The German chancellor’s spokesperson has stated that Ukraine’s “defensive action is not limited” to its own territory
German leader U-turns on allowing Kiev strike inside Russia – Politico
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz now supports Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia, despite his earlier concerns about escalation with Moscow, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, the German leader said that “if Ukraine is attacked, it can defend itself” under international law.
He also said he had no legal objections to Macron, who argued that the West “should allow [Kiev] to neutralize military sites… from where… Ukraine is attacked.”
The following day, the chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit clarified that Germany believes that Kiev’s “defensive action is not limited to its own territory, but [can] also be expanded to the territory of the aggressor.”
He declined to provide details on what agreements Berlin has reached with Kiev regarding the use of German-supplied weapons.
Germany has for months refused to send Ukraine its long-range Taurus missiles, with Scholz citing escalation concerns and explaining that the deliveries would only be “tenable” if Berlin could determine the targets itself, which would make it a direct participant in the hostilities.
Around 14:45, pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from the Spui to Achter Oosteinde 14 and opened the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the people’s Free university in a squatted building.
Today, on May 25, pro-Palestinian demonstrators began their protest on the Spui at 14:00. This demonstration moved through the streets of Amsterdam to Achter Oosteinde 16, where the protesters revealed that a squatted building is being opened to the public as the first campus of the People’s Free University.
The Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus will be a space of resistance where people can learn from each other and teach each other.
The campus is named after one of the first Palestinian women to participate in armed resistance in 1967: “She knew the importance of knowledge and education in the struggle for liberation. […]
We will create this space in her legacy,” the protesters say.
Full speech:
On this day, day 231 of the genocide happening in gaza right now On this day, in Amsterdam, we open this building as the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the Peoples Free University.
here we want to learn from each other we want to learn from other encampments around the world, here we want to learn from people fighting against oppression through time and spacebut specifically from those in gaza right now
Our encampments did not last a day, and so we decided to explore other ways.
Experiment with different ways of building Resistance. We are opening this building as a space for us to be with each other. We understand that our barricades will only ever be as strong as our solidarity, as large as our community, and as fierce as our militancy. And this is what we will be building here.
By opening the first campus of the people’s university we attempt to answer a call coming straight from Gaza: escalate! escalate! escalate! stop this by any means necessary! stop the genocide! Stop the occupation!
We understand that in order to free palestine, we must liberate every zone from our hearts and souls to the borders of empire! On this Campus we shall practice the work of liberation.
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women participating in armed military resistance in 1967. She knew the importance of knowledge and education in the fight for liberation.
She knew it takes all of us fighting on all fronts. And she embodied that knowledge. We will create this space in her lineage.
But this campus is not the first educational space named after her. Remember Shadia Abu Ghazaleh school in Jabalia, where last december bodies were piled up instead of books in the classroom. We must never forget them.
We open this campus in honor of those martyred and those still fighting. In everything we do, be that reading a book or fighting a cop, we must carry them in our hearts.
Not only are we fighting for, no we are fighting with them for nothing less than Liberation
All Universities in Gaza have been bombed, but from their rubble, universities of Palestinian liberation rise everywhere! In the last weeks we have learned more about decolonial practice on the streets than any course could have ever taught us.
Embodying resistance is infinitely more valuable than any study at the Uva. From now on Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus is where we learn and where we teach each other.
Where we get together. Where we become even more dangerous together!
Another Iranian judicial killing of a political prisoner is imminent. The Supreme Court of Iran has confirmed the death penalty against the guerrilla HPG Rêgeş (Ethem Özdemir). The guerrilla, who comes from Ağrı (Agîrî), in northern Kurdistan, was captured on June 23, 2019 in the Qeleniyê region in the Kevirê Spî area during clashes with the Revolutionary Guards (IGRC).
The 27-year-old has been a member of the PKK for ten years. After 33 months in captivity, Rêgeş was brought before the “Revolutionary Court” in the city of Xoy and sentenced to death in a show trial on March 15, 2022.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Organization said that Rêgeş is detained in Urmiye prison and that the death sentence against him has been upheld by the highest court.
