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Salvadoran Human Rights Group Reports at Least 415 Deaths in Custody Under State of Exception
That figure is based on complaints collected by NGOs, said Alejandro Diaz, a member of TLMJH, who noted that the Salvadoran government has not provided any official information on the matter. March 27 marked three years since the state of exception was implemented. So far authorities have reported more than 85,900 arrests of alleged gang members and individuals purportedly linked to these groups.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/salvadoran-human-rights-group-reports-at-least-415-deaths-in-custody-under-state-of-exception/

Lula expropriates land and settles 400 families from Brazil’s MST
A ceremony on Thursday, May 29, marked the creation of the Maila Sabrina Settlement on land that was once the “Fazenda Brasileira”, a large plantation owned by a rich landowner. It is located in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended the ceremony and officially expropriated the plantation, settling 450 families from the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) who have occupied the site since 2003.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/lula-expropriates-land-and-settles-400-families-from-brazils-mst/

Brazilian oil trade unions urge Lula to impose energy embargo on Israel
The letter cited action taken by other countries, such as Colombia’s suspension of coal exports to Israel, and global grassroots campaigns such as #BlockTheBoat, where dockworkers around the world have refused to load Israeli ships and cargo and transport arms to Israel. In the United States, Block the Boat was organised by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco. In addition to the immediate suspension of oil exports to Israel, the federations urge the Brazilian government to suspend projects with Israeli energy companies, and support United Nations-led sanctions and measures to hold Israel to account.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/brazilian-oil-trade-unions-urge-government-impose-oil-embargo-israel

Hamas: US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal 'does not meet needs of Palestinians'
According to the BBC, a senior Hamas official stated that the group is likely to reject the ceasefire offer put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff, citing the lack of a "humanitarian protocol that allows for the entry of hundreds of trucks daily" into Gaza. The official said the proposal also contradicts earlier discussions Hamas had held with American officials.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-us-backed-gaza-ceasefire-deal-fails-palestinian-needs

Israel attacks western Syria despite recent indirect talks to calm tensions
The Israeli military claimed responsibility for the strike, saying it had “struck weapon storage facilities containing coastal missiles that posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime freedom of navigation, in the Latakia area of Syria”. “In addition, components of surface-to-air missiles were struck in the area of Latakia,” it said, adding that it would “continue to operate to maintain freedom of action in the region, in order to carry out its missions and will act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/30/israel-attacks-western-syria-despite-recent-indirect-talks-to-calm-tensions
https://archive.ph/oPhpw

Senior judge rules police acted unlawfully in raiding home of British independent journalist Asa Winstanley
The ruling this month by the most senior judge at London’s Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) that the police raid on British journalist Asa Winstanley’s London home on October 17, 2024 was unlawful is a blow against the Starmer government’s efforts to criminalise opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Police informed Winstanley by letter during the raid that they were investigating “possible offences” under Sections 1 and 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/29/kpkn-m29.html

Greece threatens rejected asylum seekers with jail under tougher new migration policy
Migrants with rejected asylum claims will face a minimum of two years in jail, with sentences commuted upon deportation, he said. The plans, outlined by Greece’s conservative government — and closely watched by other European Union member states — were discussed at a Cabinet meeting this week. The European Union has pledged to make deportations a priority in 2025 and finalize common rules across the 27-nation bloc.
https://apnews.com/article/greece-migration-europe-deportations-296dc5da631895bea339dc225df9be7a

Protests against Azhar’s release, attacks on left students continue
Left student leaders and activists continued their protests for the fourth day on Friday rejecting the Supreme Court’s May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges. They also protested at the recent attacks on left student leaders and activists in Rajshahi and Chattogram.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/266316/protests-against-azhars-release-attacks-on-left-students-continue

Pakistan, India close to completing border troop reduction, senior Pakistani general says
"We have almost come back to the pre-22nd April situation… we are approaching that, or we must have approached that by now," said Mirza, the most senior Pakistani military official to speak publicly since the conflict. India's ministry of defence and the office of the Indian chief of defence staff did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment on the remarks by Mirza.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/pakistan-india-close-completing-border-troop-reduction-senior-pakistani-general-2025-05-30/

