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Myanmar’s acting President Myint Swe dies after a long illness
Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, died on Thursday, the military said. He was 74. Myint Swe’s death came more than a year after he stopped actively carrying out his presidential duties after he was publicly reported to be ailing.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-acting-president-myint-swe-obituary-dead-3e816743ec95a1ab4b543ab0846615a8

Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
In a speech on Wednesday night which did not directly mention Trump or the new tariffs, Modi appeared defiant as he addressed one of the biggest sticking points in India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the US over tariffs. According to Indian officials, the US has been pushing India to allow for the import of American genetically modified (GM) crops into the country and for duty-free imports on US farm and dairy products.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs

India bans 25 books in contested Kashmir for ‘secessionism’
Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a piece of work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence” against the Indian state. It follows orders in February when the authorities seized Islamic literature from bookshops and homes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-bans-25-books-in-contested-kashmir-for-secessionism
https://archive.ph/VZqEB

How Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is bringing the Israeli army to its knees
This week, Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to order the army to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is strongly opposed to such a move and has even threatened to resign. If these reports are true, the importance of this moment is difficult to overstate. Such a head-on clash between the government and the army puts Netanyahu and his government in a position that challenges not only the military but also the will of much of the Israeli public.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-netanyahus-plan-occupy-gaza-bringing-israeli-army-its-knees

Algeria bans pro-Palestine protest for 'threatening public order'
The Algerian interior ministry this week rejected a request from a dozen opposition parties to organise a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the capital Algiers. The coalition of parties had sought authorisation on 29 July to march under the banner "Algeria with Palestine, against starvation and displacement," proposing the dates of 7 or 8 August.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-bans-gaza-protest-threatening-public-order

Bolivia's socialists lose support of the Aymara, once their base
Now support for leftist and MAS-affiliated candidates is trailing the right-wing opposition. A July survey by Ipsos CIESMORI showed Andronico Rodriguez, the leading leftist contender, with just 6% support in July, from 19% earlier this year. Another candidate of Aymara heritage, Eva Copa, stood down from the race last week. Such is the rout that the official MAS candidate is polling around 2%, while Rodriguez has distanced himself from the party.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-socialists-lose-support-aymara-once-their-base-2025-08-07/

Brazilian Indigenous Women March Demanting Reproductive Health Access and Land Rights
The march in Brasilia was also marked by criticism of a bill that weakens environmental licensing requirements for infrastructure projects, a measure seen as a serious setback for efforts to combat deforestation and climate change. Approved last month in Congress with support from the agribusiness sector, the protesters urged President Lula to veto the bill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilian-indigenous-women-march-demanting-reproductive-health-access-and-land-rights/

Buenos Aires City government to sanction citizens that sort through trash
Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri has instructed the Security Ministry and City Police to introduce sanctions for citizens – mostly poor – who take rubbish out of bins. … Via a post on X, the mayor reminded that article 94 of the City Misdemeanours Code on “Soiling property” provides that: “Anyone who stains or soils by any medium public or private property shall be sanctioned with one to fifteen days of community service or 81 to 1,217 fixed fine units.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/jorge-macri-orders-sanctions-over-rubbish-removal.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMXed

Mass protest organisers dismiss ‘feeble’ first charges for Palestine Action support
Jeremy Shippam, 71, of West Sussex, Judit Murray, 71, of Surrey, and Fiona Maclean, 53, of Hackney, north-east London, were charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. They were arrested in Westminster following a protest in central London on July 5 and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 16. They are accused of displaying an article in a public place, arousing reasonable suspicion that they are a supporter of a proscribed organisation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mass-protest-organisers-dismiss-feeble-first-charges-palestine-action-support

German kebab workers striking for collective agreement and pay transparency in industry first
A new round of negotiations between Birtat Meat World SE, one of the country’s biggest kebab meat factories, based in Murr, Baden-Wurttemberg, and the Food, Beverage and Catering (NGG) union were due to start today, but union officials expressed anger after the company clarified that it was not meeting them to negotiate a collective agreement but merely for an exchange of views.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-kebab-workers-striking-collective-agreement-and-pay-transparency-industry-first

France’s top court blocks comeback of controversial insecticide
The judges stressed that neonicotinoids — a class of insecticide that includes acetamiprid and that works by obstructing the nervous systems of insects — can be allowed in exceptional situations but only for a limited time and for well-defined crops. These conditions were not respected in the text of the law, the judges found.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-top-court-blocks-comeback-of-controversial-insecticide/
https://archive.ph/Yxntd

Rally demands Vic Labor save public housing towers
Almost 1000 people mobilised on August 2 to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. The protest was called by Save Public Housing Collective. Public housing tenants, activists and elected representatives from the Greens and Socialist Alliance addressed the protest, saying this is the biggest sell-off of public assets ever attempted by a government. They all called on Labor to stop handing over public housing estates to private developers and to instead expand public housing.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rally-demands-vic-labor-save-public-housing-towers

US: Massachusetts city divests from companies linked to human rights violations in Israel
Members of the Medford City Council voted to pass legislation that would divest city funds from weapons manufacturers, private pensions, fossil fuel companies, prisons and other organisations that contribute to human rights violations. Medford City Council president Isaac Bears sponsored the investments ordinance, which overwhelmingly passed with five council members voting in support, one member opposing, and another abstaining.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/massachusetts-city-divests-companies-linked-human-rights-violations-israel

'Disaster in the Making': Trump to Open 401(k)s to Crypto, Private Equity Vultures
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that would allow private equity and cryptocurrencies into Americans' 401(k)s, appeasing corporate interests that lobbied for the change and disregarding warnings about the risks it poses to retirement accounts. Citing an unnamed senior White House official, CNN reported that "the order calls for the Labor Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to issue guidance to employers about providing access to those alternative investments in their retirement accounts."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-private-equity-401k

Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planned Maryland power grid attack
Bredar previously sentenced Clendaniel to 18 years behind bars after she pleaded guilty to her role in the plot. He said Russell should receive a longer sentence because he was more culpable and contributed the “intellectual horsepower” that propelled the plot closer to fruition.
https://apnews.com/article/brandon-russell-maryland-power-grid-attack-plot-neonazi-9e6d8ff8c7695e356f566cce8caa902b

VA terminates union contracts, as WH labor actions hit veterans again
The Trump EO ending unions said the move was for national security reasons. Yet, the VA on Wednesday exempted from its action the very workers who would seem to work on security issues. The agency's firefighters, police officers and security guards didn't have their union contracts canceled.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/trump-veterans-administration-unions
https://archive.ph/uZ04u

Trump to sign order requiring universities to disclose admissions data
United States President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an order that would require universities to disclose to the federal government data about their student admissions. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the news in a post on the social media platform X, reposting an article from the right-wing publication The Daily Caller.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/7/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-universities-to-disclose-admissions-data
https://archive.ph/C44oj

Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms
The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says. Earlier in the day, her friends had teased the teen about her tanned complexion and called her “Mexican,” even though she’s not. When a friend asked what she was planning for Thursday, she wrote: “on Thursday we kill all the Mexico’s.” Mathis said the comments were “wrong” and “stupid,” but context showed they were not a threat.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-school-surveillance-gaggle-goguardian-bark-8c531cde8f9aee0b1ef06cfce109724a

Trump ally Marsha Blackburn launches bid for governor of Tennessee
A staunch ally of Donald Trump who represents a state he carried by nearly 30 percentage points, Blackburn would become the first female governor in Tennessee’s history if she wins next year. The vocal abortion foe supported Trump’s baseless claims of fraud during the 2020 election, and was considered one of the most conservative members of the House of Representatives during 16 years representing a district in middle Tennessee.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/marsha-blackburn-governor-tennessee-campaign

Swiss CP, Customs tariffs on Swiss products: Resist imperialist attacks with a class orientation
After months of negotiations, the United States has set a 39% customs tariff on Swiss products, a decision that came into effect on 7 August 2025. This situation explicitly confirms the subordinate nature of the so-called “national” bourgeoisie to imperialist interests, even if the Swiss government negotiates an agreement in the future to modify this tax in exchange for concessions. The globalised capitalist system, of which Switzerland is an integral part, is the fundamental cause of these developments, particularly through the concentration of capital and inter-imperialist competition.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/Swiss-CP-Customs-tariffs-on-Swiss-products-Resist-imperialist-attacks-with-a-class-orientation/

From Vinnytsia to Berlin: against 'anarcho'-militarists & their war propaganda
On August 2 2025, the soliparty Konvulsismo #2 took place in the city of Berlin in support of the Assembly collective in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As both a political group and media outlet, the collective denounces forced conscription. It also reports on social struggles taking place in the context of the Russian invasion and occupation and the increasing authoritarianism of the Ukrainian state in the name of ‘national unity’. Konvulsismo is a party collective dedicated to organising experimental/electronic music shows in support of anti-war groups around the world in the face of growing remilitarization in Europe. Its first event was a concert that raised money for New Profile, a support network for military objectors in Israel, recently defunded by the the German state. Months later, Konvulsismo #2 was the target of a disinformation campaign by the group “Good night imperial pride” (themselves linked to the so-called “Solidarity Collectives”). According to a text circulating on social media a few days before the party, Assembly is only apparently an anarchist and anti-war collective, hiding a political agenda of collaboration with the Russian occupying forces. This resulted in a series of cancellations, forcing Konvulsismo #2 to change its venue and much of its lineup in a matter of days. Fortunately, the party went off without a hitch, with the support of comrades and musician friends in solidarity with Assembly, in line with a resolutely anti-militarist and internationalist political stance. Here is our response to the campaign of threats, intimidation and slander against us.
https://libcom.org/article/vinnytsia-berlin-against-anarcho-militarists-their-war-propaganda

Leon Trotsky: What Is National Socialism?
Naive minds think that the office of kingship lodges in the king himself, in his ermine cloak and his crown, in his flesh and bones. As a matter of fact, the office of kingship is an interrelation between people. The king is king only because the interests and prejudices of millions of people are refracted through his person. When the flood of development sweeps away these interrelations, then the king appears to be only a washed-out man with a flabby lower lip. He who was once called Alfonso XIII could discourse upon this from fresh impressions. [1] The leader by will of the people differs from the leader by will of God in that the former is compelled to clear the road for himself or, at any rate, to assist the conjuncture of events in discovering him. Nevertheless, the leader is always a relation between people, the individual supply to meet the collective demand. The controversy over Hitler’s personality becomes the sharper the more the secret of his success is sought in himself. In the meantime, another political figure would be difficult to find that is in the same measure the focus of anonymous historic forces. Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois. The rapid growth of German capitalism prior to the First World War by no means signified a simple destruction of the middle classes. Although it ruined some layers of the petty bourgeoisie it created others anew: around the factories, artisans and shopkeepers; within the factories, technicians and executives. But while preserving themselves and even growing numerically – the old and the new petty bourgeoisie compose a little less than one-half of the German nation – the middle classes have lost the last shadow of independence. They live on the periphery of large-scale industry and the banking system, and they live off the crumbs from the table of the monopolies and cartels, and off the spiritual alms of their theorists and professional politicians.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm

>>2421674
>Several years ago, Russell co-founded the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which is German for “atomic weapon.”

Hey, sometimes good things do happen.

>Algeria bans pro-Palestine protest for 'threatening public order'
Goddamnit. That really sucks.

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