Condemnation of the brutal American aggression against Yemen

If I recall correctly the Islamic Resistance and IJ of Palestine also condemned the new bombing early on and the Yemeni Ansar Allah government referred to Anglo-US bombing.  Through Toufan (the Party of Labor of Iran):

Press Release of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP

The Popular Front condemns the brutal American aggression against Yemen and emphasizes that Yemen will remain a thorn in the eye of the aggressors.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine strongly condemns the extensive American aggression against Yemen and stresses that this crime is an extension of the war crimes and genocide that imperialism and Zionism have committed against the Arab people.

We express our full solidarity with the brotherly people of Yemen, extend our condolences for the martyrs killed in this unjust aggression, wish speedy recovery for our injured heroes, and emphasize that the blood of the martyrs will be the guiding light of perseverance and resistance, and will not be in vain. Instead, it will strengthen Yemen's resolve to confront the aggression.

This brutal aggression will not succeed in breaking the will of the free people of Yemen, who, despite the siege and the aggressions they face, have never hesitated in their support for Palestine and embrace of Gaza.

Anyone who supports Yemen supports Palestine and the Arab people's right to confront colonial and hegemonic projects.

We emphasize that Yemen, which stands at the forefront of defending the dignity of the Arabs, will not be defeated, will not raise the white flag, and will remain a thorn in the sides of the aggressors.

We call on the masses and the free people of the world to take to the streets in support of Yemen, condemn this brutal aggression, and emphasize that resistance is the only inevitable option to neutralize the aggressive plans, and that the will of the people cannot be broken by planes and missiles.

Long live steadfast Yemen! Victory to resistance!

Shame on the American and Zionist aggressors and their agents!

 

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Section

March 15, 2025

CPC(M-L) and Samidoun statements on the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran for its presidential inauguration

From the Peoples Dispatch:  peoplesdispatch.org/2024/07/31/israel-assassinates-hamas-political-bureau-chief-ismail-haniyeh-in-tehran/

[From the CPGB-ML:  thecommunists.org/2024/10/04/news/ismail-haniyeh-another-resistance-leader-assassinated-by-israel/ ]

Pro-war US and Co. imperialists' statement praising the assassination in Tehran:  www.counterextremism.com/press/cep-statement-killing-hamas-leader-haniyeh

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-war

consortiumnews.com/2024/07/31/netanyahu-risking-regional-war-with-assassination/

thecradle.co/articles/egypt-qatar-say-haniyeh-killing-exposes-israels-lack-of-will-for-gaza-ceasefire

diario-octubre.com/2024/07/31/siria-repudia-flagrante-agresion-de-israel-contra-beirut/

diario-octubre.com/2024/07/31/ataque-israeli-asesina-a-tres-civiles-incluido-dos-ninos-en-libano/

mpr21.info/israel-asesina-en-teheran-al-maximo-dirigente-de-hamas/

thecradle.co/articles/iran-holds-us-responsible-for-tehran-strike-as-washington-denies-involvement

thecradle.co/articles/lebanon-to-file-complaint-against-israel-at-unsc-after-deadly-beirut-strike

thecradle.co/articles/entire-resistance-axis-will-respond-to-haniyeh-assassination-irgc

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ismail_Haniyeh

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuad_Shukr

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Haret_Hreik_airstrike

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdal_Shams_attack

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdal_Shams

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights

A few hours earlier, at 7:40pm in Lebanon, Israel killed Hezbollah official Fuad Shukr, along with two children and a woman, and about 70 people were injured in Haret Hreik, a Shia Muslim and Maronite Christian area in the Al-Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon.  Israel calls this retaliation for the rocket that killed several Druze children and other youths at a soccer field in the majority Druze town of Majdal Shams, a major town in the occupied Golan Heights, south of Mount Harmon, on July 27th.  Apparently none of the victims were Israeli citizens.  Hezbollah denies having carried out that attack.  I read an article, which I can't find now, claiming that Hezbollah has admitted responsibility in past cases in which civilians were accidentally killed, indicating, if true, that they aren't just trying to evade responsibility in this case.  The assassination was apparently condemned by Iran, Russia, and Syria, and defended by Kamala Harris, supposedly not as anti-Arab national liberation as Joe Biden, while in Atlanta, Georgia (Harris' State campaign committee is chaired by Natalie Murdock of the NC Senate, I just heard).

