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On this 50th anniversary of the assassination of proletarian internationalist Fred Hampton, a new radical student movement in Pakistan takes inspiration. News and analysis in the spirit of Chairman Fred: "I am a revolutionary."

Bolivia, Chile, The Arab World, Lula, Spain, Indonesia, Labor Reports, Egypt, India

Reader Comments: Understanding El Paso; Toni Morrison; Brexit; DSA; Socialism; Italy-Migrant Solidarity; Resource: The Great Recession at 10 Years; #ElPasoFirme Against White Supremacy - Sept 7; US Climate Strikes - Nationwide actions - Sept 20; more

A father and son describe what it's like to hear desperate cries on the sea at night as Italy hardens its stance against refugees. If people are in danger at sea, sailors save them, without asking where they come from or the colour of their skin.

[T]ransforming the countryside was not merely a patriotic activity but explicitly a military one in which the enemy was nature itself.

Puerto Rico * Algeria * Japan * Italy * Ecuador * Nicaragua * Malaysia * Spain

Breaking up big tech; Internet iron curtain; Ditching the social network; Vaccinating against fake news; Big media, little media; Going indie; WhatsApp hacked

Sudan: Women Lead, Turks Attack in Rojava, China's New Left, Win in Honduras, Nepal's Future, RCMP vs a First Nation, Ireland: Murder of a Journalist, Italy: CGIL Leader Interviewed, Israel's Desolate Left

With the hard right running left and the center-left abdicating, Euroskeptics could accelerate a continent-wide crisis. Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines, river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates.

Gaza, SE Europe, Algeria, Italy: Sexist International Protested, Haiti, Sudan, Turkey, Thailand