His execution could take place at any time.
The human rights situation in Iran is rapidly deteriorating, with an increase in political executions of prisoners in recent months. According to the Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), there were some 66 executions during April, with three female prisoners and 56 men among the victims. More have continued throughout May, at an average rate of 10 executions per week.
According to human rights watchdog HRANA, Iran persists in executing individuals for offences falling short of the standards outlined in the United Nations multilateral treaty on civil and political rights.
Iranian authorities have used capital punishment to intimidate popular resistance related to involvement in the mass anti-government women’s liberation protests that sprung up in the country after the police killing of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. Executions for drug-related offences are also widespread, against international law. In a recent high-profile case, Kurdish rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death for ‘corruption on earth’, after calling out human rights abuses in Iran through his music.
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Zhina Modares Gorji, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 21 years in prison in Iran for opposing the hijab
Meanwhile, Kurdish journalist Jîna Muderîs Gurcî has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by an Iranian revolutionary court, tried on several charges related to her women’s rights advocacy and journalistic activities. Reporters Without Borders ranks Iran 176th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom and the safety of journalists.
Zhina Modares Gorji, a prominent Kurdish journalist and women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, who was also arrested during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement against the hijab (headscarf for women), has been sentenced to 21 years in prison and locked up in Hamedan Central Prison by the Iranian judiciary.
According to a report received by the Hengaw Human Rights Organization, Zhina Modares Gorji, a journalist and women’s rights activist, was recently sentenced by Section 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Karami, to 10 years in prison for “forming an illegal group with the aim of overthrowing the government”, 10 years for “collaborating with hostile groups and governments” and 1 year for “propaganda against the government”.
The final hearing on the charges of the Kurdish activist was held on April 10 this year, and the verdict was officially served on Thursday, May 23.
The human rights watchdog said that Gurcî had been previously arrested twice before – the first time in the wake of the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ (‘Woman, Life, Freedom’) movement in September 2022. She was again picked up by Iranian intelligence on 10 April 2023, and detained in solitary confinement for a month at the Sanandaj Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre before being transferred to prison for a further two months. On both occasions she was released on bail.
With the application of the law on aggregation of sentences, of the total 21-year sentence, the most severe sentence, which is 10 years in prison along with exile in Hamedan prison, is enforceable.
The lawyers of Ms. Modares Gorji have officially registered their objection to this harsh sentence, and the case will be sent to the Provincial Court of Appeals for review.
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original in Catalan
Iran condemna a mort el militant del PKK Ethem Özdemir, del Kurdistan de Turquia
Un altre assassinat judicial iranià d’un pres polític és imminent. El Tribunal Suprem de l’Iran ha confirmat la pena de mort contra el guerriller HPG Rêgeş (Ethem Özdemir). El guerriller, que prové d’Ağrı (Agirî), al nord del Kurdistan, va ser capturat el 23 de juny de 2019 a la regió de Qeleniyê a la zona de Kevirê Spî durant enfrontaments amb els Guàrdies Revolucionaris (IGRC).
El jove, de 27 anys, fa deu anys que és membre del PKK. Després de 33 mesos en captivitat, Rêgeş va ser portat davant el “Tribunal Revolucionari” a la ciutat de Xoy i condemnat a mort en un judici espectacle el 15 de març de 2022. L’Organització de Drets Humans del Kurdistan va dir que Rêgeş està detingut a la presó d’Urmiye i que la condemna a mort contra ell ha estat confirmada pel tribunal més alt.
La seva execució podria tenir lloc en qualsevol moment.
A summary of the events of 2 days which resemble a precursor to civil war.
And the May 15 press release from the CCAT (Field Action Coordination Unit) —- Kanaky/New Caledonia: —-
NO to thawing the electorate! NO to recolonization! (Text from the Kanaky solidarity collective —-
This Monday, May 13, the day before the vote in the national assembly, the demonstrations of the separatists against the thaw of the electorate increased; blocked roads or filter dams, well-attended strike at the port and airport of Nouméa, closure of numerous administrations, fires lit in different places, start of mutiny in the Nouméa prison, clashes between young Kanaks and the police in working-class neighborhoods , numerous injuries and mass arrests.