The of assassination of Ismail Haniyeh was condemned or criticized by Mahmoud Abbas of the PA, PIJ, Iraq, Oman, Afghanistan, Qatar, Jordan, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, etc., according to the Wikipedia article.  Egypt said that Israel is demonstrating that it doesn't desire a ceasefire, having killed a key negotiator on the Palestinian side, as they kill police (and then there are US or other complaints about the break down of order in Gaza and foreign aid being stolen), medics, doctors, academics, foreign and local relief workers, etc.  The assassination was praised by rightists such as Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, while Israel backer Germany urged "restraint."  Israel is very unrestrained, though US-based rabid Zionists such as the Tablet (July 31st -- "an unmistakable message to the leaders of the Axis of Resistance:  We can hit you wherever you are, and neither the Iranians nor the Americans can protect you.") seem to think the US was protecting Haniyeh, indicating that they think Israel is fighting the USA, yet Israel is given a free hand under Biden and his predecessors to spy and carry out covert operations and election meddling in this country.  The USA has yet to attribute the attack in Tehran to Israel.  

Also, I'm trying to post a substantial calendar shortly, this week.

Originally posted July 31st at:  cpcml.ca/cpcmlarticle2407311223/  Slightly edited.

CPC(M-L) Statement - Heinous Criminal Act Will Not Deter Palestinian Resistance

Ismail Haniyeh

1962/63 – July 31, 2024

The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) condemns the assassination of [Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya)] political leader Ismail Haniyeh [around 2am, after the Iranian inauguration,] on Wednesday, July 31 [at a house for veterans in the north of Tehran] as a criminal act of Zionist cowardice. This day will go down as one more day of Zionist infamy. CPC(M-L) also condemns to eternal shame the U.S., Britain and countries such as Canada that are putting their state power behind Israel’s futile attempt to commit genocide of the Palestinian people and make sure Israel realizes its criminal aims.

CPC(M-L) expresses its deepest sympathies to all [Islamic Resistance Movement] members, Ismail Haniyeh’s remaining family and the entire Palestinian people and their heroic Resistance Movement. On the occasion of this great loss, CPC(M-L) reiterates its categorical support for the Palestinian Resistance and conviction that it will prevail over the heinous crimes of genocide the Israeli Zionists are carrying out with the full support of the United States, Britain, Canada and a handful of other mostly European countries.

Ismail Haniyeh devoted his life to the patriotic cause of his people, always upholding the unity of the Resistance under all conditions and circumstances. Today, in the face of the deadly Israeli genocide and this latest heinous cowardly act, we reiterate: We are all Palestinians, we stand as one humanity the world over to make sure justice will prevail.

CPC(M-L) calls on Canadians and Quebeckers to go all out to step up their expressions of support for the Palestinian Resistance and condemn Canada’s appeasement of genocide. Take up the conviction of the Palestinian people as expressed by Ismail Haniyeh’s son, Abdul Salam Haniyeh, who, on hearing of his father’s martyrdom, said of his father: “He was very keen to establish national unity and strived for the unity of all Palestinian factions and we affirm that this assassination will not deter the resistance, which will fight until freedom is achieved.”

This is the profound conviction which imbues the resistance and its martyrs. It is the strongest response to attempts by the apologists of the Zionist criminals who are claiming that Israel has succeeded in expanding the war to involve Iran, Lebanon and other countries so as to draw the U.S. and its fellow partners in crime into achieving Israeli aims. It is the necessary response to defeat attempts to declare that because Haniyeh was conducting the ceasefire talks and prisoner exchange arrangements with great ability, and was instrumental in the talks for a national unity government, the Palestinian Resistance will not be able to overcome this set-back. It is the response required to shame the claims of the Zionists and apologists for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that, by carrying out this assassination in Tehran itself, the criminal Israeli intelligence organization Mossad has now vindicated itself for its intelligence failure on October 7, 2023 and now Israel will achieve its goal of wiping out Hamas. Celebrations in Israel of the assassination reveal the need to stick to the path of the Resistance which is what serves to condemn attempts to promote and join Zionist barbarism.

This is not the first time the Palestinian Resistance has defied the lies spread by the Zionists and their apologists and their heinous crimes and acts of cowardice.

We Are All Palestinians!

We Stand as One Humanity the World Over to Make Sure Justice Will Prevail!

