(2022-02-04). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'apartheid'? Concealing the suffering in Palestine. mronline.org 
Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.
(2022-02-04). Amnesty: 'Israel' Imposing 'Apartheid' on Palestinians. orinocotribune.com Occupied Palestine (QNN)- 'Israel' is carrying out "the crime of apartheid against Palestinians" and must be held accountable for treating them as "an inferior racial group", Amnesty International said in a new report. | Released on Tuesday, the 278-page report by the leading rights group details how Israeli occupation authorities enforce a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinians. | The damning investigation sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Pales…
(2022-02-04). Human Rights in Prolonged Occupation: Israel's Treatment of Palestinians (HRW). juancole.com ( Human Rights Watch ) — This memorandum provides an overview of several of Human Rights Watch's central concerns with respect to the Israeli government's human rights practices in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in advance of its review of Israel in March 2022. This …
(2022-02-04). Update on Antifascists Facing Repression from Opposing the NSM in Newnan, Georgia. itsgoingdown.org Report and update from the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund on those facing charges stemming from protests in Newnan, GA against the NSM. Back in April 2018, full-on nazis from the National Socialist Movement held a rally in Newnan, GA. Anti-fascists showed up to defend the community from that threat and were attacked — by Georgia…
(2022-02-04). Dimitrov on the ideological struggle against fascism. cpusa.org 
The following excerpt, "The Ideological Struggle against Fascism," is from Georgi Dimitrov's report at the 7th Communist International on August 2, 1935. One of the weakest aspects of the anti-fascist struggle of our Parties is that they react inadequately and too slowly to the demagogy of fascism, and to this day continue to neglect …
(2022-02-04). New Hampshire teachers unions fight state censorship of anti-racist education. liberationnews.org 
A new bill in the New Hampshire state legislature, HB 1255, would all but explicitly ban the mention of indigenous genocide and race-based chattel slavery in New Hampshire class rooms.
(2022-02-04). The 'Freedom' convoy: Canada's far right revolt. nationofchange.org Unfortunately, some of those involved in the convoy and on online forums dedicated to it have called for a January 6th style event in Ottawa…
(2022-02-04). Canada's ruling elite pressures Trudeau to meet with far-right Ottawa occupiers. wsws.org The opposition Conservative Party and right-wing media outlets are demanding Trudeau find a "political solution" to the standoff in Canada's capital. That is, make concessions to the protesters and their fascistic demand all COVID-19 public health measures be scrapped.
(2022-02-04). Some Consequences of the Latest hate Speech Incident in India. journal-neo.org 
On January 10 the Supreme Court of India agreed to urgently consider a petition on "hate speech" against the country's Moslem communities, with reference to specific incidents, most notoriously an incident in December 2021 in Haridwar — a city venerated in the Himalayan foothills on the banks of the River Ganges. Both the city and …
(2022-02-04). "City on the Second Floor": Clarion call from a poetic craftsman. roarmag.org Police investigate at a homeless people's encampment in Los Angeles, US. September 15, 2022. Credit: Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock | Matt Sedillo's poetry is electric, like a lightning bolt. He is a man on a mission, with a message to spread and fire on the tongue. With the tone and the tenor of a biblical prophet — though one with a profound sense of the farcical, too — he delivers a scathing critique, a desperate denunciation of the patriarchal, white supremacist and capitalist dystopia that we inhabit. His latest book, City on the Second Floor, is a cohesive and compelling compendium of some 32 poems a…
(2022-02-03). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'Apartheid'? greenleft.org.au The Israeli state is pulling out all stops to delegitimise international organisations that dare use the term "apartheid" to describe its decades-long brutal occupation of Palestine, writes Vijay Prashad.
(2022-02-03). What makes Amnesty's apartheid report different? electronicintifada.net Israel fears being branded an "apartheid state" at the UN.
(2022-02-03). The vaccine must be a common good for humanity. peoplesdispatch.org Immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath and NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha discuss the prevailing vaccine apartheid and try to understand how it is against the common good of the people of the world…
(2022-02-03). Amnesty International Defends Report on Israeli Apartheid, Rejecting Criticism from U.S. & Israel. democracynow.org 
Amnesty International has become the third major human rights organization to accuse Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians in a new report released on Tuesday. Amnesty finds Israel's system of apartheid dates back to the country's founding in 1948 and has materialized in abuses including massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians — all of which constitute apartheid under international law. We speak with Amnesty International USA's executive dir…
(2022-02-03). Israel's Claims to be a Democracy ring Hollow as Amnesty Finds it an Apartheid State. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. In a damning report titled "Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians" the rights group concludes that the occupation state has imposed a "cruel system of domination" and is committing "crimes against humanity." …
(2022-02-03). How Israel is an apartheid regime, with Ali Abunimah. multipolarista.com Mainstream human rights organization Amnesty International admitted Israel is committing apartheid against Palestinians, a crime against humanity. Journalist Ali Abunimah discusses the parallels to South Africa and roots in settler-colonialism.
