5th ANARCHIST CAMP [Against the Criminalization of Social and Self-Managed Spaces] en/es

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Anarchist Occupied Social Centre *CSOA -The Black Carob Tree

5th LIBERTARIAN CAMP [Against the Criminalization of Social and Self-Managed Spaces]

This year’s CSOA La Algarroba Negra camp is coming up.
A space to share, get to know each other, deepen our understanding, and continue networking…

After the experience of the previous camps, we want to continue supporting this action, which has shown us, and we have shown ourselves, that it contributes greatly.

In these turbulent times, we can’t imagine a better way to come together and continue resisting the criminalization of social spaces and fighting from below.

Self-management in daily life, collective construction, shared learning, reflection among like-minded people, and taking action as a method, with the intention of continuing to create the world we want to live in.

How does the campaign work?

In these six days together, the La Algarroba Assembly will propose some activities, and whoever comes can also propose their own. From talks, workshops, video forums, actions… This is how we’ll fill out the calendar.

The common issues of care and maintenance (cleaning, meals, time management, social support, recycling, water…) that make all this possible will be shared and assumed by the participants… it is part of the self-management of our lives.

To learn more about the libertarian camp, you can visit the website:
https://www.algranoextremadura.org/csoalaalgarrobanegra/campamento-de-resistencia-libertaria/

Registration is recommended to facilitate resource and time management:
https://cloud.coletivos.org/apps/forms/s/JSZW8GCwtpwDWY46MKq2rAAG

For any other questions, please email algarrobanegra@protonmail.com

Let’s organize the resistance in an experiential way!

*We will soon update information based on our registrations.

The Black Carob

The Black Carob is a squatted and collectivized space that emerged from the need for autonomous and independent spaces and as an active way of denouncing the current unsustainable situation of the welfare state, faced with problems of access to housing and social gathering spaces self-managed by and for the individuals and groups that comprise it, as well as employment issues and access to decent work.

This is an alternative to associations disconnected from institutions or any type of political, religious, or union organization.

Active participation in the Black Carob is open and horizontal, a space for the union and participation of groups and individuals with similar social and political ties, as well as a site for experimentation and the creation of networks and projects for local self-management among local people.

Our unifying motivations are experimentation and peer-to-peer practices as a means toward a transformation of more collective, cooperative, and supportive social relations, from a perspective critical of the economic system and the ecological crisis.

Source: Alasbarricadas.org

V CAMPAMENTO LIBERTARIO [Contra la Criminalización de los Espacios Sociales y Autogestionados]

Ya se viene el campamento de este año del CSOA La Algarroba Negra.
Un espacio en donde compartir, conocerse, profundizar y seguir generando redes…

Continuar leyendo en el sitio de origen…

Tras la vivencia de los anteriores campamentos, queremos seguir apostando por esta acción que nos ha demostrado y nos hemos demostrado, que aporta y mucho.

En este tiempo tan convulso, no imaginamos mejor propuesta que juntarnos y seguir resistiendo ante la criminalización de los espacios sociales y la lucha desde abajo.

La autogestión en el día a día, la construcción colectiva, el aprendizaje compartido, la reflexión entre afines y el actuar como método, con la intención de seguir creando el mundo que queremos vivir.

Como funciona el campa?

En estos 6 días juntas, la asamblea de La Algarroba propondremos algunas actividades y quien venga, puede también proponer las suyas. Desde charlas, talleres, vídeo forum, acciones….. Así iremos completando el calendario.

Las cuestiones comunes, de cuidado y mantenimiento (limpieza, comidas, cuidados del tiempo, apoyos sociales, recicle, agua…) que hacen que todo esto sea posible de desarrollar, será repartida y autoasumidas por lxs participantes… forma parte de la autogestión de nuestras vidas.

Para saber mas información sobre el campamento libertario podéis visitar la web:
https://www.algranoextremadura.org/csoalaalgarrobanegra/campamento-de-resistencia-libertaria/

Se recomienda realizar la inscripción para facilitar la gestión de recursos y tiempos:
https://cloud.coletivos.org/apps/forms/s/JSZW8GCwtpwDWY46MKq2rAAG

Para cualquier otro tipo de consulta, enviar un correo a algarrobanegra@protonmail.com

Organicemos la resistencia de una manera vivencial!

