Under capitalism, democracy is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and the poverty and misery of the people. This, and this alone, is the reason why the functionaries of our political organisations and trade unions are corrupted or rather tend to be corrupted by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, that is, privileged persons divorced from the people and standing aboue the people. That is the essence of bureaucracy, and until the capitalists have been expropriated and the bourgeoisie overthrown, even proletarian functionaries will inevitably be 'bureaucratised' to a certain extent.

Lenin

A Jewish professor joins the Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Sydney in Australia in support of justice for the Palestinian people.

Scenes from the Palestine solidarity encampment being held these days by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

"Rafah Rafah, here we come" chanted Pro-Israel mobs along with hurling Islamophobic slurs at Pro-Palestinian protesters in Detroit, US.

The people that can chant and sing in support of the ethnic cleansing of a people are seriously disturbed.
Cheering on the firing of a missile is just as bad as pulling the trigger.
No respect or consideration should be given to these people.

"May 1945. Dreams", painting by Vladimir Alexandrovich Shegedin, 1984.

A group of pro Palestine graduating student protesters disrupt their 2024 commencement at The University of Michigan to demand their university divests from Israeli interests.

Israeli soldiers assault a Palestinian youth whilst raiding Beit Rema village near Ramallah.

لحظة اعتداء جنود الاحتلال على شاب في بلدة بيت ريما شمال غرب رام الله

1,000 Palestinian workers from Gaza 'remain missing' in occupied lands, NGOs say

Palestinian human rights organizations say there is no information available about the fate of around 1,000 Palestinian workers from Gaza who were working in the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories on the day the regime launched its barbarous campaign in early October.

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NOW: Thousands of protesters are protesting in Berlin’s Neukölln district for the annual “Revolutionary May 1 Demonstration.” This year, the protest’s focal point is Israel’s ongoing war of extermination against the Gaza Strip, with a wide range of anti-fascist, socialist, and migrant organizations attending the protest.

Thousands of police officers are already present at the protest in the district of Neukölln, known for its large Palestinian community. Yesterday, authorities announced they will deploy around 6,000 police officers, employing a “zero-tolerance strategy,” to prevent any “riots.”

Recent years have seen Berlin’s May Day protests come under attack by police for various pretexts. This year, police vowed to intervene immediately in case of non-compliance with very strict conditions.

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‘Mass protests’ in the streets of Georgia are not led by the masses in defence of democracy but instigated by US and EU-funded NGOs in the interests of west-backed regime change.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/05/04/news/georgia-fight-against-usa-subversion-implications-worldwide/

On May 5th 1981 the Irish revolutionary Bobby Sands died following a 66 day hunger strike. Sands began the action in order to have political status restored for Irish Republican prisoners and nine other men of the IRA and INLA also died that year following hunger strikes. Whilst imprisoned Sands won election to the British parliament as an "Anti H Block" candidate.

Sands was an Irish Republican socialist and a heroic representative of that tradition.

We salute his memory and sacrifice today.

Sings Saodat Kabulova - People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR, soloist of the State Opera and Ballet Theater named after Navoi, 1959.