But unlike the other two, since 2002, it has been managed by a Peruvian foreign capital group, the Gloria Group.
The workforce is represented by the Central General de Trabajadores, the CGT, which in 2013 signed a collective bargaining agreement with the company, but the part of the company’s contributions to the medical plan were left pending to be negotiated later. It should be noted that due to the privatization of the healthcare system, the cost of medical care in Puerto Rico has increased significantly.
Now, when it was time to resume these negotiations, the Company stepped back and refused to negotiate in good faith. It asked for more time and instead of submitting a counter offer, it shut down operations and laid off 483 workers.
So since then, the union has been demonstrating daily in front of the plant. La Suiza, for its part, by laying off its workers, stopped delivering fresh milk, especially to the most distant and mountainous places.
The most sinister objective in this conflict is that they are trying to replace fresh milk with UHT, or ultra-pasteurized milk, which lasts longer and can, therefore, be imported instead of produced locally. This would destroy the dairy industry, one of the few we have left in this colony. They already did it with the poultry industry when gringo companies flooded the country with chickens and eggs from the United States at very cheap prices and thus killed local production.
But besides the CGT, other organizations and the people are joining the picket lines and the struggle for food sovereignty.
***Berta Joubert-Ceci** *on Radio Clarín de Colombia from Puerto Rico.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/puerto-rico-strike-at-switzerland-dairy/
#caribbean #colonialism #imperialism #latinAmerica #puertoRico
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/puerto.cleaned.png

2024-07-14 06:48:50

**SOLIDARITY WITH THE ONGOING REVOLT AT THE MAMMAGIALLA PRISON IN VITERBO!**
We learn in these hours [Wednesday 10 July] of a revolt underway at the Mammagialla prison in Viterbo, which broke out following the death of a young immigrant prisoner, which seems to be due to an illness, locked up in the common ward.
It is from this morning that various forms of protest began until the outbreak of the real revolt and we give news of the destruction and devastation of the entire third floor of the D1 ward.
The prisoners are barricaded in sections and are defending themselves with incendiary gas cylinders from the cops who attack them.
The prison is currently surrounded and the roads leading to it are blocked, but this does not prevent us from shouting all our anger and hatred for an infamous state that needs prisoners, all our hatred for its servants who are diligent in the slaughter of the proletarians and exploited of this putrid society.
PRISON IS TORTURE!
The comrades have known this and been shouting it for years: the Mammagialla prison of Viterbo is a concentration camp where the deaths of prisoners, suicides, injuries and acts of self-harm are the order of the day. Those who call for “improvements”, reforms or even the hiring of more guards in the prison are our enemy as much as those who guarantee the existence of these places of torture: the state and its laws.
PRISON IS NOT REFORMED: IT IS DESTROYED!
WE EXPRESS OUR UTMOST SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE WHO FOLLOW UP ON THESE WORDS WITH ACTIONS.
Comitato di Lotta — Viterbo
[Taken from the web and republished in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/11/solidarieta-con-i-rivoltosi-nel-carcere-di-mammagialla-a-viterbo/]
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/solidarity-with-the-rioters-in-the-mammagialla-prison-in-viterbo-italy/
#europe #italy #prisonStruggle #revolt
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/rivolta-nel-carcere-di-mammagialla-2-e1720703207814-1024x628.jpg

2024-07-14 06:47:18

Guerrillas Serhildan Kurdo and Fîraz Arjîn were killed in Van-Başkale (Wan-Elbak) on 4 June. The Press Center of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) said in a statement that they were injured in an attack by the Turkish army in the Masîro area but refused to surrender to the enemy and be taken prisoner.
The HPG expressed its condolences to the relatives and the Kurdish people. The HPG statement provides the following information about guerrillas Serhildan Kurdo and Fîraz Arjîn:
Code name: Serhildan Kurdo
First and last name: Rebwar Emînî
Place of birth: Merîwan
Mother and father’s names: Mesture – Rahim
Date and place of death: June 4, 2024 / Wan
Code name: Fîraz Arjîn
First and last name: Barzan Numaş
Place of birth: Wan
Mother and father’s names: Kibar – Bayram
Date and place of death: June 4, 2024 / Wan
**Serhildan Kurdo**
Serhildan Kurdo came from Rojhilat, eastern Kurdistan, and was born in Merîwan. He grew up conscious of his Kurdish identity in an environment sympathetic to the freedom movement and was interested in the PKK from a young age. The oppression in Kurdistan made him angry, and he studied law to fight for justice in this way. Because he felt this commitment was insufficient, he became more involved with the Kurdish liberation movement. In 2015, impressed by the resistance against ISIS in Rojava and Shengal, he joined the guerrillas in the Qendîl Mountains. There he took part in basic training for new fighters and then went into practice.
In 2017, he completed specialized military training, after which, at his own persistent request, he went to the Serhed region in Bakur, northern Kurdistan. He was aware of the difficult circumstances in the region and continued his struggle in a militant manner.
The HPG describe Serhildan Kurdo as a revolutionary person who constantly continued his education and was known for his close connection with his fellow fighters and his military competence. “By anchoring Apoism in his personality, he left us an indelible legacy,” said the HPG.
**Fîraz Arjîn**
Fîraz Arjîn was born in Van and belonged to the Xelîlan tribe. He grew up with the Kurdish culture and language and experienced oppression by the Turkish state at a young age. Because people from his environment joined the guerrillas, he sympathized with the PKK at an early age and dreamed of one day fighting for freedom in the mountains himself.
During his school days, he steadfastly resisted state-imposed assimilation. He was arrested because of his participation in protests. He followed the Rojava revolution with great interest. The ISIS attack on Rojava in 2014 and the brutal suppression of the resistance for self-government in Bakur in the following years were the deciding factors in his decision to join the armed struggle and stop the genocide in Kurdistan.
He went to the mountains in Bakur and joined the guerrillas. The first encounter with the guerrillas had a formative influence on him. He was impressed by the warm and sincere way they treated each other. He went to the Medya Defense Areas for his basic training, then he took part in practical work in Qendîl. He took on various tasks with great motivation and contributed, among other things, to the construction of infrastructure and the expansion of tunnel systems.
At his own request, he was trained in the professional use of heavy weapons. At the same time, he read Abdullah Öcalan. He then went into battle in Bakur with great determination and came to Serhed, where he fought until the end.
In other news the PKK Executive Committee Member Duran Kalkan spoke about the invasion attacks carried out by Turkey against South Kurdistan.
**The war has intensified in the Medya Defense Zones, all eyes are on the regions of Zap and Metina. In Northern Kurdistan, we have also seen guerrilla activity increase in June. How can this be evaluated?**
Yes, first and foremost, I commemorate with love and gratitude all of our fallen comrades, particularly the comrades Shexmus, Beritan, and Brusk, who were martyred in the resistance in the North. Indeed, it is crucial to comprehend them correctly and protect their memories.
This is not an ordinary struggle. Developing such a resistance in the North, under today’s conditions, has a different meaning. In this context, actions have taken place from Avashin to Gever in Zagros. There were clashes in Botan. Clashes broke out in Gabar and Mawa. Clashes broke out in Merdin’s Kerboran area. There is conflict in the Serhat region. With spring and summer approaching, the fascist AKP-MHP began operations in all areas. In other words, the entirety of the North is a battle zone. On the other hand, there is resistance in the cities. HBDH militias fight almost daily. Also the YPS militants are fighting.
In the North, an antifascist, united battle is brewing, and our united revolutionary struggle is taking shape in the North through guerrilla and militia actions. This is a novel and significant scenario, which is substantial when compared to the previous 1-2 years. It is crucial to comprehend this right. Of course, it needs to be developed and spread more. In this regard, I commend everyone who is resisting and striving. I applaud their efforts and resistance. We need to strengthen it more.
To successfully conduct the war against AKP fascism and accomplish results, it is critical that we engage in the language that they understand.
In this respect, we must turn all areas of the North and Turkey – from mountains, plains, and cities – into zones of antifascist battle and resistance.
We must understand how to confront fascist terror with revolutionary violence. If this does not occur, that is, if they are not held accountable for their conduct, if every attack is not retaliated against, it will be impossible to break fascism, halt fascist aggression, and unite the people. In this regard, particularly the revolutionary democratic forces, the left socialist forces, must radicalize and strengthen their struggle. This is what the current guerrilla and militia activities entail and progress to. HBDH has actually reached a significant level. In reality, it must be far more advanced and powerful, but this is a separate issue. The progress which has been made by the HBDH is quite significant. We must strengthen this further.
**New attacks are to be developed against the Zap and Metina regions. What is the information about this invasion supported by the KDP and Iraq? What is the latest situation in the area?**
On July 3rd, they were some developments. Our co-presidency has already shared the details and our standpoint on the war in Zap, Metina, and across the Medya Defense Zones. Every day, the relevant HPG structures release information to the public. As a result, the general public is becoming more aware of the current situation. Aside from that, this is what’s new: the Turkish Republic’s armored troops, tanks, and vehicles have easily transported across Iraqi and KDP-controlled routes and have established themselves in several locations. They have established new positions. On this premise, they want to carry out occupation attacks. The Iraqi government is complicit in this seeing that it has made no objections. The KDP already supports and actively helps in practice, evacuating its own positions for the Turkish army.
In other words, the Turkish army and Turkish troops have established positions in many places. This was decided upon in Baghdad with the visit of Masoud Barzani. After gaining Baghdad’s approval, these Turkish troops were transported on the night of July 3.
These invasion attacks are not new. On August 26, 2016, the Turkish army launched invasion attacks against Syria from Jarabulus and against Iraq from Cukurca, crossing the border. Almost 9 years have passed. Despite a 9-year war, this situation is re-emerging. During the day of the attack in 2016, Masoud Barzani was in Ankara with the same mentality that he was in Baghdad on July 3. They decided together, they gave orders together. Masoud Barzani’s name is signed under the invasion and annexation attacks against Kurdistan, more than anyone else. He works more than anyone else to achieve this. In other words, his signature is under all the dirty work.
So, these current attacks are nothing new, the attack on the basis of occupation gained a different level in 2020, 2021, 2022. Most recently, on April 16, 2024, AKP-MHP fascism launched a new attack on the Metina region. Our headquarters explained this: it is a piecemeal occupation attempt which means holding empty positions and extending to new places step by step like this. Like this, they try to enter many areas of Metina.
Since July 3, tanks and armored troops have been moving by land, over the asphalt roads of Bamerne, Enishke, Qadishe, Amediye, Dereluk and Sheladize. They have arrived and are trying to hold the Sergele and Dereluk line which accounts to the valley of Zap. They want to encircle the entire Metina and West Zap area from the south, via armored troops. On the other hand, they are carrying out air strikes. They are trying to deploy soldiers from air to establish positions on especially Bahar Hill in Zap and other hills in Metina.
Previously, a military attack entailed striking and deploying from the air while advancing on the ground by clearing a passage through the terrain. The Turkish army attempted this for years, even entering some areas, but was unsuccessful. This failed to yield results. For example, it has been trying to occupy a hill for three years now. Although it attacked so much, it suffered many blows from the guerrilla and faltered. The Turkish army has realized that this method is fruitless. Now, as a result of the diplomacy and negotiations being conducted with the KDP and Iraqi state since winter, the Turkish state wants to achieve results by entering these areas with armored troops to be able to occupy them.
In other words, they want to occupy the places they cannot occupy, enter the places they cannot enter, and break the guerrilla resistance. For this, they have even established check points. Everything there, including the administration, is gradually falling into the hands of the Turkish Republic. The Turkish army is scattered across the border. The north of this entire area is de facto under the administration of the Turkish state. Annexation is being developed de facto in these areas where neither the KDP nor the Iraqi government have much power left. This has been labeled by some as “annexation,” which is correct. Under the name of a buffer zone, the Turkish, Iraqi, and KDP administrations were to conduct joint patrols in the area 20 kilometers inwards of the Iraq-Turkey borders. In some places, this ‘buffer zone’ has been trespassed by a further 20 kilometers. In other words, they have sold off land to the Turkish state under the legal guise of a buffer zone. The Iraqi government had disclosed that the agreements it has reached with the Turkish state were purely economical, which is true in some aspects. They were conducting the sale of land rather than that of goods. The KDP is already a servant. There is no other way to put how it is acting.
Thus, a large region of Southern Kurdistan has been sold off to the Turkish Republic. Everyone needs to know this. The world public opinion, the people of the South, and of Iraq must see this. As of July 3, this has been officially approved. This is what the Iraqi and KDP administrations decided on July 3. On this basis, they are evacuating villages and bombarding them non-stop. They are evacuating villages in Metina, Berwari, all of them. Thus, the areas of Xakurke, Avashin, Zap, Metina, and Heftanin are completely under the military and administrative control of the Turkish Republic which wants to displace society from there. The Turkish state has been burning and destroying villages to achieve this, already having destroyed hundreds of villages. Now it is trying to drive people away by bombarding them every day, using forbidden weapons and terrorizing them. This is the current situation. The question is whether the Turkish state can hold this up.
This is what the Turkish state wants, it is what Iraq and the KDP have accepted. But they have overlooked the great resistance of the guerrilla against this. There are clashes and actions every day. There are 10-15 actions a day. The Turkish state is trying to get hold of new positions, namely Bahar Hill. The press also disclosed that the Turkish army have deployed a small force in another place. Helicopters are being shot down, they can’t land. So, there is resistance. What will be the attitude of the public? The outcome will be determined by the resistance of the guerrilla, the attitude of the people of the South and Iraq.
In terms of the buffer zone, Erdogan initially demanded 40 kilometers, he wanted to extend it to that level. This was part of the negotiations during the winter. Devlet Bahceli, on the other hand, says he will take all of Mosul and Kirkuk, he officially disclosed this. Both the people of the South and the people of Iraq need to know and see this. But it seems that, so far, that the Turkish state has not been able to find the strength or the means to carry out such an attack. They do not believe they will succeed. Erdogan had declared that by the summer of 2024, they would eliminate the PKK in Iraq. Here we are in the middle of the summer, and he is still struggling to land on a few hills and occupy them. In fact, they had vowed to attack many parts of the Media Defense Areas. He couldn’t do it; he couldn’t find the strength. We need to understand, firstly, that the Turkish Republic could not achieve that which it had planned for 2024. The current attacks are a speck of that which they had plan.
Secondly, what started on July 3rd is indeed annexation, a de facto annexation is developing. In other words, the administration and governance in a large area is being passed into the hands of the Turkish Republic under the name of a buffer zone. Thirdly, it is unclear what the outcome will be in this area. It has been unsuccessful with this ambitious method of occupying the land through the ground and deploying from the air.
Now, how much power could these armored troops possibly bring to this failing scenario? Of course, that remains to be seen. So, we need to see the strength and success of the resistance of the guerrilla. The revolutionary operations last winter really dealt the enemy a crushing blow. This can be clearly seen. On this basis, I would like to add the following:
First of all, I greet with all due respect and love the guerrillas who are heroically resisting on Bahar Hill, all the hills of Delil, western Zap and all of Metina. We will resist, everyone should know this. The guerrilla will resist. The guerrilla and the patriotic Kurdish people will resist to the end against the occupation of Kurdistan and genocidal attacks against Kurdish freedom. How the collaborators and traitors do, is up to them. Of course there will be a struggle against them too. But the patriotic people and the Kurdistan freedom guerrilla will resist regardless.
On the ground, the war continues as such. The Turkish army has armored troops, special forces, elite forces. In some areas, they are deploying ISIS mercenaries that they bring down to attack the people. In reality, the AKP-MHP has mobilized various ISIS ad KDP groups and mercenaries in these areas after having used these forces in Syria and other places. Now, in the South, these same gangs are present, they carry out attacks. They are the ones waging the war. The unsatisfied Turkish state also wants to bring in village guards to the conflict.
What can we say? Our Central Headquarters Command has warned these village guards, we agree. They should stop acting crazy, otherwise they will pay the price dearly. No one should be a tool of such a sinister, evil, dastardly scheme. Now that the guards have been warned, when they face the consequences of their choices, we cannot be criticized.
This is definitely an important situation. On the other hand, our administration released statements regarding Iraq and the KDP. The Iraqi administration has lost the qualifications of being an administration or a state by selling lands that were supposedly under its governance to others. They did badly. Especially the Iraqi administration did badly. Only recently was it praising our fight as a movement against ISIS. We also had relations. But now, in exchange for some benefits, for some interests, for simple material interests, it jeopardized its relations with friends.
For the people of Iraq and South Kurdistan, it must be seen that the situation is really very serious. Their own lands are being destroyed before their eyes and the people are being evacuated. Should the Turkish state succeed, they will not stop at this. They have always said that they “will take” Kirkuk and Mosul. The fascist AKP-MHP has set eyes on the entire South, stretching as far as Sulaymaniyah. So, the people should be reacting more, they must struggle more. Organizations, parties, political intellectuals, artist circles, youth, women; in other words, the entire people of the South should react more strongly, influencing the Iraqi peoples.
People in all regions of Kurdistan and around the world should vigorously oppose this latest occupation attack, which has progressed to the point of annexation, particularly against the perpetrators and those who participated in and authorized it. People should react, and this is our expectation.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/hpg-pays-tribute-to-martyrs-pkk-discusses-war/
#guerrilla #hpg #kurdistan #pkk #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/hpg1.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-14 06:40:58

The recently signed Japan-Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) betrays the victims of Japanese war crimes against the Filipino people during World War II and dangerously positions the country on the front lines of war . By allowing the deployment of Japanese soldiers on Philippine soil for so-called joint military exercises, the Marcos Jr. and Kishida administrations are shameless puppets in the elaborate war preparations orchestrated by the US in its march toward an armed confrontation with China.
The RAA with Japan comes at the heels of US overtures to strengthen military alliances in the Indo-Pacific region in its continuing ‘first island chain strategy’ to encircle China. The RAA with Japan allows Japanese military to freely enter and exit the Philippines for combat training including live-fire drills – akin to the lopsided Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) of the Philippines with the US government which the latter has been using to justify its provocative saber rattling against China.
According to both parties, the so-called defense pact is meant to help the Philippines defend its territory against an increasingly assertive China. Aside from trampling on Philippine sovereignty, the RAA risks further embroiling the Philippines in the middle of a potential hot war, sacrificing Filipino lives and sovereignty on the altar of American imperialist ambitions.
The wounds of the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II run deep, marked by unspeakable atrocities and brutality against the Filipino people. Around 1,000 Filipinas some as young as 12 years old, were enslaved and turned into ‘comfort women’ during the war. Japanese soldiers killed an estimated 527,000 Filipinos until they were driven away by the Communist Party-led *Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon* (Hukbalahap), ending Japan’s three-year military occupation of the country. Marcos Jr.’s military pact with Japan represents a profound betrayal of war crime victims who continue to cry for justice until today.
The Japan-Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement marks a dangerous precedent, undermining prospects for a peaceful resolution of territorial conflicts in the region while stoking the flames of war. The path to lasting peace lies not in the buildup of military personnel and materiel that serve US war designs against China.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/japan-ph-military-pact-is-another-step-in-us-imperialisms-march-towards-war/
#asia #imperialism #ndfp #philippines #war
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/ndfp.cleaned-1024x417.jpg

