Israeli forces have again bombed the so-called “safe zone” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi, killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens more, according to Atif al-Hout, the director of the Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis. .
Our correspondents say women and children were “incinerated” in the attack.
Children ‘incinerated’ in Israeli attack in ‘safe zone’ in Gaza
Gaza’s Ministry of Health says Israeli attacks on the enclave killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 201 in the latest 24-hour reporting period..
Israel ‘suffocating’ humanitarian aid intended for Gaza. “There’s a systematic attempt [by Israel] to keep people in the cold and keep them starving in the cold,” he told Al Jazeera.
“Whole families were hit, including women and children. Al-Mawasi continues to be attacked by Israeli strikes that destroy the tents with people inside them, leaving many dead or injured,”
Israel has begun attacking commercial food stores to wipe out the last sources of food This is beyond evil
Britain pledges aid for Gaza while ‘arming the perpetrators’“The UK is trying to help feed the victims, while at the same time arming the perpetrators,” Doyle told Al Jazeera.
Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in GazaA damning new report by the rights group finds Israel’s war on Gaza meets legal threshold for genocide against the Palestinian people.
You won’t see anyone in Tony Blinken’s family headed to the frontlines in Ukraine. These freaks see the population of this planet as nothing more than pawns on their grand chessboard, and they will sacrifice them just as casually.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeated the US government’s new position that Ukraine needs to start sending 18 to 25 year-olds to fight in its war with Russia, telling Reuters on Monday that “getting younger people into the fight, we think, many of us think, is necessary.” This comes even as polls have begun showing that Ukrainians favor making a deal with Russia to end this war as quickly as possible.
This is one of those things that looks more evil the longer you stare at it. They’re pushing for teenagers to be thrown into the fires of an unwinnable war like it’s nothing — like a corporation saying they need to hire more staff to accommodate their growing business. And why? To tie up Russia so that Syria can be turned into a smoking crater and allow the US war machine to focus its crosshairs on Iran and China, with the end goal of total planetary domination. All because some swamp monsters decided after the fall of the Soviet Union that the US must maintain unipolar global hegemony no matter the cost.
Jan 30, 2024Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv’s counteroffensive drags on. A lack of rapid medical care has added to the toll. The total number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded
Ukraine barely even has anyone in the country from ages 18 to 25 for various reasons (many of which predate this war), but the managers of the US-centralized empire are pushing to scrape out the few they do have and toss them into the landmines and artillery fire just to keep this unwinnable war going for a few more months. Whether they succeed or not, the fact that they even tried is so profoundly psychopathic it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around.
You won’t see anyone in Tony Blinken’s family headed to the frontlines in Ukraine. These freaks see the population of this planet as nothing more than pawns on their grand chessboard, and they will sacrifice them just as casually.
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Watching the internet light up with joy over the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been interesting. We don’t know what the motives of the actual shooter were as of this writing, but the disgust and rage the public holds toward wealthy exploitative parasites these days is becoming more and more incendiary.
Watching all this I keep finding myself thinking of that JFK quote “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” What are the people meant to do when predatory megacorporations ruin lives by the thousands? Write them sternly worded letters? Vote the corporations out of office? Their options have been closed to them..
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You can’t be anti-racist and pro-Israel; they are mutually contradictory positions. Israel is an apartheid state, arguably the most racist society on this planet. If you support Israel you support racism, whether you admit this about yourself or not.
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Al-Qaeda in Syria keeps changing its name for the same reason the military contractor formerly known as Blackwater keeps changing its name: it’s a rebranding to rescue its damaged reputation, stifle public outcry, and ensure further funding from the US government.
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The “left” is divided on Syria only in the same way it’s divided on Ukraine and other conflicts: Marxists, dedicated peace activists and opponents of the western empire on one side; shitlibs, NATO simps and anarkiddies on the other. The high level of leftish unity we’ve been seeing between those two groups on Gaza this past year is the exception, not the norm.
You see this split pop up on issue after issue, and it basically boils down to a divide between those who recognize the US-centralized empire as the world’s most murderous and tyrannical power structure vs those who swallow western propaganda spin to some extent.
Actualización 3 de dic: ofensiva en el norte de Siria
Hechos clave
– Alrededor de 75.000 personas desplazadas desde Alepo y sus alrededores hacia el norte y el este de Siria. – Miles de personas duermen a la intemperie en condiciones gélidas; se han registrado múltiples muertes, hay necesidad urgente de refugio y otros tipos de ayuda humanitaria.
