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Apr 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Check out this week's photo dump of people in struggle around the world: 🧵

Sakhnin, occupied Palestine – Palestinian flags fill the streets on "Land Day", which commemorates the 1976 uprising following the murder of six Palestinian protesters who resisted Israeli land theft.

Sanaa, Yemen – Huge crowds swarm the capital's streets, marking the anniversary of the Saudi war on Yemen

Paris, France – President Macron depicted on a hangman graffiti on the streets which are still engulfed by massive strikes and protests against his anti-democratic pension bill.

Melbourne, Australia - Activists join worldwide protests on #TransDayOfVisibility, which champions trans rights and LGBTQ+ struggles.

Valparaiso, Chile – Clashes between police and protesters erupt on the annual "Day of the Young Combatant", a Chilean anniversary marking the murder of two young revolutionary brothers in 1985.

Beirut, Lebanon – Ongoing protests flare up in Lebanon driven by retired servicemen demanding an adjusted pension to cope with crippling inflation.

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – Migrants laying down flowers in front of the immigration detention center near the US border, where at least 39 people died in a fire.

Nairobi, Kenya – A protester hurls a rock at riot police during ongoing anti-government protests, which erupted amid a severe cost of living crisis.

Rabat, Morocco – A protester burns the Israeli flag at a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli military escalation in the occupied West Bank.

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Large crowds gather in the world-famous Plaza de Mayo on the 47th anniversary of the 1976 military coup. Protesters mourn victims and celebrate the defeat of the dictatorship.

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Apr 25

Italian communists led the anti-fascist resistance that overthrew Mussolini and helped end WW2.

Today, Italy celebrates “Liberation Day” to commemorate the victory of the resistance. 🧵

The first armed group to oppose Mussolini was the Arditi del Popolo, a united front of different leftist tendencies. However, the Communist Party, led by Amadeo Bordiga, opposed them because they weren’t under party control.

Gramsci and Lenin opposed this sectarian stance and urged the Communist Party to join the Arditi del Popolo. By 1924, it became clear that armed resistance was the only available route under Mussolini’s dictatorship. Almost all opposition formed underground guerilla movements.

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Apr 24

1. Across West Africa, the era of polite dependency may be ending. Governments are taking steps to reverse neocolonial control over currency and resources. From mining to fossil fuels, states are asserting ownership over wealth long extracted for foreign profit. 🧵

Mali has led the shift with a mining code granting the state up to 30% ownership. After pushback, authorities jailed executives, seized 3 tons of gold, and boosted revenues by 52.5% in 2024.

In Senegal, President Faye launched audits of oil and gas contracts with firms like BP, focusing on costs and profit terms. He also renewed calls to replace the CFA franc with a sovereign currency—challenging a system that ties economies to France’s central bank.

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Apr 21

Pope Francis I has died, leaving behind a complex legacy — from his collaboration with US-backed military dictatorships in Argentina to his later condemnation of capitalism and war. 🧵

For years, Pope Francis has spoken out against the injustices of capitalism, denouncing neoliberalism as a scourge on humanity. This stance sets him apart from his predecessors, who came from the firmly conservative Vatican establishment and fiercely opposed such critiques.

He has also positioned himself as an anti-war pope, having criticized Israel and NATO for years. He even labeled Israel’s actions in Gaza as “terrorism” and condemned NATO, saying it provoked the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Apr 15

Palestine’s first anti-Zionist uprising started today in 1936. Read on. 🧵

On this day in 1936, The Great Palestinian Revolt against British colonial rule and the Zionist political project of developing a Jewish national homeland began. It ended in August 1939 following brutal suppression by British forces, with thousands of Palestinians being killed.

The revolt followed years of oppression by British colonial policies, along with the grinding poverty suffered by Palestinians and the transfer of land to Zionist settlers, which hit the peasantry particularly hard. Sixty thousand Jewish immigrants arrived in the year leading to the revolt.

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Apr 9

Meet Georg Elser, the German communist who almost wiped out Nazi Germany’s leadership. 🧵

On this day in 1945, less than a month before Germany’s surrender in WWII and by order of Adolf Hitler, the Waffen SS executed anti-fascist and communist Georg Elser in the infamous Dachau concentration camp.

Kept mainly out of Germany’s post-war narrative due to his communist affiliations, Elser almost prevented the deadliest conflict in human history, with Hitler only narrowly escaping Elser’s assassination attempt.

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Apr 4

On this day in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded. But did you know that in its early days, Nazis filled the ranks of what would become the largest peacetime military alliance in the world? 🧵

One of the first voices to suggest an alliance between the Nazis and the West to contain the “Soviet threat” was Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and chief architect of the Holocaust.

Himmler’s attempts to negotiate a separate peace with the Western Allies failed, leading to him committing suicide in a British prison camp. But his dream came true with the creation of NATO, an alliance founded to contain Soviet communism.

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