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Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland
Most demonstrations attracted several hundred people or fewer on Saturday - but police estimated that about 3,000 took part in the largest rally in the southern city of Katowice. The protests were organised by far-right political group Konfederacja, and another nationalist organisation. Politicians from Konfederacja and the opposition Law and Justice party have been warning about a flood of illegal migration in Poland - but official figures do not support their claims.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce37r27x27po

People charged in connection with Palestine Action protest at RAF Brize Norton to face 18 months in custody before trial
Amy Gardiner-Gibson, 29, Jony Cink, 24, Daniel Jeronymides-Norie, 36 and Lewis Chiaramello, 22, appeared at the Old Bailey accused of plotting to damage two Voyager aircraft on June 20. They are charged with conspiracy to enter a prohibited place “knowingly for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom” and conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/people-charged-connection-palestine-action-protest-raf-brize-norton-face-18-months-custody

Dozens arrested at London demonstration against proscription of Palestine Action
Fifty-five people have been arrested in London at a rally against the proscription of Palestine Action outside the UK parliament on Saturday, according to the Metropolitan Police. Demonstrators gathered in support of the organisation, which was proscribed under anti-terror laws earlier this month. They held up placards reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" before police began bundling attendees into vans.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-arrested-london-demonstration-against-proscription-palestine-action

‘Give Me a Choice’: Activists Urge Russian Doctors to Defend Women’s Right to Abortion
Russia formally permits abortion on request up to the 12th week of pregnancy, but debates over a potential ban have intensified in recent years amid a deepening demographic crisis and the Kremlin's promotion of “traditional family values.” While officials maintain that the procedure will remain covered by the country’s mandatory health insurance program, some regional clinics have stopped offering abortions amid mounting pressure from pro-life activists, local authorities and the Russian Orthodox Church.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/17/give-me-a-choice-activists-urge-russian-doctors-to-defend-womens-right-to-abortion-a89858
https://archive.ph/CpKsu

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in Turkey strike against the government’s miserly wage offer
This was the first work stoppage of this magnitude since the general strike on January 3, 1991, and it affected state institutions and organisations including railways, highways, mines, power plants, ministries, universities, and hospitals. Türk-İş General President Ergün Atalay made it clear the bureaucracy did not want this to happen, but announced that they would be forced to go on strike officially on August 26 if no agreement could be reached.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/qodv-j18.html

Syria believed it had green light from US, Israel to deploy troops to Sweida
Syria's understanding of U.S. and Israeli messages regarding its troop deployment to the south has not been previously reported. A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on private diplomatic discussions but said the United States supported the territorial unity of Syria. "The Syrian state has an obligation to protect all Syrians, including minority groups," the spokesperson said, urging the Syrian government to hold perpetrators of violence accountable.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-thought-us-israel-approved-suweida-troop-deployment

Amid Al-Suwayda fierce clashes | Israeli forces deploy in Al-Quneitra countryside
The deployment comes amid ongoing alert along the ceasefire line and growing tensions in southern Syria, especially with the fierce clashes in Al-Suwayda, no information yet about reasons or nature of the deployment, and no clashes have been recorded in the area.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366233/

Unidentified drone kills PKK member, injures another in northern Iraq
An unidentified drone attack has killed a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and injured another near northern Iraq’s Sulaimaniyah, according to security sources and local officials. The attack on Saturday was the first of its kind in months and occurred as the PKK has begun the first steps towards disarmament, ending its armed campaign against the Turkish state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/unidentified-drone-kills-pkk-member-injures-another-in-iraq
https://archive.ph/2XXaC

Bangladesh’s Islamist party projects force with a big rally in Dhaka
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said the next election would be held in April but his administration did not rule out a possibility of polls in February as strongly demanded by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies. Jamaat-e-Islami, which had sided with Pakistan during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, said earlier it would mobilize 1 million people on Saturday.
https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-islamist-hasina-yunus-7bcf60910c94bef1730d0c8d62f22883

Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan will likely maintain its position as the largest opposition force in both chambers of parliament, further reducing its gap to the LDP. The opposition camp, however, remains largely fragmented. … Sanseito, a party with only three seats in the Lower House, is also expected to garner wide support across the country, possibly gaining seats in urban districts. On the other hand, polls have found the Japanese Communist Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai will face uphill battles to expand their foothold in the legislative arena.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/20/japan/politics/voting-starts-election/