*Próximamente actualizaremos información de lo que vayamos recibiendo a través de las inscripciones.

La Algarroba Negra

La Algarroba, es un espacio okupado y colectivizado, que surge de la necesidad de espacios autónomos e independientes y como forma activa de denuncia de la situación insostenible que se encuentra actualmente el «estado» del bienestar ante las problemáticas de acceso a vivienda y espacios de encuentros sociales autogestionados por y para las personas y grupos integrantes, así como la problemática ocupacional y el acceso al trabajo digno, como una alternativa al asociacionismo desvinculado de instituciones o de cualquier tipo de organismo político, religioso o sindical.

La participación activa en la algarroba es abierta y horizontal, un espacio para la unión y participación de colectivos y personas con carácter social y políticamente afines así como también es un sitio para experimentación y la creación de redes y proyectos para la autogestión local de las personas del entorno.

Las motivaciones que nos unen son la experimentación y prácticas entre iguales, como medio hacia una transformación de relaciones sociales mas colectivas, cooperativas y solidarias, desde un perspectiva critica al sistema económico y la crisis ecológica.

Fuente:Alasbarricadas.org

Trump’s ‘sure to fail’ Congo Peace Deal all about Stealing Resources

8 Aug, 2025 15:33 By Mustafa Fetouri, at Home Africa via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HiU

While the Doha agreement offers hope for DR Congo devastated by conflict, it is impossible the ‘ceasefire’ will hold.

FILE PHOTO. Lynsey Addario.. shared with thanks

Peace-mining: this US-mediated deal focuses on resources, not stability

On July 19 in Doha, under the watchful eyes of US and Qatari diplomats, representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group signed a ‘Declaration of Principles’ on a peace agreement.

The document, vague in substance but rich in optics, was immediately hailed by US President Donald Trump’s camp as a diplomatic victory. Trump’s Africa adviser, Massad Boulos, said the “the most important article of the agreement is the affirmation of state control in rebel-held territories.” That of course is still to be worked out in the coming weeks.

For Trump, the moment was one of those testaments to his deal-making prowess, echoing the grandstanding that accompanied his earlier, more theatrical moves in the Middle East.

But behind the celebratory headlines lies a far murkier reality. DR Congo remains a country engulfed in complex, overlapping conflicts, with M23 being only one of over 120 armed groups operating in the eastern provinces. The idea that a ceasefire agreement – mediated thousands of miles away in a Qatari hotel – could magically resolve the decades-long insecurity in this mineral-rich region is at best naive, and at worst, deliberately misleading.

‘If I could just ask your name and country’

Terror and torture in the ‘heart of darkness’, the world’s only private colony

The involvement of the US – particularly under transactional Trump – raises troubling questions. While any effort to mediate a ceasefire in one of the world’s most neglected war zones merits scrutiny, the Trump administration’s sudden engagement in the DR Congo appears driven less by concern for human suffering or regional stability and more by economic opportunity.

Trump as president has never visited Africa, including his first term. What’s more, his attitude toward the continent has been widely criticized as dismissive: In 2018 he referred to several African nations as “s**thole countries” during a White House meeting, drawing broad condemnation.

Last month, during a luncheon with the presidents of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the White House, Trump grew visibly impatient as the leaders spoke. When it was Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo’s turn, Trump interrupted with: “Maybe we’re gonna have to go a little bit quicker than this because we have a whole schedule,” and added, “if I could just ask your name and country, that would be great.”

The debt noose: Why does Africa remain trapped?… Stealing a continent: How the plunder of Africa has evolved

Though delivered in the guise of a schedule constraint, the remark was widely characterized as humiliating. It reduced these heads of state to nameless, interchangeable participants – highlighting a deeply transactional approach and a lack of respect for African leaders and their agendas.

Cobalt mines in Congo where kids dig for $2-a-day …

Mining peace

DR Congo is one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet. Its eastern region, the focal point of the latest ceasefire, holds vast reserves of cobalt, coltan, gold, and lithium – minerals essential to electric vehicles, smartphones, and advanced military systems.

As global demand for these resources soars, Washington has grown increasingly uneasy over China’s dominance in the DR Congo’s mining sector. Trump’s sudden push for the US involvement in Congolese ‘peacebuilding’ is better understood as a strategic bid to secure Western access to these critical minerals.

