Today, nine nations — collectively known as The Hague Group — gathered in The Hague to coordinate legal, diplomatic and economic measures against Israel’s violations of international law.
"Just as the international community once united to dismantle apartheid in South Africa, we must now unite to enforce international law and protect the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination."
— @VarshaGandikota, Co-General Coordinator of the @ProgIntl
@VarshaGandikota “After many decades of Israel’s evasion of accountability, this is a glimmer of hope that Palestine will soon be free and liberated.”
The US began to invade Panama on this day in 1989.
Washington dispatched more than 20,000 soldiers to the Latin American nation to overthrow the regime of former CIA asset General Manuel Noriega.
Codenamed Operation Just Cause, the US invasion killed as many as 3,000 people, wreaking such destruction that local ambulance drivers referred to parts of Panama City as “little Hiroshima”.
On this day in 1975, representatives of the regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Santiago, Chile to establish a covert network of transnational repression.
Inspired by the Truman Doctrine and engineered by the CIA, Operation Condor (known as Plan Cóndor in Spanish) enabled South America’s US-backed dictatorships to abduct, torture and murder dissidents across the continent – and around the globe.
For Eduardo Galleano, Operation Condor was the "MERCOSUR of terror”.
Within three years, Operation Condor had expanded to include eight of South America’s 13 countries.
Operation Gladio was launched by NATO and the CIA on this day in 1956.
First exposed in Italy in 1990, ‘Gladio’ was the codename for covert networks of "stay behind" agents ostensibly established to defend Europe in the event of Soviet invasion.
In reality, these networks secretly worked to thwart the growth of the communist movement across Europe throughout the second half of the 20th century.
Even before the end of the Second World War, Allies like the United States, Great Britain, and France were anxious about the possibility of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
🇵🇸 Today, the @ProgIntl delegation concludes its investigation of Israel’s systematic violations of international law with a clear and urgent call to governments across the globe: Now is the time for a total energy, economic and arms embargo against Israel.
Download the full report from the delegation: bit.ly/3CkHG0n
On 28 October 2024, an emergency international delegation landed in Palestine to amplify evidence of the Israeli regime’s systematic violations of international law since the start of its genocide in Gaza one year ago.
Over the course of a week in the field, our delegates found clear evidence of what Palestinian citizens have been telling the world for years: Israel relies on systematic violations of international law against the Palestinian people to advance its project of settler colonialism.
On 7 November 1917, the Russian working class sent shockwaves through the world by overthrowing the Tsar, dismantling Russia’s budding capitalism, and establishing history’s first proletarian state.
The October Revolution began months earlier, sparked by the women textile workers of Petrograd. They took to the streets with simple demands: bread, and the “return of our husbands from the trenches” of World War I.
Together with thousands of workers, they mobilized across the city in what became known as the February Revolution, launching a movement that would soon bring the nation’s workers to power.