(2024-05-02). We Need To Strike For Palestine: Why UAW 4811 Matters. popularresistance.org Workers across the U.S. labor movement, including the United Auto Workers (UAW), are mobilizing for Palestine. From the strong resolutions passed at Ford UAW Local 551 (representing workers at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant), to UAW 4811 at UC Berkeley's resolution to commit union resources to make Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) a bargaining demand, to the historic vote from the UAW International Executive Board (IEB) last November to investigate the union's ties to Israel's apartheid regime, workers in the U.S. are advancing the demands of their Palestinian allies.
(2024-05-02). NYPD Storm 'Hind's Hall' In Violent Raid Of Columbia University. popularresistance.org Dozens of student protesters were cleared out from Columbia University's Hamilton Hall building by New York police late on 30 April, after storming and occupying the building the night before as part of demonstrations in support of Palestine. | Hundreds of police officers wearing helmets and carrying riot shields surrounded the building, with a number of policemen climbing into Hamilton Hall via a ramp extending from one of the police vehicles into a window of the building. | Dozens of pro-Palestine students were detained and dragged away from the scene with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.
(2024-05-02). May 2, 2024. sitrepworld.info 
Fauré Élégie in C minor Op. 24 — Jacqueline du Pré Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump, by Caitlin Johnstone Shades of 1968: The New York police assault on Columbia University demonstrators, by Gilbert Doctorow CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment, by Caitlin Johnstone US Campus Chaos: A New Oct 7 on the Way? by Naomi Wolf Semitism, Settlements and Solutions: A dialogue, by Ken Freeland, Ray Zwarich 'Political Decision' — Türkiye to Join South Africa's Case Against Israel at ICJ House GOP Passes Controversial B…
(2024-05-02). The Little Flotilla that Almost Could. dissidentvoice.org 
The flotilla cargo ship in Istanbul (Photo credit: Medea Benjamin) Two gutsy activists from the Twin Cities flew to Istanbul, Turkey April 17 to join over three-hundred others from about 40 countries on an eleven-hundred mile voyage across the Mediterranean Sea to raise awareness and bring lifesaving aid to Gaza. Vietnam Vet and member of …
(2024-05-02). CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Propaganda only works if you don't know it's happening to you, so hopefully they keep going mask-off like this for everyone to see.
(2024-05-02). U.S. Intelligence Operatives Appear to Have Intentionally Groomed Mass Murderer Charles Manson. covertactionmagazine.com Status As a Police Informant Raises Suspicion That He Was an FBI and CIA Asset Out to Discredit the 1960s Counterculture The Sharon Tate murders were as bizarre as they were bloody, and the story behind the story is even stranger. Journalist Tom O'Neill spent 20 years researching, interviewing and digging in his effort to …
(2024-05-02). When Safety is a Fiction: Passing the UK's Rwanda Bill. dissidentvoice.org What a stinking story of inhumanity. A country intent on sending asylum seekers to one whose residents have actually applied for asylum and sanctuary in other states. But the UK-Rwanda deal, having stalled and stuttered before various courts and found wanting for reasons of human rights, has become law with the passage of the Safety …
(2024-05-02). Pro-Israel Provocations Feed False Narrative of Anti-Semitism Creating Pretext for Repressive Police Violence Against Students. fightbackbetter.com
(2024-05-02). Penn For Palestine Encampment Still Going Strong. popularresistance.org Joining around 80 college campuses across the United States, University of Pennsylvania students, faculty and staff established a Penn for Palestine encampment on the campus April 25 to demand: the administration disclose what companies they have invested billions of endowment funds in and that they divest from any that do business with Israel. | Earlier in the day, demonstrators marched from Philadelphia City Hall, led by students from Temple University and activists with the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition to UPenn. En route to UPenn, several hundred people marched through Center City and received an overwhelm…
(2024-05-02). Washington Is Trying To Divide Revolutionary Forces In Bolivia. popularresistance.org The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, warned that the United States intends to divide the popular and revolutionary forces in Bolivia in order to recolonize Latin America. | "The main goal of the US empire and the Bolivian fascists is to divide the Bolivian socialist and revolutionary forces, and to turn them against each other to a point impossible to reconcile the leadership of comrade Evo Morales, the leadership of President Lucho Arce, that is the plan," said the Venezuelan president on Monday, April 29, during the 43rd episode of his TV program Con Maduro+.
(2024-05-02). May Day 2028 Could Transform The Labor Movement And The World. popularresistance.org Members of the United Auto Workers courageously fought corporate greed at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis last fall during the historic six-week Stand-Up Strike. Because of their determination and commitment, we won record contracts with the Big Three automakers. | After decades of falling behind, UAW autoworkers are finally moving forward again. | We made a lot of ambitious demands at the bargaining table. One in particular may not have gotten the same attention as the reinstatement of cost-of-living adjustments or the reopening of the Stellantis assembly plant in Belvidere, Ill.‚Äâ—&s…
(2024-05-02). For The Defense Of The Alliance Of Sahel States, Revolutionary Pan-Africanism. popularresistance.org In 2011, Africa suffered a devastating blow with the collapse of the socialist Libyan Jamahiriya and the assassination of a great son of Africa, Comrade Muammar Gaddafi, at the hands of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in complicity with corrupt Africans. To the collective west, Gaddafi's crime was that he wished for a truly independent and sovereign Africa. In 2009, as Chairman of the African Union, Gaddafi suggested the creation of an independent continental currency, the gold dinar. This would free the continent from its economic subservience to the US dollar and the French African Franc (CFA).
