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Made up of organizations spanning five continents, the formation of this coalition was compelled by the need to connect the struggles of political and social prisoners around the world, especially in the context of uprisings against anti-Black violence.
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US colonial pride in genocide,
They also wrote many of such hateful messages on bombs dropped on Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan...
How sick are these people?
Former US Vice President
@Mike_Pence
writing a message on US weapons that will be dropped on civilians in Gaza.
The people in the pic are smiling and taking photos like it's a pizza party.
Shame on them.
@CIJ_ICJ
@UN_HRC
@UN
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As abolitionists from around the world, we stand in solidarity with Baloch women incl resisting enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, army operations.
#LongMarch2Islamabad
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"We Are Not Numbers"
"Black Lives Matter"
George Floyd mural on a wall in Gaza, Palestine (2020)
(Photo by freelance Palestinian photographer Majdi Fathi in Gaza)
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"Syrian revolution and Palestinian movement DO NOT WELCOME zionists and assadists!"
All revolutionary liberarion struggles are connected
Palestinians and Syrians in Pittsburgh commemorate the 13th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution today by stressing Syria-Palestine solidarity, with a message to Netanyahu and Assad.
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"Free Myanmar (Burma) And Gaza
No Liberation For Some Of Us Without Liberation For All Of Us"
Bangkok Pride March solidarity with Myanmar, Palestine, Sudan , Ukraine..
New week begins
#MilkTeaAlliance
& our events summary🧵is here
To kick it off some pictures from Bangkok Pride where allies remembered Bung & stood in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Myanmar, Ukraine & more
Pics crd:
@prachatai_en
@lattapoljir
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@Cephalopodophil
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"The Berlin police turned 'Arab Street' into a military barracks, with inspection checkpoints & the deployment of large forces to prevent any demonstrations of protest against the genocide in Gaza.
Despite this, chants of “Freedom for Palestine & Gaza” come from everywhere."
شرطة برلين حوّلت شارع العرب الى ثكنة عسكرية، حواجز تفتيش وانتشار لقوات كبيرة لتمنع اي مظاهر احتجاج على الابادة في غزة. ورغم ذلك تخرج هتافات "الحرية لفلسطين ولغزة" من كل مكان.
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All Baloch citizens held in custody by Pakistan's police/military must be immediately and unconditionally released
@ICT_Police
#FreeThemAll
#ISB
: Despite releasing around 150 protesters on bail, still dozens are under the custody of
@ICT_Police
, including Zaheer Baloch. The Islamabad Police keep tweeting “false statements” which get rejected by Baloch Yakjehti Committee in Islamabad. Protesters demand release of all.
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"Who Do You Call When The Police Murders?"
Graffiti in Iran inspired by one written in Hong Kong
Protesters are also translating/sharing self-defence/safety tactics learnt from HK protests
Iranian police murdered 22 y/o Kurdish woman
#JinaAmini
in custody for "improper" hijab
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Kashmir stands with Palestine!
#India
is one of
#Israel
’s biggest arms exports clients, spending about $10bn over the past decade
#EndAllOccupations
#BDS
#FreePalestine
#FreeKashmir
(the art has already been removed by Indian police & artist interrogated 4 fabricated charges)
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Bangladeshi students learning/translating self-defence tactics from Hong Kong popular protests
Here's a guide to what you can learn from the hong Kong protest, compiled by a fellow writer I Know
#Students_In_Red
#QuotaProtest
#Bangladesh
#RedForVictims
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As we oppose imperialist Russian invasion of Ukraine,
Let's not forget liberation struggles in Sudan, Myanmar Palestine, Mali, Haiti, Kashmir, India, Mexico, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Balochistan, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Hong Kong, West Papua, Turtle Island...