Ecuadorian Communities Resist State-Backed Mining Project Tied to Presidential Family
As Ecuador’s third-largest mine begins construction, rural communities push back against what they describe as a corporate-state alliance that endangers their water and livelihoods. Weeks of protest have been met with police repression, reigniting national debates over extractivism and sovereignty.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuadorian-communities-resist-state-backed-mining-project-tied-to-presidential-family/

Rubio moves to strip US visas from eight Brazilian judges in Bolsonaro battle
As the day of judgment nears, Trump has been increasing pressure on the court and President Lula’s administration. On 9 July, the US president announced he would impose 50% tariffs on all Brazilian imports as of 1 August, partly as a result of the supposed persecution of his ally. The move triggered an outpouring of nationalist anger in the South American country, with Lula describing it as “unacceptable blackmail”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/19/rubio-moves-to-strip-us-visas-from-eight-brazilian-judges-in-bolsonaro-battle

America's largest teachers' union rejects proposal to ban ADL materials
An executive committee of the nation's largest teachers' union rejected a member-approved proposal to sever ties with the civil rights group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over the war in Gaza. … NEA President Becky Pringle said in a statement late Friday that the executive committee voted not to adopt the proposal "following the culmination of a thorough review process" under union rules.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/19/gaza-adl-teachers-union-nea-vote-jewish-groups
https://archive.ph/KQzxT

Facing Growing Outrage and Legal Action, Trump Admin Frees Chunk of Withheld Education Funds
Earlier this week, 24 states sued the administration after it announced it would refuse to send the money—which had already been appropriated by Congress—to states just weeks before the start of the school year, citing "ongoing programmatic review" to ensure that none of it is used to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-releases-frozen-education-funds

The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won’t face charges
Five employees and one contractor who cleaned the offices once a week were killed on Sept. 27 after they were washed away by floodwaters. They were among 12 people who stuck close to the Impact Plastics building, waiting for the water to recede, after realizing the exit road was already submerged. When the water kept rising, they climbed onto the bed of a semitrailer loaded with giant spools of plastic piping that was parked outside the factory. When floodwaters eventually overwhelmed the truck, six people were able to use the piping for flotation and were later rescued. The other six drowned.
https://apnews.com/article/helene-hurricane-impact-plastics-tennessee-death-51ee89384a6f2a340a2ec4259df9035b

Los Angeles sues Airbnb for alleged price gouging following wildfires
Los Angeles said the increases occurred before Airbnb disabled its "smart pricing" tool, which lets owners have rental prices adjust automatically based on demand, for Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Airbnb was accused of violating a California law that prohibits prices of essential goods and services from rising more than 10% following a state of emergency.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/los-angeles-sues-airbnb-alleged-price-gouging-following-wildfires-2025-07-18/

Seattle police cameras, now up and running, draw constitutional concerns
As Seattle police use newly installed cameras to watch over areas with high crime rates, civil liberty advocates have expressed concerns over personal privacy and more government intrusion into everyday lives. The reelection of President Donald Trump has only served to amplify those apprehensions, while adding a new level of unease. The administration’s willingness to push constitutional norms leaves critics asking whether now is the time to increase the ability of police to track us.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-cameras-now-up-and-running-draw-constitutional-concerns/
https://archive.ph/75laQ

New York agrees to settle lawsuit with ex-aide who accused Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment
The former aide, Brittany Commisso, had sued Cuomo and the state, alleging sexual harassment from the then-governor and retaliation against her after reporting the incidents. The allegations were part of a barrage similar misconduct claims that forced Cuomo to resign as governor in 2021. Commisso’s lawyers said the settlement “is a complete vindication of her claims” and that Commisso is “glad to be able to move forward with her life.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuomo-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-commisso-new-york-c901dfc29a730541ef7d797c66068059

Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death
People briefed on the report’s progress said they had been told it would focus more on outside groups and super PACs that spent hundreds of millions of dollars aiding the Biden and Harris campaigns through advertising, voter registration drives and turnout efforts. Ms. Kleeb said she expected the report to accelerate the party’s diversion of resources from advertising to organizing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/democrats-2024-autopsy-harris-biden.html
https://archive.ph/eHZIK

