The escalation of opposition, as Israel intensifies its attack on Gaza, is especially inconvenient for the UK government ~ Scott Harris ~ The last several weeks have witnessed a surge in organising in support of Palestine in London. While the Israeli government first announced and then launched another extension of its invasion of Gaza, the
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An essay by Patrick O’Donoghue on the situation in St. Cloud, Minnesota following a knife attack by an African immigrant, the backlash against the Somali community that followed, and the resistance to that backlash. The piece explores how the anti-refugee far right is using Islamophobia as a cover for their attack on the working class, compares and contrasts this anti-immigrant sentiment with the historical anti-German sentiment that helped form St Cloud's history of tension and resistance, and analyzes the city's economic conditions. It puts forward a call for community working class unity to push for housing, wages, and jobs, and against attempts by the far right to push cultural warfare. Originally posted: October 16, 2016 at Twin Cities General Defense Committee
At a May 24 meeting in Paris against imperialism, the Far Right, and the genocide in Gaza, railway worker Anasse Kazib spoke about the importance of internationalism. Only a united working class — including students, workers, and the oppressed — can fight for a world without war, borders, and exploitation.
ANTANANARIVO — At the end of April, a team of researchers scouring a scarred area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar came across three individuals of a critically endangered chameleon species. Furcifer belalandaensis had not previously been recorded outside of a tiny, 4-square-kilometer (1.
This May, across territories, communities advanced their training in peasant agroecology, carried out solidarity actions, and strengthened advocacy for national policies defending native seeds, Food Sovereignty, and life in the rural areas.
An article about the media frenzy in response to a Minnesota Congressperson tweeting approvingly about Mark Bray's book Antifa: the Anti-Fascist Handbook. Originally posted: January 23, 2018 at Twin Cities General Defense Committee
A brief review by Erik D. of pathways into IWW and workplace organizing, via the anti-oppression work of the General Defense Committee of the IWW. Originally posted: December 15, 2016 at Twin Cities General Defense Committee
A discussion document written by a member of the Twin Cities General Defense Committee about what 'community self-defense' should mean. Originally posted: December 8, 2016 at Twin Cities General Defense Committee