Let's connect struggles
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China, Russia, Iran, Turkey are all imperialist in relation to weaker/smaller neighboring countries/regions
As abolitionists we look at regional struggles against imperialist invasions, military occupation & incarceration in their own terms, not always from a US centric lense
The only way to conceive of an China/Russia/Iran imperialist bloc is if you 1) disregard the actual features of the contemporary imperialist system under generalized monopoly capital 2) ignore that all 3 countries are responding to US-created destabilization of their neighbors
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blocked for pointing out Lula's legacy of colluding with imperialists in Haiti
Lula has a legacy of siding with imperialism in Haiti
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The waves of casual genocide denialism that Tigrayans, Bosnians, Uyghurs, Syrians and other surviving communities have to face on social media by pseudo "anti-imperialists" every time something happens in the world...
genocide denialism is not anti-imperialism, it's fascism
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in reality, majority of (if not all) liberation struggles globally are struggles against multiple forces of oppression at once,
only those who don't actually have to struggle for basic rights & freedoms can afford to revert to binaries, campisms, selective outrage & half truths
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George Floyd mural on the streets of
#Haiti
Solidarity with all communities of color resisting racial capitalism, state violence and imperialism across the globe
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Activists in the US are fully disconnected from revolutionary struggles in Sudan, Myanmar, Tigray, Afghanistan, Iraq...
From the US-centric perspective these struggles are strictly seen through the "geopolitical" gaze & defined as "civil war", "regional conflict"...
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Ppl in Iran, Syria, Kurdistan, Balochistan, Ahwaz...celebrating death of Raisi w/h fireworks & sweets in streets,
Raisi was also key actor in IRI's counter-revolutionary mass execution of political prisoners in 1989, who were mostly pro-Palestine, anti-imperialist communists.
Iranians have started celebrating the probable death of Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter accident that happened earlier today.
"I hope the others die the same way."
"I hope this becomes real," the voices say in the videos.
(via
@from____iran
IG)
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Solidarity with the people of Tigray, Armenia, Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Kurdistan, Myanmar, Sudan, Darfur, Kashmir, Balochistan and all other places struggling against/ resisting genocidal state violence, invasion, war & military occupation
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Pakistan's police/army must put an end to criminalization of Baloch women's movement against genocide,
As abolitionists from around the world we stand in solidarity with people of Balochistan & their struggle for peace, justice & self-determination.
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
A large number of police personals have surrounded our peaceful sit-in camp against the Baloch genocide.
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
#StopBalochGenocide
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Poetry of Palestinian martyr Refaat Alareer used as slogan by Baloch people marching against endemic of (neo)colonial state violence, theft & terror in Pakistan backed by imperial powers,
From Palestine to Balochistan & globally
#EndColonialism
#AbolishApartheid
#LandBack
IF I MUST DIE
YOU MUST LIVE
TO TELL MY
STORY
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
#StopBalochGenocide
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"In wars between two reactionary fronts, we are the third front"
Street art in Iran against genocidal Israeli and Iranian apartheid regimes and their wars
🔥 در جنگ میان دو جبهه ارتجاع، ما جبهه سومیم.
#زن_زندگی_آزادی
👣#شعارنویسی #دیوارنویسی #گرافیتی #پیستآپ
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for context:
The image is from a US bomb that was dropped on Afghanistan in 2001 during "Operation Enduring Freedom"
"The bombs, destined for targets in Afghanistan, are written on by Airmen from the squadron. "
Link:
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many tankies are not even genocide denialists
they're pro-genocide as long as it's done in the name of "anti-imperialism"
like liberals & right wingers who support genocides in the name of "progress"
all genocides are done by colonialists/ imperialists regardless of flag color
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NATO member Turkey bombs areas populated by Kurdish & Assyrian communities,
sells drones to Ethiopia & Morocco used against people of Tigray & Westen Sahara,
normalizes relations with Israel for "regional peace",
but no uproar from the "what about NATO" crowd.
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if you're suddenly ok with popular armed resistance against imperialism/colonialism but preached "non-violence" to
Tigrayans, Palestinans, Kurds, or Zapatistas you're part of the problem,
same if you condemend Syrians resisting Assad's genocidal war or called them "terrorists"
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Protests in Thessaloniki,
#Greece
after a Greek Police shot a 16-year-old Roma teen in the head during a vehicular pursuit, resulting in the killing of the teen.
