BREAKING 🇪🇸🇮🇱 An ongoing pattern of military cargo flights from the Zaragoza Air Base in Spain to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv has transported over 60,000 weapons parts directly to Israel since October 2023, reveal @ProgIntl, @palyouthmvmt and @afsc_org. @palyouthmvmt @afsc_org Over the last 12 months, the @ProgIntl and the @palyouthmvmt have carefully tracked the flow of arms to Israel through Europe's ports and across the Mediterranean Sea.

Today, together with the @afsc_org , we reveal the regular illegal air traffic of arms to Israel.

On this day in 1962, US President John F. Kennedy first implemented the US embargo against Cuba, significantly expanding measures put in place by his predecessor. Officially, the embargo hoped to stall the spread of socialism in Latin America, seeking to isolate the “present Government of Cuba and thereby [reduce] the threat posed by its alignment with the communist powers”.

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

BREAKING 🇵🇸 The Inaugural Joint Statement of The Hague Group.

thehaguegroup.org 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.

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.

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.

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.

🇵🇸 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.

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.

On this day in 1952, the British colonial government in Kenya declared a state of emergency in response to the Mau Mau uprising. During the eight-year crackdown that followed, 90,000 Kenyans were killed or injured and over one million were forcibly resettled into villages under military occupation.

The people of East London defeated Sir Oswald Mosley, the Blackshirts and their police protection on this day in 1936. In what became known as the Battle of Cable Street, some 250,000 residents, trade unionists and communists banded together to halt Mosley’s fascist march into the heart of the capital’s Jewish community.

On 30 September 1965, the Indonesian military, working closely with the US government, initiated a coup that would depose President Sukarno and install the brutal, 30-year dictatorship of General Suharto. In the dark years that followed, the dictatorship massacred over a million Indonesian communists, with the CIA and US diplomats drawing up “kill lists” for the Indonesian military. The operation would become a template for the US’s regime change operations for decades to come.

On this day 65 years ago, Władysław Gomułka, leader of the socialist Polish People's Republic, announced the "1000 Schools for the Millennium" program — an ambitious plan, hatched in the ashes of WW2, to build one school for every year of Poland's existence. When the program concluded, over 1400 new schools would be built — "for the benefit of the young generation."

“Economic liberation will not be granted. It must be seized.” Last night, the @ProgIntl kicked off the UN General Assembly with a presentation of its Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order — going live on 22 September 2024. Stay tuned.





“The historical conjuncture in which we find ourselves requires us not only to recognize the threats of the dominant powers of the present international economic order, but also to build a new kind of power—from the bottom up.” – @adam_tooze

On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected socialist government was overthrown in a military coup led by the US-backed fascist Augusto Pinochet. Like most of Latin America, resource-rich Chile had been plagued by underdevelopment since Spanish colonisation in the 1500s.

Two months after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the first meeting of the International Supervisory Committee on Non-Intervention took place in London on 9 September 1936. The Non-Intervention Pact was to become a vital instrument in British imperialism’s attempts to conceal its true sympathies, providing diplomatic cover for its lack of support for Spain’s legitimate government.

The Guatemalan army, under the command of General Efraín Ríos Montt, launched Operation Sofia on 8 July 1982.

Supported by the Reagan administration in Washington, the goal of this brutal counterinsurgency campaign was to “cleanse” indigenous Maya areas of alleged communists. Alongside a series of other scorched earth missions, Operation Sofia encapsulated what Ríos Montt referred to as a “war without limits.” More than 600 villages were destroyed, thousands of people were massacred, and thousands more were displaced.

President Harry S. Truman signed a bill authorising $400 million of "military and economic assistance" for Greece and Turkey on this day in 1947, inaugurating an age of destabilising US interventions around the globe. The bill formalised the Truman Doctrine and committed the United States to the Cold War — a war so far-reaching in its implications that some historians described it as a Third World War, which revealed that the US was prepared to use any and every means to defeat communism and the forces of liberation.

Isabel Perón’s Argentinian government was overthrown by a US-backed coup on this day in 1976, ushering in a bloody dictatorship under which 30,000 people were killed and disappeared. For the US Ambassador in Argentina, who had already warned Washington of the plotter's plans for “military rule of extended duration and of unprecedented severity”, the coup was "probably the best executed and most civilized coup in Argentine history."

The West German ambassador in Buenos Aires was even more blunt, describing Argentina as a “cornerstone in the expanded transatlantic security framework, a market and source of raw materials, home of many German settlers and German assets.” These reactions foreshadowed US and European support for Argentina’s murderous junta.

Vladimir Ulyanov, known by his pseudonym Lenin, died on this day 100 years ago. Lenin was one of history’s great pathfinders of socialism, a relentless thinker who insisted always on a “concrete analysis of the concrete situation” against the dogmatism and idealism of his peers. Writing in 1920, Leon Trotsky called Lenin the “first worker” of the transformation of the old world.

“To be able to direct such a revolution, without precedent in the history of peoples,” he wrote, “it is most evidently necessary to have an indissoluble organic connection with the main strength of popular life, a connection which springs from the deepest roots.”

On this day in 1917, Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, issued a public statement declaring Britain’s “sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations” and offering its support for what it called a “national home for the Jewish people in Palestine”. The statement, known today as the Balfour Declaration, laid the grounds for what was to come.

In the late 19th century, a political and ideologically colonial movement called Zionism emerged in Europe. It sought to create a Jewish national home in Palestine.