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I live on the brink. I protest inversions of class relations. I give the right my purest most unadulterated hatred I sing: Grândola Vila Morena; Vampiros (José Afonso); Vitoriosa (Ivan Lins); e Sofredora (David Zé) Socialist #25deAbrilSempre #FreePalestine
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new book, Trump and ‘mass murder’ in Gaza www.aljazeera.com/program/upfr...

"The change Caldwell and many others want is fully consistent with policies promoted by the left. Indeed, in his explicit linking of austerity here with war-mongering abroad, he is in advance of some on the left too mealy-mouthed to make the connection." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welf...

"Since October 7, Israel has detained about 30,000 Palestinians. During the prisoner-captive exchanges with Hamas, Israel has released just more than 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. That means, for every person released, 15 others were apprehended." israelpalestinenews.org/a-nation-beh...

"Disturbingly, Raffi Berg failed to remove the opinions that you are not supposed to know Zionists hold because if he did that, the documentary would be a silent film." www.normalisland.co.uk/p/it-was-ant...

Mozart concerto 26 (Coronation) - 2. Larghetto (Gulda) youtu.be/llRpSkA5Sys?...

"[Women's oppression] is, like the exploitation of labour itself, a social structure which roots itself in and distorts a naturally given human capacity. It is not reducible to biology, but neither is it separable from biology." www.counterfire.org/article/marx...

"It should be universally understood that our services are by and for women, and they should be accessible as such to every woman." shonaghdillon.substack.com/p/supreme-co...

"We are the result of many fights, we carry in our blood the inheritance of our grandmothers, our roots make demands of us and our daughters are rebelling." #OnThisDay, 29 April 2010, Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo is killed whilst taking provisions to besieged indigenous communities in Mexico.

"Before the operation, the doctors told me that all donors were doing great. Now, I am constantly in pain.” Once, he says, he even fainted, after which his mother brought him to the hospital, paying for the visit herself." www.spiegel.de/internationa...

"If the cycle of war continues, the ugliest manifestations of conflict – hostage taking, civilian deaths, atrocities – are guaranteed to continue as well." archive.li/Z37HT

"Because feminism that does not speak when women are starving under siege is not feminism. Feminism that does not weep when girls are pulled from rubble is not feminism. And feminism that cannot name Gaza is not feminism. It's performance." archive.li/Hhanj

Comment réussir son mafé, spécialité par excellence de la cuisine d’Afrique de l’Ouest Recette ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/612

Journée internationale de la visibilité lesbienne : la rue contre les idées d’extrême droite ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/smk

“Another way to say ‘move fast and break things’ is to say the ends always justify the means.” Gil Duran, Payal Arora and Cori Crider spoke with us about the long-term impact of Facebook’s infamous philosophy. Watch ‘How technocracy has become our reality’ ▶️ youtu.be/7oW_HdegO-U

Dugan isn't the first judge to be arrested for allegedly obstructing ICE.

MORE THAN 700 Chagossians gathered in Manchester on Saturday to demand that their right to self-determination be respected. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/over...

The majority of democratic voters support universal healthcare, yet universal healthcare isn’t officially part of the DNC platform. Why? The healthcare oligarchs ensure that it isn’t. Democrats will not be able to fight GOP corruption if they have a corruption problem themselves.

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Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter.(1/2) The S&P 500 is still significantly overpriced. A further fall of at least 15 per cent is not unrealistic. on.ft.com/42yA45f

#OtD 27 Apr 1998 a general strike in the private sector broke out in Denmark, involving a fifth of the country's workforce. Lasting for 10 days, union leaders panicked and agreed a compromise. This is a history of the dispute: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9879...

"The working class needs to unite against a system and its consequences, which are poverty, racism, sexism, destruction of the ecosystem, inequality in so many forms, imbalance between regions in the world and threats to world peace." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/yes-...

"Her motivation comes from “respect for different peoples around the world and their rights to their own independence and justice and not to be exploited,”" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/prot...

“. Why should the global leader of a Church in which salutations of "peace be with you" are shared at every mass self-censor in the face of one of the deadliest wars the world has ever witnessed, livestreamed on our phones?” www.newsweek.com/pope-francis...

"Labour’s responsibility to meet the obligations of its now increasingly absent working-class electorate is abandoned, but the magic money tree has been located in time to fund a war." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/step...

"Promoting economic chaos was one of the chief weapons used by the capitalist forces to discredit the revolution." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unde...

Time to fight back

"On Tuesday, the Dominican Republic’s migration agency arrested 48 pregnant women and 39 others who just gave birth, along with 48 minors. On Wednesday, agents arrested 78 other migrants at hospitals, although the agency didn't provide additional details." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/domi...

"A pena de 6 meses a 2 anos, que inclui ainda o pagamento de uma multa, pelo crime de violência psicológica contra a mulher será aumentado em 50% se «o delito for cometido com uso de IA, ou qualquer outro recurso tecnológico que altere a imagem ou som da vítima». www.abrilabril.pt/internaciona...

Em cada esquina, um amigo. Em cada rosto, igualdade. Feliz 25 de abril 🌹

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"“Yesterday, children were bombed,” Pope Francis said in his final Christmas message last December. “Children. This is cruelty, this is not war.” He added, touching the cross he wore around his neck, “I want to say this, because it touches my heart.”" www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/p...

"Esta gente, que tanto diz venerá-lo e que até insinua ser condenável festejar, durante as exéquias no Vaticano, o 25 de Abril em Portugal, contraria tudo o que Francisco disse, escreveu, pensou e orou." www.dn.pt/opiniao/porq...

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"We tend to assume that because there are more women completing doctoral degrees and at the assistant professor rank, gender equity is inevitable at some point in the future. These results show that this assumption is flawed." www.science.org/content/arti...

Medieval Working Women: Their role in the trades of Southern France in the 14th century www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medi... #MedievalWomen

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Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...

On the ‘Natural Order’ of Things culturewarblues.substack.com/p/on-the-nat...

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🚨SCOOP: Starmer's ‘AI opportunities’ advisor didn't publicly declare numerous AI business interests - while he was writing key AI 'action plan' he's now charged with delivering Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests” New: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...

This was truly epic! The prisoners of war looked so happy and healthy, and Hamas had arranged this exchange in such a disciplined manner... truly impressive. The contrast with how Israel is treating and releasing the Palestinian hostages couldn't be bigger.

#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1943, Jacqueline Nearne parachutes into France. She operates as a courier for the Special Operations Executive for 15 months before returning to England. The SOE supported French resistance to Nazi occupation. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 🗃️ 1/2

BREAKING: Hamas has released four female Israeli soldiers held in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement, handing them over to Red Cross officials in Palestine Square in Gaza City aje.io/6gwxeo

As always, excellent reporting by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and his team... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Hundreds of fighters from Hamas’s armed wing and other factions have gathered in Palestine Square, at the heart of Gaza City, in preparation for the captives’ exchange. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de

'There are also the fierce transgender and...(DSD) debates to contend with.' 'Almost every candidate says they will protect the female category...suggests that the IOC does not want a repeat of the controversy that surrounded the women’s boxing in Paris.' www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Hoda Abdelmoneim: Egyptian rights lawyer and revolutionary facing slow death in prison - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-hoda-abdelmoneim-rights-lawyer-revolutionary-languishing-arbitrary-detention

Palestinians in northern Gaza return home to rubble and destruction - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-north-gaza-return-home-rubble-and-destruction