#NoJusticeNoPeace
#AbolishThePolice
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Multipolarism does not prevent genocides, in fact its facilitating the current multipolar global genocide as all nationstates operate under racial capitalism & its law & (b)order logic,
Gaza/Palestine, Darfur/Sudan, Tigray, Congo, Haiti, Artsakh, Afghanistan, Uyghurs,Rohingyas..
Those who fear the multipolar world, justifying Western Hegemony, what could be worse than the West's support and complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, all while vilifying Muslims and gaslighting us with the dangers of antisemitism?
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Both liberals & tankies want us to choose between liberation struggles
to support one struggle while ignoring/ condeming another
for example between Ukraine & Palestine, or Syria
as global abolitionists we reject selective solidarity
*all* liberation struggles are connected
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Thanks
@BlackSocialists
!
We too reject campist/ selective anti-imperialism that force us to take side with one imperialist state against another,
We won't side with China-Russia-Iran as part of our resistance to US-UK-EU-Israel,
We reject the entire imperialist system & logic
We’re not going to stop imperialism by making appeals to the imperialists and their forces of domination and destruction.
We’ll stop imperialism when we do the hard(est) work of building parallel social, economic, and political infrastructure able to undergird a defensive force.
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Dr Zaheer Baloch's whereabouts remain unknown;his life is in danger, while 100+ students, along with missing persons families,r still not released.
@ICT_Police
must release all d protesters till tomorrow,or otherwise,we will be forced to take hard steps.
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'Building Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity'
A conversation between Yulia Kishchuk, Dana El Kurd & Elia J. Ayoub on
@FireTheseTimes
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(illustrated by
@lizar_tistry
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"Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater ...met earlier this year with a top official of Russia’s Wagner Group & offered his mercenary forces to support the firm’s operations in Libya & Mozambique..." (from 2020)
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Lula has a legacy of siding with imperialism in Haiti
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As people like Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky try to pitch Uyghurs and Palestinians against each other,
Sowing divisions & using one genocide to deny/normalize/justify another,
We learn from Uyghur & Palestinian youth who show us the way forward with solidarity in the streets,
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did you know that redfish is a media project funded by Russian state which uses anti-colonial & anti-imperialist news/histories from other places in order to whitewash contemporary Russian imperialism & colonialism?
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Haitian migrants who were being transported on a federally contracted private bus away from the border revolted during the ride & overtook control of the vehicle before escaping.
#solidarity
#AbolishICE
#LetThemIn
#AbolishBorders
#AbolishPolicing
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We're tired of USians being the center of anti-imperialist/antiwar discourses,
if your anti-imperialism does not give visibility to/center voices of communities directly effected by war & imperialism globally, then you're reproducing USian hegemony/chauvinsm, not anti-imperialsm
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Many campist & red-brown influencers going viral these days for speaking up against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza built their careers whitewashing, normalizing & denying genocides/atrocities against people of Tigray, Syria, Bosnia, East Turkestan (Uyghurs)...
When Ethiopian embassies promote the likes of Rania Khalek, you know they’re in trouble. She spent years denying & belittling Assad’s war crimes in Syria. Now she’s taking her disinformation tour to Addis to defend Abiy Ahmed’s war crimes against Tigrayans
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@promiseli_
Also ironic how self-proclaimed western "anti-imperialists" relly so heavily on the language/terminologies of "law & order" & "broken window" policing for tankie discourse.
Criminalzing protesters by framing them as "very violent..they're not peaceful..they're burning things"
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"Israel and China have also found a common cause in developing surveillance and policing apparatuses, by building on Western technologies and methods."
"The forces that accuse China of genocide against Uyghur people are the same that arm and fund Israel’s actual genocide of the Palestinian people, and who profit from it. We must continue to say: Free Palestine from the river to the sea! Hands off China!"
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Israel is also one of the key suppliers of weapons to Ethiopia's military dictatorship
used in the genocidal war & siege of Tigray,
Israel has also sold weapons to the Myanmar military regime which has committed genocide against the Rohingya people,
I could do a side by side comparison of the talking points I get when I talk about
#GazaGenocide
&
#TigrayaGenocide
& I don't think people would know the difference. The exact same criticisms when you call out genocide.