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>>2396328
>pic
Lol they used the fucking Raelism symbol

tyna

On the 'lesser of two evils' logic of antifascism
We re-publish in English an article, released by the Argentina-based group Cuadernos de Negacion that deals with the rise of the extreme right. More specifically, it deals critically with the use of the term “fascist” to describe this tendency. We agree with them that the danger of fascism today is not necessarily to lead us into war, but to portray liberal democracy as the only possible horizon, thus expunging any class perspective in the name of “anti-fascism”. Moreover, we agree that democracy itself, which has become the order of organized exploitation of class society, has integrated and perfected “fascist” repression and ideologically benefits from its appearance by the possibility of portraying a common enemy by which all sorts of inter-classist coalitions may form. The logic of the “lesser of two evils” is one that captures the working-class on a bourgeois ideological terrain. Pro-revolutionaries must understand this mechanism with a view to counter its perspective. We consider this text to be a good contribution to that discussion.
https://libcom.org/article/lesser-two-evils-logic-antifascism

KKE: The superiority of socialist power lies in the fact that it is the state of a higher society
At the 34th Anti-Imperialist Camp of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), which was attended by thousands of young people, the publication “On the socialist state: The History that Teaches Us, the History that Remains to Be Written - Conference of the CC of the KKE” was presented by Loukas Anastasopoulos, a member of the CC and head of its Ideological Committee. “The workers’ state and workers’ power express a higher form of democracy, whose basic feature is the active participation of the working class and the people in general in the shaping of socialist society, resolving all old contradictions and social inequalities, controlling the management of productive units, social and administrative services, and all organs of power from the bottom up. Criticism of decisions and actions that hinder the socialist construction is ensured through the unhindered denunciation of subjective arbitrariness, bureaucratic attitudes among cadres and other negative phenomena and deviations from socialist-communist principles. The foundation of workers’ power lies in the production units, social services, administrative units and production cooperatives. The Assembly of Workers establishes direct and indirect workers’ democracy, based on the principles of control, accountability, and recall. Under socialist power, the right to vote means that workers elect and are elected to all organs of power, and can control and recall councillors and representatives. The superiority of the new power lies precisely in the fact that it is the state of a higher society, where the exploiters have been overthrown. Indeed, this state, the state of workers’ power, insofar as it helps the new socialist society to take steps towards developed communism, overcome contradictions, leave the old behind and develop new relations of production, it renders itself superfluous and withers away, as the classics of Marxism aptly wrote. This is the greatest feature of the superiority of the new workers’ power”, said Loukas Anastasopoulos.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/07/kke-superiority-of-socialist-power-lies-in-the-fact-that-it-is-state-of-higher-society.html

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Chapter 14: Consumption and production
Looking at society and its political organization from a different standpoint than that of all the authoritarian schools – for we start from a free individual to reach a free society, instead of beginning by the State to come down to the individual – we follow the same method in economic questions. We study the needs of the individuals, and the means by which they satisfy them, before discussing Production, Exchange, Taxation, Government, and so on. At first sight the difference may appear trifling, but in reality it upsets all the canons of official Political Economy. If you open the works of any economist you will find that he begins with PRODUCTION, i. e., by the analysis of the means employed nowadays for the creation of wealth: division of labour, the factory, its machinery, the accumulation of capital. From Adam Smith to Marx, all have proceeded along these lines. Only in the latter parts of their books do they treat of CONSUMPTION, that is to say, of the means resorted to in our present Society to satisfy the needs of the individuals; and even there they confine themselves to explaining how riches are divided among those who vie with one another for their possession. Perhaps you will say this is logical. Before satisfying needs you must create the wherewithal to satisfy them. But, before producing anything, must you not feel the need of it? Was it not necessity that first drove man to hunt, to raise cattle, to cultivate land, to make implements, and later on to invent machinery? Is it not the study of the needs that should govern production? To say the least, it would therefore be quite as logical to begin by considering the needs, and afterwards to discuss how production is, and ought to be, organized, in order to satisfy these needs.
This is precisely what we mean to do.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm#chapter14

Tybna

>>2396328
>Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland
Honestly I'm surprised by how miniscule this ended up being. For a country like Poland where reactionary and fascist politics basically have free reign, the largest rally only attracting 3,000 people raises an eyebrow. Now to anyone looking to declare a win from this, don't. This is not a sign of anything favorable for the left as much as it's a sign that Poles are largely apathetic to this "issue" even among fascists.

>>2396376
>America's largest teachers' union rejects proposal to ban ADL materials
As someone who is about to be joining this Union as a high school social studies teacher: smash "free-trade unionism" utterly and build red unions! Wreck the AFL, NEA, SEIU, and all other yellow unions!

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Thanks News Anon

WHERE ARE THE NEWS?

>>2396488
you're got poland all wrong:
it's middle of the summer, poles are busy vacationing and grilling - no point participating in a rally over an issue virtually everyone agrees about already


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