(2024-05-02). Occupation At Johns Hopkins University Protests For Palestinians. popularresistance.org Activists and organizers who set up an encampment at Johns Hopkins University said that school officials threatened to call the police on them if they didn't leave last night. They said that school officials also threatened them with academic sanctions. | "We have been clear that the consequences of violating our policies and creating unsafe conditions include academic discipline, which is determined by University officials, and trespass, which is handled by local law enforcement," a representative for the school said in an email to Baltimore Beat. | Organizers launched the encampment on Monday, April 29.
(2024-05-02). In Relay Race To Organize The South, Baton Passes To Mercedes Workers. popularresistance.org Michael Gà∂bel, president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, stepped down from his post today, according to a video message that workers were shown. | Gà∂bel had groused in an April captive-audience meeting about a worker's claim that Mercedes had come for the "Alabama discount": low wages. His departure is another win for Mercedes-Benz workers, who already scored pay bumps and an end to wage tiers—and they haven't even voted on the union yet. | The company and Alabama politicians are ramping up their anti-union campaign as an election draws near. The 5,200 Mercedes workers at a factory…
(2024-05-02). Southern Autoworkers' Union Drives Can Reverse Decades Of Job Decline. popularresistance.org The United Auto Workers recently scored the largest union victory in decades in the South. Their success at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant could be a turning point for labor in a region long known for governmental hostility to unions. | The next test will be a UAW election scheduled for the week of May 13 at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama, a state that has attracted so much auto investment it has earned the nickname "the Detroit of the South." | If the roughly 5,000 Mercedes workers vote to unionize, the ripple effects could empower workers nationwide.
(2024-05-02). Chinese factories in Mexico on thin ice, Xi-Biden talks and the surprise tiny EV hit: 7 reads about US-China relations. scmp.com Struggling US-China ties, a human rights shock and a student in big trouble: these are the highlights from the SCMP's overseas correspondents from April 2024.
(2024-05-02). Michael Mann: Explaining the Irrationality of War. newleftreview.org Drawing on eight years of comparative-historical research, Michael Mann overturns accepted wisdom on the bellicosity of democracies, the economic grounds for war and the rational calculations of states in a rivalrous world system.
(2024-05-02). CCNY 5/1/2024 Press Conference on 4/30 Mass Arrests. fightbackbetter.com 
(2024-05-02). Peter Osborne: The Planet as Political Subject? newleftreview.org An incisive critique of the absence of the social and historical in Bruno Latour's planetary politics and Dipesh Chakrabarty's geo-biology. The political, Osborne argues, is a modality of the social, which is already a socio-natural set of relations.
(2024-05-02). Trump Repeats Election Fraud Lies, Hints At Violence And Says He'll Pardon All Jan. 6 Rioters In Time Interview. newsone.com 
When asked about the possibility of another Jan. 6 situation in November after the votes are in, Trump said, "I think we're going to win. And if we don't win, you know, it depends."
(2024-05-02). Iraqi Kurdish journalist Guhdar Zebari is free from prison, but not from threats. Doja Daoud 
(2024-05-02). Hamas Is A Third Rate Terrorist Organization. sonar21.com 
Let me start by establishing that I do not think it is fair to describe Hamas as an exceptional or deadly terrorist organization. Yes, it is a group that has carried out "terrorist" attacks — where terrorism is defined as an act of violence carried out on civilians or civilian targets — but the attacks have been sporadic.
(2024-05-02). CPJ Insider: World Press Freedom Day edition. cpj.org 
(2024-05-02). Stony Brook Starts Encampment — Arrests Same Day — 5/1/2024. fightbackbetter.com 
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(2024-05-02). Rob Lucas: From Thick to Thin. newleftreview.org Rob Lucas on Lorraine Daston, Rules. A historian of science tackles the thinning of 'rules': how paradigms to play with became regulations and algorithms to obey.
(2024-05-02). Police Violence Reigns Down on U New Hampshire Students. fightbackbetter.com 
University of New Hampshire | The state police raided the University of New Hampshire Palestine Solidarity Encampment. The students are calling for Jail Support at the Strafford County Jail 266 County Road. | Click pic for clip — stay tuned as more details come available.
(2024-05-02). Kohei Saito: Greening Marx in Japan. newleftreview.org The Japanese context of decades-long economic stagnation has helped to generate an unexpected reading of Marx as a proto-degrowth proponent. Kōhei Saitō discusses his novel synthesis of Kuruma School historical materialism, German philology and American eco-socialism.