2024-07-14 06:33:42

On July 6 and 7, the leaders of the three main countries in Africa’s Sahel region—just south of the Sahara Desert—met in Niamey, Niger, to[ deepen](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BBP0Vyg784UABFZiL-2BUHihmWoxg-2BlPpI7JKhNE4BlSdXCV2k-2FSyQASNZ4R8oUKjkiQurC-2BsN-2F3V-2FrnZJfPT6aT7gtQwYoNGVnhHxOGlX-2F2m8lJM2I7kGNe-2FCGugk2GZwjZJDSg-2BSJU3Dgj5Xyg5y8MbLCdkGiUpYX8ttcCGkTxwIclQNjbhdWPbbJ4wMjxQHCg-3D-3D65LS_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBqEFbj4L7YMm2eMTo0-2FfV9Q6iy2FmNPg7kPTRxYXc55umr5Hv0M1Q-2Bqo2QmsRDn7pMWec5ku31xSDf0bsG-2BAXnljfadlacf1L1C4-2FNBn-2FgiZFFueaXW95rtKr2pVl9XQJ9-2F4PImxVuvFde2ai2Jhfbg1Ol2Nq8ZfUEeuFqW3zWyGc9LFu5sAqKrEyhDN5WWy2fw3pSQYQTveqAfSde2Cjzj ) their Alliance of Sahel States (AES). This was the first summit of the three heads of state of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, who now constitute the Confederation of the AES. This was not a hasty decision, since it had been in the works since 2023 when the leaders and their associates held meetings in Bamako (Mali), Niamey (Niger), and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso); in May 2024, in Niamey, the foreign ministers of the three countries had developed the elements of the Confederation. After meeting with General Abdourahmane Tiani (Niger), foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop (Mali)[ said](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BMhS7-2BqpfKdVtcFYaRS7QlPI217rqtHcNKproml65qdmHMpz4vaUHFoiOYIm7y0HtDg4HtPQhLIDPHFpEgSk9XgelQ-2F2pb3DXTFqjlObUV-2BdKFR5f4iAwuOdXXOqOTFS3FDBe3wkyxQGiWWfgRaRttM-3DtuRj_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBp9wyDhdO9BQl9wZ5-2BLhbAUsTM-2B6VqVz7NO5CHRKnCGad60J5YPf1eY-2FBy7rTUqvvtROv3hOhydyecGwG3q-2BlDacN8dvQDYL62xZydVi3JqVc1ClSbZkPNxPwHQMCgljCvfRnpf32Dkvf50gXV28dCgKfzv2fk8xO53i7vXMN1iuuKsGDnXa9VxdRvZ-2F81HJgLHk1SfCn3fDH60iduarT57 ) in May, “We can consider very clearly today that the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States is born.”
There is a straight line that runs from the formation of this Confederation to the pan-African sentiments that shaped the anti-colonial movements in the Sahel over 60 years ago (with the line from the African Democratic Rally formed in 1946 led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and through the Sawaba party in Niger formed in 1954 and led by Djibo Bakary). In 1956, Bakary[ wrote](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BJBdUoB0ySjFmPX1wzctBvXLGC8xdxzLrBbX2cs2d6VnKomgy7BaCeozio4HrAyYkzSleMwQHuSmsnseBqQh71-2FroNZ5TyLpwH9BAoaICILpsVNG_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBodeWuopAxufjrqq1RwFUNs7k0Vs-2BKG-2BBhl5QXqNyE6lSGG4HHrE824PbKE0kBao2mN9UzgXcxOIgRDjyDphy-2B2-2FQFX8wpHdhFpjLXH1GDXlKpM4Bk-2BuCrxr2-2F5e-2BK3rYKDgu34jZ-2BoP21yGene4yYeeEM9IrAhFQ7aS-2BZ1gRLaD8bfuL52DZJ-2BPrBqrJjP6CsZSEkmfDSZUatVqb4CmVL8 ) that France, the old colonial ruler, needs to be told that the “overwhelming majority of the people” want their interests served and not to use the country’s resources “to satisfy desires for luxury and power.” To that end, Bakary noted, “We need to grapple with our problems *by* ourselves and *for *ourselves and have the will to solve them first on our own, later with the help of others, but always taking account of our African realities.” The promise of that earlier generation was not met, largely due to France’s continued interventions in preventing the political sovereignty of the region and in tightening its grip on the monetary policy of the Sahel. But the leaders—even those who were tied to Paris—continued to try and build platforms for regional integration, including in 1970 the[ Liptako-Gourma Authority](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BO-2FRGpJthWa2YSAmEoknJ091PD3Srlup423a0zuUgF-2FdneEA_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBrj-2FfVYZcd-2Bkf-2BGAyQdVRFWVroCLHuB0g6ZqA0eAdPi9stnGrwT7n2pdKXampsJQjSPYZ0Hy66Myq4rF8Ve4-2BBK9gXSu8Yrzu8sMZy6QrEIgCurr3e6dBQm0X3E5Xgg-2FB99fdd9s8dub9pFi34-2Fr4pNdPMNRq8kVmgiMQllXfHb-2BwVtqN3ddEaKPUoQvl0MBqrrNdhzF3VRlnZk59MLXIib ) to develop the energy and agricultural resources in the three countries.###
**Departure from subordination**The current trend emerged because of the deep[ frustration](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BOrft9dKcPOE9pGKifNfv8vzabWzExH652E7dfEzevQQyDUq9K-2F5ALP2fuhIkgqcCbb1FOgHm-2FLmFUxZlWftio4Vn94FKdvRoDO2qx4lyipGQufEKnMLxf6lohhYuYP-2BSFEEI71-2BlrRGg3dTp3oObmE-3DzIpa_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBqbH0JokRwCG5NF4VfmcjRs2-2F49-2FbJmKK2mUS7EoVFt9UbcaGZTfbFHnJBzYWtPuTWJOLV-2BYQ8ZipHo7UaBUcKKZRICrbd-2FftZVqxN61DjSKFbJt7v-2FNa4tgLSI4k32uKXHnNYBtJEwnLLQijf02jCXbU03Bm-2FPyVv4Mqq4q3biqYqm9BajKHW5vlY60GZU9djisgwc0-2FoWvkPrVKkDnx-2Bx ) in these countries with a host of problems, largely associated with the interventions of France. These include: the creation of a dangerous situation of al-Qaeda militancy fostered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s destruction of Libya (2011); the failure of the French military intervention to stem that militancy and the anger at the civilian casualties due to the French and US military operations in the three countries; the use of the French exchequer to benefit from all financial transactions in the three countries; and the manipulation of anti-terrorist discourse to create an anti-migration infrastructure to benefit Europe more than Africa.
These frustrations resulted in five coup d’états in the three countries since 2020. The three leaders of the countries are all products of these coups, although they have drawn in civilian leaders to assist them. What unites them personally is that two of them are very young (Assimi Goïta of Mali was born in 1983, while Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso was born in 1988), all of them have had military careers, each of them seems to be informed by the frustrations against the French that they share with each other and with their populations, and none of them has any patience for the pro-Western “stability” politics of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
In January 2024, the AES states[ said](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BBDa0hYfAvg8e3eibtl9o0TS10QSX82yUO3dk5nZcBBnGig144fM5rRtmG16WsWjrIX5DWnb73BJt2amuZ9hAzx0nc8k03gDds1TRWkf-2BqJ16j8PajevVUi51Ti040-2BMc9dAkQIo5M5zF24V40-2FgRaiwWERcIhizNa-2F3lY8lbY7rdUcquWLvpSHaTHs2rL6Bew-3D-3D4ear_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBpnh5b-2Bryah-2B3H7mI32bgT6l1xYZX8k5LQ9Hywa2kuLycpaGN-2BoDOxaM2yew-2BolPshQULBrf0lxfOH2S8IVPjR9-2FUEDsNY1XlQUBKXucrgEKPZtfZKfgzqv6CIsE32ijo9v8axAfomweulaytuoJdJpJtlaUlsYiVLV1w1h7AvrGUNYioIwTeHu3HGXsLsmIQbbmIAsaYIAQJNtqKZcnsVN ) that they would not seek to rejoin ECOWAS after their expulsions over the past few years. “Under the influence of foreign powers and betraying its founding principles,” the AES leaders said, ECOWAS “has become a threat to member states and peoples.” ECOWAS was founded in 1975 as part of the pan-African dynamic and in close association with the Organization of African States (OAS), set up under the leadership of Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah in 1963. ECOWAS expelled the three Sahel countries because of the military coups, when in fact ECOWAS itself was the product of several military Generals who ran their countries (such as Nigeria’s Yakubu Gowon, Togo’s Gnassingbé Eyadéma, and Ghana’s Ignatius Kutu Acheampong). At the founding of ECOWAS, General Acheampong[ said](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BOoyk2L8iQSS8GqFCpjUyRZaP6-2FOWWesbWWN90fUT1gairMd_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBqFv-2BCMRwxBX9UNJkM34MLSPsKr71CWW3Y5ZeUqeSfXPpFx9OjEzBCkZQAj6x-2FXkbUgtDz6g-2BPRCpQXUGewCJbHdqRYZBRTB-2BY5g4Ph-2BrgvR33UAnxYlBV6P1smOjejoxinbPtLfISAJ8jxzZmGlZpogCJwnpIaQtPJ-2B-2B5QSOpq0lHlCs5331QbHJLRty-2FlYOwVDLusAEml6rvHO7RyKAD8 ), “The major purpose of the formation of the community was to remove centuries of division and artificial barriers imposed on West Africa from outside, and to recreate together the kind of homogeneous society which existed before the colonialists invaded our shores.” At the Niamey summit to create the Confederation, the leaders said that they would no longer want to return to ECOWAS even though they have laid out plans for transitions to civilian rule.###
**Economics of the confederation**In his powerful[ speech](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BKM-2Blr8K87ARQP0vJS4nsTAybv-2ByMW9RAUZEr5d1g9E2oCm5HjW2wS0eWW1fnXcvHA-3D-3DzFxw_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBoSug6MOGQhyfv844mNw-2BsGQItTYa-2B9sx7NvrM6ac2uiVjiwnM0PH2wO017BPnBOIhglrqbeMQLKV6Pqje4ID3NfxtSk-2BFGkzvgEA5Z1pq2lHqmTzhzWxzdzbP2KtkDYGktOwZCVDV5KOQCpet-2B4zovIWOrxjKs0AUPCL4JWm-2BTxXL3yZXtMyXRBsvFV8WahNaZj5uFA2gQOLttUJV8RdB-2F ) at the closing of the AES summit, Burkina Faso’s Traoré said that the “imperialists see Africa as an empire of slaves” and that they believe that “Africans belong to them, our lands belong to them, our subsoils belong to them.” Niger’s uranium lights up Europe, he said, but its own streets remain dark. This, Traoré noted, has to change. At the summit, agreements were made to allow for the free movement of people and goods, to create a stabilization fund in place of dependence upon the International Monetary Fund, and to develop an investment bank rather than rely upon the World Bank.
In February 2024, the UN Development Program (UNDP)[ released](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BL-2Bu-2FcJARPo9Hz8keWdnqwHYx2DuAIQTl-2BU9Kig3nzddW7rzYgq485LjOUd-2BaZldhJR-2BBeXMNc70GJhJDJBHoIf5XP3eQ-2FF0uUl2wpVK8J3xmDBO_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBrUBrGFUYJ9Z3dReJ7Ugg9wX9D5Oychrsr4gmMY5pPspQlpoWol-2FmDYLwJNILBOqU19gmzhcIGqErlKsX-2F8fsknPPSn0Rua69ADnwyGpHpztKU-2FX6q0hN5HJ0j0dnuIojHY754M3e9p2mpplV7hBdK9vGu0C1Zk6aekqJ5Ech5Ekr0rn5ytbTEMJyHCtZmDjajLlN-2BhFTXeTyHdIOtP3bNu ) the *Sahel Human Development Report 2023*, which noted the immense wealth of the region that sits alongside the poverty of its people. These countries are blessed with reserves of gold and uranium, lithium and diamonds, but it is largely Western multinational mining companies that have been leeching the profits,[ including](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BI3S50J7mWtyE00o3k-2FWyj81lIgkzp-2FUh-2FMoWHpegB7VbW01HIIa-2FMY6wClEYQ67hSoWMVuQrQjofa8nrr4mEh61fy-2BgDoW84Nya3lHx7RfmqtwYqmyPMTKGdf2ovFc8nwgdgPGl9UO9CYoJ80aIHqbYCbzyaKU31uGXET34jD1Mg8LZQtMKKV9euCCZs-2FfKqNthBEdEBDfJH-2BQZzMup4xjX5jqq1Mser5-2BILo1ngUSyubbFevDt7fPpcwm4PgGIkg-3D-3DgxG1_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBqaMh0Xtp24GjwLcigU70Hu0N57311YiqIQwMJRt22qazZ4vkypFKbRbo6HQZ3poRfZ9SJRycqrWIOihEBWCFZk8iF2dt9EQfW59-2Fb9QEeJIiHk1usa-2BHwrdwY39JmR2q2DkiDFx8glnVLzR-2F-2FUTuiIasv-2BWw-2B7Ops7Mb4T3OQKI1AIoEQJDODBsRceMs5WjJ36LDWiFjwFAs-2Bq-2B11wDDOs ) through illicit accounting practices. The UNDP report notes that the Sahel has “one of the world’s highest solar production capacities—13.9 billion kWh/y compared to the total global consumption of 20 billion kWh/y,” while the World Economic Forum[ notes](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BEBbpOx-2BOKskERHf8o0Qnj-2B6onqgYBxqKwrjLurRyUgcDfN-2B17epyxHIs1IPyKVRf-2FwJuXVKPO9vJj2ImlstlZo-3D7HqR_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBoVoY8awCnzoWL-2FrVnJYoNde2Y-2BdSZKycDMKE3BwegebFyMa5E5IFRSRvgiPKYXHd1znDWzFWKwyBYez8l6qX1U4rLfDuv2DAQ9ZZo83-2BymQz6q94GbC3-2Badvdq6vqWskoZNTzz1Vr58UrsASk9fh8aAjMcwYOIKSmoTasSheFz5wAWjzMyFYrifBwCdyqNF-2FYlQP8KewCD5foXQ5jWW4hy ) that the region is capable of earning hundreds of billions of dollars from the export of health foods produced in the Great Green Wall that runs from Senegal to Ethiopia (such as Balanites, Baobab, Moringa, and Shea). These are untapped potentials for the people of the region.
In 1956, Niger’s Bakary had written that the people of Sahel needed to fix their problems by themselves and for themselves. In November 2023, the government of Mali hosted a[ meeting](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BKV1JUX9ciquQUwSPknzVmvqgs0a7OklUMSxMLy-2FW-2B4B7qXyWRhns4OFp8XYzAyxo5Vv4ENKCb3U840HF0-2FVwgWWoMsNJylvYjdiqz-2FKjJHvqttVM7oJYcvpipXTyd9nXFYEyVIQRdsImwIlrzHmfOZu5eljaHXGx-2FBtDs3JN1CO2QFIjkANvPav69NvEPmhVw5H082fw3t-2Fb7kLl7tX3d5dw6QNV1s26nMawHuboqVOI3Ft7-2FA8gUwNuvu8f7cnbg-3D-3Damgc_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBqfRi4L4bjna8LnI-2F2ce7DlnwlVPosZvflOlILXCAJRVfEnQ88oEaQGO5YOK8-2FCSiVsrLcTCmzWKmDBoEIEJpyHdQKaEvqH9qdvM3o-2Fno6zl2Ats-2FncoX2IwBY9deH2TQNk-2FMG3gZuAaaH5ssFpYhf43HYq8mTX9rbR-2Bdv0x1Zb7FZChAqNAT-2BY4-2F4bVqMMFGKG7K0BxZyKZmRnp43nOq-2FV ) of ministers of the economy from the three countries along with experts from the region. They spent three days developing innovative projects in common. But none of this can advance, they said, in the context of the sanctions placed on them by their neighbors in ECOWAS. Sixty-three years after independence,[ said](https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BN3BOPWjyWQqEmm-2FNAA0ugMEe8Hqx6YGCYz9RIplVNbukgy-2BOKpmB1UpMtG2HrwUjF9lQkZuzbCSf6-2FSjmb0zjaFpuVFwKa3FqrGfdaRvL0ZrtZA5JLZ5vYMNOWx-2Fd31-2Blroziu7b5HmDJIdKFpolAnxy3pQu77nUHwwy4My88PbC0aRzX1awihTiRyLO-2FMaAZGKZam4ur4pkVtAGvRYdFnULABe1FGO07fUuuoOCauVB0_W_BPnWrESgs2YeQG63Rip-2F4JnnTQYbKm7SiPtzCSQ9uiolSN1ujXVtEveoAnPaoCgJjDx9qDTrIm0y9yilYej-2FgMBsw9TjYseGBN7OpWpM-2BNwqKink4Z626OmGL0xvtE0Gamwf4T6srx5GrfiP-2BZSUPVSKrEgl7Rz2d-2FZ-2Bfb-2BdIxvnGIehB3cW9nUJWnWR4q3hejPpAXiTdwJQr9llDNAeKCX2jz5tvbNtds4gDNxf1AoEIrQpMwC4w1fVh6w6n-2BZuJdaPMuUCOl85AZWfzZ8Xl-2ByJ7ZIFu9tax5Mw846CCaTcvj82gBoT7zFfzO2ULTO7fofEt9kCZ-2FlBxR0YN9-2F0h6I53IbLmlh35NGQpaY19gwiVXYl9tEVm2ssBdMpXcGTaR3cr8jdG53O61Yip09kE3c-2BxhbMPShR7lazaAMTQnKxLhTaScz8D6VFq5s9PwZT0z13fKNc-2BV14OcefoNQHIj3laeqPMw7PgMTSlJ020EVbEYhPn5r57r7ANZtP0MGVbyIXRjN5ArM6ts6rb7KJakGRA0fsGCOkXhOfFqHvDMkgEniWz3tZ5dMdkOsAunN50GNgpbF97B2RTa7kdd6oiDQd0wmxyL83m8WY-2BrM6rBqv5csfEkxSqmQ9cvv-2BKyXOWVUtAIm0acDpW5-2B4VG95Kgs-2BBubiEdvRRIdwxfSjjecCRRaZcotGpY3hQaugxu5a7GYbJXw7zyB-2BGM9bp4DjqM71PfRhoY1r65kiO20-2FMuOWHVy5ZPIjIz9L5d15Tn4x3uk79JRavhhx-2Bjhf731tZKtW44aSxbET5Gb0gds-2FGaN0NpJCAZRqO-2BKBznAJ2uG4 ) Niger’s Minister of Finance Boubacar Saïdou Moumouni “our countries are still seeking true independence.” This journey into the Confederation is one step in that process.
***Vijay Prashad** is an Indian historian.*
source: [People’s Dispatch](https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/07/08/the-sahel-stands-up-and-the-world-must-pay-attention/ )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/14/the-sahel-stands-up-and-the-world-must-pay-attention/
#africa #colonialism #confederation #imperialism #sahel
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/sahel.cleaned-1024x576.jpg

