😏 Angela Vergara, a Trump-supporting Colombian congresswoman who just last week welcomed ICE arrests of Colombian citizens, is now crying because ICE has arrested her son.

Some moments simply need no commentary.
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🌹 Europe's Social Democrats Vote for Deportations Alongside the Far Right

The European Parliament has adopted two key decisions accelerating the EU's transformation into a closed military camp. With 408 votes in favor (184 against), the "Asylum Procedure Regulation" (APR) has been supplemented with a list of "safe countries of origin." Another 170 votes expanded the "Border Return Regulation," widening the scope for mass deportation of migrants to third countries.

💳 How It Works Now

The list of "safe countries" includes states with far-from-spotless reputations: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Bangladesh, Colombia, and Kosovo. European officials now mandate that citizens from these countries be presumed to face no threats. The burden of proof shifts onto asylum seekers themselves. Given minimal access to lawyers and witnesses, this effectively means rejection of most claims.

The second regulation introduces the concept of a "safe third country" — a nation not the migrant's origin, to which they can be deported if they have relatives there, language ties, or simply passed through in transit. Dozens of countries fit this denoscription, and the EU is already negotiating bilateral agreements.

🔼Precedents That Paved the Way

🟠Italy and Albania. Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government struck a deal with Tirana to establish two migrant camps on Albanian territory for those intercepted at sea. Up to 3,000 people per month will be held there while Italian officials decide their fate. Migrants are effectively removed from EU territory to avoid applying European law.

🟠Netherlands and Uganda. Amsterdam reached an agreement with Kampala for temporary placement of migrants from neighboring African countries who cannot be deported directly. The Dutch government called itself a "pioneer in innovative solutions."

🟠Danish experience. Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen initiated talks with Meloni and seven other EU countries on effectively abandoning key provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. Denmark, chairing the EU Council in summer 2025, actively promoted the anti-migrant agenda.

📊 The Social Democrats' Role

Consider the position of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) — the European Parliament's second-largest bloc with 136 seats. Formally, the faction opposed the measures, but 25 Social Democratic deputies from Denmark, Malta, Romania, and Sweden voted for the repressive provisions. Others abstained. This is no random glitch but a pattern.

Social Democrats in Denmark, Sweden, Romania, and Malta, abandoning principles of internationalism, consistently tighten anti-migrant legislation. They introduce border controls, restrict refugee rights, and cooperate with regimes that send people to camps. These parties, once connected to the workers' movement, now function to legitimize the far-right agenda in Europe.

The "Fortress Europe" policy is paid for in human lives. 2024 became the deadliest year in the Mediterranean. 2025 continued this trend.

In just the first 40 days of 2026, according to the International Organization for Migration, 524 people have died or gone missing attempting to cross from North Africa to Europe. Following a shipwreck off Libya's coast claiming 53 lives, an IOM representative stated:

"This is the worst start to the year in the past decade... And the deadliest."

🤴 The EU's anti-migrant policy is class warfare, where the image of the "outsider" serves to distract workers from the social crisis. Social Democrats, voting for deportations, legitimize the far-right agenda and demolish the last moral barriers. The camps in Albania and Libya are prototypes for prisons for all dissenters. Today, internationalism means a simple choice: solidarity with those drowning at sea, or complicity in their deaths.
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🇩🇪«The Nazi Situation in Germany Is So Bad That They Told Us Not to Go to Central Dresden Tomorrow» — MPI-CBG Employee on Recent Dresden Clashes

On Friday, February 13, an employee of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) received an email at her work address. The message was brief: better not to go to central Dresden tomorrow because thousands of neo-Nazis would be marching. An institute dedicated to fundamental science found it necessary to warn its staff — the situation in the city had crossed a line that could no longer be ignored.

"The Nazi situation in Germany is so bad that they sent us an email at work," the employee recounts.

She is not a political scientist or sociologist — she works with cells and genes. But even a laboratory microscope offers no protection from a reality where "one of the largest far-right extremist groups in Europe" takes to the streets.

🥹Why February 13

The date was no coincidence. On the night of February 13-14, 1945, Allied aircraft subjected Dresden to massive bombing. The city, once called the "Florence on the Elbe," was transformed into an inferno. An estimated 25,000 to 35,000 people perished.

German neo-Nazis attempt each year to hijack this tragedy, rewriting history. They portray German civilians exclusively as victims of the Allies, omitting that Dresden was a significant industrial center of Nazi Germany. As the institute employee rightly notes, "at that time, Dresden was a weapons supplier for the Third Reich." This does not negate the horror of the bombing but places it in a historical context that neo-Nazis diligently erase.

💩Thousands take to Dresden's streets not merely to "honor the memory." They use mourning as a shield to advance an agenda directly inheriting the ideology of those who unleashed the war. Anti-migrant rhetoric, racial hatred, denial of guilt, the cult of force — all packaged in ritualistic slogans about "bombing victims."