Hamas Confirms Assassination of Political Leader Ismail Haniyeh

On Wednesday, July 31, Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement [the Islamic Resistance Movement] was assassinated in Tehran, Iran. Haniyeh, who carried out his work in exile in Qatar, had been in Iran to attend the swearing-in of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian the day before.

On July 31, Hamas said of Haniyeh’s killing, “The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nation, and to all the free people of the world: brother, leader, martyr, Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement: “Early this morning, the residence of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was struck, resulting in his and one of his bodyguards’ martyrdom. The cause is under investigation and will be announced soon.”

Senior Hamas Official Sami Abu Zuhri said: “This assassination by the Israeli occupation of Brother Haniyeh is a grave escalation that aims to break the will of Hamas and the will of our people and achieve fake goals. We confirm that this escalation will fail to achieve its objectives.

“Hamas is a concept and an institution and not persons. Hamas will continue on this path regardless of the sacrifices and we are confident of victory.”

A statement subsequently issued by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said:

“This terrorist act is not only a flagrant violation of the principles and rules of international law and the United Nations Charter, but also a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.”

“The new aggressive and terrorist act of this regime in the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh is part of the Palestinian genocide plan, especially in the past 10 months, and aimed at increasing insecurity in the West Asia region.

“As a supporter and accomplice of the Zionist regime in the continuation of the occupation and genocide of Palestinians, the US government is responsible in committing this heinous act of terrorism.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the aggressive act of the Zionist regime in the assassination of the tireless Mujahid Sheikh Ismail Haniyeh and considers it its inherent right to respond appropriately to this aggressive act against its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

“Haniyeh’s martyrdom in Tehran will strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond between Tehran, Palestine, and the resistance,” Kanaani also said.

In Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led the prayers over the body of Ismail Haniyeh at Tehran University to start his funeral procession, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.

After prayers at 8:30 am local time, the procession went to Azadi (Freedom) Square. Following the Iranian people’s expression of grief and rage, Haniyeh’s body will be flown to Doha, Qatar for his funeral on August 2.

Originally posted July 30th at:  samidoun.net/2024/07/glory-to-the-martyr-ismail-haniyeh-palestinian-leader-assassinated-in-zionist-attack/ 

Glory to the martyr:  Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian leader, assassinated in Zionist attack

[Photo]

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the entire Palestinian national movement in condemning the assassination, mourning the martyrdom and saluting the life of the leader, Ismail Haniyeh, Abu al-Abed, the chair of the Political Bureau of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, in Tehran, Iran. 

Haniyeh was in Iran to attend the inauguration of newly elected Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian and also met with Imam Khamenei today, alongside Ziyad Nakhaleh of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, and was assassinated along with his bodyguard and companion, the martyr Wassim Abu Shaaban, in the residence where he was staying by a “treacherous Zionist raid,” as Hamas stated in the movement’s first statement on the assassination. 

The assassination policy of the Zionist regime has attempted to erase the leadership of the Palestinian people for over 76 years now. The names of the martyrs of assassination are great, shining figures of history. Ismail Haniyeh. Saleh al-Arouri. Abu Ali Mustafa. Fathi Shiqaqi. Ghassan Kanafani. Kamal Nasser. Abdel-Aziz Rantisi. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Abu Jihad. Mohammed al-Najjar. Basil al-Kubaisi. Tareq Izzedine. Samir Kuntar. Kamal Udwan. Imad Mughniyyeh. Sheikh Khader Adnan. Ibrahim al-Rai: A parade of martyrs on the road to the liberation of Palestine.

Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated as part of a comprehensive policy of the Zionist regime that aims to eliminate the leaders, spokespeople and revolutionary voices of the Palestinian liberation movement. 

This aggression was also an act of war against Iran, and came on the same day as the attempted assassination of a leader of Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement, through the Zionist bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut,  and on a day that the US bombed Iraq, targeting the Iraqi resistance, assassinating three members of the resistance forces. It is also clear that this is not a Zionist crime alone, but a crime bought and paid for by the United States and its imperialist partners. 

These assassinations have not undermined the strength, solidarity, commitment and firmness of the alliance of resistance forces in the region. From Iran to Lebanon, Yemen to Iraq to Syria, and of course, to Palestine, where the people and the Resistance daily confront the genocidal Zionist regime, the people have the right and the determination to resist, to respond and to confront the assassins and genocidaires. Further, this crime does not demonstrate the “strength” of the Zionist entity but rather its desperation and decline. These assassinations and international aggressions come as the Zionist regime is rent with internal contradictions and riots as settlers and soldiers demand the right to rape imprisoned Palestinians, reflecting the death throes of a wounded colonial monster.

