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News 11/18/25 News Anon 3.0 19-11-25 01:26:29 No.2565586

Hamas, Gaza factions say UN resolution undermines ‘national will’
The factions said the plan headed by US President Donald Trump and backed by a number of Arab states in the region represents a “form of deep international partnership in the war of extermination waged by the [Israeli] occupation against our people”. The resolution also ignores the daily attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers across the occupied West Bank, and pays no attention to root causes like ending Israeli occupation and apartheid, Hamas and the other groups said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/18/hamas-gaza-factions-say-un-resolution-undermines-national-will
https://archive.ph/T3hUq

Israel holds trial for Al-Aqsa Mosque imam for alleged ‘incitement’
The charges, filed by Israeli prosecutors in August 2024, relate to two condolence speeches the preacher delivered in 2022, as well as his mourning of former Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in the Iranian capital in 2024. An indictment against the imam was read during Tuesday’s trial session at the Magistrate’s Court in Jerusalem, according to an Anadolu reporter.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-holds-trial-for-al-aqsa-mosque-imam-for-alleged-incitement-/3747158
https://archive.ph/BxiFD

Riyadh Metro construction rife with migrant labour abuses, says Amnesty
According to the report, workers were charged "exorbitant" illegal fees to secure work and then "endured long, arduous hours in sometimes unsafe conditions for minimal, discriminatory pay". Workers were exploited even before they left home by a range of foreign and Saudi companies. The report mentions that over a decade, workers were asked to pay between $700 and $3,500 in recruitment fees to agents in their home countries, forcing many into debt.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-riyadh-metro-project-rife-migrant-labour-abuses-says-amnesty

TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre
The complaint, filed by the legal nonprofit the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), alleges that TotalEnergies became an accomplice in the “so-called ‘container massacre’” because it “directly financed and materially supported” Mozambican soldiers protecting its compound from an ISIS-linked insurgency.
https://www.politico.eu/article/totalenergies-accused-complicity-war-crimes-mozambique-container-massacre/
https://archive.ph/qffYE

RMT exposes Lord Ashcroft as majority owner of private firm profiting from outsourced railway workers
The Tory peer owns 68 per cent of Carlisle Support Services, which provides revenue protection and gate line staff to Northern Trains, via a nominee shareholder in Leeds. RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “Lord Ashcroft has used offshore trusts and non-dom status in Belize to shelter wealth from UK tax while holding major stakes in UK infrastructure services.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rmt-exposes-lord-ashcroft-majority-owner-private-firm-profiting-outsourced-railway-workers

Families of IRA victims in England told new Troubles bill could revive path to justice
Until now much of the focus of discussion about the bill has been the possible impact it may have on former and current British service personnel who could face legal proceedings over incidents that happened decades ago. But the UK government is keen to stress that if its new bill becomes law, it opens up the possibility of justice – or at least answers – for families who lost loved ones dating back half a century.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/families-ira-victims-troubles-bill-justice

Brazil’s Supreme Court sentences military officials for planning to kill Lula
Of the 10 defendants forming part of this group, nine are high-ranking military officers and one a member of the federal police. The four-justice panel unanimously convicted nine of them, acquitting a retired general due to insufficient evidence.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-coup-bolsonaro-prison-b43ad0f4b338931e4d195615232b43b0

UNICEF report on hardships facing Argentine households released
The report indicates that 31% of households with children and adolescents have monthly incomes insufficient to cover their current expenses. While this figure represents a recovery from last year's 48%, the underlying economic challenges persist. … Household indebtedness is identified as a major concern, increasing by eight percentage points over the last year to reach 31% (including debts with banks, credit cards, or state agencies like ANSES pensions bureau). Informal loans and digital wallet debts included, family indebtedness rises to 45%.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/11/13/unicef-report-on-hardships-facing-argentine-households-released

Colombia’s army killed 15 minors in air strikes since August
Colombia’s Ombudswoman urged President Gustavo Petro to suspend air strikes on alleged guerrilla units that killed at least 15 minors in four operations since August. In a post on social media platform X, Ombudswoman Iris Marin urged Petro to suspend aerial bombardments of “targets where there may be recruited minors.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-army-killed-15-minors-in-air-strikes-since-august/

