The current calendar post, listing some spring-summer events and anniversaries, is at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/03/unac-stop-attacks-on-palestinian-rights.html ; I hoped to post a new one soon, but I intended it for a month ago.
[April 29th it was announced that the French government wants to "dissolve" Urgence Palestine May 7th; there is a rapidly growing petition in opposition at: agir.urgence-palestine.org/appelsoutiens/12/ ; it doesn't say that it is limited to French citizens; for more information on this and other domestic anti-Palestinian actions by the French government see: samidoun.net/2025/04/stop-the-dissolution-of-urgence-palestine-take-action-now-to-confront-frances-complicity-in-genocide/ The anti-fascist group Jeunes Gardes also faces dissolution.]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network April 30th:
"Stop the dissolution of Urgence Palestine!
End the genocide in Gaza and throughout Palestine!
Stop the aggression against Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and the people of the region!
Haiti won, Algeria won, Vietnam won, and Palestine will win!
Victory to the Resistance!
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
We urge all in France and around the world to stand with Urgence Palestine.
- Sign on to the Urgence Palestine collective statement against dissolutions: https://tiny.cc/stopdissolution
- Demonstrate at a French embassy, consulate, or Alliance Française (official government representative of French cultural activities) in your area against the dissolution and repression — and against France’s ongoing complicity with Zionist genocide throughout occupied Palestine. Use the signs below!"
[The Friday, May 2nd sentencing for the stabbing to death of a Palestinian-American child, 6, in Plainfield Township, Illinois: www.commondreams.org/news/wadee-alfayoumi ]
The 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, though US forces had withdrawn by that point, and the reunification of Vietnam is coming up April 30th.
May 3rd 4-7pm in-person in New York City and online: events.humanitix.com/50-years-of-peace-and-social-progress-in-vietnam
On April 28th: "Tlaib Marks 50th Anniversary of End of Vietnam War with Legislative Package to Bring Justice for Victims of Agent Orange" – www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/04/28/tlaib-marks-50th-anniversary-end-vietnam-war-legislative-pac
I met someone protesting for Agent Orange victims in DC in the fall of 2018: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2018/10/reportback-from-womens-march-on.html
April 28th is the 60th anniversary of a US invasion of the Dominican Republic: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/29/a-60-anos-de-la-invasion-estadounidense-republica-dominicana-alerta-sobre-amenazas-a-su-soberania/
The US occupation of Japan ended April 28, 1952? Of course, there are still many US bases in Japan and European countries and in the Middle East, and the US government has some amount of influence.
CBS reported on the US torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib, Iraq April 28, 2004?
April 28th is annual Workers' Memorial Day.
A massive and apparently not yet unexplained loss of power across capitalist Spain and Portugal and extending over the Pyrenees into France: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/29/estantes-vacios-y-alarma-en-las-calles-asi-vivieron-en-espana-el-escandaloso-apagon-masivo-videos/ , www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/04/29/une-gigantesque-panne-d-electricite-seme-le-chaos-en-espagne-et-au-portugal-c-est-dingue-de-se-sentir-si-vulnerable_6601149_3244.html , etc.
On US attacks on civilian targets in Yemen: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/27/civiles-gritan-y-corren-en-yemen-durante-los-bombardeos-de-ee-uu/
If I'm not mistaken, the fateful "pro-Palestinian [anti-war] protest" encampment at UNC-Chapel Hill was violently suppressed by a police force drawn from across North Carolina April 30th last year. Several international students from public and private universities in the State have been forced to leave the country and people involved in the protest at UNC faced judicial and administrative attacks, though there might not have been any trials. UNC itself now faces one or more lawsuits. See previous posts.