(2022-02-03). First-hand report: The truth about Nicaragua's revolution. workers.org 
Delegates from Labor Against Racism and War and Workers World Party with members of the ATC (Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo), Managua. Based on a talk by the author at a Jan. 30 webinar, hosted by the Alliance for Global Justice, entitled "Nicaragua: What We Saw; What's Next." Red traveled . . . |
(2022-02-03). Edna Griffin and the fight to integrate a Des Moines drug store. cpusa.org 
Over 10 years before the civil rights sit-ins of the 1960s, like the one at the Woolworth's in North Carolina, a coalition organized by a Communist Party member and others fought to desegregate a drug store in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1948 Iowa had a problem with racism. The state was north of the …
(2022-02-03). Amazon worker organizing accelerates with union voting. workers.org 
Worker organizing at Amazon received international coverage when the Associated Press used a photo of this Workers Assembly Against Racism rally for the Amazon Labor Union, on Oct. 25, 2021, to announce upcoming union elections in February 2022. Headlines screamed alarm Jan. 26 in capitalist business media like the Wall . . . |
(2022-02-03). Neo-Nazis active in Ukraine as White House adds 3,000 troops. peoplesworld.org 
There's an increasingly surreal air regarding the war scare over Ukraine. The original roles in the drama seem to be reversed. Back in December, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Oleksii Reznikov was warning that "not provoking Russia—that strategy does not and will not work," claiming that Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 because NATO hadn't let it join. …
(2022-02-03). Media2Rise Propagandist Identified as Montana Neo-Nazi. splcenter.org Hatewatch has identified "Lucca Corgiat," an on-air presenter for the far-right propaganda outfit Media2Rise, as Allen Michael Goff, 29, of Billings, Montana.
(2022-02-03). Governor Ron DeSantis refuses to denounce Florida Nazis, attacks Democrats instead. wsws.org The Florida governor's refusal to condemn members of the National Socialist Movement is another example of the transformation of the Republican Party into a fascist movement.
(2022-02-03). Patriotism is NRM ideology. plusnews.ug 
By Emmanuel Lumala Dombo Until recently, many thought that the position of PM belonged to the Banyakigezi, given the two former Prime Ministers of Uganda. Being a political appointment, there could have been sufficient reason at a particular time that warranted that to happen and that even enabled some people to begin imagining that after …
(2022-02-03). Whoopi Goldberg suspended for comments about the Holocaust. wsws.org The backlash in the corporate media against Goldberg's insensitive and confused comments is rife with hypocrisy and works to conceal anti-Semitism and fascism within sections of the ruling establishment.
(2022-02-03). Next steps for New York State CPUSA (report). cpusa.org 
This political and organizational report was presented at the meeting of the New York State Committee on Jan. 29, 2022. This political report is divided into four parts: 1) the meaning of the Republican Party—engineered defeat of the legislation protecting voting rights, and the need in 2022 for a mass anti-fascist front; 2) the …
(2022-02-03). Read Mao's article on battle of Stalingrad. fightbacknews.org Feb. 2 marks the 79th anniversary of victory over fascism at Stalingrad | | To mark the victory of the Soviet Union at Stalingrad, Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following article by Mao Zedong, that was first published October 12, 1942, in Liberation Daily. | | The Turning point in World War 2 | | The Battle of Stalingrad has been compared by the British and American press to the Battle of Verdun, and the "Red Verdun" is now famous all over the world. This comparison is not altogether appropriate. The Battle of Stalingrad is different in nature from the Battle of Verdun in World War I. But they…
(2022-02-03). Headlines for February 3, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. to Deploy 3,000 Additional Troops to Eastern Europe Amid Tensions over Ukraine, Witnesses Say U.S. Raid That Killed ISIS Leader in Syria Left Civilians Dead, Pentagon Sends Warship and Planes to UAE; Saudi Arabia and Israel Hold Joint Naval Exercises, Militia Attacks DRC Camp for Displaced People, Killing 60, Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve COVID Vaccine for Young Kids Despite Mixed Clinical Trial Results, Ecuadorian Court Rejects Oil Drilling on Indigenous Lands in Amazon Rainforest, Biden Renominates Former Chevron Lawyer First Tapped by Trump to Become Federal Judge, Senate Forges Ahead with Judicial Confirmat…
(2022-02-03). Instead of Freeing Palestinian Prisoners, New Scheme Aims at Punishing Their Families. dissidentvoice.org 
A scheme is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration has requested that the PA entirely overhauls its support system of Palestinian prisoners. The Palestinian leadership had already expressed willingness to engage the US in a 'discussion'. …
(2022-02-03). Potential SCOTUS nominee Jackson gives workers another win over Trump. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON —Potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has given the nation's two million federal workers a legal win over their nemesis, former GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump—again. This time Jackson threw out an anti-worker scheme the Trump-named majority on the Federal Labor Relations Authority concocted in the waning days of the …
(2022-02-03). Supreme Court dismisses protestors' appeal over PKK flag conviction. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
Pwr v Director of Public Prosecutions [2022] UKSC 2 — judgment here On 26 January 2022 the Supreme Court ruled that s.13(1) Terrorism Act 2000 ("TA 2000 ") is a strict liability offence and that, whilst it does interfere with Art.10 ECHR (freedom of expression), the interference is lawful, necessary and proportionate. BACKGROUND S.13 provides …
(2022-02-03). Thursday 2/3: 15th Amendment Day: Protect Voting Rights & Pass Living Wages Now! Virtual Rally w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream…