100 years ago, on April 18, 1924, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR approved the State Flag of the USSR.

Via Communist World

The witch-hunt rolls on:

The New York City Police Department arrested dozens of students after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik authorized the NYPD to sweep the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on South Lawn at around 1 p.m. on Thursday.

At around 1:27 p.m., NYPD “Strategic Response Group” officers began arresting students. Officers carried batons and had zip ties on their persons.

At around 1:20 p.m., NYPD informed protesters that they would now be placed under arrest for trespassing after protesters did not disperse, pursuant to a previous message relayed by the officers.

The United Communist Party of Russia (OKP) adopted the following demands to the authorities as the main slogans for the upcoming May Day rallies:

“No to persecution for beliefs! For freedom of opinion!

“Remove all restrictions on marches, rallies and pickets throughout the country!”

“Cancel the pension reform!”

“No to credit slavery! For a credit amnesty! Ban microfinance organizations!”

“Communists, unite and fight!”

“Death to fascism, no to capitalism!”

The OKP appeals to all left-wing organizations to actively use these demands as the main May Day slogans.

PFLP's April 17 Palestinian Prisoners Day poster: "We will break the chains"

Via kakasloi

Nine Google workers were removed by police from company offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, late Tuesday after staging an hours-long sit-in protest against a cloud contract with Israel’s government.

The Sunnyvale protest occupied the office of Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google’s cloud division, at a building close to Google’s main HQ in Silicon Valley for more than 8 hours. The New York protest occupied a common area on the tenth floor of Google's Chelsea location.

April 17-19, 1961: CIA-organized invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) is defeated in 72 hours.

Cuba’s victory against the invasion of Playa Giron was the first military defeat of U.S. imperialism in the Americas.

Democratic governor collaborates with far right Republicans to keep queer resources and positive portrayals out of the reach of youth who need them.

Politicians are not going to save us -- only people power will.

Baltimore: Puerto Rico, an Update from the Archipelago

Wednesday, April 17 - 6:30 pm

Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, 2011 N. Charles Street, Baltimore

By Rupen Savoulian

Numerous left wing writers and activists – the term left wing being a broad brushstroke – have moved into the rabbit hole of COVID denial MAGA ultrarightism. Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, among many others, have descended into a contrarian position from the libertarian ultraright. It is no exaggeration to call it a fascist contrarianism.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. a long term environmental lawyer and activist, has metamorphosed into a MAGA supporting far right political figure. Starting with the respectable-sounding position of vaccine hesitancy, RFK has moved decisively to the far right.

His journey is indicative of a widespread phenomenon – leftists who move right wards on an anti scientific trajectory. They remain contrarians – fascist contrarians, ultra libertarian opponents of publicly funded services, such as health care and education.

Fidel Castro, April 16, 1961: "This is what they cannot forgive: the fact that we are here right under their very noses. And that we have carried out a socialist revolution right under the nose of the United States!"

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: The Iranian response to the zionist entity is a pivotal event that will establish new rules of engagement in the region.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praised the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's targeting of zionist military sites with dozens of missiles and drones in response to the entity's aggression against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, describing the Iranian response as a significant pivotal event that will establish new rules of engagement in the region.

The Front confirmed that the legitimate Iranian response broke the prestige of the zionist entity, revealing its fragility and inability to defend itself or restore its deterrence power. At the same time, it confirmed the ability of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the resistance factions to deliver painful strikes to the zionist entity, deepening its internal crisis due to its inability to achieve any of its goals in eliminating the resistance in the Gaza Strip, or stopping the strikes directed at it by the resistance in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq.

The Front explained that the rush of the American administration and its partners in Britain, France, Germany, and some of their Arab tails in the region to use all their defensive weapons to try to protect the zionist entity from the Iranian missiles and drones confirms the involvement of these parties in the zionist crimes in the region, especially in Gaza. It also reveals that this zionist entity has suffered a strategic defeat, has become humiliated and weak, and is unable to protect itself, now imploring its allies to take on this role.

The Front concluded its statement by affirming that the unprecedented Iranian strikes, the first of their kind in history against the zionist entity, represent an important turning point in the battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood and in favor of the resistance factions. The repercussions of this strike will have pressing effects on the zionist entity to stop its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, after the American administration and its allies realized that any escalation in the region would lead to a regional war where their bases and interests will not be safe, nor will the zionist entity be able to defend itself after the collapse of its deterrence power and its humiliating defeat in front of the resistance in Gaza and other fronts.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Department

April 14, 2024

https://t.me/PalestineResist/35985

By Qamar Taleb

“Homeland or death,” if taken in the context of Palestine, strictly means that one should do everything they can to fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea. It means that leftists around the world should not promote or even accept a “two-state solution,” nor should they accept the demonization of Resistance groups by the Israeli occupation and its allies or even hesitate to support the Resistance.

By Kim Ives

Today, Haiti may be in the opening days of its second social revolution, which differs from a political revolution (like Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s 1990 election) in a crucial way. An oppressed, exploited class not only seizes political power but also control of the economy, by wresting ownership from the ruling class of the nation’s means of production: its land, factories, banks, stores, transport, utilities, communications, and other economic mainstays.

Today’s revolution is also being carried out by men whom many in the West, including some “leftists,” regarded as sub-human. The revolutionaries are simply characterized as “gangs” or “thugs,” and, indeed, some of them not only committed crimes but survived off of crime, most notably kidnapping. But many others in the Viv Ansanm coalition, which now is battling the Haitian National Police (PNH), fought the criminal “gangs” with which they are currently united. Both the formerly crime-based and crime-fighting armed groups, now united for “system change,” arise directly out of Haiti’s proletariat and lumpen-proletariat in Port-au-Prince, the sprawling capital of close to three million souls.

Los Angeles: Spotlight on Puerto Rico, Developments & Challenges

Hear Berta Joubert-Ceci

Saturday, April 20 - 6:00 p.m.

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Hosted by Women in Struggle-Mujeres en Lucha

X-MEN 97' (2024 - ) 1.05 "Remember It"

"I don't see any god up here. But from here the Earth is beautiful, without borders or divisions."

The first words of a human in space.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961.

Thanks to Clara Statello