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Sadly abolition twitter is still very much US-centric,
militarized police/state violence is definitely on steady rise in the US,
but its not unique to the US,
militarized policing is incrasing across the globe & most places dont get enough visibility,
lets connect struggles!
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The Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition stands in solidarity with
@sammibaluch
& all other victims & families of enforced disappearance in Pakistan and beyond!
#FreeThemAll
#ReleaseDrDeenMuhammad
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
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RIP bell hooks
“... many more Americans are Anarchists than would ever use that term.
...
Part of the heart of [Anarchism] is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking...
Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.”
– bell hooks
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non-western state capitalism is still capitalism,
even if it calls itself a "communist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, third worldist, revolutionary" state,
as global abolitionists, we reject campist, selective, binaristic & nationalist critiques of capitalism.
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From Tigray to Darfur/Sudan, Gaza/Palestine
Congo, Haiti & beyond Indigenous peoples are being deliberately & systematically starved by (neo)colonial genocidal wars and occupations backed by imperial powers
Break the food siege!
End all occupations!
Land back!
Demilitarize!
HOW STARVATION/FAMINE AFFECTS THE BODY — Thread [🧵]
(I am making this thread so more people understand what FORCED starvation and famines are and how it is a killing machine. Famines/Starvation are happening everywhere in the world.)
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THREAD 🙌
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- india's war on Kashmir (backed by israel)
- morocco's war on Western Sahara (backed by israel)
- us/un/eu/kenya/brazil war on Haiti
- indonasia's war on West Papua
- turkey+iran war on Kurdistan
- pakistan's war on Balochistan
- china's war on East Turkistan/xinxiang
...
it’s ALL the same fight, & is happening today
- israeli occupied palestine
- armenian ethnic cleansing in artsakh
- russian persecution of ukraine
- sri lankan oppression of tamil eelam people
- rohingya muslims in myanmar
- tigray genocide in ethiopia
- black people in america.
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Their badge numbers:
BE 32210
BE 32214
Berlin Police provoke Palestinians on the street then brutally attack them for no reason; systematic state violence with impunity, and full green light from the regime of Olaf Scholz
@Bundeskanzler
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"the main enemy is at home"
Western Left has no monopoly over this slogan which they use to justify selective anti-imperialism,
Russians too oppose their country's imperialist wars/occupations/meddlings in Ukraine, Syria, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Chechniya..
(pics from diffrnt yrs)
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China is *not* socialist,
Solidarity with Chinese workers, women, students & youth fighting for real socialism from below in China,
Also solidarity with people of Tibet, Hong Kong & "Xinjiang"/East Turkestan fighting for Indigenous autonomy & self-determination,
🧵 So
#FreeTibet
is a thing again? Let's talk about it. Support for Tibetan independence means support for imperialism & feudalism. For 70 years the US and its allies have nurtured a pro-independence movement in Tibet in order to dismember, weaken and encircle socialist China...
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We must resist the capitalist logic that sees refugees as "economic assets" who bring "talent, experience & skills for employers"
refugees leave their homes/lands due to wars, military dictatorships, climate disasters created & sustained by extractive powers,
#AbolishBorders
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Israel & Iran are two sides of the same coin of ethno-supremacy, patriarchy, apartheid...two militarized police states in the region that wage war on women, children & men in the name of "national security"
Down w/h all military dictatorships & occupations
#JinJiyanAzadi
Women. Life. Freedom.
Today Israelis gathered in
#Jerusalem
& showed their support for the brave Iranians fighting for their basic human rights.
This young Israeli woman with Iranian roots cut her hair as a sign of solidarity with Iranian women.