Ismail Haniyeh, 61, a husband, father and grandfather, was born a Palestinian refugee in al-Shati camp and struggled all his life for the liberation of the Palestinian people. From his days as a student, a football player, and a leader in the Islamic Bloc at the Islamic University of Gaza, he was dedicated to the Hamas movement and to Palestine. In 1989, amid the great popular Intifada and shortly after the founding of the movement, Haniyeh was abducted and imprisoned by the Zionist regime for three years, before he was among 415 Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and members forcibly deported to Marj al-Zuhour in southern Lebanon on 17 December 1992, alongside Dr. Abdelaziz al-Rantisi, Sheikh Youssef Sarkji, Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahhar, and, among many others, Mustafa Abu Ora, the martyr of the prisoners’ movement just five days ago. 

[A photo of  Ismail Haniyeh with Mustafa Abu Ora?]

He headed the office of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza and was elected the leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2004, following the assassination of Abdel-Aziz al-Rantisi. In 2017 Haniyeh was elected by the Hamas movement to lead its Political Bureau and was reelected to this position in 2021. 

Haniyeh was the chief negotiator mandated by the Hamas movement and all of the organizations of the Palestinian Resistance, and this assassination aims to prevent him from seeing and directly welcoming the prisoners freed by the Resistance and once again underlines that the Zionist regime is only interested in continued genocide. 

Over 60 of his family members have been martyred, killed by the Zionist regime in the past 10 months, including three of his children and five of his grandchildren. “The blood of my children is not more valuable than the blood of the people of Palestine and all the martyrs in Gaza are my children,” he said, cherishing all of the martyrs of Palestine.

“There is no difference between the martyrs, and they have all been chosen by the Most Merciful to pave our way to victory and freedom,” he said. “The blood of the martyrs demands that we do not compromise, do not relent, do not change or alter, do not weaken, and do not despair, but continue our path with determination.”

The martyr Tareq Izzedine, of the Islamic Jihad movement, gave his last statement before his assassination on the martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan, himself assassinated through deliberate refusal of medical care in the Zionist prisons. His words remain resonant today (video by Resistance News Network): “Whenever a leader ascends, ten will emerge to replace them. When a martyr ascends, 100 martyrs will emerge to replace them. The march continues, and it does not stop until the defeat of the occupation.”

Just today, Ismail Haniyeh said, in his meeting with Imam Khamenei, “Yesterday marked the 300th day of the Gaza War, and we have now reached a critical and historic stage in which the Palestinian people and the Resistance Forces must sustain their heroism and victory.”

His last major statement was for the prisoners, and for popular mobilization, urging people everywhere to participate in the August 3 call to action for Gaza and the Prisoners. “Freedom is near for our dignified prisoners and honorable female prisoners, and victory is coming for our people and our valiant resistance.”

“We call for active and massive participation on this national and global day in defense of our prisoners and our people in the Gaza Strip, to expose the brutal crimes of the occupation against them, and to support their rights and just cause….We look forward to making the 3 of August a pivotal day in all parts of Palestine, in the refugee camps and the diaspora, in our Arab and Islamic world, & among all the free people of the world, to support our people in Gaza and our free prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.”

We must all mobilize, on August 3 and beyond. We must all act. We must all continue the struggle, to confront Zionism and imperialism everywhere and to hold them accountable for their crimes.

From Beirut to Tehran to Gaza to Haifa, to all of our communities, this is the time for action and confrontation. They have never killed the resistance and will not succeed in doing so today. 

Ismail Haniyeh and all of the martyrs live on, and their legacy of commitment, sacrifice and love for the people is an inspiration to generations to come. The defeat of Zionism is forthcoming, as is the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. Every one of the honourable martyrs have sacrificed everything in order to make that vision a material reality that is closer every day.