Australian construction union boss steps down as Labor-appointed administrator tightens screws
Last August, using the pretext of unproven media allegations of widespread corruption and links to organised crime, the federal Labor government placed the union’s construction division under administration, immediately sacking almost 330 elected officials. In reality, the draconian move had nothing to do with ridding the CFMEU of “rogue elements.” It was about subordinating a historically militant section of the working class even more directly to the state and the employers, to facilitate attacks on their wages and conditions amid a downturn in the building sector and the economy.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/30/oaau-m30.html

MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech
Her speech was met by cheers and applause from her fellow classmates, some of whom held up a Palestinian flag. "Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza," Vemuri said. "We are watching Israel try to wipe out Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mit-bans-class-president-graduation-commencement-palestinian-speech-rcna210023

Trump's sweeping tax-cut bill includes provision to weaken court powers
The sweeping tax-and-spending bill that would enact President Donald Trump's policy agenda includes a provision that critics said would weaken the power of U.S. judges to enforce contempt when the government defies court orders. The one-sentence provision in the 1,100-page bill prevents federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from enforcing contempt orders unless the plaintiffs have posted a monetary bond, which rarely happens in cases against the government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-sweeping-tax-cut-bill-includes-provision-weaken-court-powers-2025-05-30/

US regulator dismisses suit against Binance in latest crypto-friendly move by Trump
The SEC sued Binance and Zhao in June 2023, accusing the exchange of artificially inflating trading volumes, diverting customer funds and misleading investors about its surveillance controls. Binance was also accused of unlawfully facilitating the trading of several cryptocurrency tokens that SEC leadership during Joe Biden’s administration believed should have been registered as securities. The case was separate from Binance’s November 2023 guilty plea and $4.32bn criminal penalty for violating federal anti-money laundering and sanctions laws through lapses in internal controls.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/30/binance-cryptocurrency-lawsuit-us-sec

'A Betrayal': Colorado's Democratic Governor Vetoes Bill Targeting Algorithmic Rent-Setting
The bill, known as H.B. 1004, would have prohibited algorithmic software "sold or distributed with the intent that it will be used by two or more landlords in the same market or a related market to set or recommend the amount of rent, level of occupancy, or other commercial term associated with the occupancy of a residential premises."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jared-polis-rent-algorithms

Bill expanding school misconduct investigations, Do-Not-Hire registry nears governor’s desk
Sen. Bettencourt vowed to pass a bill during the 89th legislative session to expand access to the state’s Do Not Hire registries and expand the Texas Education Agency’s ability to investigate misconduct following a KXAN investigation. Our investigation found that a former juvenile corrections officer was able to get a tutoring job at an Austin Independent School District campus, despite the Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General already determining he had an inappropriate relationship with a juvenile.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/bill-expanding-school-misconduct-investigations-do-not-hire-registry-heads-to-governor/

Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apart
Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump’s deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally. Noem also shared the letter on X along with a photo of Morales Reyes, and the White House also shared it on its social media accounts. The letter was mailed to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office along with the FBI and other agencies, the person said.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-letter-threatening-trump-21447adfd14eb1a043f95344f9ccb3d5

GOP's Latest Pitch for Gutting Medicaid and Food Aid? 'Well, We All Are Going to Die'
Ernst's remark came after a person in the crowd warned that "people will die" if the safety net cuts proposed in the House-passed budget reconciliation package become law. The Iowa senator began by waving away the crowd's response, saying, "People are not… " After trailing off, Ernst said facetiously that "we all are going to die."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/joni-ernst-medicaid

>>2289715
>"MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony."

This is where "free speech but not free from consequences" leads.