#Mahsa_Amini
#IranProtests
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A reminder that Russia's Wagner and US' Balckwater have attempted to collaborate in the past in places like Libya & Mozambique,
Fascist militia-ism is not an alternative to white supremacist imperialism & state-ism,
they are two sides of the same coin,
"Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater ...met earlier this year with a top official of Russia’s Wagner Group & offered his mercenary forces to support the firm’s operations in Libya & Mozambique..." (from 2020)
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US appropriates/ (ab)uses struggles in other parts of the world to reinforce its own false image as a "democracy"/ "liberator"/"saviour"
This doesn't mean we can abandon those struggles, or slander them as "CIA backed"
US always throws those struggles under the bus eventually
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only if Zizek had the same level of empathy, curiosity & honesty towards the Syrian revolution & the decade long counter-revolutionary genocidal war,
instead he called the Syrian revolution a "pseudo struggle" & said "yea we know Assad is bad but there's no alternative"
I don't like Žižek, but his articles on Ukraine are much better than those of many other left-wing intellectuals. This one is very good
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Pakistan and Iran's ongoing mass deportation of Afghan refugees is no less than a campaign of ethnic cleansing,
She is returning back with family to Afghanistan.
Is it your school bag?
She: Yes
You were studying?
She: Yes. Grade-1 Peshawar school
You will study in Afghanistan?
She: I have no idea what will happen.
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Comrades,
BT News, RT News, Grayzone, Soap Box, Redfish, Sputnik, Left Bitches (who are right)...
Are all tankie media projects in/directly funded by Russian state to blur the line btwn right & left & promote red-brown nationalist fash ideology in the name of "anti-imperialism"
Stop sharing shit from RT, Redfish, Soapbox, or any other public-sector media funded by the Russian government.
This is what they do to actual grassroots, Left media and organizations in Russia.
This is what they do to our comrades in Russia.
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In Sudan revolutionaries are resisting a military apparatus backed/funded/armed by multiple imperial powers: US, Russia, EU
Imperialism is not always defined by rivalry, but also collusion 2 protect collective imperial domination
selective anti-imperialism only helps the system
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G*nocide is not a moment, it's a process. We must listen to Black & Indigenous communities in Turtle Island (us & canada specially) on how g*nocide looks like from their perspective.
The 1951 'We Charge Genocide' petition to the UN by Black radicals:
@otomewaifuu
@basicbaka
There is no genocide or war in the USA, I hope that helps. The US, as the imperial power, is the safest place on this planet b/c its people will never face even a percentage of the horrors its country enacts on others…it is not remotely comparable and thinking it is, is, absurd.
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Again, Rohingya Muslims expelled from Myanmar were stranded in Aceh Region. The people of Gampong Ujong Pi'e Muara Tiga Laweung Pidie help the Rohingya Muslim refugees on the beach. The day before, 60 Rohingya Muslims landed at Fort Indra Patra, Aceh Besar.
#JusticeForRohingya
Lagi lagi Muslim Rohingya terusir dari Myanmar terdampar di Wilayah Aceh. Masyarakat Gampong Ujong Pi'e Muara Tiga Laweung Pidie membantu para pengungsi Muslim Rohingya di Pantai . Sehari Sebelumnya 60 Muslim Rohingya mendarat di Benteng Indra Patra Aceh Besar.
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Even pro-Russia Russians fleeing conscription are saying they're not "pro-Russian enough to die" for Russian imperialism,
imagine what Ukranians are going through,
& yet Ukranians are asked by western "anti war Left" to stop self-defence & embrase "revolutionary defeatism"
Even neutral / pro-Russian people we spoke to by phone inside the occupied territories said they would try to escape mobilisation. Not pro-Russian enough to die, as one person put it.
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Israel pinkwashing colonialism aint pride, its propaganda
on the other side of Berlin an actually inclusive & safe anti-colonial pride was organized by
@iqpberlin
Jews, Palestinians & other communities marched together under banner "None of Us Are Free Until All of Us Are Free"
It‘s on!
#IsraelPride
@CSD_Berlin
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇱
Wagen 46. Kommt vorbei!
#CSDBerlin
#UnitedInLove
#csdberlin2022
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As global abolitionists we can't emphasize this more!
We must resist other, emerging & non-western forms of capitalism & imperialism with the same intensity that we resist US/western capitalism & imperialism,
no to campism & selective solidarity
thanks again
@BlackSocialists
!
U.S. imperialism is not the only imperialism in the world.
U.S. propaganda is not the only propaganda in the world.
Don’t entertain people fixated on (rightfully!) criticizing the U.S. but ignoring atrocities committed by other nation-states because they’re opposed to the U.S.
