Washington dispatched more than 20,000 soldiers to the Latin American nation to overthrow the regime of former CIA asset General Manuel Noriega. 
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. 
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. 
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.
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. 
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.
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. 
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. 
When the program concluded, over 1400 new schools would be built — "for the benefit of the young generation." 
“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 
Like most of Latin America, resource-rich Chile had been plagued by underdevelopment since Spanish colonisation in the 1500s.
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. 
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. 
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.
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."
Writing in 1920, Leon Trotsky called Lenin the “first worker” of the transformation of the old world.
The statement, known today as the Balfour Declaration, laid the grounds for what was to come.
Aunty Nadeena Dixon, a Gadigal, Yuin and Wiradjuri woman, welcomes us to unceded Gadigal Country.