– Grave riesgo de inminente asalto respaldado por Turquía contra Manbij, gobernada por la DAANES, con una población multiétnica de unos 300.000 habitantes, lo que provocaría una mayor desestabilización.
Mapa RIC, 3 diciembre 2024
– Los barrios de Sheikh Maqsoud y Ashrafiyeh siguen asediados por Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, mientras la violencia se ceba con los yezidíes y los kurdos que intentan huir de las fuerzas islamistas.
Desplazamiento forzoso hacia el norte y el este de Siria
– c. 75.000 personas desplazadas de alepo y alrededores hacia el norte y este de siria, principalmente kurdos junto con otras minorías, así como árabes (OCHA: 10K grupos familiares; DAANES: 75-100K individuos; MEE: 120K individuos).
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– Miles de personas han dormido a la intemperie durante las dos últimas noches a temperaturas bajo cero, y fuentes del RIC han informado de la muerte de al menos tres ancianos
– Decenas de miles de personas han sido trasladadas fuera de la región de Shehba/Tel Rifaat, tomada hace dos días por las milicias del Ejército Nacional Sirio respaldadas por Turquía, que anteriormente expulsaron al grueso de la población kurda y a todos los yazidíes y cristianos de la región de Afrin en 2018.
– Around 75K IDP refugees so far displaced from Aleppo and environs into North and East Syria. Up to 100,000 still trapped in now occupied Shehba at the mercy of rampaging Turkish directed SNA jihadi mercenaries
– Grave risk of imminent Turkish-backed assault against DAANES-governed Manbij, with multi-ethnic population of c.300K, creating further destabilization.
– Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods remain under a state of siege by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as violence targets Yezidis and Kurds attempting to flee Islamist forces.
– C. 75,000 people displaced from Aleppo and environs into North and East Syria, primarily Kurds alongside other minorities, as well as Arabs (OCHA: 10K family groups; DAANES: 75-100K individuals; MEE; 120K individuals).
– Thousands slept outside across the past two nights in freezing temperatures, with at least three deaths of elderly people reported by RIC sources.
– Tens of thousands have been transferred out of Shehba/Tel Rifaat region, seized two days ago by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army militias which previously drove the bulk of the Kurdish population and all Yazidis and Christians out of the Afrin region in 2018.
– Thousands more Arab IDPs have arrived fleeing generalized violence across north-west Syria
– Two reception centers have been set up in Raqqa and Tabqa. In addition to the temporary camps, schools and gymnasiums have been prepared to host IDPs.
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– Dozens arrived with injuries from attacks by the Syrian National Army (SNA), as humanitarian organizations call on the international community to help.
Arrival of the first group of displaced people from Tell-Rifaat in Qamishlo, amidst a reception and invitations to welcome them
– Buses will be deployed from Tabqa to go back and retrieve any civilians who have not evacuated the Shehba region. He said the buses will be under protection to ensure the civilians can be transported safely.
– The Co-chair of Afrin and Shahba Council, Muhammad Sheikho, said: “The IDPs who have arrived have been sleeping outside for the past 48-72 hours.
There is no room for them, until shelter has been set up. Others have been unable to leave, and there’s no information from them, while others are stuck on the way here, as their cars have broken down.
All DAANES hospitals have been directed to offer care for free, but there remains an urgent need for medical support, particularly due to the extreme cold.”
Situation in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, isolated Kurdish neighborhoods
IDPs sheltering in Raqqa Stadium. Convoy now reaches Qamishlo
– Isolated Kurdish neighborhoods continue to suffer conditions of siege after remainder of Aleppo was captured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
– Negotiations between the SDF/DAANES and surrounding HTS forces continue, with SDF representatives stating that locals will decide whether to leave or remain.
Violence against civilians
– DAANES officials warn of a grave risk of a Turkish assault against Manbij, a multi-ethnic city west of the Euphrates and home to 300,000+ individuals forming an integral part of the multi-ethnic DAANES model of governance.
-Attacks continued by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army in the Euphrates canton of DAANES along the line of contact near Manbij and Kobane, with advances.
On Monday evening, the first of 150,ooo Afrin refugee IDPs , escaping a Turkish ordered Jihadi invasion from Tel Rifaat in Shahba region arrived in Tabqa and Raqqa through a humanitarian corridor secured by the multi-ethnic Rojava defense SDF.