Just two weeks earlier, he hosted a separate signing ceremony at the White House for what was billed as a broader agreement between Rwanda – allegedly the main backer of M23 – and the DR Congo.

Israel’s Genocide is Big Business – How it Works- the Face of a Future we must Stop-

US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians

by Jonathan Cook at jc.substack shared Aug 5, 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HhH Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3785

‘Wounded child, no surviving family’

Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future

The Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world’s top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly working on plans to exploit the ruins of Gaza as prime real estate.

The secret consortium appears to have been seeking practical ways to realise US President Donlad Trump’s “vision” of Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”: transforming the small coastal enclave into a playground for the rich and an enticing investment opportunity, once it can be ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian population.

A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited version)

Meanwhile, the UK government has declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation – the first time in British history that a direct-action campaign group has been banned under Britain’s already draconian terrorism legislation.

Notably, the government of Keir Starmer took the decision to proscribe Palestine Action after lobbying from Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons maker whose factories in the UK have been targeted by Palestine Action for disruption. Elbit supplies Israel with killer drones and other weapons central to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

These revelations came to light as the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, published a report – titled “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” – exposing Big Business’ extensive involvement in, and profits from, Israel’s crimes in Gaza.

In an interview with US journalist Chris Hedges, Albanese, an expert in international law, concluded: “The genocide in Gaza has not stopped, because it is lucrative. It’s profitable for far too many.”

Albanese lists dozens of major western companies that are deeply invested in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.

This is not a new development, as she notes. These firms have exploited business opportunities associated with Israel’s violent occupation of the Palestinian people’s lands for years, and in some cases decades.

The switch from Israel’s occupation of Gaza to its current genocide hasn’t threatened profits; it has enhanced them. Or as Albanese puts it: “The profits have increased as the economy of the occupation transformed into an economy of genocide.”

The special rapporteur has been a growing thorn in the side of Israel and its western sponsors over the past 21 months of slaughter in Gaza..

Read Report here Advance edited version English:Word-Francesca Albanese

That explains why Marco Rubio, Trump’s secretary of state, announced soon after her report was issued that he was imposing sanctions on Albanese for her efforts to shed light on the crimes of Israeli and US officials.

Revealingly, he called her statements – rooted in international law – “economic warfare against the United States and Israel”. Albanese and the UN system of universal human rights that stands behind her, it seems, represent a threat to western profiteering.

Window on the future

Israel effectively serves as the world’s largest business incubator – though, in its case, not just by nurturing start-up companies.

Rather, it offers global corporations the chance to test and refine new weapons, machinery, technologies, data collection and automation processes in the occupied territories. These developments are associated with mass oppression, control, surveillance, incarceration, ethnic cleansing – and now genocide.

In a world of shrinking resources and growing climate chaos, such innovative technologies of subjugation are likely to have domestic, in addition to overseas, applications. Gaza is the corporate world’s laboratory, and a window into our own future.

In her 60-page report, Albanese writes that her research “reveals how the forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech… while investors and private and public institutions profit freely”.

Her point was underscored by the Israeli arms firm Rafael, which issued a promotional video of its Spike FireFly drone that showed it locating, chasing and killing a Palestinian in what it called “urban warfare” in Gaza.

As the UN special rapporteur points out, quite aside from the issue of genocide in Gaza, western companies have been under a legal and moral obligation to sever ties with Israel’s system of occupation since last summer.

That was when the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, ruled Israel’s decades-old occupation was a criminal enterprise based on apartheid and forcible transfer – or what Albanese refers to as policies of “displacement and replacement”.

Instead, the corporate sector – and western governments – continue to deepen their involvement in Israel’s crimes.

It is not just arms manufacturers profiting from the genocidal levelling of Gaza and the occupations of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Big Tech, construction and materials firms, agribusiness, the tourism industry, the goods and services sector, and supply chains have also got in on the act.

And enabling it all is a finance sector – which includes banks, pension funds, universities, insurers and charities – keen to continue investing in this architecture of oppression.

Albanese describes the mosaic of companies partnering with Israel as “an eco-system sustaining this illegality”.