“But Hamas! ” The following is an excerpt from The New York Times’ bestseller, Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation, by Sim Kern.
When you say “Genocide bad,” Zionists will counter, “But Hamas [did something terrible].” “But Hamas” comments try to derail you from talking about Israeli violence by asking you to first address the violence of the Palestinian resistance. Comments might sound like, “Do you condemn Hamas?” or “But Hamas started this!” They may share facts, such as, “Hamas abducted children,” lies such as, “Hamas beheaded babies,” or—trickiest of all—partial truths, like, “Hamas calls for a genocide of Jews in its charter.” As I’m writing this chapter, Israel has just invaded Lebanon, and this familiar refrain on cable news networks has shifted to, “But Hezbollah!” If Israel continues expanding its regional war, Hasbarists will continue responding to any criticism of Israel by asking you to first condemn any local populations daring to take up arms and resist their own extermination. It’s up to you whether you want to get derailed here. Because sometimes we do need to talk about Hamas. We need to talk about the important distinction between violence that comes from imperial colonizers versus violence that comes from Indigenous people defending their homes. Though if you start down that road, you’re going to have to define what you mean by “colonizers” and “Indigenous,” and you’ll get drawn into debating the meaning of Indigeneity.[1] But notice—you were trying to say “Genocide bad,” and now they’ve got you arguing semantics! We also need to contradict blatant lies about the Palestinian resistance, like the “Hamas beheaded babies” story. It’s important to clarify that, no, they did not. That story proved to be false. Israelis are the only military force that have actually beheaded babies over the past year, babies like Ahmad Al-Najr, eighteen months old, whose head was severed from his body in the bombing of a Rafah tent encampment on May 26, 2024. The video of Ahmad’s father, shaking his headless child’s body, wailing in agony as people burned alive in the holocaust of tents behind him, was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, even after a year of this digitally broadcasted genocide.
So Israel beheads babies, not Hamas. Remember: every accusation, a confession.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/but-hamas/

Pakistan’s Military Is Using War Fever to Boost Its Power
On May 17, the Pakistan Super League (PSL) — the country’s premier cricket tournament, and a national cultural fixture — resumed after a brief suspension due to the conflict with India. But it wasn’t the cricket that took center stage. During the innings break, audiences were subjected to a surreal, thirty-minute mini-concert: a grandiose tribute to the Pakistan Armed Forces. Military anthems blared from the speakers and fireworks lit up the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, just a stone’s throw from the Army’s General Headquarters. Performers, draped in green, waved enormous Pakistani flags. It was, by any measure, bizarre. But it was also effective. This spectacle, brazen and unabashed, was widely celebrated. Working-class cricket fans were being co-opted into nationalism against their material interests in real time. The following night, another tribute interrupted play, pushing the game well past midnight. The symbolism was unmistakable: cricket, often seen as Pakistan’s great unifier, was conscripted into the military’s propaganda machine. All this unfolded while the country’s most successful cricketer and its former prime minister, Imran Khan, languishes in solitary confinement — punished for his falling out with the military. Much like the National Football League’s post-9/11 co-branding with the Pentagon, when players saluted troops and fighter jets soared over stadiums, these PSL concerts were not spontaneous expressions of national pride. They were carefully orchestrated displays designed to conflate sport with national security. The message was clear: the military is your savior. As a famous Pakistani adage goes: “You sleep at night because the soldier stays up.” The army downs Indian planes; it protects your games. So stop asking questions — about missing persons, political prisoners, stolen elections.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/pakistan-military-authoritarianism-khan-dissent

A historical background for the party building debate – Workers’ autonomy in Milan
We translated this article as a background text for our contribution to the party building debate. For us the situation in Italy in the 1970s is a suitable historical context in order to discuss the role of political organisations and their relation to class struggle. The following text is limited to the situation in Milan, which is a weakness, but it demonstrates the complexity of the movement at the time. For a deeper involvement with the period we suggest reading our summaries on the political committee at Magneti Marelli and on the political organisation Senza Tregua. The historical account clearly shows the problematic role that the ‘mass party’ PCI played during these tumultuous times and the limitations of attempts to create an electoral alternative to the left. It also shows the insufficiency of a ‘network of autonomous initiatives’ when confronted with a coordinated attack of restructuring, launched by the state and its various institutions. For us the organisational efforts of the Communist Committees for Workers’ Power expressed the most advanced point at the time, as they were based in significant industries and developed a political practice that went beyond the factory walls. With Senza Tragua they developed a political platform that discussed revolutionary and ‘military’ strategy in close relation to the actual struggles. It will be a future task to discuss why the effort to re-create a wider political organisation failed and why necessary armed actions degenerated into adventurism.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2025/04/28/a-historical-background-for-the-party-building-debate-workers-autonomy-in-milan/

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