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German police surveilancing the livestream of an indoor Palestinian event,
after banning from public all Palestine solidarity demos for Nakba commemorations as well as Shireen Abu Akleh vigils in Berlin,
including events organized by Jewish orgs in solidarity with Palestine.
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@initialvw
"To pit causes against one other, granting some solidarity while ignoring others, is by no means a progressive policy."
.
@Yassinhs
wrote this letter to them in 2020 as they had invited him to join this "Progressive International".
They never responded.
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Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) debunking the mechanism of racialized & colonial war propaganda in 1964 speech at Oxford Union.
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“The US-Russian conflict is over oil and gas and all resources in the region,” said Syriac poet Hana Sawmi. “We don’t accept the Russians or the Americans here. We want a free and liberated Syria.”
From our
#archive
In Qamishli, competing military forces from Russia and US patrol the same area. But how have the Russians and Americans come to regard their presence in and around the same city? And what do local residents think?
#SyriaUntold
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One of the main obstacles of revolutionary int solidarity has been "alternative" media funded by "anti-imperialist" states like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Turkey
They frame revolutionaries in their own countries as "foreign agents" & "terrorists", just like the US
Stop sharing shit from RT, Redfish, Soapbox, or any other public-sector media funded by the Russian government.
This is what they do to actual grassroots, Left media and organizations in Russia.
This is what they do to our comrades in Russia.
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From
#GeorgeFloydSquare
in
#Minneapolis
to neighbohoods across
#Sudan
, street barricades have become spaces of collective healing, learning, social justice, & revolutionary resistance to militarized state violence/capitalism,
#SudanCivilDisobedience
#AgainstMilitaryCoup
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Many groups & individuals on this platform who are doing the right thing today & calling out Israel's genocide on Gaza/Palestine have supported/ whitewashed/ denied genocides on Tigray, Bosnia, Uyghurs, Syria, Ukraine...
in the name of "anti-imperialism" & "anti-war".
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Solidarity with the ppl of West Papua being colonized by Indonesia, while the colonial Indonesian state pretends to care for Palestinians,
Free West Papua!
Free Palestine!
Free Kanaky!
Free Aboriginal ppl!
Free all colonized, occupied & dispossessd Indigenous ppls of the land!
The Palestinian flag was proudly raised high during the Indonesian people's independence day celebrations yesterday, a powerful display of solidarity with the Palestinian people.🇵🇸❤️🇮🇩
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US recognizes genocides done by other imperialist states while denying its own ongoing genocides,
using other ppl's sufferings globally to whitewash its own war crimes & crimes against humanity,
& this does not justify widespread genocide denailism by tankie "anti-imperialists"
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Why choosing between USian & Chinese capitalist imperialisms when we can say no to both & instead build solidarity with communities being oppressed, occupied & exploited by both.
It's long overdue to move beyond binary systems, perspectives, worldviews
the whole system must go
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if you support Ukraine's armed struggle against colonialism and imperialism, but can't apply the same support to Palestine, you are part of the problem
Palestinians have the right to defend themselves and their land. There is no right to defend a military occupation.
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Tankies always reverting to state language of "violent riots", criminalizing legitimate dissent and framing protesters as "outlaws" and "thugs"
Will the media show the MILLIONS of Iranians now taking the streets across the country to support their government against the violent riots? No they won’t.
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Selective anti-imperialism only reinforces the imperialist system/logic as a whole,
Imperialism is not a country,
It's a global system just like capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy & colonialism,
We must abolish the entire imperialist system, which includes the U.S.
U.S. imperialism is not the only imperialism in the world.
U.S. propaganda is not the only propaganda in the world.
Don’t entertain people fixated on (rightfully!) criticizing the U.S. but ignoring atrocities committed by other nation-states because they’re opposed to the U.S.
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Western Left has been very concerned abt US/NATO backed nazi militias in Ukraine. rightly so.
Do they apply the same level of concern to Russian nazi militias & army? Probably not.