Help Noor and Amal survive the genocide in Gaza…. How it worked!|

Escaping scrutiny

For these corporations and their enablers, international law – the legal system Albanese and her fellow UN rapporteurs are there to uphold – serves as an impediment to the pursuit of profit.

Albanese notes that the business sector can escape scrutiny by shielding behind other actors.

Israel and its senior officials are on notice for committing genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

When she wrote to 48 companies to warn them that they were colluding in this criminality, they either responded that this was Israel’s responsibility, not theirs, or that it was for states, not international law, to regulate their business activities.

Russians Special Forces storm into center of Pokrovsk Fortress City- Donetsk ‘liberation’ April 2026?

Ukrainian Lines Shatter in Pokrovsk as Russian Special Force finally Smashes into Streets of the City, joining up with Infiltrators and Saboteurs – The final anti-nazi victory in Pokrovsk was on 8 Sept 1943 when 13K defenders /civilians died.– Pokrovsk could be liberated again by the anniversary! -Wiki

update 3/8/2025 by southfront.press/ wikipedia Pokrovsk via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-Hgs Telegram- t.me/thefreeonline/3757.

Russians cross road and break through to Pokrovsk

The thunder of Russian artillery echoes through the streets of Pokrovsk as the city teeters on the brink of collapse. Stormtroopers of the Russian Armed Forces, advancing with precision and overwhelming firepower, have infiltrated the urban center, shattering part of Ukrainian defenses and sending shockwaves through Kyiv’s crumbling frontlines.

After Pokrovsk.. The Race to complete ‘liberation of Donetsk’ – in April 2026?

If we calculate the rate of Russian conquest from Avdivka to Pokrovsk it could take a year or more to ‘liberate’ the rest of ethnic Russian Donetsk Oblast. However if we calculate including the acceleration of capture, the exhaustion of Ukrainian soldiers and the increase of Russian resources, etc, then Donetsk could be fully occupied in 6 months and reconstruction could begin. Along with already Luhansk, and a large part of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson occupied, that could be enough basis for a realistic compromise Peace Deal – in April 2026, earliest, excluding massive NATO reinforcements.

What was once another fortified Ukrainian fortress is now a battleground where Russian troops are advancing in a key district, while desperate Ukrainian commanders scramble to plug the widening gaps in their lines.

July 31st Russian breakthrough

Geolocation proven map: 48.27223 37.15417- Russian Pokrovsk breakthrough ‘not just a raid’. – simplicius76 3rd August 25… ‘It’s likely that the city will be bisected in some way, with eastern portions left to be captured first’.

Pokrovsk stands on the brink. With Russian forces infiltrating the city center, cutting supply lines, and encircling Ukrainian troops. The fall of this key fortress now appears inevitable, although normal Russian tactics are to slowly isolate and throttle resistance, avoiding mass casualties..

The broader implications are undeniable, the loss of Pokrovsk will pave the way to Mirnograd (Dimitrov) and further unravel Ukraine’s defensive efforts across Donbass. Victory in Donbass is a key necessity in Russia’s minimum demands for a ceasefire.

Houthis now attack any Israel-linked ship & blockade Haifa Port/ Tel Aviv Airport to protest Gaza Genocide

Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East after 9 yr war and famine by Saudis/US/UAE and now ongoing bombing by Israel/USA. In solidarity with Gaza ‘Palestine2’ hypersonic missiles are developed in underground bunkers..

On 28 July, 2025 23:52 main text by Home WorldNews via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HfP Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3712

Note. we use the term ‘Houthis’ to describe the massively popular Ansarallah Movement. SAVE GAZA KIDS.. – VIVA HOUTHI HEROES!

The Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen has released footage of their attacks against as well as the sinking of the Liberian-flagged and Greek-owned cargo vessel, M/V Eternity C, earlier today in the Southern Red Sea. Significant damage to the ship can be seen prior to… pic.twitter.com/yC8Erot8EU
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 9, 2025

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed to attack all commercial vessels connected to Israeli ports, regardless of their country of origin, despite blitz bombing by the US and Israel killing thousands of civilians.

The Houthis, who occupy the capital Sanaa and all Yemen except for the Aden area and Eastern desert, have been targeting ships in the Bab el Mandeb Strait, a vital maritime route linking the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Yemen erupts in protest as US strikes again target Houthi positions

The Houthis act in popular solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, having themselves suffered a nearly 10 year blockade, invasion, bombing and famine.