2024-07-12 21:29:42

Our fraternal and revolutionary greeting to the people of the Catatumbo region and all of Colombia, our recognition of the persistence in the struggle for the majority.
Our fraternal and revolutionary greeting to the people of the Catatumbo region and all of Colombia, our recognition of the persistence in the struggle for the majority.
The Northeast War Front Commander-in-Chief Manuel Pérez Martinez of the National Liberation Army (ELN) would like to inform the public that it regrets the death of Mr. Jorge Méndez Pardo, known as Yeiko, influencer of the Correction of the Gabarra, Municipal Jurisdiction of North Tibu of Santander, who carried out a permanent and active social work and denunciation through social networks, while being a resident concerned about the development of the region.
As he expressed it to his family, it is known that he was cited by the Dissident of Jhon Mechas on June 27th, and a day later he was found dead in the path of La Silla, Municipality of Sardinata; we clarify that our organization has no responsibility for these events, we have an active presence in the region and we have characterized ourselves as part of our political line in taking responsibility for our actions when the moment demands it.
Likewise, in the territory there have been a series of actions that seek to involve the name of the Front of War, not only in the case of deaths and detention of settlers, but also actions that violate the security and mobility of the inhabitants, such as the installation of minefields by the Dissidents under the responsibility of Jhon Mechas, who in turn carry out campaigns of discredit in order to delegitimize our revolutionary project.
Colombia. . . for workers!
Not one step back. . . liberation or death!
North-East War Front
Commander-in-Chief Manuel Perez Martinez
Colombian National Liberation Army
Mountains of the North East
July 2, 2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/12/eln-dissent-kills-influencers/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/eln.cleaned.jpeg

2024-07-12 21:06:24

Over issues of poor basic conditions in their housing unit, Casey went on hunger strike, refusing trays and only taking liquids from June 22 to June 27. At one point, Casey went hypoglycemic and ate some gummy worms (C is diabetic.)
The strike had 4 main demands:
– A pencil sharpener so that people can consistently write letters, grievances, etc.
– An increase in water pressure so that people don’t have to put their lips to the faucet in order to drink.
– An end to weekend lockdowns, the jail predictably claiming that this is due to “staffing issues”
– Increased yard time and use of recreational equipment. (Currently the unit only receives 1 hour of yard time a week on a bare yard with no equipment, balls, etc.)
In parallel with the hunger strike, Casey filed grievances on each of these issues and circulated a petition around the unit regarding the issue of weekend lockdowns.
On the morning of June 27th a deputy met with Casey and committed to meeting the first two demands. (A working pencil sharpener and increased water pressure.)
With the meeting of these two demands, Casey agreed to end their hunger strike and ate lunch on June 27th. Casey said they intend to eat, get rest, and to study further on the policies and case law surrounding such lockdowns which already seem to violate policy and federal law. Deputies have also agreed to take up the remaining two demands with their superiors.
Casey wants everyone to know they are doing well despite their conditions. Casey appreciates all the letters and books and wants everyone to know that all mail is processed really slowly but they do intend to respond in due time.
Casey signed off with “Love and Struggle.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/12/an-update-on-casey-goonans-recent-hunger-strike/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/casey2.cleaned.png

2024-07-12 06:35:20

The Palestinian Resistance is engaged in fierce confrontations with the invading occupation forces on various fronts, particularly in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City and Rafah. They are documenting scenes of heavy losses inflicted on the occupation in both personnel and equipment.
In the latest operations by the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, its fighters targeted two Merkava tanks with tandem rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City.
In the same area, al-Qassam announced that it targeted an occupation infantry unit with a thermobaric RPG, causing deaths and injuries among the occupation soldiers.
The al-Qassam Brigades further reported that they had shelled the Zionists positioned in the Netzarim axis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
In Rafah, al-Qassam also shelled a gathering of occupation forces and vehicles in Tal Za’arb, west of the city, using mortar shells, according to a brief statement they released.
The military media broadcast footage of al-Qassam fighters confronting occupation soldiers and vehicles in the al-Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, showing scenes of their fighters targeting occupation soldiers and vehicles.
The footage showed al-Qassam fighters targeting several tanks with al-Yassin 105 RPGs and a infantry unit with thermobaric RPGs, as well as direct confrontations with occupation soldiers who were holed up in a building there.
Similarly, the military media released footage of targeting soldiers and vehicles as a combat team entered the first street in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah.
In turn, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s military wing, al-Quds Brigades, announced that its fighters shelled the Fajah military site with 107mm-typed rockets and reaffirmed their targeting of an occupation post on the supply line in the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.
Al-Quds Brigades also bombed Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Sderot settlements as well as Holit, Yated, and Avshalom in the Gaza Envelope with rocket barrages.
The military media of the al-Quds Brigades released footage of the launches.
Similarly, the al-Mujahideen Brigades announced targeting an occupation position in the Netzarim axis using several Hasab 111 rockets, which they recently brought into service.
They released footage of their fighters targeting occupation forces stationed in the Netzarim axis with rockets.
Meanwhile, the Martyr Omar al-Qassem Forces shelled Zionist soldiers and vehicles in the al-Katibah area of the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City with heavy mortar shells.
Additionally, fighters from the Martyr Omar al-Qassem Forces managed to snipe an occupation soldier in the Abd Jabr area west of Rafah, confirming a direct hit.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are also engaged in fierce confrontations with Zionist occupation forces and their military vehicles, using appropriate weapons in the industrial area west of Gaza City.
Moreover, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades targeted a Zionist unit holed up inside a house with an anti-personnel shell, confirming casualties among the unit in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City.
In Rafah, the Brigades managed to shell gatherings of Zionist vehicles with mortar shells in the advance axis east of the city.
The military media of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades broadcast footage of a Skylark drone that was shot down in northern Gaza while carrying out intelligence missions.##
Resistance in joint operationsIn the framework of cooperation between the various military wings of the Palestinian Resistance factions, al-Quds Brigades targeted a personnel carrier, another from the engineering corps, and a D9 military bulldozer with RPG shells and al-Yassin 105 RPGs around the Bani Suheila complex south of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, in coordination with the al-Qassam Brigades.
Al-Quds Brigades, in cooperation with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, also shelled soldiers and vehicles in the industrial area southwest of Gaza City with several mortar shells.
Meanwhile, the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, in coordination with the Martyr Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades, shelled a gathering of soldiers and vehicles at the Zikim military site using 107mm rocket artillery shells.
A Zionist media platform reported suspicions of a security incident in the Gaza Envelope, with large forces summoned to the area.
Earlier, the media indicated that a helicopter had landed at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, suggesting that it was carrying casualties among the occupation forces.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/12/palestinian-resistance-inflicts-heavy-losses-on-occupation/
#alAqsaFlood #gaza #guerrilla #hamas #palestine #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/gaza.cleaned-2.jpeg

2024-07-12 06:28:44

The People’s Defense Forces (HPG) Press Centre released a written statement providing information on the latest situation and developments in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
The HPG Press Liaison Centre said, “The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla marked the anniversary of the 14 July Great Death Fast Resistance by carrying out effective actions in memory of our pioneers, comrades Kemal Pir, Mehmet Hayri Durmuş, Akif Yılmaz and Ali Çiçek who determined the resistance line of our party PKK. We express our determination to continue our struggle with the same Apoist consciousness and sacrificial spirit in the footsteps of our immortal pioneers, and we commemorate all our martyrs with respect and gratitude in the person of the 14 July Martyrs.”
The HPG provided the following information about the latest actions carried out by the guerrillas and the attacks carried out by the occupying Turkish army in Medya Defense Zones:
**“Şehîd Delîl West****ern**** Zap region;**
On the 9th and 10th of July, guerrillas from YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) shot down two drones of the Turkish army in Girê Cûdî Resistance Area.
On 9 July, YJA Star guerrillas targeted the invaders on the move in Girê Amediyê Resistance Area and stopped their movement.
On 9 July, YJA Star guerrillas struck the invaders in Girê Amediyê Resistance Area with heavy weapons, destroying a container and a tent.
On 10 July, guerrillas targeted the invaders on the move in Girê Amediyê Resistance Area and stopped their movement.
On 9 July, YJA Star guerrillas struck the invaders who attempted to take position in Girê Bahar Resistance Area twice.
On 10 July at 23:40, 1 Sikorsky helicopter belonging to the occupying Turkish army, which was set to land in Girê Bahar Resistance Area, was heavily hit and shot down by the guerrillas. The place where the helicopter crashed was bombed by the Turkish army with attack helicopters.
On 10 July, the invaders who attempted to take position in Girê Bahar Resistance Area were intervened three times.
**Metîna ****region****;**
On 9 July at 22:30, guerrillas intervened in the helicopter activity in Serê Metîna Resistance Area.
On 10 July, guerrillas targeted the invaders in Golka Resistance Area with heavy weapons, damaging a container and a military position.
**Attacks carried out by the Turkish army with banned explosives;**
On 10 July, the guerrillas’ tunnels in Girê FM Resistance Area were bombed 12 times with chemical gases and 5 times with banned explosives.
On 10 July, the guerrillas’ tunnels in Girê Amediyê Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region were bombed 2 times with banned tactical nuclear bombs.
On 10 July, the Şêlazê Resistance Area in Metîna region was bombed once by drones loaded with explosives.
**Aerial attacks carried out by the Turkish army;**
On 9 and 10 July, the Turkish warplanes carried out 21 strikes on guerrilla areas, targeting the areas of Şehîd Şerîf, Girê Şehîd Hawar, Girê Berbizinê in Xakurkê region 6 times, the Şehîd Îbrahîm in Zap region, the areas of Dêreşê, Mijê, Girê Zengil in Garê region, the areas of Gûzê, Girê Reşît, Xêrê, Yekmalê, Deşta Kafya, Şiyê 9 times, the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region 4 times, the Bêşîlî Resistance Area in Metîna region.
On 10 July, the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in the Western Zap region was bombed by attack helicopters.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/12/guerrillas-shoot-down-a-sikorsky-helicopter-and-two-drones-of-the-turkish-army/
#guerrilla #hpg #iraq #kurdistan #pkk #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pkk.cleaned-2.jpg

2024-07-12 06:26:48

After only around a week, we reached my fundraising goal of $5,000. The outpouring of solidarity I’ve experienced, both online and in person, is something I wish to extend to all. Our power comes from our solidarity. It’s such a privilege to be a member of such a supportive community. Through every step of this process, I’ve received help and support from many people.
This money will be used to pay for legal fees throughout the process. Around $1000 will be set aside for this process. In the meantime, $1000 or less will be used to cover my living expenses so that I’m able to exist between now and the subpoena date. $3000 will be set aside as funding for existing in prison in the event I’m incarcerated. It’s likely more funds will need to be raised, as I could be incarcerated for up to eighteen months.
On August 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM I’m calling for a rally and press conference outside of Hollings Judicial Center at 85 Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. I am scheduled to appear in court at 9am, so this rally will be held before I enter the courtroom. It will be a time to celebrate our solidarity and show that our love is stronger than the fear the state instills in us. The date and time for this rally may be subject to change if I am called to testify at a different time.
I am never going to comply with a subpoena or cooperate with a grand jury. I am an anarchist and I reject all grand juries as archaic, opaque, and undemocratic. The state will never be able to coerce me into testifying. Any prison time they threaten me with would be a punishment without trial and a stain on the American legal system. May we live to see a day when none of our friends are held hostage by the state.
With love and rage,
Cyprus Hartford
It/they/she
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/12/an-update-from-grand-jury-resistor-cyprus-hartford/
#anarchism #cyprus #grandJuryResistance #northAmerica #repression #southCarolina #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/grandjury.cleaned-1024x768.jpeg

2024-07-11 01:38:06

*ROAPE’s Njuki Githethwa writes that the current regime in Kenya has been struck a devastating blow by the uprising of youth. The state has been weakened and is now vulnerable. This regime can fall. A revolution in Kenya is in the air. But the success of this revolution, Githethwa argues, depends on how well placed the social forces, revolutionary movements and organisations are to harness, sustain and extend this uprising.*
***Originally published in [ROAPE ](https://roape.net/2024/07/08/everything-must-fall-everything-must-change/ ). ***
The youth in Kenya are no joke.
They stormed the National Assembly in Kenya on 25 June 2024. They set part of it on fire. They ransacked the hallowed building, smashing everything in sight. Some even ate the food in the cafeteria that was specially made for the ‘dishonourable’ members of parliament and senators. Others smashed into the Senate Chambers and took over as the people’s representatives, including one who acted as the Speaker. The golden mace, a symbol of parliamentary authority, was carted away to set-up a people’s parliament in a liberated zone away from the discredited and dishonoured National Assembly.
MPs were besieged. They were whisked away to safety through an underground tunnel that was not unlike what is known in Kenya as a ‘panya route’, colloquial for a hidden and illegal track. Panya is Kiswahili for rats. The MPs were treated like the parasitic rats that they have become in Kenya. In passing the [unpopular Finance Bill 2024 ](https://roape.net/2024/06/27/uprising-in-kenya-thousands-protest-austerity-and-struggle-for-liberation/ ), the MPs, or MPigs, as they are derogatively referred to by activists, had become more than rapacious rats.
The youth were not done yet.
They broke into the buildings of the Supreme Court, the symbol of the second arm of the government. They ransacked and destroyed items in the office of the chief justice who is largely seen as siding with President Ruto and the Kenya Kwanza (KK) regime – the ruling alliance in the country. An office in the chambers of the Governor of Nairobi County was also torched, so were the constituency offices and homes of some of the members of Parliament who had voted yes to the Finance Bill.
The sound and fury of the youth was widespread across cities and towns in Kenya. The youthful protestors had dubbed it as 7 days of rage beginning 21to 27t June. The 25 June was the climax of the rage, referred to as Super Tuesday, that saw the storming of parliament.
It has never happened this way in the history of resistance in Kenya. More will happen in the future. The resistance of the youth is palpable. It’s the same for the masses of people across the country who have been reduced to beggars by the grasping regime.
The Gen-Zs are leading this resistance in the best language that oppression understands. Radical militancy and shaming the regime. What more shame is there than to see MPs fleeing and scampering for safety, some of them even fainting out of fear. This helps to drum into the ears of the politicians how their fickle power is. How power easily flips over, or as the Gen-Zs, mostly speaking in Sheng and Shembeteng slang, puts it in a hip hop song, *Ina come, ina go!* (It comes, it goes).
At least 41 youthful protestors have been killed by the Kenyan police in this uprising. They rest in power. They are martyrs of our liberation. Thousands have been injured. Many others are still missing. This uprising will not go down in vain.####
**Behind the sound and fury**The current regime in Kenya under President Ruto and the KK Coalition came to power after the contentious 2022 elections. The regime rose to power behind the guise that they were the true representatives of the underprivileged, the suffering majority whom they referred to as hustlers. They said they were against the rule by dynasties, and the wealthy, represented by Raila Odinga, the flagbearer of the Azimio Coalition and his supporter, Uhuru Kenyatta, the former president.
The majority of youth, especially in central Kenya, and amongst the Kalenjin communities, the bedrock of support of the current president, saw in Ruto a chance to elect one of their own, a fellow hustler who claimed to be a former chicken seller. His supporters were exuberant when he won the 2022 elections. Finally, their man was in power. Down with the dynasty! they said.
In the optics of tribal politics, those who elected the current president were blind to the fact that Ruto was not a hustler like them, but the leader of a cabal of greedy politicians who rose to power and accumulated loathsome wealth through a conniving and a sweet-talking mouth, what Uhuru Kenyatta, his predecessor, termed derogatory in Kiswahili as *mdomo tamu tamu* (sweet mouth). His supporters forgot that Ruto rose to leadership and wealth at the height of the infamous Youth for KANU 1992, known in short as YK 92, that malfeasant outfit of young political mercenaries who were supporting the Moi–KANU dictatorship, not for the welfare of the country, but to satiate their personal greedy for power and wealth. They supported former president Daniel arap Moi in plundering the country, including printing fake currency, and in the process, they became very powerful and wealthy.
Ruto was an ardent disciple of a ruthless dictator. Some of us knew that gullible Kenyans had consumed mass poison that would kill the people and the country little by little. The youth in the uprising are expunging this poison from their veins and from the masses in the country.####
**When did the rains begin to beat us?**Kenya is a deeply unequal country. The gap between the poor and the rich has continued to widen since the country gained independence from British colonialists in 1963. Deprivation and want continue to squeeze the people across generations who struggle against the dead- ends of animal survival. Successive regimes in Kenya have failed to reduce the inequality gap but rather widened it in trickle-down economics driven by the IMF and World Bank, and other varieties of market-driven economics. It is these generational frustrations, anguish and fury that Ruto and the KK brigade tapped into even when its key economists and advisors were beholden to this very neoliberal economics and politics themselves.
Once in power, the KK government tethered the country onto foreign interests. Global economic shocks raged on, fuelled by the aftereffects of Covid- 19, the war in Ukraine, and related economic imbalances. Ruto and KK stalwarts had shouted themselves hoarse during the campaigns arguing that these factors had nothing to do with the devastation to the Kenyan economy. It was all a result of a ‘dynasty politics and economics’ which they vowed to high heavens to unmask and undo once in power.
Yet the ascension of Ruto and KK did not amount to anything markedly different from previous regimes. The cost of living escalated, especially amongst the lower classes in the country. The poor were getting poorer as neoliberal measures strangled the country, driving the masses to the edges of survival. Education has been commodified, including university education, making it expensive and out of reach to millions of struggling families. Health insurance through the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has been whittled down to a rebranding gimmick. Rights to decent housing have been muddled up in schemes referred to as affordable housing that are not only incomprehensible and confusing but are a kind of a pyramid scheme to whet the appetites of the greedy undertakers of the state and politicians. The [recent drought and floods ](https://progressive.international/wire/2024-06-27-institutional-failure-police-brutality-and-the-quest-for-climate-justice-in-kenya/en ) in the country were a god-sent opportunity for the KK regime to hide their incompetence. The regime has consoled itself like an ostrich hiding its head in the sand even as the masses are drowning in oceans of poverty.####
**Enter the Finance Bill 2024 **The Finance Bill 2024 was meant to push through a raft of wide-ranging punitive taxes. These included taxes on essential goods, services, digital content, individual incomes, and many more. This bill was both loudly and silently rejected by many sectors in the country, including by corporates and professional associations. Rejection of the bill was vocalized by the youth, led by the Gen-Zs, who took to the streets in a mighty show with the protests across the country. The youth were, after all, the group that would be most affected if the unpopular bill was passed.
Youth turned cyberspace into a terrain of resistance and mobilized millions of others to the streets through the power of social media and community organizing. The hashtag #RejectFinanceBill2024 came alive. The young felt as though they had nothing to lose. Their lives, as Karl Marx quipped in 1848 about the working class, have nothing to lose but their chains, are already wasting away in unemployment and being drowned by the high costs of living. On the other hand, they could see politicians notoriously enmeshed in corruption, embezzlement of public funds, devilish opulence, and other forms of abuse of office and extravagance.
The rage of Kenya’s near revolution was fuelled by generation of hurt and disappointments by neo-colonial governments in Kenya. The rage was a festering boil that burst open. Antennas of political consciousness of the youth, especially the Gen-Zs, who largely seemed apolitical, were raised high. The movement erupted like a volcano and the lava of discontent spread across the country. It could not and cannot be stopped, by anything or anyone, except with the complete fulfilment of their demands and a just social order in Kenya. The youth stormed the barricades of arrogant power from various fronts, organically, faceless, leaderless and tribeless.
This youthful uprising is a game changer in the politics of resistance in Kenya. Previously the label of political apathy has been proved utterly wrong. They took by the scruff the necks of incompetent power that has gripped this country for many of years. Their resistance finally scored initial gains.
As a result of the uprising, President Ruto and his coterie of discredited MPs and government operatives were forced to concede and dropped the unpopular Finance Bill 2024 on 26 June.
Ruto’s actual words of concession “Listening keenly to the people of Kenya who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with this finance bill 2024, I concede.”####
**Whither the Revolution?**The uprising by the youth in Kenya has scored the first and central demand – the total rejection of the Finance Bill. This is a major victory, but it also deflated the magic and energies of the uprising. The state is already consolidating its power through the police and the armed forces. Subsequent protests in Nairobi and across the country under the rallying call of #RutoMustGo have been less intense. At worst, street protests have been infiltrated by goons hired by pro- regime politicians, just like the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, popularly known as Mau Mau, in the 1950s was infiltrated by loyalists of the colonial regime. Many protesters have retreated to their comfort zones and social media to savour the victory of the uprising, and to voice other discontents.
Most uprisings in the past end in retreats, betrayals, reforms or revolutions. Experiences of revolutions in Africa and elsewhere in the world show that the vulnerability of the state is a key ingredient of successful revolutions.
The underbelly of the current regime in Kenya has been struck a devastating blow by the uprising of youth. The state has been weakened and is now vulnerable. Its technical knock- out could be imminent. This regime can fall. It will fall, not if, but when. The fire of mass uprisings has been re-ignited by the youth. A revolution in Kenya is in the air.
How this revolution will chaperon a radical and just social order in Kenya depends on how well placed the social forces, revolutionary movements and organisations are to harness this uprising. Already they are various moves in this direction, including by the united front of various leftist political parties and movements, such as the Communist Party of Kenya, the Revolutionary Socialist League, *Kongamano la Mapinduzi* (Coalition for Revolution), Students union, social justice centres, feminist collectives, among others.
The youth led by the Gen- Zs know that now it is their time to bask in the sun of change. The future is theirs. They are seizing the time. The working class are fighting for their survival, the middle class for their security. An anti-establishment social movement is coalescing, led by the vibrancy, energies and dynamism of youth. A new and fresh political order is emerging in Kenya, as elsewhere in Africa.
Everything must fall. Everything must change.
***Njuki Githethwa is a Kenyan writer and activist-scholar. He is the Managing Editor of [Ukombozi Review ](https://ukombozireview.com/ ) in Kenya and a Contributing Editor for the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE).***
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/11/everything-must-fall-everything-must-change/
#africa #colonialism #kenya #rebellion #RejectFinanceBill2024 #resistance #RutoMustGo
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/kenya.cleaned-1.png