Displaced Kurds sleeping in the open in the city of Tabqa, northern Syria – North Press
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – After a grueling and perilous journey on a motorcycle, Shahdar finally reached the city of Tabqa in northern Syria, unsure of how he had survived. Upon arrival, he asked the locals waiting for displaced persons, “Where am I?”
Shahdar Osso, a dentist from the town of Tel Rifaat in northern Aleppo, fled alongside a convoy of displaced residents from Tel Rifaat and northern Aleppo, locally known as Shahba region, to the city of Tabqa after Turkish-backed opposition factions, took control of the area. Lost and disoriented, he recalls the arduous details of his escape on a motorcycle.
Sheikhmos Ahmed, head of the camps office of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), tells North Press that an estimated 120,000 people are expected to flee from northern Aleppo to northeastern Syria.
“They will kill us all”
The displaced doctor recounts to North Press, “An hour before the Syrian National Army factions entered Tel Rifaat, we headed toward the al-Ahdath village.”
He described how, upon reaching al-Ahdath, “The factions surrounded us and demanded we head to Afrin. But the people refused—we were thousands in number.”
Returning to Afrin, he explains, “was equivalent to suicide. They would kill us all, as they had done to the residents of Nubl and Zahraa.”
Shahdar recalls the terrifying moment when they realized they were trapped. “As we approached al-Ahdath, I stood with three others and learned that we were encircled. The SNA factions behind us and al-Nusra Front militants ahead of us.”
Members of London’s Kurdish community have set up a solidarity encampment, and launched a hunger strike, to protest violent police raids and the arrests of seven people for terrorism offences.
Members of London’s Kurdish community have initiated a protest encampment and hunger strike, aimed at defending Haringey’s Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) against police repression.
Raid on community centre and several homes
On 27 November, police mounted a violent raid of the KCC. Officers smashed their way in with sledgehammers, and blocked nearby streets. Several homes were also raided and the families of those arrested, some of them children, were beaten by officers. Seven people have now been arrested.
A statement from the community said: “Between 2 and 3am on the morning of Wednesday, November 27, Met Police raided the homes of… Kurdish activists, arresting them, and beating their families, including children. Their families were then expelled from their homes and will not be allowed to return for 14 days.”
The capitalist system thrives on a fundamental lie: that work, and leisure are inherently distinct. Work, under this system, is framed as drudgery—a necessary evil performed to earn survival in a society where basic needs are commodified.
Leisure, meanwhile, is a fleeting escape from the grind, squeezed into evenings and weekends, or reserved for the lucky few who can afford it.
This dichotomy traps us in a life of alienation, where our labour serves not our communities or ourselves, but the relentless accumulation of capital by the ruling class.
But what if we could destroy this artificial division?
Anarcho-communism offers us a vision where labour and leisure are not opposing forces but intertwined aspects of a liberated existence. In a world free from hierarchies, exploitation, and scarcity, “work” would no longer be a compulsory exchange of time for money.
Instead, it would be a voluntary and creative expression of our collective humanity—something we choose to do, not because we must, but because it enriches our lives and the lives of others.
The Tyranny of Compulsory Work
Capitalism enforces the false dichotomy of work and leisure through systemic coercion.
For most, survival depends on selling their labour to a system that values profits over people. Jobs are rarely chosen freely. Instead, they are dictated by circumstances: the rent that’s due, the bills that pile up, the crushing weight of debt.
Whether it’s a gruelling factory shift, a monotonous office job, or precarious gig work, the purpose of labour under capitalism is clear: to generate wealth for those who already have too much.
This dynamic robs work of any intrinsic meaning or joy. Tasks that could be creative, fulfilling, or socially valuable are reduced to mere means to an end, alienating workers from the fruits of their labour.
The idea of leisure, then, emerges as a temporary reprieve—a fleeting reward for enduring the daily grind. This dynamic fosters resentment toward work, creating a cycle where people live for the weekend or the next brief holiday, only to be dragged back into the machinery of production.
Anarcho-Communism: A New Vision of Work
Imagine a world where the very concept of “having to work” no longer exists. In an anarcho-communist society, labour would be decoupled from survival. Everyone’s basic needs—housing, food, education, healthcare—would be guaranteed through collective effort and shared resources.
This isn’t utopian dreaming; it’s a practical vision rooted in mutual aid, direct democracy, and the elimination of capitalist hierarchies.
Under such a system, labour would serve the community and the individual rather than the accumulation of capital. Without bosses, landlords, or billionaires extracting value from our work, the purpose of labour would shift toward creating and sustaining systems that enrich everyone’s lives.
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