Pakistan says it killed 15 in raids on Taliban forces
Troops first carried out an operation in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 10 Pakistani Taliban, according to a military statement. A second raid in the region’s North Waziristan district killed five more militants, the statement said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pakistan-says-it-killed-15-raids-taliban-forces

Parties protest at leasing out ports’ management
The National Democratic Front and the Bangladesh Jasod brought out separate torch processions in Dhaka Tuesday evening, demanding the cancellation of leasing out the management of two ports of the country to foreign companies. The Dhaka city unit of the NDF brought out a torch procession from Gulistan and the procession ended at a short rally in front of the National Press Club after parading different city roads.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/282567/parties-protest-at-leasing-out-ports-management

Communist Party on Budget 2026 says ‘technocratic continuity in populist garb’
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2026 Budget speech, while breaking symbolically from tradition, reveals a deeper continuity with neoliberal orthodoxy and IMF-aligned fiscal governance. Beneath the rhetoric of “economic democracy” lies a technocratic document that prioritises lender confidence over public empowerment, and party consolidation over structural transformation.
https://www.ft.lk/opinion/Communist-Party-on-Budget-2026-says-technocratic-continuity-in-populist-garb/14-784510

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 19-11-25 02:10:35 No.2565613

US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule
Specifically, the documents showed the rule would exclude senior employees from legal protections that prohibit U.S. government agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers who accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the law or wasting funds.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-federal-employees-would-lose-whistleblower-safeguards-under-trump-rule-2025-11-18/

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
The Education Department’s office of elementary and secondary education, as well as its postsecondary education office, will move to the Labor Department, officials said. The agency’s Office of Indian Education will also move to the Interior Department while supervision of the Fulbright-Hays overseas research program and all of the government’s international education and foreign language initiatives will move to the State Department. Additionally, the department will send both a campus child care access and foreign medical school accreditation program to the Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-administration-sets-out-massive-education-department-restructuring-plan-00656464
https://archive.ph/HAgP3

Congress passes bill to release ‘Epstein files’, sending measure to Trump
The United States Congress has approved a bill to release government documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, clearing the way for making the files public. The House of Representatives adopted the measure in a 427-1 vote on Tuesday, sending it to the Senate, which swiftly agreed to pass it by unanimous consent even before it was formally transmitted to the chamber.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/18/congress-passes-bill-to-release-epstein-files-sending-measure-to-trump
https://archive.ph/Iwy34

US government begins deportation of longtime US residents to Ukraine war zone
One of the longtime US residents facing deportation is Roman Surovtsev, father to two US citizen daughters and husband to Samantha, also a US citizen. Surovtsev fled with his mother and two siblings from the USSR in 1988 after his father, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker, died of radiation poisoning.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/18/zpxv-n18.html

Texas governor Abbott designates Cair and Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups
The impact of the action by Abbott, who this month announced that he is intending to run again for the governor’s seat next November, is limited to Texas state law enforcement and authorizes the state attorney general to sue organizations deemed affiliated with Cair or the Muslim Brotherhood, though Abbott’s office has not specified how it will determine affiliation or what enforcement actions it plans to take.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/texas-governor-abbott-cair-muslim-brotherhood-terror-groups

AOC says Jeffries primary challenge not a "good idea"
Ocasio-Cortez told Axios during a brief interview at the U.S. Capitol that she was "not aware" that Ossé was challenging Jeffries. "But," she added, "I certainly don't think a primary challenge to the leader is a good idea right now."
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/aoc-jeffries-chi-osse-new-york-democrats
https://archive.ph/W5Zdc

Meta wins major US antitrust case and won’t have to break off WhatsApp or Instagram
The case, brought by the US Federal Trade Commission, could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, with the former FTC chair accusing the company of operating a “buy or bury” scheme against nascent competitors. The tech giant bought WhatsApp for $19bn in 2014. Losing either the image-based social network, which generates an estimated half of Meta’s revenue, or the world’s most popular messaging app could have done existential damage to Meta’s empire.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/meta-antitrust-win-whatsapp-instagram