2024-07-11 01:31:41

The following is a translation of “**Preliminary Training: Ten Thousand Projectiles Cripple a Third of the Entity!**,” [published today](https://www.al-akhbar.com/Politics/384215/%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B0%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%84-%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86 ) in Al-Akhbar by Ibrahim Al-Amin.
The article describes how the resistance in Lebanon has demonstrated its capability to target over 100 vital military and infrastructure sites within the zionist entity, utilizing a range of diverse projectiles, which would cripple the enemy’s operational capacity and cause massive destruction and displacement. This readiness and strategy ensure that any large-scale military surprise by the enemy will fail to incapacitate the resistance’s qualitative capabilities, allowing the resistance to sustain and escalate its operations.
**Preliminary Training: Ten Thousand Projectiles Cripple a Third of the Entity**
—
The readiness file of the resistance to face any large-scale war with the enemy is not only about what the resistance publishes regarding its target bank within the entity, but also what the experiences of the past nine months have shown in terms of capabilities. While the period following the 2006 aggression up to Al-Aqsa Flood battle was filled with hints and warnings directed by the resistance to the leaders, army, and settlers of the enemy, the current escalation probabilities impose a different pattern of deterrence messages.
Previously, alongside the speeches of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah about Hezbollah’s qualitative capabilities, the resistance broadcast a video rare in its content after the enemy threatened to bomb sites near Beirut Airport. It included coordinates of military sites, security headquarters, and special devices set up by the enemy near residential, educational, and civilian centers. The video concluded with a phrase by Sayyed Nasrallah stating that if you strike targets among our civilians, we will do the same for you.
In September 2018, Sayyed Nasrallah addressed the occupation army stating that “the resistance possesses precise and imprecise missiles and weaponry capabilities that impose a fate and reality on ‘israel’ that it never expected.” Then, last summer, he declared that the resistance “needs only a few precise missiles to destroy a list of targets including civilian and military airports, air force bases, power plants, water stations, along with a group of infrastructure and oil refineries, most notably the Dimona reactor.”
Throughout its deterrence campaign, Hezbollah publicly announced some of what the enemy knows, thanks to its vast intelligence efforts, announcing publicly its ability to reach central targets for the entity, whether military, strategic infrastructure, or public service centers. Hezbollah has gradually escalated the level of warning and threat, corresponding to the enemy’s efforts against the resistance and its human and logistical infrastructure, especially during the “war between wars” phase, during which the enemy undertook a triangular strategy:
• Attempting to strike what it assumes to be weapons on their way to Hezbollah through air strikes.
• Conducting military-security operations on supply routes by enemy intelligence.
• Sabotage operations deep within Lebanon, the latter being the most dangerous, revealing many details about the enemy’s actions or plans, especially when it found itself “forced” to carry out exceptional operations, such as the drone operation that exploded over the southern suburb [of Beirut, Dahiye] in August 2019, preceded and followed by attempts by “israeli” commando teams to reach resistance facilities in various Lebanese areas. These attempts aimed to strike what “israel” considers advanced weapons manufacturing centers or operations converting unguided missiles into precision ones. The enemy’s intelligence efforts in this area were not limited to such operations alone but included many other activities, the details of which the resistance might reveal later.
As we find ourselves in the midst of a difficult war, during which the enemy intensifies its crimes against Palestinians, and with increasing likelihood of escalation on the Lebanese front, despite indicators declining last week, the resistance is effectively enhancing its readiness for a comprehensive confrontation. It has decided to raise the level of threatening messages to convey to the enemy’s public, a significant portion of its political leadership, most of those involved with public affairs, along with the military and security levels, that once the war becomes comprehensive, the resistance has a plan that differs from all estimations.
In a theoretical and practical exercise of what the situation could be, and based on the three films broadcasted by the resistance— “Hudhud 1,” “Hudhud 2,” and “To Whom it May Concern”—the following can be assumed:
The resistance presented over 100 vital targets, including conventional or newly established military sites and barracks, artillery and air force operational centers, war operations management centers, intelligence collection and electronic warfare centers, espionage tools of various kinds, radar systems, sensing and tracking systems, in addition to command and control centers, arms and ammunition depots, and tank and essential vehicle positions, including air defense systems comprising radars, control systems, and launch platforms.
Additionally, the resistance showcased over 50 targets involving the central infrastructure of the enemy entity, ranging from central or secondary airports and seaports to power production and distribution stations, and control centers of oil resources, regarding tanks, refineries, or petrochemical factories, reaching civilian installations involving residential complexes (for senior employees and business people in the northern private industries), and settlement communities (comprising ordinary people or craftsmen and farmers) established before and after the entity’s creation. The resistance also pointed out a significant number of service centers belonging to these civilian communities, including commercial centers and food production factories.
The resistance conducted a survey of an area constituting the northern center of the entity, extending from the sea in the west to the eastern edges of the occupied Golan, within an area of approximately 3,650 square kilometers. Notably, the videos did not reveal highly sensitive details about advanced industries generating billions of dollars annually for the entity and its private sector, which comprehensive war would expose not only to direct losses but also to disruptions and delays of major projects being worked on in alliance and cooperation with international institutions in the east and west.
If we rely on what the enemy leaks, further highlighted by global intelligence agencies and research institutions working with them, and if we add what the resistance has revealed in terms of weapons over the past nine months, along with the weapons that have appeared in the hands of factions and forces from the Axis of the Resistance in the region—whether used on land, sea, or air—along with presumed weapons publicly disclosed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which the enemy assumes are now possessed by Hezbollah, this is sufficient to conclude that the simple theoretical exercise indicates the following:
Firstly, the nature of the measures taken by all parties involved in a wide-scale war has deprived the enemy of the element of surprise. Any sudden military operation, whether an aerial campaign or even ground invasions, will not succeed in disabling the qualitative capabilities of the resistance, nor will it be able to paralyze or render them inoperative.
Secondly, the enemy’s air defense systems, from Iron Domes to David’s Sling, and from “Hetz” [Arrow] and Patriot systems, along with warplanes, helicopters, and drones that can be used to counter projectiles in the air, possess operational capabilities that allow them to face a wide initial barrage, with results not exceeding 50%. It should be noted that the enemy’s ability to reload air defense systems may not be possible within a few hours.
The strategy of dispersion tested by the resistance in Lebanon will not, under the most severe circumstances, require launching more than ten thousand varies projectiles, ranging from drones (no one knows what types will be used in a comprehensive war) to (highly effective) artillery shells, conventional missiles, cruise or ballistic missiles, and even unknown types of missiles in terms of range, speed, and destructive capabilities.
This quantity of projectiles is sufficient to destroy and disable all the aforementioned targets, and will constitute a raid operation the enemy has never faced before, placing the resistance in a position to reorganize subsequent raid rounds, with a serious possibility of launching a major ground operation deep into the occupied north.
The initial result will be massive destruction affecting the enemy’s military, civilian, and strategic infrastructure, with the displacement of more than one and a half million settlers, in a state of chaos that does not even resemble that seen in the settlements of the Gaza envelope on the morning of October 7.
All this, while we are talking about an operation whose geographical scope is still in the northern third of the occupation entity. However, no one can delve into the mind of the resistance to determine whether the stat will be exclusively from the north or potentially from another location, where the entity’s nerve center lies. Everyone knows, at least the enemy, that the resistance conducts comprehensive informational surveys of the entire occupation entity, and this surveillance is conducted continuously, achieving significant results for the ongoing bombardments by rockets or drones, which belong to a generation that dates back at least a decade.
translated by RNN
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/11/preliminary-training-ten-thousand-projectiles-cripple-a-third-of-the-entity/
#alAqsaFlood #guerrilla #hezbollah #lebanon #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/hezbollah.cleaned.jpeg

2024-07-11 01:25:24

The Martyr Bedran Gundikremo Revenge Unit Command made a statement regarding the two separate actions they carried out against the Turkish army attempting to invade Southern Kurdistan.
Providing details of the actions, the Revenge Unit said: “On the night of 9 July 2024 at 21:00, we hit a truck of the treacherous invading Turkish state, the murderer of our people, carrying war equipment to invade Southern Kurdistan, near the Kanê village of Amediyê. In this action, the truck caught fire and was destroyed and the soldier driving the truck was seriously wounded. On 10 July 2024 at 13:00, we hit a military vehicle of the invading Turkish army moving on the Bamernê road. The military vehicle was destroyed.”
“The invading Turkish army, which is trying to occupy our country Kurdistan, will be our target wherever it is, and will not be spared from receiving deadly blows. These actions were carried out as revenge for the Turkish state’s bombing and burning of villages in Southern Kurdistan,” the statement underlined.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/11/revenge-unit-hits-turkish-invaders-in-amediye-and-bamerne/
#kurdistan #pkk #revengeUnit #turkey #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pkk.cleaned-1.jpg