ADC Townhall - 100 Days of the Trump Administration will be April 30th at 7pm EDT: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GJX9opPyTMK0FziCZ82_6w#/registration
A continuous protest prevented construction of a California Highway Patrol center, now Chicano Park, in San Diego's Barrio Logan, 55 years ago May 1st? – portside.org/2025-04-28/week-peoples-history-apr-30-may-6-2025
[April 30th is International Jazz Day, May 3rd is Wordsmith Day, May 4th is Star Wars Day, May 5th is Astronaut Day, May 6th is Nurses Day, May 7th is Tourism Day, May 8th is No Socks Day, and May 9th is Public Gardens Day – Days of the Year website.] [Joseph Campbell and Star Wars, they say: www.jcf.org/learn/star-wars ]
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[The Kent State Massacre was May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio. This wasn't the only massacre of or attack on protesting students in the US at the time, and many universities and governments in the "democratic" "West" seem to want to a repeat in the mid-2020's: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings ]
[Apparently the Soviet Venus probe Cosmos 482 failed and has been orbiting the Earth since 1970, but it is coming down. It has a heat shield designed to survive Venus' atmosphere, so it should survive re-entry.]
[A Yemeni missile hit Israel's Ben Gurion Airport the morning of May 4th.]
[On NPR hit piece from Eleanor Beardsly about a teenager who allegedly broke with his parents and secretly left Lughansk for western Ukraine. Will he now be drafted and sent to the front, with little training? NPR has been quieter about Ukraine recently. Warmongering and FIRE capitalist propaganda on WUNC on the 3rd. Apparently there is a "bipartisan" bill in the Republican-controlled NC legislature that would make it easier, even automatic, after something like 104 days, to get real estate projects approved. Does Governor Stein support the bill? They didn't mention the bill until now? I thought that it was strange how WUNC spoke about legislative interference in a land use decision west of here a few months ago, I think in Greensboro, seemingly reminiscent of the Legislature's 751 South interference in Durham. WUNC just had a fund drive, ending on May 1st, because the Trump administration is coming after NPR, despite their basic loyality to constant warfare for empire, the "rules-based international order," and neoliberalism at home and abroad. Steve Inskeep gave Steve Bannon a friendly interviewed around April 30th and Elsa Chang interviewed torture memo author John Yoo around May 2nd, but the focus of the interview was not the Bush-Cheney administration's torture program. The BBC has pushed "Stoicism" in recent years, and here is an actual capitalist pushing the philosophy on Open to Debate, which he is involved with, at 6pm on the 4th. The Republican-run Legislature has taken control of the State Board of Elections, but the Board acted in an openly partisan if not illegal way under Democratic Party control in 2024.]
[Rikka, 입하 , lập hạ, or Lìxià (立夏), the start of summer in East Asian cultures, is May 5th in 2025? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixia 立秋 is August 7th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqiu 立冬 is November 7th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidong ]
[Mars is currently in or near the Beehive/Praesepe/M44 star cluster in Cancer [just north of M44 around the 4th]; in Paris the Sun sets down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and under Arc de Triomphe around this week annually; information for the week of May 6-11th: www.imcce.fr/newsletter/html/newsletter.html#astro-article1 There are more astronomical events to add later in May.] [M44, once thought to be a hole or weak spot in heaven or the realm of the dead, the Gate of Men for reincarnating souls, is also known as the Manger, Crib, the Little Cloud, Nubilum, the Nebula or Nebulosa, etc. In Arabic it was or is Al-Ma'laf, the Stall. It was called Tseih She Ke, or "Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses," in China; Mercury was seen to be less than a degree from the cluster on June 9, 118 CE according to Chinese records -- Robert Hinckley Allen's 1899 Star Names.]
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower [pieces of Halley's Comet, along with the Orionid shower] peaks May 5-6th, though it is visible before and after [until around May 28th], and there are more obscure showers; the Northern Hemisphere's spring isn't a very meteor-rich season: www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/2020-meteor-shower-list/ , www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/ , www.amsmeteors.org/2025/05/meteor-activity-outlook-for-may-3-9-2025/
According to Astronomy magazine for May, Saturn has an equinox May 6th, and its rings are edge-on to the Sun and hard to see from the Earth.
The relatively bright, but I think actually quite dark-colored asteroid 4 Vesta reached opposition May 2nd, with magnitude 5.7, and is in the south, between the bright stars Arcturus and Spica, specifically at the west of Libra/east end of Virgo and moving westward in the constellation. [Vesta will be closest to the Earth around the 7th.] Asteroid Metis, in the same area of sky, will be at opposition May 9th and Juno on May 14th.
The first quarter Moon was May 4th, it will be full on the 12th, the last quarter will be May 20th, and the New Moon will be on the 26th. It will be near Spica and at apogee on the 10th, near Antares on the 14th, near Saturn and Neptune on the 22nd, near Venus on the 23rd, at perigee on the 25th, and near Jupiter on the 28th. "Morning star" Venus' greatest western elongation is on the 31st.]
[In theory a trace of a crescent Moon can be seen, very low in the sky, immediately before and after it is New, half an hour before dawn May 26th and near sunset on the 27th, but higher in the sky.]
A Resist NATO CounterSummit and Protest will take place June 21-22 in the Netherlands, at The Hague: internationalsolidarity.org/resist-nato/ and www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ci_zwNgd_E
The People’s Summit for Korea will be held in New York City July 25-27th: peoplessummitforkorea.org
More events are listed in the late March post linked at the top.
In 'free,' 'democratic' western Ukraine: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/27/vives-en-ucrania-me-oyes-mujer-acosa-a-un-nino-por-escuchar-musica-en-ruso/
Samidoun's Mohammed Khatib attacked in Belgium: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/23/detienen-en-bruselas-al-coordinador-europeo-de-samidoun-horas-despues-le-han-puesto-en-libertad/
diario-octubre.com/2025/04/24/la-verdad-toda-la-verdad-y-nada-mas-que-la-verdad-pravda/
Sovkhoz former state farms in Russia; one marked its 105th anniversary November 10th last year: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/27/las-colectividades-continuan-en-rusia-el-sovjos-lenin-de-moscu/
simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-general-staff-confirms-north
The CPRF near Kursk: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/25/comunistas-de-kursk-entregaron-las-tarjetas-de-militantes-a-militares-que-decidieron-unirse-al-pcfr/
On China's space program and surpassing the "West:" diario-octubre.com/2025/04/26/el-dios-que-se-ha-ido-mientras-el-dragon-va/
diario-octubre.com/2025/04/22/serios-problemas/
[This is satire, but I think based on real news; I worried about the Egyptian lynx's safety, if captured by the Israeli military: www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-ecstatic-to-have-captured new Hamas leader]
On Lenin at 155: diario-octubre.com/2025/04/22/lenin-sigue-hablandonos/
diario-octubre.com/2025/04/25/arteka-la-revolucion-si-es-posible/
mpr21.info/los-trabajadores-de-google-luchan-contra-la-firma-de-acuerdos-militares-con-israel/
diario-octubre.com/2025/04/25/palantir-vende-un-sistema-de-guerra-inteligente-a-la-otan/
A new issue of Class Struggle
The fourth issue of Class Struggle was published April 25th and it will be posted at: redstarpublishers.org/ClassStruggle/index.html Offers of articles are welcome, they say.
Contents:
For a United Front against Fascism and War – As Trump Supports Israel's Attack on Palestine – He Also Attacks our Democratic Rights
Criticism of the Article Below
Why Didn't the Ceasefire Last?
Displacement Plans: How Israel and the U.S. Are Reshaping the Palestinian Landscape?
Income Growth Over Time graph
FRSO Labor Commission statement on Trump's assault on unions
DOGE cuts are bloodthirsty assaults on already insufficient concessions to working people [from APL]
Self-criticism on the left: An inevitable and essential necessity [from the Dominican Republic; acento.com.do ]
From Stalin's speech at the 19th Congress of the CPSU, 1952
Reshuffle in the capitalist economy [from the PCMLE]
La autocritica en la izquierda: Una necesidad inevitable e imprescindible
Del discurso de Stalin en el 19 congreso del PCUS, 1952
Remeson en la economia capitalista
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