Mike Higgins was arrested again outside yesterday’s Palestine Action court case.

“In a sense, it doesn’t matter if we lost or won; this will help to build our movement and keep us strong.”

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“We went out to war with our heads held high, as lions emerge from their dens.

We walk on the edges of swords,

And we approach death through its own gate.

Our enemies will know that we mounted death itself out of mercy for it”

— The late Al-Qassam fighter Basel Ahmad Abu Shamala.

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Professor Jason Hickel:

I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War".

Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War, which has been waged by the imperial core against liberation movements and sovereign-seeking states in the periphery that have sought to break from their subordination and exploitation within the imperialist world-system.

The Long Cold War encompasses Western attacks against the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution, through the long series of invasions and regime-change operations that targeted Korea, Guatemala, the DRC, Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Burkina Faso, etc, continuing well beyond the fall of the USSR with the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., all the way to the strangulation of Cuba and the invasions of Venezuela and Iran in 2026.

As I see it, the usual claim that the Cold War runs from 1945-1991 doesn't work, the periodisation is wrong. The core states sought to destroy the USSR as soon as it was founded, long before 1945, and in any case their violence was never only just against the USSR, or just against USSR-aligned states, nor even just against socialism; it was fought against any sovereign-seeking state in the periphery - including non-aligned states - that threatened to escape the imperial arrangement.

The Long Cold War is, in other words, an imperialist backlash against the long struggle for liberation in the periphery. This aggression didn't end in 1991, it continues today, and it will continue well into the 21st century until it is defeated. And defeated it will be.

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Younis Tirawi:

Just finished reading a book and happened to come across this.

"The open fire instructions are as follows: it's permitted to fire at all the buildings, apart from the one just ahead of us, which is an UNRWA school and not all the civilians have been evacuated from there. That building takes an M339 tank shell to the third floor just as we enter the alley. We deny being involved."

Incident detail: Khan Younis, Jan 2024

From the book: Remembering the light and the darkness, War Diary.

Author: Elkana Cohen, a tank commander from the 9206 Battalion.

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