Football club sacks director after anti-genocide comments. Petition to remove Salma Mashhour from Dagenham and Redbridge FC had only 558 signatures and whitewashed Israel's slaughter of Palestinian civilians and the history of its occupation...
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/23/football-club-sacks-director-after-anti-genocide-comments/

Hundreds of fascists gathered in Dongo, Italy, to commemorate the killing of the Italian fascist dictator Mussolini and 15 high-ranking fascist officials.

A police cordon separated the fascists from a counter-demonstration of citizens who had gathered to “defend the memory of the partisan martyrs.” Fascist salutes were met with jeers and the singing of “Bella Ciao.”

The Italian government has called for “sobriety” in the celebrations of Liberation Day. While government officials justified this by citing national mourning for the death of Pope Francis, critics view it as part of an increasingly fascist trend. In many cities, marches and events have been canceled, some bands have been asked to refrain from playing resistance anthems, and individuals have been identified for displaying banners supporting antifascism.

In 1945, the Italian fascist hierarchs, fleeing with Mussolini toward Switzerland, were captured and executed by the partisan resistance on April 28.

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🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇺Polish Prime Minister Tusk:
"Prime Minister Orban is now openly talking about Hungary's possible exit from the European Union."

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Given the Daily Telegraph's links to the British security state we can tell what this billboard really means. It means that there is a plan to stage anti Russian provocations using the Baltic states as the meat in this particular grinder.

An interesting article on the EU’s military capability reveals how deeply intertwined it is with the United States. The author repeatedly stresses that the EU would struggle to operate militarily without U.S. support, yet fails to acknowledge the deeper truth: the dependency is not merely military, it is structural and economical.

The European Union itself is a creation of U.S. imperialism, designed in the aftermath of the Second World War to unify Western European capitalist states under American influence. Its purpose was twofold: to stabilise the region after centuries of conflict, and more importantly, to contain and undermine the spread of socialism from the East. Far from being a project of European sovereignty, the EU has always functioned as a mechanism for embedding U.S. interests into the very fabric of European governance, economy, and foreign policy.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-military-support-nato-europe-armies-without-american-assistance-donald-trump/

Happy International Workers Day to all comrades! As imperialism continues its spiralling decay the urgent necessity of advancing the class struggle becomes more apparent. The working class in the imperial core nations must fulfill our historic task of eliminating the parasitic bourgeoisie who have robbed and terrorised the world for far too long. It is our historic duty to bring their rule to an end. On May Day we declare that our demands are that we only want the earth! Solidarity!

🟡 HAPPENING NOW: Red flags are rising in Berlin—and the state is already panicking. On the eve of International Workers' Day, hundreds filled the streets to denounce NATO militarism, the cost-of-living crisis, and the capitalist system driving both. Palestinian flags flew alongside red ones, confronting the political order.

Protesters chanted for the expropriation of capitalists—landlords included—“We will expropriate you all.” Police, mainstream media, and politicians are already framing the protests as violent threats—laying the groundwork to justify repression.

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"Peace to the world"
A little girl at the May Day demonstration in Moscow, 1964.

The recent victory for Reform is going to be neither the disaster hand-wringing liberals fear, nor the glorious future frustrated ex-labour voters hope for.

Stopping illegal immigration, whilst still having right-wing economic policies is not going to train more doctors or remove profiteering companies from the NHS. Nor will it build schools and train teachers.

It won't force private landlords to provide affordable housing and it won't provide jobs in our depleted industries.

Only massive changes to our economic and political systems will do such things.
Voting in different establishment politicians will change nothing.

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