A class-struggle, non-sectarian defense organization, championing causes in the interest of the whole working people, associated with the Spartacist League/US.
NYC 8 November, 2024: Protest at the Nigerian Consulate!
#EndBadGovernanceinNIGERIA
activists are going on trial on bogus "treason" charges and face the death penalty for protesting starvation policies! Be there at 12 noon, 828 2nd Avenue!
@NigeriaSolCamp
@SocialistAlt
Outrage! Leonard Peltier denied parole!
Imprisoned for almost 50 years, one of America's foremost political prisoners, 79 y-o AIM spokesman Leonard Peltier, whose health is failing, denied parole today! The Feds want him to die in prison. The vendetta against Peltier is a symbol
Parole hearing June 10 for American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier, one of America’s most prominent class war prisoners. Target of COINTELPRO, imprisoned 47 years framed on charges of killing two FBI agents, the federal vendetta against Peltier symbolizes racist
Protest Austrian State Repression of Pro-Palestinian Socialists!
For more information and to sign the petition “No to the Criminal Complaint against Pro‐Palestine Activist Michael Pröbsting!”, see
@communistsus
Class war prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to CUNY-CCNY encampment: "I urge you, I beg you to speak out against the terrorism that is afflicting Gaza with all of your might, all of your will, and all of your strength. Do not bow to those who want you to be silent. It is time right now,
Down with Police Siege at Columbia, CCNY! Shut Down NYC Campuses to Defend Pro-Palestine Protests!
An injury to one is an injury to all! For citywide campus strikes to defend the protests! No reprisals or bans! Drop all the charges! Cops off campus! Free Palestine!
Remember the MOVE Massacre!
#OTD
, May 13, 1985: Today is the 39th anniversary of the police/FBI bombing of black Philadelphia—1985 MOVE massacre. Philly police with cooperation of the PA State Police and FBI carried out conscious racist murder. Capping a 12-hour siege cops
Protest NYU Langone firing of Palestinian nurse Hesen Jabr. Accepting an award for her compassionate treatment of mothers as a labor and delivery nurse, she spoke of grieving mothers facing genocide in Gaza. Outrageously, when she got back to work she was fired and escorted off
this is the acceptance speech that got a Palestinian Nurse, Hesen Jabr, fired from NYU Langone. she was fired for honoring her own Palestinian heritage & extending her heart towards the mothers who are suffering in Gaza.
This morning,
@TeamYouTube
suddenly struck and deleted the entire Samidoun Network channel and its years of content, and simultaneously struck and deleted the channel of our international coordinator
@charlottekates
.
Class-war prisoner Leonard Peltier urgently needs medical treatment. An American Indian Movement activist, target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO, Peltier, 79, has spent 47 years in federal prison framed on charges of killing two FBI agents. The lead government attorney has admitted, “We
OUTRAGE! Yesterday Argentine police raided national offices of Workers Party (PO) in Buenos Aires. Milei government drives to enhance repressive powers as it wages war on workers and oppressed. International working class must rally to their defense. Hands off PO!
PDC protest letter demands immediate unconditional release of Leonard Peltier. Free Leonard Peltier Now!
4 May 2024
Merrick B. Garland
U.S. Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Colette S. Peters, Director
Federal
NYPD has been surveilling, harassing and entrapping people from the Near East for decades. Democratic Party mayor and governor augmentation of such COINTELPRO measures, brutal suppression of pro-Palestine protests is tip of iceberg. Support to Democrats is support to genocide AND
🇵🇸 Partout dans Toulouse, la solidarité avec Georges Abdallah s'affiche comme dans le quartier d'Arnaud Bernard ! Communiste arabe et combattant de la résistance palestinienne, il est emprisonné en France depuis 1984 alors qu'il est libérable depuis 1999.
#FreeGeorgesAbdallah
Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria!
Join us in New York City on April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.
Join us in Los Angeles on April 29 at 3PM at the Austrian Consulate: 11859 Wilshire Blvd.
PDC protest letter today to State's Attorney Kim Foxx demands: "Hands off Julius Reed!" Last month Dexter Reed was gunned down in a barrage of 96 shots from a Chicago PD tactical unit after being pulled over for supposedly not wearing a seatbelt. On Tuesday, cops vindictively
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Racist rulers want to bury this acclaimed journalist, former Black Panther and MOVE supporter in their dungeons. Anti-racists, abolitionists, the left and labor must fight to free Mumia now!
Defend Pro-Palestinian socialists under attack in France! From Gaza to Europe to US and everywhere else: Defend pro-Palestinian activists! For international class-struggle defense!
Nicola Sacco (Apr. 22, 1891-Aug. 23, 1927)
Born
#OTD
, Nicola Sacco was an Italian immigrant, shoemaker, and anarchist. In 1920 Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed for a robbery murder and became martyrs of the labor movement, executed in 1927. “I know the sentence will be
🇵🇸THE MINNESOTA 9 ARE FREE🇵🇸
Thank you so much to everybody who showed up to support us today! The MN 9 are now banned from campus for a full year as well as charged w misdemeanors for “trespassing” on the campus we pay for
Next up, DROP THE CHARGES!
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!
🚨Pack the Court for Hind’s Hall Press Release🚨
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HIND’S HALL ARRESTEES WON’T ACCEPT DEALS IN THE FACE OF STATE EFFORTS TO DIVIDE THE PRO-PALESTINE MOVEMENT
@ColumbiaBDS
Protest: Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Hands off all pro-Palestinian activists!
Join us in New York City on April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.
Join us in Los Angeles on April 29 at 3PM at the Austrian Consulate: 11859 Wilshire Blvd.
Call for United Front Protest to Defend Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Austria!
To the left, Palestinian movement and all fighters for civil liberties:
While Israeli bombs continue to rain down on Gaza, Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist
PDC speaker at NYC rally yesterday defending Palestine activists calls to "Open Police Archives": "What’s needed now is a fight back against cop terror that will mobilize the broadest masses while exposing the fakers. As Malcolm X said, know who are your enemies and who your
Call for United Front Protest to Defend Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Austria!
To the left, Palestinian movement and all fighters for civil liberties:
While Israeli bombs continue to rain down on Gaza, Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist
Protest the McCarthyite campaign against pro-Palestine activists!
Labor must take action against the
#Gaza
genocide and fight the witchhunt!
Reinstate
@KooperCaraway
and Tania Singh
@TwinklingSingh
with full back pay!
Read the PDC statement:
Protest French repression of Révolution Permanente! Hands off pro-Palestine activists here and abroad!
"Two members of Left Voice’s sister group, Révolution Permanente (RP), have received summons for questioning by the GLAT, an 'anti-terrorism' judicial police unit. The police
As part of a repressive campaign against the movement for Palestine in France, activists have gotten summons from “anti-terrorist” police. The movement for Palestine in the United States must oppose all repression of our movement here and in Europe.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Outrageous! UT San Antonio officials tell student protesters they will be "referred over to the law enforcement agencies" if they chant "From the river to the sea" because it is "anti-Semitic speech." Hands off Pro-Palestinian
Video obtained by
@theFIREorg
: After Gov. Abbott's executive order targeting student demonstrators, UT San Antonio administrators filmed themselves telling students that if they chant "from the river to the sea," they will be reported to law enforcement.
All eyes on Cal Poly Humboldt! Protestors occupied a building and barricades the entrance. Police are outside with riot shields. Reports of police beating students. Every act of repression must be met with further growth of the movement.
¡Manos fuera del
@PartidoObrero
! ¡Abajo los cargos contra
@EBelliboni
y los activistas del Polo Obrero!
La LCI condena enérgicamente el ataque de Milei y Bullrich contra el PO. Se necesita la más amplia unidad para defenderlo y a cualquier organización atacada de manera similar
🇵🇸🚩 Secrétaire départemental de l'UD CGT 59 et soutien de Georges Abdallah, Jean Paul Delescaut a été condamné à un an de prison avec sursis pour son soutien à la Palestine. C'est un scandale !
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Racist rulers want to bury this acclaimed journalist, former Black Panther and MOVE supporter in their dungeons. Anti-racists, abolitionists, the left and labor must fight to free Mumia now!
Free Umar Khalid!
For nearly four years, Umar Khalid, an outspoken opponent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s increasingly repressive regime, has been locked up in Tihar prison complex. Khalid, a leftist Muslim champion of democratic rights for national and religious minorities
Hands off
@RevPermanente
! Defend pro-Palestine activists here and abroad!
We'll be taking up your comrades' cause at the demonstration Thursday in NYC -
@left_voice
, join us there and speak out!
Protest: Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Hands off pro-Palestinian
In France, the repression of Palestine supporters is escalating. We must stand together.
A very important editorial from our sister site
@RevPermanente
!
PDC spokesman at rally in defense of Austrian pro-Palestine protesters yesterday in NYC: "It is through common action that we can unite broader forces, mobilize union power, and fight layoffs, imprisonment and victimization without reliance on the capitalist courts and bourgeois
Open Police Archives activists rallied today, May 10, in Farmerville, Louisiana in solidarity with family of Ronald Greene, and activists from
@LouisianaNAACP
, Workers Voice Socialist Movement and New Black Panther Party Southern Region.
Ronald Greene was killed 5 years ago
Wopashitwe Eyen Mondo we Langa (1947-2016)
Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) was born
#OTD
, May 21, 1947. A former Black Panther and class-war prisoner, Mondo was one of the Omaha Two, along with Ed Poindexter, falsely imprisoned on bogus charges. The Omaha Two were victims of
The Partisan Defense Committee is building the campaign to Open Police Archives! Every opponent of racist cop terror should join the campaign and help rebuild the movement against police brutality! Follow
@opa_now
.
#PoliceBrutality
It is urgently necessary to build a united front against racist police terror. Join the struggle around the demands: "Open all police archives! The top hundred most heinous cases of cop brutality in every city must be open to public scrutiny!"
The first of the Yale students arrested today has been released and just gave a speech to the crowd, met with some of the loudest cheering I’ve heard in the last three days.
47 students were arrested, according to organizers.
“For our friends, we shall not be moved,” they sing.
Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria!
Join us in New York City on April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.
Join us in Los Angeles on April 29 at 3PM at the Austrian Consulate: 11859 Wilshire Blvd.
Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, faces trial in Vienna on May 2 for defending the Palestinians and opposing the Zionist state. Charged with “incitement to commit terrorist offenses and approval of terrorist
Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria!
Join us in New York City on April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.
Join us in Los Angeles on April 29 at 3PM at the Austrian Consulate: 11859 Wilshire Blvd.
PDC joins SL/US, IG/LFI and others today at Austrian consulate protest: Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria! Next up: LA April 29.
@IGLFI
@communistsus
@NYCcommunists
#FreePalestine
Today: We took a stand against the persecution of RCIT leader Michael Pröbsting by the Austrian state outside the Austrian embassy! From Vienna to NYC: hands off pro-Palestinian activists! Join us in Los Angeles on April 29 at 3PM at the Austrian consulate: 11859 Wilshire Blvd.
Join us and
@communistsus
at Hunter College tomorrow at 12! Walk out of class in defense of the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment! Drop the charges! Cops off campus! Strike the campus! Free Palestine!
Palestine protesters in Jackson Square, New Orleans, set up an off-campus encampment for about 5 hours today before police began making violent arrests. NOPD tased at least two unarmed young women, including one apparent passerby in front of me (in the dress)
Outrage! Austrian socialist Michael Pröbsting hit with 6-month suspended sentence on bogus terrorism charges for speaking out in defense of Palestine today.