Selective anti-imperialism normalizes the imperialist system as a whole
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Iranian state has the blood of Palestinians from Syria's Yarmouk camp on its hands,
IRI never cared abt Palestinians, only used their struggle to advance its own regional interests,
prisoners, workers & colonized nations inside Iran have stood in solidarity with Palestine
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a thread on how Germany is moving Afghan refugees from their homes to "make space" for refugees coming from Ukraine,
problem is not lack of space,
it's governments' way of pitching oppressed communities against each other, making them fight & compete over resources/ survival.
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#nationalityandbordersbill
#StopNABB
#Refugee
#Racism
THREAD: A European masterclass in ranking misery...
They say 'all is fair in love and war' but we know that's not true. What's not made clear is that our response to war can make it all the more unfair! 1/
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End all imperialist, wars, invasions, occupations!
Yes to autonomy & self-determination for ppl of Haiti, West Papua, Kurdistan, Armenia, Tigray, Sudan, Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine & all other places struggling against/resisting militarism & neo-colonialism
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"sphere of influence" is an imperialist- colonialist logic that many western "anti imperialists" can't overcome in their thinking,
we can't recycle the logic of imperialism in the struggle against global imperialist system,
we must listen to the invaded & occupied communities
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a major crime, but there is no country on earth that would not view the expansion of a hostile military alliance along its borders as a threat to its national security.
I’ve been reading the declassified files from 1990s. NATO knew all the risks.
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@nytimes
2 yrs ago NYT was painting a very different image of Breonna Taylor's murder,
confidently framing it as a legitimate "drug raid" that went slightly off
framing Taylor's life/relationship in a way to give false impression of a life filled w/h criminality
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white pseudo "anti-imperialism" always comes down to genocide denialism,
from genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia & Bosnia to the genocide of Uyghurs by China & Tigrayans by Ethiopia...
"it's a civil war" is coded term for "let them kill each other, barbarity is in their culture"
@AnnGarrison
Where there is essentially a civil war (such as Rwanda or Ethiopia) the term genocide does not help. But where one side has vast power over another & is a colonizer or an arm of US Empire (such as Israel) we *must* call out genocide for what it is. Never Again means Never Again.
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Statement by an anarchist collective in Belarus:
"We fight not for the Ukrainian state, corrupt politicians or big business. Our struggle is primarily aimed at the protection of the people from the atrocities of the Russian dictatorship."
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"Justice for Bosnia! Justice for Palestine! 🇧🇦 🇵🇸
zionism is a crime take your hands of Palestine!
Justice is our demand! no peace no peace on stolen land!"
Berlin commemoration of Srebrenica genocide + condemntation of israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza/Palestine
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Join Hongkongers in protest against the proposed national security law on July 1, 12:30 in NYC. National security has been used to justify political repression, surveillance, and policing from the US to Turkey, from China to India. Abolitionism must be internationalist.
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Tankie/campist "anti imperialist" & "Leftists" smearing Iran's mass revolt for
#JinaAmini
as a "CIA backed color revolution",
siding with a counter-revolutionary puppet regime that was aided by British imperialism to mass murder actual communists
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Israel, Iran, Turkey have all suplied drones to the Ethiopian military/state which have been in use during the genocidal war on Tigray and Oromia, and now in Amhara
An Ethiopian army drone has bombed protesters in Amhara, killing at least 70, local media reports.
Air strikes reportedly hit demonstrators, who'd gathered in the town of Finote Selam to protest federal forces who planned to enter the area.
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Neither Israel nor Iran have the right 2 defend themselves
2 genocidal military states using war 2 distract from their mass atrocities & crisis of legitimacy
Solidarity w/h *ppl* of Palestine, Iran, Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Balochistan,Ahwaz who are the real victims
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"I don't even call it violence when it's in self-defence, I call it intelligence." - Malcolm X ( el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz)
New Jersey father, Anthony Collins, sentenced to 3-years in prison after fatally punching white man who hit his wife with a bike and repeatedly called his children the n-word, Judge says he should have called the police instead.
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Putin should've recieved arrest warrant for war crimes when he was bombing hospitals, markets & schools across Syria,
& we're still awaiting arrest warrant for George Bush, Tony Blair, Netanyahu, Assad, Aby Ahmed, Erdogan, Khamenei, Ben Salman, Al-Bashir...for their war crimes
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