It is in this insurrectional context that the vote in the national assembly will take place on May 14 on the unfreezing of the electorate.
To try to stop this dangerous process for the future of the Kanak people, the elected representatives of the Congress of New Caledonia met this Monday, May 13 and managed to adopt, by a majority, a resolution requesting the withdrawal of this bill. on the electorate. Elected officials remind the State that the majority of them are against this bill.
30 years after the Nouméa Accord, as well as the transfer of skills and their rebalancing, inequalities remain very significant, the non-respect of priority to local employment: in many sectors, it is the metropolitans recently arrived in New Caledonia, due to attractive conditions (salary level and indexation, advantages in terms of housing or installation support), who occupy positions to the detriment of Kanak workers with equal skills. Thus continues a long tradition of privileges offered to French people going to work overseas.
Conditions which make it possible to strengthen the settlement colony that this Pacific territory has always represented for the French state. This is in total violation of international law. Indeed, Kanaky/New Caledonia remains a non-autonomous territory under international law, as such included on the list of countries to be decolonized according to United Nations resolution 15-14.
Not so long ago we wrote about the occupation of mills and factories in Argentine, but as our subscribers rightly noted something similar, but unfortunately on a smaller scale and with its own specifics, had happened in Russia’s modern history as well.
In the late 1990s, there were several workers’ attempts to take the control of their enterprises in various degrees of success. We will tell you the story of the most successful of them, Vyborg’s pulp and paper mill, and try to compare it to the story of Argentinian workers’ occupation of the ceramic factory Zanon.
So, Vyborg’s Pulp and Paper Mill (PPM) is an enterprise that is located in the village Sovetski near Vyborg. At the end of the 90s there were more than 2000 workers and in fact it was the city-forming enterprise. It was hardly to find any other job. In the 90s the enterprise was privatized and through a simple scheme with contractor firms, that were supplying raw materials at inflated prices and buying the products at low prices, it was led to bankruptcy. The beneficiaries of this whole process were obviously the owners of the enterprise. They were outrageously pursuing a simple goal – to pump funds into their pockets and then disappear, as if they never existed.
Back then, there were numerous similar stories – capitalists preferred to play short, hit the jackpot and move on to some new goals. On the other side workers were left without salaries for months, even years and later without a job since the bankrupted enterprise would close and its assets, including the expensive equipment, would be sold off. That would have been the same case here as well, but it followed in a different way.
“Optimization” in the style of the 90s
The owners of the new firm “Nimonor Investments”, that bought Vyborg’s PPM, wanted to reorganise it into sawmill, firing that way a half of the working collective. They replaced mill’s security with their own and obviously later they could easily start the selling off of the “unnecessary” assets, but mill’s collective formed people’s squad, witch would guard the enterprise alongside owners’ security. Then, as people weren’t receiving salaries for moths, they organized a general assembly and established a trade union comprised of workers and local municipal deputies. We believe they, should be mentioned separately.
Undoubtedly, as it is now, there was a lot of deputies who were businessmen themselves or were representing the interest of a business. But then the notorious vertical power system was not build yet, the elections were not completely reduced to a sham and therefore among the deputies people not integrated in the system could be found and they were ready, one way or the other, to fight against it. That was the case of some of the municipal deputies. In a certain sense, the existence of such people was good. It’s quite likely (but it is not sure) that workers wouldn’t be able to fight the owners without them so successful. But here the huge contrast with the situation of the occupied Argentinian factory becomes evident.
El general yemení subrayó que los barcos fueron atacados por violar la decisión de prohibición de movimiento hacia los puertos ocupados de Palestina. El portavoz militar de los rebeldes hutíes, el general Yahya Sari, informó este miércoles que llevaron a cabo 6 operaciones militares en los mares Mediterráneo, Rojo y Arábigo.
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