2024-07-10 05:06:44

Despite intense occupation airstrikes carpet bombing the Tell al-Hawa neighborhood since Monday afternoon, the Palestinian Resistance continued to target advancing occupation vehicles systematically.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that their fighters successfully detonated a locally manufactured anti-personnel explosive device called Ra’diya against an occupation foot patrol unit consisting of six soldiers in the southwestern axis of Tell al-Hawa. Reportedly, the operation killed and injured all members of the unit.
They also targeted an occupation military jeep with an explosive device in the Shalehat area west of Tell al-Hawa, and another military jeep with a Yassin 105 shell on Industry Street.
Using an explosively formed penetrator (EFP) of the Shawaz-3 type, al-Qassam fighters targeted an occupation armored personnel carrier at the 17th Circle west of Tell al-Hawa, as well as an occupation military-grade D9 bulldozer on Rashid Street.
Additionally, they targeted a Merkava 4 tank with a pre-prepared ground explosive device in the advancing axis of Tell al-Hawa.
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, announced the detonation of two Zionist military vehicles using pre-planted ground explosives in the advancing axis of Tell al-Hawa.
They also shelled Zionistg occupation forces’ gatherings with mortar shells in the advancing axis of Tell al-Hawa southwest of Gaza City.
Using appropriate and diverse weaponry, the al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, similarly, stated that their fighters repelled occupation forces attempting to advance in the Tell al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City.
In turn, Zionist media reported four “difficult” security situations faced by the occupation forces on Monday in the Tell al-Hawa area south of Gaza City.##
Netzarim and Nahal Oz under fireUsing locally-produced Rajoum 114 mm rocket artillery shells, the al-Qassam Brigades targeted occupation forces positioned along the Netzarim Axis.
Also along the Netzarim Axis, the al-Quds Brigades targeted an occupation’s command center with mortar shells.
Al-Qassam Brigades released footage of their fighters targeting occupation soldiers’ positions with rockets.
Following that, Zionist local media reported brief landings of military helicopters along the Netzarim Axis, presumably to evacuate killed or injured occupation soldiers. In turn, other Zionist media outlets stated at a later time that three occupation soldiers were injured in Gaza confrontations and were transported to Zionist hospitals within occupied Palestine.
Furthermore, the al-Quds Brigades, in collaboration with the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, announced the bombardment of the occupation’s operations command headquarters in the Nahal Oz military site east of Gaza with a barrage of 107mm rocket artillery shells.
Similarly, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced targeting the site with a barrage of 107mm rocket artillery shells.
Al-Quds Brigades also published scenes of the bombardment of the occupation forces’ operations command center in the al-Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Likewise, the al-Mujahideen Brigades published footage of targeting of occupation forces gatherings in al-Shujaiya neighborhood with heavy-caliber mortar shells and regular 60-caliber shells.##
Haseb 111 missile manufactured over past nine monthsIn a significant and major achievement, the al-Mujahideen Brigades announced the deployment of the Haseb 111 missile, noting it was developed during the ongoing Zionist-led genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It is among the greatest achievements reached throughout Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Accompanying the announcement was the phrase “We have prepared Haseb as a harbinger of your death,” along with the video clip they released.
Meanwhile, the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades published scenes of shelling the occupation’s Zakim military site northwest of Beit Lahia in collaboration with the Martyr Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades.##
Hezbollah releases second series of Hoopoe drone footageThe Military Media of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah on Tuesday broadcast the second episode of the Hoopoe series, featuring high-resolution aerial reconnaissance footage of intelligence bases, command centers, and camps belonging to the occupation forces in the occupied Syrian Golan.
The 10-minute video showcased footage of six strategic electronic reconnaissance sites in the occupied Syrian Golan; the western and eastern Shlagim sites, the Astra site, the Yisraeli site, the Avital site, and the Tel Fares site.
According to the information provided in the video, these Zionist sites are tasked with espionage, guidance, long-range monitoring, and electronic attacks involving jamming and deception.
Moreover, the sites contain key nodes for communications and data exchange and house forces from the 8200 and 9900 units, as well as the electronic warfare unit.
Additionally, the six occupation sites include forces responsible for securing the bases, their equipment, and the border area.
It is noteworthy that the intelligence and early warning bases filmed by Hezbollah’s Hoopoe are referred to as “the eyes of the state of ‘Israel,'” and the footage released included multiple scans of these sites.
Additionally, the footage revealed command centers and camps belonging to the occupation military:<li>Habushit and Ma’aleh Golan barracks, along with newly established points during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood</li><li>Yoav barracks, which includes an artillery and missile battalion operating on the al-Jalil and Golan fronts</li><li>Southern Revaya barracks, which includes the 71st Armored Battalion headquarters in the 188th Brigade</li><li>Northern Revaya barracks, which includes the 74th Armored Battalion headquarters in the 188th Brigade</li><li>Alika barracks, which includes the main headquarters of the 188th Armored Brigade</li><li>Kirin barracks, which includes a camp for ground units training in the Golan fields</li><li>Southern Gamla barracks, which includes a training and readiness camp for ground forces the size of a battalion and a base for the 77th Armored Battalion</li><li>Keila camp, which includes a primary training base for regional command and a key facility for troops training in the Golan training camp</li><li>Zaura artillery position, which includes a permanent artillery battery site belonging to the 769th Brigade</li><li>Odem artillery position, which includes another permanent artillery battery site belonging to the 810th Brigade</li><li>Odem border site, which includes a Raz artillery radar and a three-dimensional air radar for aerial management</li><li>Sha’al headquarters, the alternative command post for the 210th Regional Division</li><li>Nafah base, which serves as the headquarters for the 210th Regional Division and its 366th Communications Battalion</li><li>Southern Keila barracks</li><li>Yarden barracks</li><li>Nafah base</li><li>Tsnobar base</li><li>Katsavya barracks</li><li>Ofek airport</li><li>Ofek camp</li>
The video also showcased new points and roads for Zionist forces outside the aforementioned sites, established during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, along with fortified shelters for soldiers.
Experts have previously explained that the missile illustrated next to the target card has guiding fins at its front, symbolizing a precise missile, which is a message Hezbollah intended to convey in the video.
Hezbollah’s video concluded with the word “to be continued,” followed by additional aerial reconnaissance footage from Safed and Tabarayya, to be featured in the next episode of the series.
This episode of the Hoopoe follows the first nine-minute-and-a-half episode, titled “This is what the Hoopoe came back with,” in which the Military Media of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon released footage showing its reconnaissance drones flying over swathes of occupied Palestinian land, including Kiryat Shmona, Nahariya, Safad, Karmiel, Afula, all the way to Haifa and its port.
The published footage included intelligence about occupation sites inside occupied Palestine and clearly showed that the drone arrived at the port of Haifa intact. Hezbollah’s drones brought back footage and information about sensitive sites they captured over Haifa starting with the port itself to oil refineries and military factories, not to mention the locations of military battleships and important economic hubs in the port.
Five days later, Hezbollah released a video showing vital Zionist targets only known to the occupation’s security apparatus, suggesting that these sites would be targeted in case of a war against Lebanon.
The video included snippets of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speech, in which he warned the occupation that the Resistance would fight with no restraints or limits if war were imposed on Lebanon.
The entity will regret waging war on Lebanon, he said.
The HaKirya complex, which includes the headquarters of the Ministry of Security, the general staff, and many of the senior military staff leaders, was also shown.
In other news, Hezbollah mourned the martyrdom of Yasser Nimer Karnabash, callsign “Amin”, on the path of al-Quds, in a Zionist assassination. He was born in 1970 in the town of Zawtar in southern Lebanon.
As a response, Hezbollah fired a rocket volley at the command headquarters of the Golan Division 210 at the Nafah base with tens of Katyusha rockets.
Upon the attack, Zionist media reported that a car was directly hit in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Earlier, Zionist media revealed that at least 40 rockets rained on the occupied Golan, causing casualties. Helicopters were summoned to evacuate the wounded as a result of the rocket volley fired at the Shael area, north of the occupied Golan. Moreover, the ‘Israeli’ Broadcasting Authority also reported that more than eight fires broke out in open areas.
In turn, the Golan Regional Council said that the occupation army issued instructions to all settlers in the northern occupied Golan, asking them to stay near fortified shelters and avoid gatherings until further notice.##
Operations OverviewThe response came in a series of operations that Hezbollah carries out daily, in support of the steadfast people of Palestine and in defense of the South of Lebanon, its villages, towns, and civilians, against Israeli aggression.
So far, Hezbollah carried out four operations across the Palestinian-Lebanese border, which come as follows:
1. At 12:56 p.m., the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the al-Marj military site with artillery shells, hitting it directly.
2. At 3:05 p.m., the Islamic Resistance fighters the newly installed surveillance equipment mounted on a crane at the Hadab Yarin site with a guided missile, hitting it directly, leading to its destruction and causing a fire.
3. In response to the Zionist attacks against the steadfast southern Lebanese villages and safe houses, especially in the town of Rab al-Thalathin, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a building used by enemy soldiers in the al-Manara settlement with appropriate weapons, hitting it directly.
4. In response to the attack and assassination carried out in al-Sabboura on Damascus-Beirut Road, the Islamic Resistance fighters bombarded in several batches the command headquarters of the Golan Division 210 at the Nafah base with tens of Katyusha rockets.##
Yemen continues resistance operationsThe spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) carried out three operations targeting American and Zionist-affiliated and bound ships in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden, achieving direct hits.
In the Arabian Sea, the American vessel, Maersk Sentosa, was targeted in a joint operation between the naval and missile forces, using several ballistic missiles and drones, achieving direct hits.
Also in the Arabian Sea, the Marthopolis ship was targeted by the UAV force with several drones, confirming a direct hit. The operation came after the ship violated the maritime ban the Yemeni Resistance imposed on ships heading to occupied Palestinian ports.
In the Gulf of Aden, the Yemeni UAV force targeted the Zionist MSC Patnaree ship, with several drones, confirming direct hits.
Saree stated that these operations came to champion the Palestinian Resistance in solidarity with the people of Palestine and in response to the US-UK aggression against Yemen.
He further affirmed the continued commitment of the Yemeni Armed Forces to counter Zionist maritime activity in the region of operations, until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.##
YAF-Iraqi cooperation pounds EilatOn Monday, Saree announced that the YAF conducted a joint operation with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, hitting a vital target in Umm al-Rashrash [Eilat].
Saree confirmed that the operation was “carried out with several drones and successfully achieved its goals.”
Later on, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq issued a statement announcing the operation on its part.
He reiterated that joint operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance will continue, in support of the Palestinian people until the aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and the siege is lifted.
It is noteworthy that days ago, Saree announced that the YAF conducted another joint operation with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, targeting a vital target in Haifa with cruise missiles.
Saree explained that the operation was carried out using several cruise missiles, stressing its success.##
Iraqi Resistance strikes vital targetThe Islamic Resistance in Iraq struck a vital Zionist target in the occupied city of Haifa using a drone.
In its statement, the Iraqi Resistance affirmed that this operation is part of its ongoing approach to resist the occupation and support Gaza, in response to the occupier’s massacres in the Gaza Strip.
The Resistance also reiterated their commitment to striking “the enemy’s strongholds.”
This comes a mere two hours after the resistance also published footage of a drone being launched towards a vital target in Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat), in the south of occupied Palestine, which it announced at dawn today.
Later on Wednesday, the Iraqi Resistance’s Military Media announced that the Resistance fired an unspecified number of drones at the Orot Rabin Power Plant, in Hadera, on the coast of occupied Palestine.
The plant is the largest power station operated by the occupation’s government, providing the settler-colonial entity with around 2.59 GW of electricity.
Iraqi Resistance fighters have also been conducting joint operations with the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF). The spokesman for the YAF, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced on Monday that YAF conducted a joint operation with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance.
Saree confirmed that the operation was “carried out with several drones and successfully achieved its goals.”
Later on, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq issued a statement announcing the operation on its part.
He reiterated that joint operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance will continue in support of the Palestinian people until the aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and the siege is lifted.
It is noteworthy that days ago, Saree announced that YAF conducted a joint operation with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance, targeting a vital target in Haifa with cruise missiles.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/10/palestinian-resistance-reveal-new-missile-hezbollah-releases-new-drone-footage/
#ansarallah #gaza #guerrilla #hamas #hezbollah #lebanon #palestine #pij #resistance #westAsia #yemen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/resistance.cleaned.png

2024-07-10 04:45:56

As pro-Palestinian sentiment rises across the so-called collective West, so too does a patronising pacifist take that condemns Palestinian resistance and ignores the necessity of armed struggle. This perspective is at best rooted in a lack of education on the nature of this conflict and other similar struggles against settler colonialism and apartheid.
The mainstream view accepted across the collective West today glorifies the likes of Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. On the face of things, this alone would infer some kind of general solidarity among Westerns against the horrors of racism, colonialism and segregation. Yet, the ideas circulated about these individuals and their struggles are often completely incorrect representations, ultimately rooting the “good guys” of history into a pacifist and peaceful set of individuals who were willing to forgive and collaborate with their oppressors.
This idea, that subjugated indigenous and Global South populations, or more generally, people of color, should take a liberal pacifist approach to resisting their oppressors is therefore embedded in Western collective consciousness, predicated on such concepts that are attributed to the above mentioned people. As this philosophical moral context underpins the limits of Western support for liberation struggles and imbeds itself in the minds of those currently appalled at the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it is important to undo this rather pernicious whitewashing of history and understand the damage it can do to grass-roots organising against racist projects.##
Pacifying ChangeWhile the three noted historical figures are complex individuals, covering their ideas in their entirety is far too large of a task for a single article. Yet, the misconceptions deliberately spread about Gandhi, MLK, and Mandela must be addressed for the purpose of undoing the relevant propaganda.
Beginning with Mahatma Gandhi, the idea surrounding his actions that present him as the king of peace are wholly inaccurate to say the least. Although he is known for his philosophy on nonviolence, his tactics were actually by their nature designed to invite violence and rely on the violent tendencies of the oppressor. If we are to be accurate, the Gandhi tactic is to endure the violence of the oppressor and to even have peaceful demonstrators die, or be seriously injured in considerable numbers, in order to demonstrate the inequality and injustice that a group is experiencing. In many ways it is a suicidal philosophy on some levels, with the goal being to appeal to the good will of the masses, who will ideally witness the violence of the oppressor and force through change.
MLK was nothing like Gandhi, despite the attempts to portray him as such. Martin Luther King Jr also did not count out the use of force as a means of self-defense. Common portrayals of MLK have him pitted as the “turn the other cheek” figure, opposed to Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary”, yet this is a simplistic and rather inaccurate comparison that doesn’t carry through. Yes, MLK was indeed an advocate for non-violent forms of struggle and is known best for his speeches calling for equality, but he was not against the use of force under all circumstances. People often forget that the US government played a role in his assassination.
Then we have Nelson Mandela, who is depicted as the man of compromise that overlooked the horrors of Apartheid and made peace with his oppressors. To begin with, people often forget that Nelson Mandela was labeled by the US and UK as a terrorist, which was based upon his involvement with the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was an early proponent of armed struggle against the Apartheid government in South Africa and the only reason he wasn’t further involved in violent resistance is due to his arrest, which occurred during the first few years that the ANC’s armed wing had been formed. In the course of the battle to end Apartheid, the ANC launched bombing attacks, received training and weapons from nations/groups throughout the Global South, including from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Although there is a lot more to be said about these central historical figures, in addition to the battle for civil rights in the United States, opposing British colonialism and abolishing Apartheid in South Africa, it is important to understand that violent resistance existed in all these struggles and is consistently undermined or entirely ignored. In some cases, more than others, armed struggle is more central, yet it is consistently a contributing factor. As Franz Fanon said Concerning Violence:
“The native knows all this, and laughs to himself every time he spots an allusion to the animal world in the other’s words. For he knows that he is not an animal; and it is precisely at the moment he realizes his humanity that he begins to sharpen the weapons with which he will secure its victory.
As soon as the native begins to pull on his moorings, and to cause anxiety to the settler, he is handed over to well-meaning souls who in cultural congresses point out to him the specificity and wealth of Western values. But every time Western values are mentioned they produce in the native a sort of stiffening or muscular lockjaw.”##
Condemning Hamas In Palestine And Bowing To The Oppressors Double-Standards
Since the beginning of the current war in Gaza, which began with the Hamas-led operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the pro-Israeli Western corporate media have sought to begin every conversation on the issue with a ritual condemnation of the Palestinian resistance.
For Israeli, or pro-Israeli guests on Western broadcast television, such a question is never posed to them. If they are challenged, it is always done within specifically engineered confines, conceptual borders of what the acceptable conversation should look like. Therefore, they are asked about the Israeli military “going too far”, “committing mistakes” or not holding itself to the relevant “standards”. Why is this the case? Because the point of entry into the discussion dictates how the issue is framed, which is that Palestinian resistance is terrorism and Zionist regime violence is acceptable at some level or another, the real question being the degree to which the Israelis have “the right” to use violence.
The events of October 7, which constituted a well-prepared military raid that managed to paralyze the Israeli Southern Command and in the process inflicted a total of 1139 deaths, around 400 of them against Israeli military and security personnel. The Zionist military also clearly inflicted a considerable amount of deaths on its own settler population that day, while Palestinians killed a large number too.
The number of non-combatants killed by Palestinians is not settled, nor has any report, published by the UN or any independent human rights group, managed to decipher which armed group or individual Palestinians that crossed the Gaza perimeter that day killed any specific number of the Israeli non-combatants. The Zionist entity will not let any independent investigation into the events that day be carried out and has taken care to ensure that the evidence is within its hands solely also. Why? Because the truth would shatter their narrative.
A narrative concocted to serve the interests of justifying genocide was spread far and wide. The US President, Joe Biden, has spoken about an ancient desire from Hamas fighters to kill Jewish people, while also spreading the Israeli claims about beheaded babies and a range of other ridiculous propaganda hoaxes. This is to present the Palestinians and their resistance fighters as savages, to turn them into monsters who are born different from the rest of humanity and are therefore deserving of a different method of examination.
To understand October 7, you have two ways of approaching it. The first is to assume that Palestinians are “ethnically predisposed to killing and violence, that they are barbarians from birth, or at a cultural level, and that their society is a lesser one to those of the collective West”, which includes the Israelis. The second is to view Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as a reaction to decades of violence, ethnic cleansing and Apartheid, using the historical context to explain a very human reaction to a regime which aims to destroy all aspirations for Palestinian Statehood and basic rights.
Once you have established your interpretation, the next step is to look at the situation strategically. Why? Because this enables us to analyze the methods with which the Palestinian people can actually attain their freedom. The whole reason that much of the world is even having a debate on the idea of Palestinian rights and Statehood is because of both Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Israeli genocidal reaction to it.
Prior to October 7, the Palestine question was not even a consideration in international politics, now it is the primary moral issue of this era. Meaning that the Hamas-led military campaign succeeded in not only inflicted the desired blow on the Israeli military and the seizure captives to exchange with what are now 21,000 Palestinian captives, but also at reviving the cause for Palestinian rights and Statehood.
The follow up question to this is often “but why don’t Hamas just lay down their weapons?” To begin with, the Israeli regime has expressed its intent to commit genocide and are currently carrying it out in Gaza and even in the event that a prisoner exchange deal is signed, the Israelis express their willingness to continue the war, not just until the “defeat of Hamas”, but until they can secure a situation under which Gaza will not be ruled by Palestinians.
On top of this, we have a historical example of what happens when the Palestinian resistance give up their weapons and flee. This exact scenario happened at the end of the 1982 war in Lebanon – during which around 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese were murdered – when the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) agreed to evacuate from Lebanon and put down their weapons. When the Palestinian resistance left, the Zionist regime occupied Southern Lebanon, there was nobody there to defend the Palestinian refugee camps, which led to some of the worst civilian massacres in the history of the entire conflict, most notably the Sabra and Shatila massacre which murdered 3,500 innocent people.
Knowing this, there are some Westerners who adhere to principles of the Left, who understand much of the context and still condemn Hamas, attacking them as a “right wing group”. This analysis is born of complete ignorance to Palestinian society, politics, culture and the nature of resistance movements historically. It is also often rooted in an uneducated or subconsciously orientalist approach to Islamic resistance groups. The dominant strand of resistance groups began emerging in the late 1970’s as Secular Arab Nationalist and Marxist groups had failed to achieve liberation, at this time there was also the birth of Islamic Republic of Iran. In the case of Iran, as a side note, much of the revolutionaries were actually Islamic Socialists and figures such as Ali Shariati had a great impact on their ideological approach, which is often written out of the history books.
The natural evolution of the resistance gave way to the Islamic groups which we all know today, while secular Arab nationalists and Marxists still continue to exist as part of the resistance bloc. For instance, the PFLP and DFLP for example are both Left wing Palestinian parties, whose armed wings are currently fighting alongside Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other Islamic groups. While the range of Palestinian parties that exist may vehemently disagree on social, political and economic issues, they all stand with each other in the Gaza Strip and fight under a unified ‘Joint Room’ of resistance that was formed by Hamas. The weapons in the hands of the Leftist groups in Palestine are supplied by Islamic parties, while the groups coexist in their shared struggle for national liberation. This reality of coexisting parties with diverging views existed throughout various resistance movements historically also.
If the idea that Islamic values are so abhorrent and parties which adhere to them are to be considered right wing undesirables, then apply this to Nat Turner or MLK’s Christian ideologies also, on which modern Western Leftists would vehemently disagree with when it comes to various issues. Not everyone, or every group, in a liberation movement has to be a perfect representation of your own values and there is always room for growth. There is a reason why the majority of Palestinians and the Arab World support the armed resistance of Hamas. This isn’t an election for local candidates in a Western nation, this is a national liberation struggle and the difference between being ethnically cleansed/exterminated or attaining freedom.
To conclude, if you genuinely want Palestinians to attain their rights and a State, violence is not a hypothetical, it is an everyday reality and even under the Fourth Geneva convention they have the right to violently resist. When scores of civilians are being slaughtered every single day, armed resistance is not a choice. Hamas happens to be the strongest group that leads the resistance, so when you are asked to condemn them, you are being asked to condemn Palestinian resistance and the question actually has nothing to do with Hamas and its political stances.
Most of those asking this question in the first place couldn’t tell you the most basic facts about Hamas. There is never an actual discussion about their ideology, just a caricature of the “stereotypical savage” that they use to portray the Palestinian people.
source: [Al Mayadeen](https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/what-westerners-must-understand-about-the-necessity-of-pales )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/10/what-westerners-must-understand-about-the-necessity-of-palestinian-armed-struggle/
#alAqsaFlood #armedStruggle #gaza #hamas #palestine #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/gaza.cleaned-1.jpeg