MICHAEL PRÖBSTING condemned to 6-month suspended prison sentence for “incitement to commit terrorist offences & approval of terrorist offences” by Austrian state; ie, for defending
#Palestine
!
This is an ATTACK on the workers movement & left; it must be opposed!
#FreePalestine
!
@Columbia
/
@BarnardCollege
: Drop all charges now! Rescind all suspensions, evictions and bans from campus! Hands off pro-Palestine activists!
PDC protest letter:
Hands off Uhuru! The prosecution of the Uhuru 3 on bogus charges of conspiring to act as “agents” of a foreign power—Russia—is a sinister threat to the entire left. Drop the charges!
Update on Uhuru 3: Jan. 26th, federal judge denies motion to dismiss charges. Black freedom activists facing up to 15 years in prison for exercising free speech; smeared as "Russian agents" just like MLK and others before them. Legal fund contributions to
"In practice, this policy provides the justification for Meta to target and repress any content that challenges the U.S. government’s imperialist narrative.”
Full Statement:
@Meta
#MetaRestoreFRSO
@a_indabronx
@Gohahwei1
Come out Thursday to protest repression of pro-Palestine socialists in Austria:
Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria!
Endorsed by the Internationalist Group/League for the Fourth International!
Join
Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria!
Join us in New York City on April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.
Join us in Los Angeles on April 29 at 3PM at the Austrian Consulate: 11859 Wilshire Blvd.
Free Xinachtli!
Born
#OTD
, May 12, 1952, Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli) is a class-war prisoner in Texas. Xinachtli is a Mexican American initially framed up in the 1970s for a murder he did not commit. He was politicized in prison where he helped lead a movement for prison
Princeton arrests and evicts two pro-Palestinian students. Emory arrests students this morning too. Enough! For a national campus strike to free Palestine and stop the repression! Drop all the charges! No reprisals!
Presser at Princeton at 1pm after students were arrested and evicted from housing, who per notice were given just five minutes to collect their belongings.
“But we are still holding strong and we will be here until Princeton divests”
Rally for the family of
#WinRozario
, City Hall steps, NYC May 8, 12 Noon.
Just released: Body cam video exposes vicious police shooting in front of his family in March. Mom tries desperately to block her son from NYPD line of fire.
Open police archives on the cops to expose
BREAKING: Police attack Columbia University protest encampment Thursday morning. Campus repression against pro-Palestine protesters is escalating across the country and must be fought. Defend campus pro-Palestine protesters!
PDC statement:
@StatusCoup
🚨"Why are you doing this to me, I'm just standing on the sidewalk?!?!"
At 7 a.m. outside the gates of the Columbia University student encampment protest for Gaza, NYPD arrested pro-Palestinian protesters showing solidarity with Columbia students protesting. Via
@JonFarinaPhoto
"Hands off All Pro-Palestinian Activists! Free Palestine!" PDC banner at CCNY protest last night, May Day. We distributed our defense statement for the arrested students at jail support at Police Plaza in the morning, Hunter College protest and May Day rally at Foley Square in
Update on Leonard Peltier parole hearing yesterday (10 June) from his defense committee. Hearing was an all-day ordeal, but no decision yet.
#FreeLeonardPeltier
!
Join us today! LA at 3pm, Monday, April 29. Austrian Consulate, 11859 Wilshire Blvd. Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria!
@communistsus
@communistsus
@NYCcommunists
Let's hit the streets Thursday at the Austrian consulate to defend your comrades in Austria! Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Defend Pro-Palestine Protesters in Austria! April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.
WE'RE SUING:
@NYSDOCCS
and
@NYSOMH
have consistently violated the HALT Act - a law enacted to reduce the use of solitary confinement throughout NYS.
That's why LAS,
@dralegal
&
@WinstonLaw
just filed a class action law against them.
@julia_furia
@left_voice
Hands off
@RevPermanente
! Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting! Join us Thursday in NYC - April 25 at 4PM at the Austrian Consulate: 31 East 69th St.