US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday dropped its emphasis on the oversight of companies offering crypto asset-related services as part of its priorities for examining Wall Street firms for the current fiscal year, according to an annual statement published by the agency.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/wall-street-regulator-drops-emphasis-crypto-sector-exams-2026-2025-11-17/

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 19-11-25 02:47:33 No.2565646

Die Linke’s Youth Passes a Pro-Palestinian Resolution — and the Party Attacks Them
Germany’s Left Party has always been committed to Zionism. Die Linke stalwarts like Gesine Lötzsch and Petra Pau take part in propaganda trips to Israel, while Bodo Ramelow complains about having to see pictures of murdered Palestinian children (“Hamas shit”). These are not minor figures in the party: two have been vice presidents of the German parliament, the Bundestag. When the German government called for a rally in support of Israel (attended by just a few thousand people), Die Linke co-chair Martin Schwirdewan expressed his solidarity. Yet things are changing. Since the elections in February, tens of thousands of new members have joined Die Linke, and many are instinctively opposed to the genocide in Gaza. The change can be seen most directly in the youth organization Linksjugend [‘solid]. At a congress in early November, 70 percent of delegates voted for a resolution, “Never again silent about genocide,” that recognized Israel’s “colonial and racist character.” This resolution put Linksjugend directly in the crosshairs of the right-wing press and their own party leadership.
https://www.leftvoice.org/die-linkes-youth-passes-a-pro-palestinian-resolution-and-the-party-attacks-them/

Your Party can overcome its problems — but compromise is needed
There are little or no underlying political differences, or at least none which could not be accommodated within the framework of a broad progressive electoral formation, which Your Party — or whatever it is ultimately called — must be to thrive. However, one issue is now a particular source of alarm. That is the evidence that the rancour within Your Party is affecting the broader relationship between the left and the Muslim communities. This has emerged in the form of sharp polemics over the issue of trans rights and “social conservatism” more generally. The unease felt in sections of otherwise supportive Muslim communities over attempts to make these touchstone issues appears to be among the reasons leading one MP, Blackburn’s Adnan Hussain, announcing that he will no longer play any part in the party. Another, autism scorebal Mohamed in Dewsbury, has expressed similar concerns, writing that “factions on the left” have been “trying to out-left each other with different purity tests which are only dividing and damaging the Your Party movement. “If this does not stop and we don’t unite on the vast majority of the issues we agree on then the Your Party movement will… disappear,” he added.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-can-overcome-its-problems-compromise-needed

V. I. Lenin: On Confounding Politics with Pedagogics
We have quite a few Social-Democrats who give way to pessimism every time the workers suffer a reverse in single battles with the capitalists or with the government, and who scornfully dismiss all mention of the great and lofty aims of the working-class movement by pointing to the in adequate degree of our influence on the masses.Who and what are we, they say, to strive towards such things? It is purposeless to speak of the role of Social-Democracy as van guard of the revolution when we do not even really know the mood of the masses, when we are unable to merge with them and to rouse the working masses! The reverses suffered by the Social-Democrats last May Day have considerably intensified this mood. Naturally, the Mensheviks, or new Iskrists, have seized this opening to raise anew the special slogan “To the masses!”—as if in spite, as if in answer to those who have thought and spoken of the provisional revolutionary government, of the revolutionary-democratic dictatorship, etc. It must be admitted that in this pessimism, and in the conclusions which the hasty publicists of the new Iskra draw from it, there is one very dangerous feature that may cause great harm to the Social-Democratic movement. To be sure, self-criticism is vitally essential to every live and virile party. There is nothing more disgusting than smug optimism. There is nothing more warranted than the urging of attention to the constant, imperative necessity of deepening and broadening, broadening and deepening, our influence on the masses, our strictly Marxist propaganda and agitation, our ever-closer connection with the economic struggle of the working class, etc. Yet, because such urging is at all times warranted, under all conditions and in all situations, it must not be turned into special slogans, nor should it justify attempts to build upon it a special trend in Social- Democracy. A border-line exists here; to exceed the hounds is to turn this indisputably legitimate urging into a narrowing of the aims and the scope of the movement, into a doctrinaire blindness to the vital and cardinal political tasks of the moment.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/jun/00b.htm

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