(2024-05-02). University of Florida Tear Gas and Mass Arrests. fightbackbetter.com 
(2024-05-02). Jacob Collins: Ego-History Lessons. newleftreview.org Jacob Collins on Pierre Nora, Jeunesse and Une étrange obstination. Recollections of French intellectual life from the theorist of self-historicization.
(2024-05-02). Gà∂ran Therborn: The Future and the Left. newleftreview.org Gà∂ran Therborn replies to Oliver Eagleton's critique of 'The World and the Left' (NLR 137). Debates on the nature of dialectics and the triadic crisis of climate breakdown, imperial geopolitics and rising inequality. Could Bloch still be right about the grounds for rational hope?
(2024-05-02). Nick Burns: Student Debt in American Society. newleftreview.org The intense debate around American student loans has largely been cast in moral terms—fairness, forgiveness, desert. Nick Burns instead provides a hard-headed analysis of the political and economic interests that built a credit pyramid out of higher education.
(2024-05-02). Hanna Gedin (Left Party, Sweden): 'We need to give people hope'. links.org.au 
An interview with Hanna Gedin from the Left Party (Và§nsterpartiet) on the priorities and challenges of the Swedish Left ahead of the European elections.
(2024-05-02). Terry Eagleton: Modern Joyce. newleftreview.org Terry Eagleton on Luke Gibbons, James Joyce and the Irish Revolution. Rereading of Ulysses as a saturnine blow for the Irish independence struggle.
(2024-05-02). Extreme rights 2.0: A big global family. links.org.au 
Steven Forti — From Spain's Vox to Argentina's Javier Milei, the forces of the new far right don't resurrect historical fascism. But they are the greatest threat to democracy today.
(2024-05-02). Jiwei Xiao: The Novel of Details in Chinese Literary History. newleftreview.org Jiwei Xiao traces the literary modes of the xijie xiaoshuo as it has registered successive periods of social and cultural change. From its emergence in the twilight of the Ming dynasty through to contemporary panoramas of urban and rural life, lineages of a multiform poetics of detail.
(2024-05-02). More Americans view China as an enemy, new Pew survey shows. scmp.com Four out of five people who responded to the poll say their opinion of mainland China is unfavourable, about the same as last year.
(2024-05-02). RU Newark Encampment — 5/1/2024. fightbackbetter.com
(2024-05-02). Faculty Members Respond to Princeton Smear and Misinformation on Student Takeover of Clio Hall. fightbackbetter.com 
RUHA BENJAMIN AND PRINCETON FACULTY WITNESSES SPEAK OUT ON CLIO HALL SIT-IN Reprinted from Published Open Letter Link Dear Members…
(2024-05-02). May Day 2024 NJ. fightbackbetter.com
(2024-05-02). Lorna Finlayson: On Lesser Evilism. newleftreview.org The standard argument for backing hawkish centre-left parties remains the 'lesser evil'. Lorna Finlayson interrogates that line of reasoning and the assumptions on which it rests: crude consequentialism, narrow minded electoralism and covering up the realities of Starmer's Labour.
(2024-05-02). Clifton HS Student March Friday, May 3 12:10pm at Clifton City Hall. fightbackbetter.com Source: North Jersey! NJ students need your support! Clifton High School students will be marching from the school to Clifton City Hall in solidarity with Palestine on Friday, May 3. Community members are invited to join their protest at 12: 10pm at Clifton City Hall, 900 Clifton Ave, Clifton, NJ. For more information, see
(2024-05-01). President Maduro: El Aissami Knew About Several Assassination and Coup Attempts. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that "there will be surprises in the operation Caiga quien Caiga [Fall Who They May]," referring to new revelations in the PDVSA-Crypto investigation, which were presented this Monday by Attorney General Tarek William Saab. He explained that former Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami and his group knew about the foiled assassination attempt of August 2018, the coup attempt of April 30, 2019, and the invasion attempt Operation Gideon of May 2020. | "I can say with absolute knowledge all this evidence that this is barely 1% of what we have," President Maduro commented o…
(2024-05-01). Charges framed against killers of Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf Ahmed. muslimmirror.com Prayagraj : Charges have been framed against three killers of slain gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf in the Court of Additional Sessions Judge. Three accused, who are presently lodged in Chitrakoot jail, appeared through video conferencing before the court. After framing of charges, Additional Sessions Judge Dinesh Gautam fixed May 2 for recording …
(2024-05-01). Odessa tragedy in 2014 was planned, former Ukrainian official says. plenglish.com Moscow, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The tragedy in the Trade Union House that was set on fire in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on May 2, 2014, was a very well-planned operation, Ukrainian former Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Prozorov said on Wednesday.
(2024-05-01). Zelensky Facing the End of His Term; US Trying to Ukraine-ize the Pacific Against China. thealtworld.com May 21st marks the official end of President Zelensky's term, and the US is working to turn its Pacific proxies into cannon fodder against the People's Republic of China. |