Glory to the martyr Ismail Haniyeh and all the martyrs of Palestine and the Resistance. Return, liberation and victory to Palestine, all of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

ICMLPO in Europe on NATO and the upcoming European Parliament elections, Jill Stein and New York ballot access, graduation protests, and more anti-war news

According to the Independent Weekly, protesters put handprints on South Building, the UNC-Chapel Hill administration building, with red paint and left a sign saying "UNC has blood on its hands" a few hours before the graduation ceremonies on Saturday, May 11th (under cover of darkness?).  In recent years a history is forming of red blood and/or paint being daubed on UNC monuments and buildings, which presumably would be the crime of vandalism, though abundant paint has been accidentally and intentionally put on UNC's brick walkways and plazas and other features.  Is there any actual evidence that students put up the handprints?  UNC's graduation speaker was Zena Cardman, an astronaut and UNC alumna.  Lee Roberts also spoke at Kenan Stadium.  Around 6,700 students graduated.  UNC educators resisted turning in final grades in protest a few years ago, but not now?

At Duke University on May 12th about 100 graduates walked out before Jerry Seinfeld spoke at Wallace Wade Stadium, around 10:35am, according to Indy Week and the Duke Chronicle. There had been leafletting beforehand and there was a people's graduation at the Languages Building.

PSL organized a march in Raleigh May 11th, for the upcoming 76th Nakba Day?

An article on the Chapel Hill/Carrboro's old left bookstore, Internationalist Books (it closed several years ago, after a few decades in operation), was in UNC's Daily Tar Heel in late April:  www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/04/lifestyle-internationalist-bookstore-legacy-in-chapel-hill-bob-sheldon

On the recent auroras and CMEs, visible as far south as Puerto Rico in the Northern Hemisphere over the past few nights:  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/13/edkj-m13.html

The May 13, 1999 NATO bombing of Korisa in Kosova; the May 15, 1974 storming of the Netiv Meir Elementary School, held by DFLP guerrillas, killing the three militants and 31 civilians or hostages, including 25 children; Israel bombed Lebanese refugee camps May 16th;  May 12, 1949 the British Parliament approved the treaty to join NATO and May 18th two Labour Party members who had voted against were purged by Labour:  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/13/dcdl-m13.html

www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-sudden-hesitation-over-israels

www.mintpressnews.com/new-lines-magazine-washington-weaponizes-media/287375/

Capitalists (and Alan Dershowitz) promise far-reaching private retaliation against student protesters for their free speech (liberals like to point out that the 1st amendment doesn't apply to companies and liberals or those further right say that speech has consequences):  diario-octubre.com/2024/05/12/grandes-empresas-de-eeuu-amenazan-a-estudiantes-a-favor-de-gaza/

Does the Biden administration plan to blame China if or when Ukraine loses? – www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/13/us-is-losing-in-ukraine-blame-china-says-blinken/

Did the US goverment let Ukraine's SBU kill Chilean-American Gonzalo Lira? – diario-octubre.com/2024/01/14/zajarova-la-casa-blanca-es-responsable-de-la-muerte-del-periodista-gonzalo-lira-encarcelado-en-ucrania/

www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2024/05/13/u-s-activists-condemn-acquittal-of-attacker-against-cuban-embassy/

www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/12/small-islands-deadly-stakes/

The Bushnell's Men hacking group:  thecradle.co/articles/bushnells-men-hack-30000-western-printers-in-protest-of-gaza-genocide

The US student intifada:  Palestine's new soft power leverage – thecradle.co/articles-id/24649

thecradle.co/articles/us-offers-israel-intel-on-hamas-leaders-in-exchange-for-limited-rafah-op

www.nknews.org/2024/05/both-north-and-south-korea-back-un-resolution-calling-for-palestinian-membership/

thecradle.co/articles/hamas-reorganizes-in-gazas-north-battles-invading-army-in-rafah

thecradle.co/articles/yemens-strategic-escalation-into-the-mediterranean

Yemen expands front against Israel to include the Mediterranean Sea:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24712

EU naval mission falls apart against Yemen:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24740

Bahraini resistance opens front against Israel [Saraya al-Ashtar/Al-Ashtar Brigades]:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24698

ISIS kills Palestinian fighters in Syrian desert [Liwa al-Quds]:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24478

To Israel's horror, Hamas brings 'two-state solution' back into focus:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24687

thecradle.co/articles/the-pijs-defiance-amid-diplomacy-gaza-will-not-be-allowed-to-fall

Israeli organ-trafficking network busted in Turkiye:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24729

Mass graves:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24783

thecradle.co/articles/shocking-abuse-of-gazans-inside-israeli-detention-camp-whistleblowers