2024-07-10 04:36:52

#####
The authors, through a silent journey backwards, without explicit references to the great and small moments of the resistance, try to convey the reasons why the Zapatista uprising did not remain a utopia.In the early nineties, while capitalism in our European geographies appeared as a panacea, commodification and consumption as the only models of life, while resistances (from the left and not only from the left) seemed less convincing and inspiring, the Zapatista movement appeared in Chiapas, men and women who demanded the radical, the obvious: “everything for everyone.” They spoke of the social injustice that went by the name of neoliberalism and, at the same time, through their “intergalactic” appeals, asked us to unite to resist the common enemy, something they continue to do to this day.
It would have been difficult to foresee back then that 30 years after the uprising and 40 years since the founding of the EZLN, that the Zapatistas could still be there, fighting with persistence, creativity and dignity against capitalism. The “inevitable” fatigue, demobilization or regression that follows any medium or long-term confrontational collective action is not the case in their case. On the contrary, they continue with determination, collective responsibility and organization planning for seven generations ahead. It is very interesting to understand why this deterministic prediction of the weakening, erosion and eventual disappearance of their movement – so expected by all the administrations in Mexico – has not been borne out for a single moment over the years.
We will try, through a silent journey backwards, without explicit references to the great and small moments of their resistance (after all, there are many) – without references to heroes and heroines – to try to grasp the reasons why the Zapatista uprising did not remain a utopia. That is to say, to talk about what we have learned from them, which explains to a great extent the reasons for their resistance and our solidarity with their struggle and with what was born after the uprising of January 1, 1994. An uprising that seemed unthinkable then, as every uprising seems unthinkable today.
Following the traces of their path, their words, their collective action and the organization of their autonomy over the years, as they reach us – filtered, almost inevitably, through our own political vision and the ways in which we resist the barbarism of capitalism – we feel above all the need to express our deep gratitude for what we have learned from them. They are for us a constant source of inspiration and, at the same time, a 30-year challenge to join them in the common struggle against capitalist barbarism. Because we consider ourselves and are part of “that collective heart” that fights against exploitation, repression, looting and contempt for the humble.
From this starting point we locate five key points, five reasons why the Zapatista movement continues to be so alive and so valid: the cosmovision, the practice, the ways, the word and the self-criticism of the communities. These keys are decisive in our own struggles. Despite our different ways of speaking and resisting, despite our different histories, their calls – poetic and playful – have opened channels of communication over the years, so that their thinking feeds ours, their action penetrates ours, their collective responsibility and resistance provokes our inertia, and their discourse breaks the certainties and rigor of our political discourse.
**Worldview**
Their cosmovision has life, nature and humanity as its priority, and is realized through the collective step of small polyglot communities. In the face of destructive capitalism that turns everything into merchandise – people, land, water, mountains – in search of the greatest profit here and now, the Zapatista communities fight for a balanced coexistence of man and nature, giving another dimension to time and, ultimately, to life itself. This collective step is not limited to the liberated lands of Chiapas, but gives space to the indigenous peoples of Mexico through the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), to defend their struggle against agro-industrial, mining, energy or tourist accumulation on their lands throughout Mexico. A difficult but necessary struggle in the face of the aggressive megaprojects of the rulers and their companies – the Mayan train, for example – as occurs in our geography and in all the geographies that struggle against mining, the diversion of rivers, wind turbines, the destruction of forests, etcetera.
**Autonomy**
Autonomy in practice, a product of historical experiences and collective political imagination, has demonstrated for thirty years that when peoples do not follow party mechanisms, do not accept the State as the great benefactor, nor embrace the unique truth of God and the Patriarch, they do not necessarily end up in resignation and disappearance. On the contrary, in the Zapatista communities the conditions for a dignified life are built day by day, autonomy is strengthened through collective work and co-responsibility, and community ties are strengthened as a way of life based on the care and cultivation of the land.
The creation of the Caracoles and the Good Government Councils in 2003, in addition to the autonomous structures of health, education, justice, the already existing agricultural cooperatives, emerged from dialogic processes, as well as the new form of the commons, the “Land without papers.” The collective sharing and tending of lands recovered by Zapatista peoples together with non-Zapatista peoples was recently born out of the same processes. In these structures of Zapatista autonomy everyone can work in education for a time, then on the land, then in the hospital, according to needs, community values and collective goals, rather than self gain. Within these interdependent frameworks of principles, rules, practices and institutions, independent of the state as learning processes, personal and social action takes on meaning and value to the extent that they ensure life today and tomorrow.
Women play an important role in sustaining autonomous structures. The strengthening of women’s political-social action, closely linked to the construction of autonomy, is conquered in practice with and against the traditions of indigenous peoples and is expressed through an experienced political discourse. “Without women, this struggle would not be for the people but for men,” they stress, considering that changes in women’s lives are not a secondary element of their struggle. Evidently, it involves confrontations with the conservative ideas and patriarchal morals of men – fathers, husbands, partners – rooted in the indigenous communities for more than 500 years. The companionship, collective work and courage of the women manage to break down the triple slavery of class, race and gender in which they live and create one of the few places in the world where no femicide has been recorded for many years. A place where women can feel happy and safe. The importance of the Zapatista women’s struggle becomes even greater if we take into account that Mexico registers an average of ten femicides a day, that is, seven out of ten women in the country have suffered violence at least once in their lives.
**Ways of doing**
The Zapatista ways, since their emergence, and especially what followed January 1, 1994, reversed much of what we had known until then. Precisely because the insurrection and the Zapatista movement in general managed to bring together elements that were contrary or absent in the history of struggles. It brought to the forefront ways of thinking, expressing and organizing the armed struggle, the construction of autonomy and the articulation between the two. This is very different from previous revolutionary historical paradigms, they are forms that are firmly oriented towards life and not towards a politics of death.
The Zapatista insurrection is carried out by a guerrilla movement that “abhors bullets,” does not seek death and speaks tenderly of its dead in time, because, as they have told us in several of their communiqués, the dead have accompanied their steps since the first years of their struggle (1984-1994) when the time and form of the insurrection were still being prepared. The Zapatistas often refer to the importance that memory has for them, underlining that the worst possible death is death by forgetting. This endearing relationship, “conversation” and learning with the dead as part of collective organizational planning in the present was hitherto absent from the history of various movements around the world. Until its appearance, the dead heroes of past uprisings were vindicated through future struggles, the resistances of the present must – among other things – pay homage to the struggles of ancestors, but always in different historical times.
Until then, the idea dominated that the more heroes and heroines an insurrectionist struggle had, the more important and great it would seem. So, a guerrilla whose soldiers carry wooden weapons, identify themselves as “shadows of a tender rage” who “fight for the privilege of being a seed under the earth” and “march dancing,” breaks the insurrectionist norms as they have historically been configured in the struggles of those from below. Much more, it breaks with militant and harsh stereotypes when the army waits for entire polyglot communities – women, men, children – to decide whether or not to go to war, when it proceeds by “listening and commanding by obeying.” All of the above is aptly summarized in the sign at the entrance to Oventic: “You are in Zapatista territory. Here the people command and the government obeys.”
**Their word through communiqués**
The word of their communiqués and their appeals, as another way of seeing things, is essential in their struggle. It does not “adorn” their actions, but is an intrinsic element of their way of doing politics. The “poetics of insurrection” not in literary, but primarily philosophical terms, does not detract from the role of organization and responsibility, it does not take people away from organized struggle. It is a language that sharpens in action, and this in turn sharpens action. It is a discourse that opens perspectives in a suffocatingly closed world, which affects the gaze of those at the bottom wherever they are. A typical example is that where we used to speak of time and space we now refer to “calendars and geographies”. The change seems minimal, but it is significant if we take into account that the calendar is a discourse about time and geographies are a writing (discourse) about space that drives movements to unite “and what is from here and what is from there cease to be from here and there, and become, at last, a bridge that defies calendars and geographies.”
**Self-criticism**
It is difficult to imagine the movements of our geography entering into a process of self-criticism through which they can synthesize and create something new without falling into a process of dismantling and de-massification. Perhaps this element, so rare or so non-existent in our own resistances, is for us what is most necessary. Our movement initiatives tend to get lost in silence, unlike the silences and reflections of the Zapatistas who “fervently wish to become the future.” Very early on, a few days after the uprising, the Zapatistas spoke of errors on the part of the EZLN, of “errors and excesses of the compañeros in the insurgent territories. Similarly, both immediately after the creation of the Good Government Councils (2003) and 20 years later (2023), the mistakes and failures that almost inevitably occur “when entire peoples learn to govern” are recognized, when a school is built to understand how to govern, which in the long run will give birth to a new way of doing politics. This process of courageous self-criticism has recently led to the dissolution of the Good Government Boards and the creation of “the commons” and “non-property.”
All of the above shows us why the rebellion did not remain a utopia, even if “whatever is missing is missing.” In the dark times we live in, where resistance is discouraged, wars multiply and capitalism becomes more destructive than ever, the Zapatista autonomous communities are an oasis, a hope and a challenge for us to aspire to meet.
[Original text by Geppaki Anastasia and Papazoglou Sokratis, members of the Greek Collective “Calendario Zapatista” in *El Salto*, July 7th, 2024.](https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ezln/30-40-anos-zapatismo-aprendiendo-una-rebelion-no-se-quedo-utopia )
Photos by Calendario Zapatista.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/10/thirty-and-forty-years-of-zapatismo-learning-from-a-rebellion-that-did-not-stay-a-utopia/
#chiapas #mexico #northAmerica #zapatista
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/zapatista.cleaned-e1720578978829.jpg

2024-07-10 04:31:51

On Thursday, June 27 at the UPL, barricades were built, banners and flyers were deployed, and clashes armed against the presence of COP *(Carabineros, Riot Cops)*, in the context of commemoration for the defense of the Earth against ecocidal extractivism. In this direct action in the port, it was also referred to Felipe Ríos, who currently lives the repression and kidnapping of the Social-Democratic Police State. It was read in flyers and banners: *«Felipe Ríos presente.* *All to the streets »*,*« Traffickers and Pacos the same pigs.* *Take your weapon, they know that our bullets are aimed at their faces, “” All subversives to the street “and” the promised land is nothing more than subjected land.* *Autonomy and freedom ».*
*Source: [Informativo Anarquista](https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/08/chile-salida-incendiaria-en-la-universidad-de-playa-ancha-por-la-tierra-y-contra-el-capital/ )*
source: [Dark Nights](http://darknights.noblogs.org )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/10/chile-incendiary-outing-at-universidad-de-playa-ancha-for-earth-and-against-capital-july-8-2024/
#anarchism #chile #insurrection #resistance #southAmerica
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile2.cleaned.jpg
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile1.cleaned.jpg

2024-07-10 04:28:53

As **Informativo Anarquista**, we aim to provide a brief update on recent events unfolding since the early hours of July 6, prior to the commemoration of the late compañera Luisa Toledo.
– Police conducted a series of raids on Radio Villa Francia, Comedor Popular Luisa Toledo, and multiple residences across various communes including Estación Central, Macul, Santiago Centro, La Granja, Cerrillos, and Maipú.
– During the operations, law enforcement uncovered artisanal and industrial weapons such as pistols, revolvers, a rifle, and a submachine gun alongside ammunition at one location.
– An industrial explosive intended for mining was discovered at another residence.
– Moreover, a homemade grenade containing black powder and a tear gas bomb were seized during a separate raid.
Subsequent to these events, on the afternoon of July 6, several individuals were formally charged. As of July 8, one person remains hospitalized. Of the detained individuals, one has been placed in preventive detention, two are under nighttime house arrest, nine have been deemed unlawfully detained, and one is awaiting an appeal.
Today, July 8, the preventive detention of a comrade and the house arrest of two others have been confirmed. The nine comrades previously held unlawfully are still awaiting a decision until July 9. Meanwhile, the comrade awaiting appeal has been placed under house arrest upon payment of bail. However, the Southern Prosecutor’s Office has lodged an appeal, which the Court of Appeals is set to deliberate on Wednesday, July 9. Furthermore, the hospitalized individual has been formally charged and placed in preventive detention.
These raids follow an investigation stemming from the incursion involving an explosive device placed in a Nissan car company in December 2023 and the deployment of a “sticky bomb” on a police vehicle during the March 29 skirmishes, coinciding with Día del Joven Combatiente (Day of the Combatant Youth).
**Solidarity with those currently detained or imprisoned.**
*Source: [Informativo Anarquista](https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/09/chile-allanamientos-por-investigacion-sobre-artefactos-explosivos/ )*
Source: [darknights.noblogs.org](http://darknights.noblogs.org )
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/10/chile-raids-for-explosive-device-investigation/
#anarchism #chile #repression #southAmerica
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/chile.cleaned.png

2024-07-10 04:23:20

**Popular Front**
—
The Popular Front praises the refusal of the tribes and families of the Gaza Strip to agree with the occupation’s plans to manage the Strip.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the bold and patriotic stance shown by the Palestinian tribes and families in the Gaza Strip by refusing to agree with the occupation’s plans regarding the management of the Strip. Over the years of occupation, the Gaza Strip remained impenetrable, with all its components united against all attempts by the zionist occupation to attack its identity and sovereignty, refusing to deal with the occupation or participate in any zionist plans to manage the Strip.
This courageous stance reflects the depth of national awareness and the serious popular commitment to resist all attempts by the occupation aimed at creating a puppet civil administration in the Gaza Strip. It also confirms that the Palestinian tribes and families have never abandoned their national principles and values, but rather continued their struggle to preserve their identity and independence, ignoring all zionist attempts to impose a civil administration.
The Front reaffirms that the Palestinian people are the ones who will decide the future of the Gaza Strip, and any administration of the Gaza Strip must be national, formed by a purely national decision of its loyal people and with their consensus.
We emphasize that all attempts by the occupation to impose its vision in Gaza or bring in a puppet authority or administration will fail in the face of the resistance, will, and awareness of our Palestinian people, who will continue to struggle for their freedom, independence and dignity.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
July 7, 2024
**Popular Front – General Command**
—
The Popular Front – General Command praises the authentic national stance of tribes and families and their rejection of collaboration with the occupation and its schemes.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command praises the honorable national stance of the Palestinian tribes and families in the Gaza Strip, rejecting any cooperation or collaboration with the “israeli” occupation and its schemes regarding the administration of the Gaza Strip.
The stance expressed by the tribes and families is an extension of a long history of resistance and opposition to all attempts by the occupation and its malicious plans. It is an authentic position that reflects the awareness and embrace of our people for the resistance, and a rejection of all forms of diversion from confronting the occupier, their treachery, and their malice.
We, in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, while praising this genuine stance, assure the cowardly occupier that all its schemes regarding the administration of Gaza will fail, will not find a way to succeed, and will be broken by the steadfastness of our resistance and our people, as well as the awareness and defiance of our Palestinian tribes and families.
The revolution continues until the liberation of the land and the people.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command
Media Office – Palestine
July 6, 2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/10/pflp-pflp-gc-praise-gaza-tribes-stance-against-collaboration/
#gaza #palestine #pflp #pflpGc #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/pflp.cleaned-3-1024x713.jpg

2024-07-09 03:53:53

Charlottesville, Va.
We are a collective of autonomous actors consisting of students and community members from the UVA encampment for Gaza. We write this letter as a letter of consolation for our comrades, to whom we owe an explanation for the presence of cops and admin when we arrived on April 30th. We should have said this much earlier. We offer it now for reference as we step into this struggle for the long haul. We offer it to bring you comfort when you have to make difficult decisions about those who you thought were comrades.
**1. No Peace Police**
UVA Apartheid Divest (UVAAD) management and SJP at UVA became aware of plans for the encampment because a Palestinian student (who was part of a trusted community organization that had been called upon for support) broke an oath of confidentiality in an attempt to stop an encampment from forming. UVAAD, without the consent of the over 40+ organizations in the coalition, and SJP released a statement in community information channels explicitly disaffiliating themselves, condemning the escalation, weaponizing the concept of safety, and ironically, spreading a lie that white people organized the encampment.
The plan to occupy our campus was devised by trusted networks of primarily Black and brown students and community members, including Palestinians, that have been cultivated through long histories of organizing for Palestine and against state violence and abandonment in Charlottesville. Plans for an encampment occurred autonomously outside of the UVAAD structure.
UVAAD and SJP leaders decided, solely on the basis that they were not privy to details, that the encampment organizers were unprepared to address the threat of administrators deploying cops (as had been observed happening at encampments across the nation). Rather than recognize that it would be University administrators and police who would endanger folks at the encampment, UVAAD, and SJP leaders explicitly discouraged other students, faculty, and community members from joining in the escalation for Palestine—blaming the encampment
organizers preemptively for the escalatory actions of state actors and painting the organizers as those creating an “unsafe” environment. Down to the moment when they saw their former comrades being brutalized and taken away by riot police, UVAAD students were de-escalating this protest by telling the administration they would negotiate on behalf of an encampment they were never a part of and by getting on megaphones and telling energized student protestors to leave the area instead of continuing pressure or protecting the encampment, again under the guise of being a “leader”.
Safety means disrupting state violence and risking comfort for the possibility of a universe where safety can truly exist. To be undisruptive is to wait for the state to turn its weapon toward you.
**2. Accomplices, not authorities: against any collaboration with the state or police**
Abolition of violence, like genocide and settler occupation, means never cooperating with those that wield state violence—police or university leadership, who are the ones to make the call for violence at every single student protest.
The actor who positioned himself as UVAAD de facto Coalition Chair built relationships with Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Marsh Pattie and UVA Chief of Police Tim Longo and told them of protest routes and action plans. When confronted with concerns about security culture and state surveillance/violence, this same leader and those who supported him disregarded those concerns, thereby placing themself beyond reproach. The students who put their bodies on the line and were arrested and disciplined by those same administrators were
told that students like this SJP leader were cooperative and that they are the example of the “acceptable” student organizer. This makes them the ineffective student organizer, as the administrator admitted UVA never felt pressure from their collaborator.
Students who support collaborating with admin pose one of the greatest security risks to our movement organizing. In a post-9/11 Amerikkka, the use of “safety” as an excuse for increased policing can not be a tactic we fall for anymore. Admin lies and will call upon riot cops to protect their interests. The police state’s and University administration’s interests are not and will never be aligned with our interests and goals for liberation. What the police state and the University of Virginia are interested in is de-escalating us and our movement—their interest is in upholding empire, draining you, and infiltrating us. Anyone who builds relationships with the administration and police is actively working for the state and thus betraying our liberation movements. Further, safety cannot exist in the same universe where genocide occurs, but we believe we keep us safe, and the cost of inaction is too high for Palestinians in Gaza who are actively being murdered and calling for us to continue escalation within empire. WHERE IS OUR FUCKING RAGE.
**3. Against Leadership: the movement must be self-activated, based on principles, and not dependent on personalities or politicians**
When the police arrive at an action, their first question is always, “Who’s in charge?” This is not because leadership is essential to organizing but because it presents a vulnerability—a target to be infiltrated, weaponized, something to make an example out of, and spread rot in the movement from the inside out.
The desire to turn toward leadership organizational structures reinforces the oppressive system of “representation” in which participants of an organization become complicit in the leader/follower power dynamic, failing to take initiative or think critically about their leader’s actions. In this movement, we must begin creating collective decision-making structures promoting autonomy and self-determination. We must cultivate practices of self-defense and confidence in our principles that hold would-be rulers at bay. We recognize this is new, scary, and a way of organizing that requires imagination and intentional practice.
Organizers involved in planning actions in support of Palestinian liberation at UVA this year have watched a white Jewish student organizer in SJP position himself as the UVAAD de facto Coalition Chair. His self-appointed leadership took on a white savior role and people fell into the dangerous comfort of complicity as he made unilateral decisions for the coalition of over 40 student organizations, largely organizations of students of color. His decisions actively put the movement and those aligned with the Palestinian resistance in danger of authoritarian violence (police and administrators, the same) through peace policing and engaging with administrators to plan direct actions.
When BIPOC students, who were carrying a bulk of labor in the coalition, raised concerns about organizational structure and collaborating with the University administration in direct conversations and UVAAD coalition meetings, the white savior met their concerns with belittlement, paternalism, and laughter. This white man invalidated the lived experiences of Black and brown students, community organizers, and mentors—who know intimately the violence of empire—by calling into question their motivations to escalate for Palestine. He felt
emboldened to do so partially because he was coopting and manipulating the sentiments of several Palestinian students in SJP at UVA. Despite having reasonable concerns for their personal security, these Palestinian students were ultimately conflating their identities with a political praxis/organizing experience and thus felt comfortable peace policing others who were ready to escalate for Palestine.
Let us be clear: we don’t need saviors, and we don’t need leaders. We cannot offer leaders to be targeted. Collectivity is integral to our movement. While this sentiment was originally the intent of BIPOC students who formed a coalition effort for Palestine, it ended with those same students being alienated from the organization by this white leader.
**Conclusion**
Undoubtedly, there will be continue to be students who would rather be collaborators with university admin and the state. However, we speak to those who understand the need for disruptive tactics in the fight for Palestine, who understand courageous escalation is the only way to move towards liberation. You do not need to feel wedded to a structure like the UVAAD coalition, just because it exists, or because you were part of it. We must be willing to burn and regenerate, to compost what hurt us and our movement. Do not be afraid to change your
formation.
Do not underestimate the networks of community on this Monacan land. Solidarity is our strength. Our commitment to our principles and this struggle is our strength. This is why we established a solidarity encampment, where self-determination and autonomous escalation were encouraged without collaboration with cops and the University administration. To be in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine at large, we must understand that the state will never willingly choose the side of Palestinian liberation. We feel the urgency for mobilization more than ever.
We call upon UVA community members to stay grounded in the need for escalation and endurance.
*Received by email.*
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/09/reflections-from-the-uva-encampment-in-charlottesville/
#Encampements #northAmerica #palestineSolidarity #studentProtests #virginia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/uva-1024x690.png

2024-06-21 05:37:32

On June 4th, The ‘Israeli’ Defense Ministry penned a deal to procure a third F-35 fighter jet squadron from the United States government. This deal totaling 3 billion dollars, financed by US military aid to ‘Israel,’ would bring the ‘Israeli’ Air Force’s F-35 fleet to 75 fighter jets. The F-35 considered to be the backbone of the ‘Israeli’ airforce, has played a critical role in the IOF’s assault on Gaza, escalating ‘Israels’ aim of the total destruction of Palestinian life within ‘Israeli’ occupied territories.
So on the morning of June 9th, we started a fire at the Portland offices of Parker-Hannifin located at 6458 N. Basin Ave in the Mocks Bottom industrial area. The mainstream media did not report on this fire. The full extent of the damage is unknown.
Parker-Hannifin was targeted because they are a key supplier of the F-35 program. Parker’s Fluid Systems Division was selected to design and develop the F-35’s fuel system and onboard inert gas generating system. Parker subsidiaries also supply parts for the jet’s engine subsystem and airframe.
In 2022 Parker-Hannifin purchased UK based military arms manufacturer Meggitt. Meggitt exports military components to repressive regimes across the world including supplying the air data systems for Israel’s Apache Helicopter gunships.
The state of ‘Israel’ relies heavily on weapons and materials shipped from the West to enact their genocidal policies in Gaza. As insurgents living within the so-called United States we are in a unique position to disrupt the supply chains and infrastructure that make this genocide possible.
In memory of Aaron Bushnell
some anarchists
source: https://rosecitycounterinfo.noblogs.org/2024/06/claim-of-responsibility-for-parker-hannifin-arson/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/21/claim-of-responsibility-for-parker-hannifin-arson/
#DirectAction #northAmerica #palestine #portland #resistance #Solidarity
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/freepalestine.cleaned-1.jpg

2024-06-20 06:28:34

*Communique*
With Allah’s power and strength, we announce the “Fury of the Free” operation in response to the aggression and incursion of the occupation forces in the city of Jenin. We affirm the continuation of our fight, and assure our people and the resisting masses that the morale of our fighters is at its best and the hand of our fighters will remain supreme in the field, Allah willing. What the enemy has seen is just a small part of what our fighters have prepared.
Our jihad continues and our weapons are open in all fields.
Monday, 19/June/2023
—
Note: As the Fury of the Free rages on, at least five Zionist soldiers are wounded. Resistance fighters target the Apache helicopters flying over the camp as the Red Star of David treats a number of wounded soldiers, including those burned inside the exploded vehicles.
The “Fury of the Free”, as it has been coined by Saraya Al-Quds – Jenin Brigade, has led to the complete withdrawal of occupation forces.
Occupation forces have withdrawn from Jenin humiliated, dragging countless damaged vehicles away from the city and losing others completely to the resistance.
The Palestinian resistance fought a valiant battle for over 10 hours, employing new explosives which made death traps out of the occupation’s precious armored vehicles. With scenes of valiance rarely seen in all of history, fighters advanced to press the invading soldiers and trap them in ambush after ambush. They faced infantry soldiers, APCs, and Apache helicopters, unwavering. The battle was the most intense since the 2002 Battle of Jenin. Footage proves that there are far more than the seven wounded soldiers the occupation has admitted to.
Five Palestinian martyrs ascended in this glorious battle, all five holding their heads high in defiance of the subjugation the occupation fails yet again to enforce upon them. Their bodies will be exalted with all pride and joy in the coming hours.
Glory to the martyrs.
Glory to the steadfast resistance.
Glory to the Fury of the Free.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/20/jenin-brigade-announces-the-fury-of-the-free-operation/
#alAqsaFlood #guerrilla #jenin #palestine #pij #resistance #westBank
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/jenin.cleaned.png

2024-06-19 06:31:34

All their claims that they have frozen the supply of weapons to the occupation and that they are seeking a ceasefire in Gaza are deceptive and misleading.
America’s desire to supply the occupation with dozens of F15 planes once again confirms that it is leading the genocide war.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirms that the deal for the zionist entity to obtain dozens of highly advanced F15 aircraft under pressure from war criminal Biden once again confirms that the American administration is indeed leading the genocide war against our Palestinian people.
The Front emphasizes that the approval of members of Congress from the Democratic Party to sign the aircraft sale deal worth 18 billion dollars under intense pressure from the Biden administration reveals that all claims by the American administration that it has frozen the decision to supply weapons to the occupation or its desire to cease fire in the Gaza Strip are misleading claims aimed at deceiving public opinion inside and outside America. They are meant to create the illusion that this administration is making efforts to cease fire and improve the humanitarian situation in the Strip for purely electoral calculations and within the framework of the unlimited support for the zionist entity and the endorsement of its war crimes.
The Front explained that all the facts on the ground, as well as the statements and behavior of the American administration since the beginning of the war until now, confirm that it is relentlessly continuing to support the zionist genocide war against the Strip and that all its lies and political maneuvers aim to improve its criminal image in front of the world after its true nature as a complicit entity supporting genocide has been exposed.
The Front calls on the free people in America to continue the angry mass movements within America to overthrow war criminal Biden in the upcoming elections and, on the other hand, to pressure to stop the zionist genocide war on the Strip and prevent the flow of weapons to the entity.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
June 18, 2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/19/supply-of-f15s-to-the-zionist-regime-confirm-us-complicity-in-genocide-pflp/
#alAqsaFlood #gaza #imperialism #palestine #pflp #resistance
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/pflp.cleaned-1-819x1024.jpeg

2024-06-18 23:17:52

> Everything stays in line so long as the personal neighborhoods of bosses and judges remain sanctuaries free from the discontents of the class society they maintain: a sanctuary we fully intend on breaking.” – FAI 2014
On June 6th and June 16th, two statist bureaucrats Eva-Michelle Spicer (owner of Spicer Green Jewelers) and Larry Crosby (Manager of Foundry Hotel) had their homes visited and vehicles disabled. This action was carried out in response to the above individuals affiliation with the proposal of, and advocacy for a “business improvement district” in so called Asheville, North Carolina. The proposal of this business improvement district seeks to position wealthy property owners in absolute positions of power to assist the state and capital in tightening their grip of social control by “cleansing” the streets of “antisocial-behaviors” and “anything deemed out of the ordinary” via increased surveillance and private security. By segregating deviant individuals from view and interaction with patrons, we clearly see this as a means of facilitating the upward stream of capital and furtherance of gentrification.
Opposition is possible, the state and capital are not omnipotent. The individuals seeking to implement the business improvement district have names and addresses, along with their state counterparts in local government. These adversaries are not theoretical, not symbolic, but material. We strike to exploit their vulnerabilities. We strike to spread cracks in the spectacle of social peace, firmly committed to widening and exasperating the polarization between class antagonisms. We strike… “because we are for the immediate destructive attack against structures, individuals, and organizations of Capital and the State.” – Alfredo Bonanno
The dormant also maintain the world order.
> The only way to dissipate fear and tyranny is to transfer it to the enemies back yard.”
– CCF FAI/IRF Imprisoned Members.
– Some Anarchists
*Received by email.*
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/18/vandalism-in-response-to-proposed-business-improvement-district-asheville-nc/
#anarchist #asheville #DirectAction #northAmerica
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/BMW-1-1.webp
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/BMW-2.webp

2024-06-17 04:21:30

phase two of the #Escalate movement heats up at u.c. berkeley with a construction site set on fire in broad daylight. this was done in retaliation for u.c.pd’s violent assaults on vulnerable student demonstrators and to punish the university of kkkalifornia system for supporting the genocidal zionist-Israel entity. this was an autonomous initiative in concert with the current WEEK OF ACTION currently underway: operation campus flood.
call it mutual aid
at one p.m. this a f t e r n o o n, we torched large portions of a construction site in the middle of u.c. berkeley campus. OPERATION CAMPS FLOOD on u.c.b. kkkampus has began with:
– successful looting of a u.c.b supply building of thousands of dollars,
– the fire bombing of a u.c.b cop car,
– the experimental burning of dry grass hills on the interior of campus
– the torching of a building on the perimeter of the campus
and now
– the arson of a construction site (mostly construction materials, wood pallets, and massive dry bush area
x this was done to further retaliate against the u.c.pd for attacking students at u.c.s.c. and u.c.l.a.
x this was done as an autonomous (self-directed act) in concert with anyone who shows out to create liberatoratory _destruction_ until the u.c. system completely divests from the genocidal “israeli” settler nation-building project
x this was done in solidarity with all displaced peoples who were removed from people’s park – criminalized survivors of genocide HERE
x this was done in retaliation for the u.c. berkeley administration’s attack on the houseless community of berkely – in retaliation for stealing the land called people’s park
lastly
♡ this was done on father’s day for all the palestinian fathers who have lost their children at the hands of the zionist and amerikkkan settler states
♡ this was done on father’s day for all the black and brown fathers who have lost their children at the hands of u.s.a. police forces in berkeley
glory to the martyrs
blessed is the flame
source: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/16/18867409.php
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/17/retaliation-arson-attack-on-construction-site-at-university-of-kkkalifornia-berkeley/
#alAqsaFlood #berkeley #california #Escalate #gaza #northAmerica #palestine #Solidarity
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/freepalestine.cleaned-e1718590810647.jpg

2024-06-14 06:27:26

UCLA STUDENTS WERE ATTACKED LAST NIGHT SO WE RETALIATED WITH A FIREBOMB ON UCB CAMPUS
NOT SURE WHAT BUILDING IT EVEN WAS. HONESTLY DONT REALLY CARE. EVERY SINGLE BUILDING ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS DESERVES TO BE INCINERATED FOLLOWING THE UC SYSTEM’S TREATMENT OF STUDENT PROTESTORS. LAST NIGHT THEY ATTACKED A YOUNG WOMAN STUDENT WHO WAS SPEAKING HER MIND ON A MEGAPHONE. SO WE UNLOADED A FIREBOMB ON THE SIDE OF A CAMPUS BUILDING. THE FLAME WAS BIG AND SPREAD ACROSS THE TREES AND BUSHES ON THE SIDE OF A BUILDING.
LONG LIVE THE STUDENT INTIFADA FOR PALESTINE LIBERATION
STOP THE GENOCIDE NOW
UC SYSTEM MUST DIVEST FROM ISRAEL OR FACE OUR WRATH OF REVENGE
BLESSED IS THE FLAME
source: indybay.org
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/14/ucla-students-were-attacked-last-night-so-we-retaliated-with-a-firebomb-on-ucb-campus/
#california #DirectAction #northAmerica #palestine #Solidarity #ucla #us
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/ucla.cleaned-1024x576.jpg

2024-06-13 05:52:20

Sirens wailed in northern occupied Palestine on Wednesday, as Hezbollah hammered Zionist targets in the largest rocket attack since the Lebanese resistance group opened up the front against the Zionist entity in support of Gaza on October 8, 2023.
Zionist media described Wednesday’s strikes as the largest in terms of rocket type and number since the beginning of the war.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah staged 19 operations, many of them in response to the assassination that killed a Hezbollah commander and other fighters and in the town of Jwayya. This was, by far, the most operations since the war started.
In the first strike, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Ruweisat Al-Qarn site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with rocket fire at 9:30, achieving a direct hit, Hezbollah Military Media announced in a statement.
Simultaneously, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Al-Ramtha site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba Hills with rocket weapons, achieving a direct hit, the second statement read.
The Islamic Resistance fighters then targeted Plasan military industries company specialized in armoring and protecting vehicles and machinery for the enemy army in Sasa settlement with guided missiles, inflicting a direct hit, the third statement read.
The fourth strike saw the Islamic Resistance fighters bombarding the command headquarters of the Northern Corps in Ein Zeitim base with tens of Katyusha rockets.
The Islamic Resistance fighters also bombarded the reserve command headquarters of the Northern Corps at the standby base of the Galilee Division and its warehouses in “Amiad” with tens of Katyusha rockets, the fifth statement read.
The sixth strike targeted the Air Operations Management on the northern direction at Meron base with tens of Katyusha rockets and artillery shells, according to Hezbollah Military Media.
The Islamic Resistance fighters then, at 10:30, targeted Al-Samaqa site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba with rocket weapons, inflicting direct hits, the seventh statement read.
Few minutes later, at 10:35, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Ramya site with artillery shells, according to the eighth statement.
The eighth strike concurred with the ninth one that saw the Islamic Resistance fighters targeting Al-Raheb site with artillery shells.
The Islamic Resistance fighters then targeted Zar’it barracks with artillery shells, the tenth statement read.
According to the eleventh statement, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 12:15 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the espionage equipment at Ruweisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shouba with appropriate weapons, inflicting direct hits.
The twelfth statement mentioned that, following surveillance and monitoring of the enemy forces at Al-Malkiya site, and upon detecting the movement of soldiers inside, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted them at 2:15 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, with artillery shells, achieving direct hits.
The thirteenth statement maintained that, in response to the assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy in the town of Jouwayya, resulting in civilian casualties, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Zionist enemy’s artillery bunkers in Khirbet Ma’ar and the deployment of soldiers in its vicinity with Katyusha rockets at 05:00 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
In response to the assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy in the town of Jouwayya resulting in civilian casualties, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 05:05 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Hadab Yarin site with Burkan rockets and directly hit it, according to the fourteenth statement.
The fifteenth statement underscored that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 05:30 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Hanita site with artillery shells and directly hit it.
The sixteenth statement affirmed that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 05:35 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Jal Al-Allam site with artillery shells and directly hit it.
The seventeenth statement underscored that, as part of the response to the assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy in the town of Jouwayya resulting in civilian casualties, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 05:40 pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Birket Risha site with Burkan rockets achieving direct hits.
The eighteenth statement mentioned that the air defense unit of the Islamic Resistance on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, confronted a hostile Zionist warplane that violated Lebanese airspace with an air-to-surface missile which was launched at it, forcing the aircraft to retreat towards occupied Palestine and immediately leave Lebanese airspace.
The nineteenth statement pointed out that, as part of the response to the attack and assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy in the town of Jouwayya and injuring civilians, the Islamic Resistance launched an aerial attack using a swarm of assault drones on the Habushit barracks (headquarters of a company from Hermon Brigade 810) targeting the locations where the barracks’ officers and soldiers were stationed and achieving their targets accurately.
Zionist media confirmed Hezbollah strikes, saying at least 215 rockets were fired since morning on Wednesday.##
Rockets spark fires in NorthIt has also been reported that fires were ignited due to rockets from Lebanon, with power blackouts being reported in a number of settlements in the North due to the Lebanese Resistance’s rocket fire.
Zionist media described the attack as one of Hezbollah’s largest barrages during the war, noting that the city of Tabarayya was targeted for the first time during the barrage.
Sirens sounded in Safad, Rosh Pina, and Tabarayya, along with numerous other towns in the al-Jalil region, as per the reports.
In a related development, Zionist media reported that additional rounds of sirens were activated in several settler communities in northern Palestine. Alerts were triggered in the Mount Meron area of the Upper al-Jalil.
Reports confirmed this demonstrating that the regime’s Meron base for air surveillance was one of the targets of the second rocket salvo launched from Lebanon.##
Yemen and Iraqi Resistance continue joint operationsThe naval, missile, and UAV forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) carried out a top-tier military operation targeting the ship TUTOR in the Red Sea using an unmanned surface vessel, several drones, and ballistic missiles, announced Yahya Saree, the spokesperson for the YAF, on Wednesday.
Saree explained that the operation came after the ship’s owning company violated the YAF’s ban on entry into the ports of occupied Palestine, confirming that the operation resulted in severe damages to the ship, putting it at risk of sinking.
Earlier, maritime security firms and shipping sources said that a Greek-owned cargo ship was struck by a small craft off Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah and was not under the command of the crew after sustaining damage in its engine room.
The Liberian-flagged vessel, TUTOR, was hit about 67.7 nautical miles southwest of Hodeidah, said British security firm Ambrey, adding that the incident resembles previous attacks by the Yemeni Armed Forces.
“The vessel aligned with the Houthi target profile at the time of the incident,” Ambrey said in an advisory note.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said a small, 5-7 meters long craft of white color collided with the cargo ship’s stern. A Greek shipping ministry source said the vessel was also attacked from the air.
The shipmaster reported that the vessel was taking on water and was not under the command of the crew, UKMTO said in an updated report.
In the same context, the spokesperson revealed that the YAF conducted two joint military operations with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
Saree mentioned that the first operation targeted a vital site in the occupied city of Idud with winged missiles, while the second targeted a key location in occupied Haifa with several drones, confirming that both operations achieved their objectives.
It is noteworthy that in early June, Saree revealed that the YAF carried out two joint operations with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, marking the first time two factions of the Axis of Resistance publicly conducted coordinated strikes targeting the occupation entity.
The Yemeni spokesperson on Wednesday warned all companies against dealing with the occupation entity and navigating their ships to the ports of occupied Palestine, adding that failure to comply would result in these ships being targeted within the YAF’s operational area, as stated in previous announcements.
Elsewhere, Saree reaffirmed the YAF’s commitment to continue their military operations in support of the Palestinian people’s cause and in retaliation against the American-British aggression on Yemen until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.##
Palestinian Resistance continues qualitative operationsThe Palestinian Resistance continues to confront occupation forces across the besieged Gaza Strip for 250 days since the war on the besieged territory began.
On Wednesday multiple Palestinian Resistance factions launched attacks on occupation forces and defended against the Zionist advance in several axes. Importantly, the armed wings of Resistance factions in Gaza mourned a leader in the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah, martyr Talib Sami Abdullah, and pointed to his role in supporting the Resistance in Palestine.##
Palestinian Resistance operations on June 12, 2024Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades engaged occupation forces in a renewed aggression on al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, while also fending off enemy forces in the southernmost city of Rafah.
Al-Qassam fighters fired locally produced al-Yassin rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at an armored force in the al-Shaboura section of the Rafah refugee camp. The targeted forces consisted of two Merkava 4 tanks.
The Brigades also fired locally produced 114 mm rocket artillery shells at occupation forces positioned in the Netsarim Axis, which splits the northern Gaza Strip from the rest of the besieged territory.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also shelled occupation forces in Sufa military site, to the east of Rafah, with a salvo of 107 mm rockets.
Moreover, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades’ mortar units shelled the Nahel Oz military site to the east of Gaza City, targeting Zionist comms equipment.
Mortar units also shelled Zionist forces near al-Salam Mosque in Rafah, utilizing 60 mm mortar shells to do so.
The group also detonated an improvised explosive device when an infantry force arrived at an ambush point set up in al-Zaytoun neighborhood. Al-Quds Brigades fighters also launched 107 mm rockets at a Zionist command and control post in the Netsarim Axis.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/13/zionist-regime-suffers-largest-missile-attack-from-lebanon-since-start-of-the-war/
#alAqsaMartyrs #ansarallah #gaza #hamas #hezbollah #iraq #lebanon #palestine #pij #resistance #westAsia #yemen
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/lebanon.cleaned.jpeg