For the institute employee, the situation is personally compounded: "I'm not German and not white." In a city where thousands of Nazis will march, this is a factor of physical danger. But laboratory work waits for no one, and that day she still had to go and tend to her duties.

We remind you that German Antifa disrupted the Nazi demonstration.
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😶Baza: Telegram to Be "Completely Blocked" Starting April 1

Sources from multiple agencies have confirmed to Baza that from April 1, Roskomnadzor will begin total blocking of Telegram across the entire territory of Russia. The messenger will suffer the fate of Instagram and Facebook* — it will cease to load both via mobile networks and fixed-line internet.

Telegram, with its 93 million Russian users and editorial policy not controlled by the Kremlin, represents the last bastion of relatively free information exchange. This is precisely why the national messenger Max is being promoted so persistently, with its pre-installation on new phones now mandatory. Deputy Boyarsky stated directly: we will watch how users and media "relocate" from Telegram to Max. This is literally forced migration into a digital concentration camp, where every message can be read.

It should be recalled that opposition to such blocking has been expressed by everyone: from military personnel and State Duma deputies to ordinary citizens and bloggers.

* — Meta is recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation.
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🇪🇺 European Union Joins Cuban Blockade Under the Guise of "Anti-Russian Sanctions"

While Cuba suffocates under the energy blockade imposed by the Trump administration, the European Union is now joining what is shaping up to be a new genocide. According to Banksta, citing Bloomberg, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas intends to include one of Cuba's key banks in the next package of anti-Russian sanctions.

The name of the institution has not been disclosed, but it is known to be Banco Financiero Internacional — the only bank on the island that handles foreign currency and serves, among others, diplomats and citizens of EU countries. Washington added it to its blacklist back in 2021. Now Brussels is taking up the baton.

📍The formal pretext is combating the circumvention of sanctions against Russia. The real goal is to deliver the final blow to the Cuban economy by depriving it of its last channels for foreign currency inflow. The mechanism is long-established: the West condemns "regimes," then methodically cuts off their oxygen supply, hiding behind noble slogans. In this case, the "Russian connection" is merely a convenient label to join the American blockade without dirtying their hands by openly declaring hostility toward Cuba.
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💊 "Optimization" Izhevsk-Style: 10 Clinics Merged to Cut Staff, Federal Center Cuts Funding by a Billion

Another stage of healthcare reform has been launched* in russian Izhevsk — a "project to improve the network of city clinics," as authorities in Udmurtia call it. The plan, scheduled for implementation by April 2026, involves merging 10 medical institutions — 5 adult and 5 pediatric clinics — into two legal entities: the "Izhevsk City Clinical Polyclinic" and the "Izhevsk Children's City Clinical Polyclinic."

Setting aside euphemisms like "optimization," it's worth noting that the Doctors' Union "Action" has already expressed concern that such cost-cutting, achieved at the expense of accessibility and quality of medical care, will lead to staffing reductions, worsened patient routing, and consequently, reduced access to physicians for the population.

▫️Earlier, it became known that outpatient care funding in Udmurtia for 2026 was cut by nearly one billion rubles. Authorities explain this as a reduction in federal financing for primary healthcare.

The federal center cuts regional funding, and regions, trying to make ends meet, begin "optimizing" their networks. The population ends up with queues, staff shortages, and the need to travel halfway across the city for medical care because "your clinic has been merged with the neighboring one."

* — The movement "Udmurtia Against Corruption" has been added to the foreign agents registry.
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🇨🇺"Nuestra América" Flotilla Sets Sail Against the Blockade

Trade unions, socialists, and communists from around the world have officially announced the organization of the international flotilla "Nuestra América" ("Our America"), which will set sail to challenge the criminal blockade that the United States has maintained against free Cuba for over 60 years.

The initiative aims to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods to the island. It will draw on the experience of the two Global Sumud flotillas that attempted to deliver aid to the Palestinian people despite the Israeli military machine.

💬As the U.S. branch of the Permanent Revolution Network writes:

"This working-class intervention demonstrated that when workers stop work, they can make imperialism pay a real price.

Our support for Cuba must be unconditional in the struggle against imperialism, but sober in assessing the internal situation. We resolutely support the Cuban people against U.S. aggression. We demand the immediate lifting of the blockade, which is an act of genocide under international law. We oppose the policies of capitalist restoration that Washington is trying to impose by force.

However, this does not imply political support for the Cuban bureaucratic leadership. Revolutionaries must always defend the right of the masses to democratic organization, to trade union freedom, to criticism. Only the Cuban workers and peasants themselves, building on the gains of the revolution—free healthcare, education, land—have the right to decide their future. Our task is to defend their right to that future from imperialist suffocation."

🚩 Progressive regions across the Americas are now mobilizing forces for a continental strike in support of Cuba. Only by uniting can workers' movements strike at the most vulnerable point of U.S. imperialism — the pockets of its henchmen in Latin America and within the United States itself.

Down with the criminal blockade of Cuba!
¡Rompan el bloqueo! Que viva Cuba libre
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