Israel gives extremist settler 'absolute' control of occupied West Bank:  thecradle.co/articles-id/24714

thecradle.co/articles/frustrated-israeli-north-plans-to-secede-into-state-of-galilee

thecradle.co/articles/the-gaza-aid-pier-a-us-geopolitical-ploy

thecradle.co/articles/dialing-down-expectations-on-a-us-saudi-security-pact

www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/11/biden-blinks-bibi-bites-blinken-rewrites/

www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/12/oh-how-violent-hollywood-usc-and-the-sickness-of-denial/

portside.org/2024-05-13/israeli-war-gaza-post-war-scenarios

From Bon Appetit:  portside.org/2024-05-13/food-blogger-cooking-through-gazas-hunger-crisis

In Puerto Rico:  diario-octubre.com/2024/05/12/quitan-la-bandera-de-ee-uu-e-izan-la-de-🇵🇸-palestina-en-universidad-de-puerto-rico-video/

In Mexico:  revcom.us/en/mexico-encampment-unam-against-us-imperialism-backed-israeli-state-genocide-and-solidarity

revcom.us/en/anti-semitism-awareness-act-banning-opposition-zionism-crushing-academic-freedom

Israeli lawsuits:  theintercept.com/2024/05/10/october-7-survivors-lawsuit-palestine-hamas-sjp-protests/

chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-willing-executioners

geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/lindsey-graham-israel-nuclear-weapons-gaza

A bipartisan war:  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/13/ezhc-m13.html

diario-octubre.com/2024/05/13/admision-de-nuevos-miembros-en-las-naciones-unidas/

Mobilization in Ukraine:  diario-octubre.com/2024/05/12/kiev-promete-poner-fin-a-la-vida-tranquila-de-los-hombres-ucranianos-lejos-del-frente/

Benin and Niger:  diario-octubre.com/2024/05/13/francia-esta-desestabilizando-niger-a-traves-de-benin/

US smallpox biological weapon research under Biden and Soros? -- diario-octubre.com/2024/01/16/moscu-ee-uu-experimenta-con-cepas-del-virus-de-la-viruela-a-pesar-de-la-prohibicion-de-la-oms/

fair.org/home/the-media-mogul-trying-to-buy-baltimores-mayoral-race/

Judging protest movements by whether a Biden can get elected, as if the anti-Vietnam War protests or the Gaza solidarity encampments were about keeping a pro-war Democrat in the White House (note that I didn't read beyond the paywall)  And abortion rights? – www.slowboring.com/p/did-the-vietnam-war-protests-backfire

The No War But the Class War Conference will be May 31-June 2 at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus and is being organized by Historical Materialism, The Institute for the Critical Imagination, and the Left Forum, serving as a replacement for the old Left Forum conference.  Speakers will include Kali Akuno, David Harvey, Chris Hedges, Sophie Lewis, Andreas Malm, and Helga Tawil-Souri.  Attention to the "moralism" and "Manichean perspective" of the current anti-war movement and the lack of systematic analysis.  The Torch (IWP) is organizing "a panel on The need for a genuine revolutionary party of the working class and the fight against sectarianism."  Contact:  HM.IRI.NYC at gmail

For more information and tickets:  www.eventbrite.com/e/hm-iri-conference-no-war-but-the-class-war-tickets-841674640507

Jill Stein:  This is do or die for our campaign [New York's punitive ballot access rules, created by the Democratic Party] 

Right now our campaign is fighting an intense battle against the biggest challenge we’ve faced yet. We need tens of thousands more signatures to get on the ballot in New York - and with just two weeks left, we’re behind where we need to be.

From the bottom of my heart, I’m asking every one of you to do whatever you can now to help us get on the ballot in New York and keep us on track to put an anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action campaign on every single ballot across the country.

[Join in at:  www.jillstein2024.com/nyballot  There is also a state by state ballot access map linked on the main site]

Genocide in Gaza is going off the charts right now with the assault on Rafah, where 1.4 million people have been herded like cattle and are now targeted like fish in a barrel - including 600,000 wounded, malnourished, sick, traumatized children. With Israel's closure of the Rafah crossing last week choking off the little water and food that were getting in, and bombing the entire Gaza strip, this is a grand finale to 75 years of ethnic cleansing. 

We must do everything in our power to shut this genocide down. That means turning up the political demand by getting our opposition to genocide on the ballot in New York - ensuring this is a national force that cannot be stopped!