Military spokesman Ameen Hayyan announced the latest escalation in a televised address, describing it as a new phase of the group’s campaign.

Jihadists in suits and ties are still jihadists – Syria needs women-led Revolution-

The HTS government is of known jihadists consolidating their power with genocide of non Sunnis, building up a system of sex slavery and forced marriage, and must be stopped!

by riseup4rojava / Kongra Star on 25 July 25 via thefreeonlineat https://wp.me/pIJl9-HeH Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3682

📖 NEW ANALYSIS: Syria now – jihadists in suits and ties are still jihadists – https://t.me/International_Rev/11063

🟡 Read our new analysis of the political situation in Syria.

🟡 Focuses on the rise of HTS to power and their efforts to keep it by building a fundamentalist Islamic state

🟡 Read to understand more about HTS, Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani), the genocide of Alewi people in Latakia, the massacre of Druze people in Sweida, and the war on women in Syria.

see also..Rojava Revolution and the dangers it is facing July 16, 2025 – Kongra Star

We have seen many great tricks in the Middle East and today in Syria we see another. State leaders and their national media have transformed men once seen as Islamist fascists into respectable politicians.

The US removed HTS from the terrorist list, took the $10 million bounty off al-Sharaa’s head and they became the “Syrian Transitional Government”. But make no mistake.

These are the men of al-Nusra and ISIS. Men who murdered hundreds of civilians, raped hundreds of women, assassinated women leaders like Hevrîn Xelef, and sold women as sex slaves. And they have not changed. This diplomatic face of jihadism reflects a change in tactics, but the ideology remains: to impose Islam with violence for power.

Hevrîn Xelef, Kurdish leader murdered by SNA jihadists

Background

In 2016, al-Nusra split from al-Qaeda. It was dissolved when it joined with other jihadist groups to form Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (“Organization for the Liberation of the Levant”).

HTS declared itself on 28 January 2017, with Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known as al-Jolani) as its emir and overall military commander. With the support of the Turkish-backed SNA (Syrian National Army) HTS took control of Idlib in 2018, a city in north-western Syria, between Aleppo and Latakia. Here they established their “Syrian Salvation Government” under Islamic law.

In Idlib, Turkey’s support allowed HTS to keep control and gain experience in state building and governance.

Attacks on women were a basis for this state building. They used both law and culture to erase them from public life and present house-bound care takers and mothers as the ideal woman.

Women must be fully covered and can only be in public with a male guardian. Many women attend university in Idlib but they can only study religion and domestic skills and take jobs in women-only environments like girls schools and women’s health.

Not all these restrictions are legal, but breaking any of them risks harassment, intimidation and arrest and openly protesting them is heavily punished.

With its strength from Idlib, HTS launched its offensive in November 2024 and overthrew the Assad regime. Videos and pictures from the beginning showed many HTS and SNA fighters carrying ISIS flags and wearing ISIS badges on their military uniform. When the Assad Regime fell, HTS suddenly started talking about a “Syria for all Syrians”. At the same time they created their new government.

Now

The project of this new government is clear in its leadership, constitution and actions. The proposed constitution declares Syria as an “Arab Republic”, with Islamic law as its legal system and Arabic as its official language. It also gives al-Sharaa dictatorial powers.

For example, only Jolani can appoint ministers and judges and there are no processes to challenge these decisions.

5th LIBERTARIAN CAMP [Against the Criminalization of Social and Self-Managed Spaces]

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While the Doha agreement offers hope for DR Congo devastated by conflict, it is impossible the ‘ceasefire’ will hold.

Peace-mining: this US-mediated deal focuses on resources, not stability

‘If I could just ask your name and country’

Mining peace

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Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future

The special rapporteur has been a growing thorn in the side of Israel and its western sponsors over the past 21 months of slaughter in Gaza..

Read Report here Advance edited version English:Word-Francesca Albanese

Window on the future

Escaping scrutiny

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After Pokrovsk.. The Race to complete ‘liberation of Donetsk’ – in April 2026?

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📖 NEW ANALYSIS: Syria now – jihadists in suits and ties are still jihadists – https://t.me/International_Rev/11063

Background

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