2024-06-07 04:39:05

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“If Allah helps you, none can overcome you. And if He forsakes you, who is there that can help you after Him? And in Allah let believers put their trust.”
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the most honorable of messengers, the best of all servants, upon his pure family, and upon his noble companions who sold themselves to Allah and fought in His cause until they upheld the religion and humiliated the disbelievers.
O people of our great and patient nation in all of your locations, O free people of the world wherever you may be, O crown of our heads in Al-Quds, the jewel of capitals, and in steadfast Gaza, in the occupied lands of 1948, and in the revolutionary, clashing West Bank.
After eight months, our heroes, along with other resistance factions, continue to affirm that they are the unbreakable rock upon which the dreams of the zionists and their allies will be shattered, dreams of breaking the resistance and turning Gaza into a new sheep in the pen of the zionist enemy and a new slave in the American slave market.
However, with the steadfastness of our people and our resistance, the enemy’s dreams will turn small and disgraced from Gaza, by the will of Allah, gathering its destroyed tanks and vehicles as much as it can, and their soldiers will fall between dead and wounded, cursing each other, wishing to escape the hell of Gaza. And they ask, “When will that be? Say: ‘Perhaps it will be soon.'”
Netanyahu’s repeated boasting and declarations about eliminating the resistance in Gaza are merely for internal consumption, satisfying the bloodthirsty right-wing, for the enemy still receives blows from us. The resistance leadership continues to display great leadership and control in this existential battle that the occupation seeks to turn into a war of attrition in a clear sign of great leadership maturity, a never ending steadfastness, proactive actions instead of reactive responses, and impacting the enemy’s masses, war council, supporters, and allies. This will drive Netanyahu, his war council, and his allies to madness and chronic psychological impairments. Soon, they will all return humiliated and submissive before the bravery of our heroes and the valor of our men.
Therefore, we have decided to increase the daily dose of humiliation and degradation for the enemy’s leadership and their masses by striking the zionist enemy day and night in a legendary heroic epic that history will record with letters of light. Our Palestinian people will not surrender or raise the white flag. They will remain firm, steadfast, stationed, holding onto their land and rights, continuing their resistance and defense of their land with all bravery until victory, by Allah’s will.
Here, we affirm the following:
Firstly, the unjust war on Gaza has entered a phase of breaking bones. The occupation army still pushes with all its might to impose its conditions at the negotiating table. The indicators from the battlefield are clear that the resistance forces remain cohesive, managing their defensive battle successfully, possessing sufficient stockpiles, high morale, and determination to achieve victory, which was realized after the enemy’s disastrous field failures in Rafah, Jabalia, and Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
Secondly, we hold Netanyahu and his fascist government responsible for the killing of their captives in Gaza and their attempt to eliminate the remaining captives by deliberately targeting them with their army’s missiles to avoid paying the price for their release. The cause of our valiant prisoners is at the top of our priorities, and the enemy’s captives will not be released except according to the will of the resistance.
**Thirdly, to all the resistance fighters and everyone who carries a weapon in the West Bank of revolutionaries and Nablus, the Mountain of Fire, this is the time of the free, and history is being written now. So march forward, and strike them everywhere and at all times on our blessed land. Chase the soldiers and settlers in every street, alley, and engagement point you can reach, for this is your battle, and this is your epic.**
Fourthly, the enemy is facing a troubling future, the gateway to ending the occupation and expelling it from our land, because every home, alley, street, camp, and city has a vengeance with the criminal, killer, and terrorist enemy.
This reassures the free people of the world and the friends of the Palestinian people and resistance that the future belongs to the resistance, to our people, and to our cause, because we are simply rightful owners, and the occupation will disappear.
Finally, we pray for mercy upon the souls of the martyrs, ask Allah for the speedy recovery of the wounded, and freedom for the prisoners.
It is a revolution until victory.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/07/al-aqsa-martyrs-brigades-spokesman-speech-on-state-of-the-resistance/
#alAqsaMartyrsBrigade #palestine #resistance #westAsia #westBank
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/alaqsa.cleaned.png

2024-06-06 02:28:07

“You will be proud of me. I will raise your heads and the heads of all Arabs.” It was a promise and a farewell.
These words were said to his comrades by martyr Fawzi Abdulrasoul Al-Majadi, an Arab Kuwaiti resistance fighter who dedicated his life to the Palestinian cause in the midst of the first intifada. From Kuwait to Lebanon, Fawzi made his pilgrimage to join the revolution as part of the DFLP in support of the struggling Palestinian people and in holding true to his convictions as an Arab. He joined the revolution to “renew the unity of destiny to conquer the oppression of occupation on all struggling peoples.”
Fawzi and his comrades set out to execute the Martyrs of Nablus Operation on the day he uttered these words, June 4th 1989. Their target was an IOF military site near “Meskav Am” in northern occupied Palestine. With two other Palestinian comrades, they killed an IOF soldier, captured two, and injured several others. The three heroes were martyred following bombardment by IOF helicopters after long clashes.
Their bodies were held in the cemetery of numbers for nearly 20 years. On July 16th 2008, a prisoner exchange led by Hezbollah saw the release of the bodies of 199 Arab resistance fighters, including Fawzi Al-Majadi. He was buried honorably in Kuwait following a warm welcome by supporting masses.
Today, the echoes of Fawzi’s indomitable spirit resonate decades later, inspiring a new generation of Arab heroes. It was this same spirit, the immortal desire for justice and liberation, that guided another martyr on a journey of defiance and sacrifice: Egypt’s Mohammed Salah. The Kuwaiti falcon and the Egyptian lion, both soaring high, their spirits united in the struggle for Palestine’s liberation.
From the Ocean to the Gulf, Fawzi sacrificed for Palestine and its Arabism, so that it may be free from the River to the Sea. From the deserts of Kuwait, the falcon soared to Lebanon with his eyes set on Palestine, raising his weapon and wearing victory.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/06/the-kuwaiti-falcon-soaring-over-palestine/
#dflp #kuwait #liberation #palestine #resistance #westAsia
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/kuwaiti.cleaned.png
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/06/kuwaiti1.cleaned.png

2024-05-27 19:06:08

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine described the massacre initiated by the “israeli” occupation in the refugee camp in Rafah last night as a challenge to international justice. It also reveals the falsehood of its policies and the extent of Biden’s administration’s involvement in managing the genocide against our people.
The Democratic Front stated that the massacre occurred just hours after the International Court of Justice ordered a halt to all fighting and forms of war in the Rafah area, indicating that neither “israel” nor the United States respects international law or institutions. Instead, both parties follow a law of the jungle policy to defend their colonial interests in their ongoing wars against our Palestinian people and many other nations.
The Democratic Front added that the massacre came after the United States claimed it had devised a plan for the “israeli” army to invade Rafah without targeting civilians. However, daily events show that the “israeli” army, having failed in the Rafah battle and paying a high price for its aggressive war, resorts to targeting civilians to cover up its failures and losses.
The Democratic Front questioned the fate of more than 900,000 displaced persons driven out by the “israeli” war in Rafah amidst the closure of crossings and the imposition of a strict “israeli” siege on our people, leading once again to a starvation war that never ceased but continues to unfold.
The Democratic Front called on freedom lovers worldwide to continue their support for our people, including pressuring their governments and parliaments to boycott the occupying state politically, economically, militarily, security-wise, culturally, and academically. It urged isolating it internationally as a rogue state, a state of crime and mass killing, and a state of apartheid and ethnic cleansing, just as South Africa was under its previous regime.
Central Media
27/5/2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/27/rafah-massacre-a-challenge-to-international-justice-exposing-biden-and-his-administrations-false-stance-dflp/
#dflp #gaza #massacre #palestine #rafah #westAsia

2024-05-08 06:58:51

“More than two hundred days of horrific massacres and the storming of the Rafah crossing without anyone moving in this world ruled by a Zionist criminal regime. We have seen the horrors to which our people in Gaza are exposed and the massacres from which no child or woman was spared, even infants in nurseries, and we waited for a real official reaction, even if In order to raise the blame and save face, betrayal and coercion were the title of the stage, so we decided to resume the popular march in confrontation and target the enemy who is rampaging in our land, shedding blood, plundering wealth, and buying off rulers.
We, the Vanguards of Liberation, the group of the heroic martyr Mohamed Salah, declare our responsibility for targeting the criminal Israeli agent Zev Kiper, who uses some commercial activities as a cover for his activity in collecting information and recruiting weak souls for the Mossad, based on an accurate information assessment of the target’s activity, the details of which we will publish. Successively, according to what the security situation allows.
We address the following messages to our proud Egyptian people, to our heroic people in Gaza and Palestine, and to the free people of the entire world:
The Egyptian people are the material of chivalry and chivalry. We have never and will never betray Palestine, just as our people will not allow any activity of the Mossad and its members on the land of our beloved Egypt. The betrayal of the ruling regime and its agents to Israel will not prevent the Egyptians from reaching the agents.
And hold traitors accountable.
This operation is a step in the struggle of the Egyptian people against the Zionist enemy since the war of 1948, through the wars of 56, 67, and 73, and a continuation of the guerrilla operations of the heroic martyr Suleiman Khater, Ayman Hassan, and the Egyptian Revolutionary Group led by Nour El-Din Mahmoud and the heroic martyr Mohamed Salah, to prove that supporting Palestine and hostility to the Zionists is an integral component of the struggle of the Egyptian people against the Zionist enemy. Souls of Egyptians.
The continuation of the war of extermination and starvation against our brothers in Gaza will not lead to the explosion of the situation in Egypt alone, but rather the embers of resistance and struggle will burn the Zionists and their supporters throughout the entire Arab and Islamic geography.
A tribute of greatness, pride and pride from all the people of Egypt to the heroes of the resistance who protect the honor of our nation and the sanctity of our sanctities. We say to them, “You are not alone. We are your help and support, and you will see from us what pleases your eyes.”
Finally, we remind our great Egyptian people that the puppet regimes that sold the land, squandered the country’s capabilities, and impoverished the people have not and will not provide anything to Palestine, so do not abandon your brothers and support them, for they are our first line of defense against the criminal enemy.
Vanguards of Liberation, the group of the martyr Mohamed Salah”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/08/vanguards-of-liberation-targeted-strike-in-egypt/
#assassination #egypt #gaza #guerrilla #palestine #resistance #westAsia

2024-05-04 06:17:09

Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Yahya Saree on Friday announced a new stage in escalations that involves the targeting of ships heading to Zionist ports from the Mediterranean Sea.
“We announce the implementation of the fourth phase of escalation by targeting ships moving towards occupied Palestinian ports,” Saree said.
Saree outlined three measures: targeting violating ships, immediate implementation, and imposing sanctions on ships related to supplying occupied Palestinian ports if the entity invades Rafah.
“First, the targeting of all ships that violate the ban decision of Zionist navigation and that heading to the ports of occupied Palestine from the Mediterranean Sea in any reachable area within our ample zone. Second, implementation of this comes into effect immediately and from the moment this statement is announced,” Saree said in a statement.
The spokesman noted that the Yemeni resistance will carry out attacks against ships heading towards Zionist ports.
“Third: If the enemy intends to launch an aggressive military operation against Rafah, the Yemeni Armed forces will impose comprehensive sanctions on all ships and companies that are related to supplying and entering the occupied Palestinian ports of any nationality and will prevent all ships of these companies from passing through the armed forces’ operation zone, regardless of their destination,” he added.
An initial warning was issued yesterday by the leader of the Ansar Allah movement Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
During a speech, Al-Houthi said that Sanaa is making preparations for a new round of escalation if the occupation continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip.
He also made a review of achievements by the Yemeni armed forces during the week, which amounted to 8 operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, all the way to the Indian Ocean and southern occupied Palestine.
On Wednesday, Ansarallah Political Bureau member Ali Al-Qahoum warned that any military base or territory used as a launching point for US, UK, and Zionist aggression against Yemen be deemed a “primary” target for Yemen, and will thus expand “theater of operations and the target bank to include strategic and vital targets in depth and in economically significant areas.”
On the same day, the Supreme Council said that the consequences of Western and Zionist aggressions would extend beyond Yemen’s borders.
For months, the Yemenis have been responding to Zionist military actions in the Gaza Strip by attacking military and commercial vessels linked to the occupation regime in the areas surrounding Yemen.
In response to the attacks, the US formed a coalition under its leadership coalition to stop Yemeni operations, an effort which failed to this moment.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/04/ansarallah-to-target-zionist-linked-ships-in-mediterranean-sea/
#ansarallah #antiColonialism #palestine #resistance #Solidarity #westAsia #yemen

2024-04-07 22:10:18

On the 105th Anniversary of the Assassination of
General Emiliano Zapata Salazar, we demand:
WATER, LAND AND FREEDOM!
10 April, according to their calendars and geographies
TO THE CCRI CG EZLN
To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN
To local self-governments, LAGs
To the Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives, CGAZ
To the Assemblies of Autonomous Government Collectives ZAPATISTAS, ACGAZ
To the Sixth Commission of the EZLN
To the National Indigenous Congress, CNI
To the Indigenous Governing Council, CIG
To Ma. de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Spokesperson of the CNI-CIG
To the Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala
To the Peoples of the World who resist the Capitalist and Patriarchal System
To Indigenous Peoples, Tribes, Nations, Communities and Neighbourhoods
that were never conquered
To the Peoples who fight and resist in the Anáhuac Basin
To the Sixth National and International
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion
To the Insubordinate, Dignified and Rebellious Europe
To those who signed the Declaration for Life
To the free, independent, alternative media or whatever they‘re called. . .
All Siblings
Within the framework of the agreements reached at the Closing Plenary of the 4th. National Assembly for Water and Life, held on 23 and 24 March at the Magdalena Tlaltelulco Tlaxcala and. . .
Recognizing. That we face more and more a bloody Capitalist War against life and for the hoarding of water. This war has intensified and institutionalized with the arrival of the 4th Transformation; that is, the problem is not new; “. . . is rooted in the concession system that originated with the 1992 National Water Law and, in particular, with the amendment to Article 27 of the Constitution, to encourage, promote and facilitate the privatization of communal and ejidal lands, but also the privatization of water”, therefore, “Concessions become property titles for commercialization, that is, they become a commodity like land”. As a result, in the face of the institutionalization of the dispossession of water, CONAGUA continues to deliver the vital liquid to transnational corporations and private initiative, through “concessions” that are nothing more than a covert way of privatizing water. As a result, in Mexico there are 157 overexploited aquifers; let us name some of the biggest water grabbers: Danone extracts 15 billion liters of water a year, Coca-cola 55 billion liters, Pepsico has concessions 32 billion liters. water, Danone 15, 400 million and Nestlé 9,700 million, not counting real estate companies, agribusiness, paper companies, automotive companies, mining companies, etc. , and. . .
Reaffirming. THAT OUR STRUGGLE IS FOR LIFE. Therefore, from all corners of the Homeland where the resistance and rebellion of the organizations, collectives, networks, individuals and the indigenous peoples and communities of the National Indigenous Congress, CNI-CIG, are born, we raise our voices to say that while those above celebrate the betrayal of our General Emiliano Zapata Salazar, that is, celebrate his assassination, we here below not only remember his worthy struggle, his noble cause, but we walk in his footsteps with dignity. Because Zapata is not dead, he rides in our hearts to defeat the bad government, to defeat the Carranza and Guajardo of the Fourth Transformation. The same people who murdered Zapata 105 years ago are the same people who murdered our brothers Samir Flores Soberanes five years ago, on the lands of our General, who defended the territory, opposed the gas pipeline and opposed the thermoelectric plants that were installed in Huexca. Samir Vive, in the dignified struggle and resistance of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala
For all this and because WE DO NOT SELL, DO NOT BETRAY and DO NOT GIVE UP, we call for national and international mobilizations, within the framework of the. . .
GLOBAL ACTION DISLOCATED
On the 105th Anniversary of the Assassination of
General Emiliano Zapata Salzar, we demand:
WATER, LAND AND FREEDOM!
These dislocated actions will be carried out on Wednesday, April 10, according to their calendars and geographies, so we thank you to join and, as far as possible, register your activities at the following email: asambleanacionalporelagua@gmail. com
SINCERELY.
WATER, LAND AND FREEDOM!
ZAPATA LIVES, THE FIGHT GOES ON!
SAMIR LIVES, THE FIGHT GOES ON!
DEFENDING WATER AND LIFE IS NOT A CRIME!
NO TO THE MORELOS COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT!
NO TO THE INTEROCEANIC CORRIDOR!
NOT THE MAYA TRAIN!
STOP THE WAR AGAINST THE ZAPATISTA PEOPLES!
THEY TOOK THEM ALIVE, WE WANT THEM ALIVE!
LONG LIVE THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS, CNI-CIG!
LONG LIVE THE ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION, EZLN!
ASAMBLEA NACIONAL POR EL AGUA Y LA VIDA
#Agua_TierrayLibertad
#ZapataVive_laLuchaSigue
#ALTOalaGUERRAcontralosPueblosZAPATISTAS
#EZLN
#asambleanacionalporelagua
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/07/global-action-on-the-105th-anniversary-of-the-assassination-of-general-emiliano-zapata-salazar/
#AguaTierrayLibertad #ALTOalaGUERRAcontralosPueblosZAPATISTAS #ASAMBLEANACIONALPORELAGUAYLAVIDA #asambleanacionalporelagua #chiapas #ezln #mexico #Zapata #ZapataViveLaLuchaSigue #zapatista
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/04/zap.cleaned-1.jpg