To make that happen, we urgently need volunteers as well as people who would like to get paid to petition. If you can come, let us know and we’ll get in touch to make arrangements for your visit, including accommodations if you need them. If you live within a bus ride of New York, and need help getting there, we can help you get there. We also need folks in NY or nearby who can provide housing or transportation for petitioners.

However you can help, please sign up now:

[ www.jillstein2024.com/nyballot ]

We also need everyone to donate whatever you can to help fund this urgent ballot drive. Every dollar you can donate moves us closer to the critical goal of getting 45,000 valid signatures in New York. Please pitch in as much as you can now to help make it happen - all donations will be matched up to the first $250 by federal matching funds!

[Donate now:  www.jillstein2024.com/donation_ny ]

Watch my new short video about this urgent fight and help spread the word by sharing it on Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.

In this historic moment of surging resistance to empire, our campaign is building momentum fast. A recent CBS poll from Wisconsin had us at 8% in a 3-way race, including 22% among voters 18-30 and 16% among voters 30-44. Our media coverage has exploded, and endorsements are rolling in, from Professor Jeffrey Sachs to Medea Benjamin, Kyle Kulinski, Jenan Matari, Andy Shallal, Professor Anthony Zenkus, and more.

If we get on the ballot in New York, it will shock the establishment and power our campaign to complete our ballot access nationwide - a process that’s over 75% completed already. With multiple systemic crises hitting at the same time and rejection of the establishment candidates at a record high, the sky's the limit for what lies ahead in this race - including a real shot at the White House.

This is do or die for our campaign. And it's do or die for putting opposition to genocide front and center in this election. Every day matters and every signature counts. 

If you can collect signatures in New York, we need your help now. If you can donate to help us fund our petition drive, please pitch in whatever you can now.

If you believe in this movement for people, planet, and peace, I ask you to join me in this historic moment and do whatever you can to help us get on the ballot in New York now!

[ www.jillstein2024.com/nyballot ]

Please share this urgent message with your friends, family, and fellow activists. We can do this if we all work together, but we need everyone to answer the call.

Thank you for everything you do to fight for an America and a world that works for all of us!

In gratitude,

Jill Stein

[Donate now:  www.jillstein2024.com/donation_ny ]

Scintilla #145 – piattaformacomunista.com/index.php/scintilla-n-145-maggio-2024/

May 11th – piattaformacomunista.com/index.php/i-75-anni-della-nato-diciamo-no-alle-vostre-guerre-di-terrore-e-saccheggio/  

May 12th – piattaformacomunista.com/index.php/elezioni-del-parlamento-europeo-una-truffa-democratica/  

Scintilla #145, May 2024 by Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy

75th Anniversary of NATO; No to your wars of terror and plunder!

Resolution of European Parties and Organizations members of the ICMLPO, adopted in April 2024 (the signatories are listed at the end).

According to the preamble of the NATO Treaty, it defends ''peace, democracy, freedom and the rule of law''. In fact, it is the opposite: it has been and is a military alliance of Western imperialist states to impose their economic and political interests by military means. NATO is a guarantee for war, not peace. It is a guarantee for national subservience to U.S. interests, not for independence.

From the beginning, it has been led by U.S. imperialism, which has always provided the military high command. It had been a tool of U.S. imperialism against the Soviet Union and the labor and communist movement. Since 1949, the Atlantic Alliance and its member states have been engaged in numerous brutal wars. NATO has also meant a steady increase in military spending at the expense of the working masses.

Instead of ''freedom and the rule of law'', NATO means exploitation, oppression and war. Dictatorships such as those of Portugal under Salazar or Turkey under General Evren have never been an obstacle to NATO membership and still are not.

NATO was and is a leading participant in numerous imperialist and neo-colonialist wars. In 1999, NATO attacked Serbia and continued to do so in the Kosovo war. Since 2001, it has used lies as a pretext for the war against Afghanistan, which ended in defeat in August 2021. In 2011, NATO states attacked Libya and largely destroyed the country. NATO has also intervened in Turkey's fight against Syria since 2013 and has supported Turkey militarily.

Atlantic Alliance troops are currently deployed in Africa, the Balkans, the Mediterranean and Iraq.

In recent years there has been a continuous process of NATO expansion to the east, which is the main cause of the current war between the imperialist powers of the USA, NATO and the EU against Russian imperialism.

