- How We View War
- Showdown in India
- Students in Europe
- General Strikes in Europe
- Palestine Action Day
- Zero Hour Brazil
- African States vs Internet Oppositions
- Cubans on the Spot
- Iranian Teachers Will Not Back Down
- Eusi Kwayana (1925-2026)
Francesco Strazzari / il manifesto Global (Rome)
On August 4, 1914, when the Social Democrats in the Reichstag voted for war credits, the International dissolved in a single day. Since then the roles keep changing, but the accusations stay the same: social-patriots against defeatists, accomplices of the aggressor against accomplices of imperialism.
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Showdown in India
The Crackdown Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta / The Wire (New Delhi)
Opposition Hits the Streets Aarish Chhabra / NDTV (New Delhi)
The Left Response Gautam Debroy / ETV Bharat (Telangana, India)
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Students in Europe
Overview Rebecca Falconer / Axios (Arlington VA)
Video: This Week in France Lisa Louis / Deutsche Welle News (Berlin)
Rioting in Albania Bujar Leskaj / CNA (Tirana)
Violent vs Nonviolent Confrontation Nicoleta Onofrei / Informat.ro (Bucharest)
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Carmen Obregón / Demócrata (Madrid)
In Spain, the unions UGT and CCOO have called for a general strike in November. The campaign chief of the acting president and leader of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, stated that this demonstration will be against the opposition and not against the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Nevertheless, Spain faces a situation unique in the history of the European Union.
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Middle East Monitor (London)
The Global Day of Action for Palestine called for 10th October, received massive support worldwide. This historic international mobilisation unites over 200 organisations through 325 mapped events across 60 countries and six continents. People of conscience are rising together to declare that the genocide and suffering of the Palestinian people will never be swept aside.
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Zero Hour Brazil
No to the Father, No to the Son / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Race for a Turnaround Gilbert Achcar / International Viewpoint (Paris)
The Racket Society Benjamin Fogel and William Shoki / Africa is a Country (New York)
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African States vs Internet Oppositions
Ephraim Percy Kenyanito / Global Voices (The Hague)
When a state shuts a network its because the network is what people use to coordinate opposition. A shutdown is not a speech instrument; it is an instrument for preventing coordinated action, and examinations and demonstrations are two instances of the same reach. Cut the network during a protest, and you have not silenced a conversation. You have dispersed an assembly before it forms.
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Rodrigo Acuña / Truthout (Sacramento)
“On my block, if someone steals, the neighbors themselves point them out and report them. We know that the real enemy is not the fellow Cuban struggling alongside you, but rather Yankee imperialism and its lackeys, who prevent us from developing.”
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Iranian Teachers Will Not Back Down
Duaa e Zahra Shah / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
The Iranian teachers’ movement has proven resilient against virtually every form of repression, from internet shutdowns to detentions and killings, while continuing to press its demands. Local and provincial teachers’ associations operate across the country, while an umbrella network called the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, or CCITTA, links many of them.
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Kaietuer News (Georgetown)
Eusi Kwayana, the veteran Guyanese political activist, educator, historian and founding member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), died on Saturday at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, aged 101. He has left behind a political and intellectual legacy that spans the struggle against colonial rule, the fight for social change and decades of political activism.
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