At the same time, NATO is giving massive support to the war in Ukraine by providing infrastructure, weapons and advisers. NATO is in an unofficial war with Russia. In Israel's war against Gaza, NATO states are actively participating in war crimes and genocide by providing weapons and political support. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has assured Israel that NATO is on its side.

The struggle between the imperialist blocs of NATO with the EU against imperialist China with Russia has become a serious danger to peace. The EU, in alliance with US imperialism, plays a complementary role with its common policy of ''security and defense'', in a logic of division of labor. The EU is also using the situation to strengthen its role in the competition with the US.

All this is being carried out at the expense of the working class and its social and political achievements. The workers and peoples are suffering heavily from the consequences of NATO's war plans and their implementation by governments: cuts in social spending, high prices for basic products, pressure on wages, tax increases, etc.

Nationalists, reactionaries and fascist movements have been further strengthened to make the peoples "ready for war". We are therefore taking political action in our countries to withdraw from NATO! We are against any participation in NATO wars!

No to NATO! Out of NATO and all imperialist military alliances!

No to the European Military Union!

NATO and US bases out of our countries!

No to the arms race and to the sending of weapons!

Immediate withdrawal from war missions abroad!

Peace and friendship among peoples, instead of rearmament and war!

Scintilla #145, May 2024 by Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy

European Parliament elections: a "democratic" scam

Resolution of European Parties and Organizations members of ICMLPO

The EU presents itself as an island of prosperity, security and freedom. For the European Parliament elections on 9 June, the propaganda is about democracy.

The people were never consulted when the EU was founded. It was a project of capital. Referendums in which the EU failed were ignored or repeated until the desired result emerged.

For example, when the majority of the Danish people rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, there was another referendum the following year in which a small majority was reached after incessant propaganda.

For example, in 2005 when the "European Constitution" was rejected by a large majority in France and the Netherlands, this was not accepted by those in power. On the contrary, work on the project continued under another name and without a referendum, and in 2007 the "Lisbon Treaty" was concluded with the same content.

Instead of an island of prosperity, security and freedom, the EU is a project of capital for a huge labor market with low wages, a huge outlet market and a tool in competition with other imperialist powers. The EU has also increasingly developed as an instrument of military power with joint armaments and military maneuvers. With the war in Ukraine, this aspect has taken on a special significance. The EU is also an instrument of neocolonial influence of the monopolies in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

In Europe, the EU is an expanding imperialist power with an anti-working-class character: it increases competition between workers in different countries, lowering wages and worsening working conditions. To the detriment of small farmers, the EU is also a tool of agribusiness, which has ruined thousands of farmers.

Not in the service of peace and friendship among peoples, but of the domination of monopolies and capital.

Reformist groups such as the "European Left", which brings together various reformist, revisionist and Trotskyist currents, promise to "democratize" the EU and transform it into a "democratic, peaceful, social and ecological Europe". These are illusions that conceal the domination of capital. The progressive forces are thus harnessed to the chariot of a capitalist and imperialist project. The European Parliament is part of this imperialist apparatus and is not a democratic institution. Therefore, we do not participate and cannot support any list. In addition, the European Parliament is used by right-wing parties to gain influence.

Instead of defending the EU of monopolies, the workers and peoples must fight for their own interests and unite for them. Instead of hoping for election results in the EU, they must stand up to exploitation and war!

We call on the workers to develop struggles and unity on the basis of their own class interests, against the monopolies and the capitalist offensive, the reaction and war policy of imperialism. We call for the development of active solidarity with the workers and peoples of the world, especially with those peoples who suffer and fight imperialist and Zionist oppression, aggression and plunder, such as the Palestinian people.

We reaffirm our commitment to a revolutionary break with the capitalist-imperialist system, to socialism!

With these intentions and this perspective, we must fight together

– Against low wages and the very denial of wages!

– Against the destruction of jobs!

– For the full right to strike!

– Against social cuts!

– Against the dismantling of democratic rights!

– Against racism, division and fascism!

– Against armaments and war!

– For peace, international solidarity and socialism!

April 2024

Workers' Communist Party of Denmark – APK

Communist Party of the Workers of France – PCOF

Organization for the Construction of a Communist Party of the Workers of Germany (Arbeit Zukunft)

Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy

Marxist-Leninist organization Revolusjon – Norway

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) – PCEML

      Workers' Party, EMEP, of Turkey