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🌎 Columbus discovered America?
🇪🇸 This formulation describes very well what a Eurocentric view of the world is. October 12 is considered the date when Christopher Columbus moored to land near the American continent, marking the discovery of the New World by Europeans. From that moment began the process of colonization of the Western Hemisphere, whose victims were, according to various estimates, between 60 and 65 million people. The conquistadors destroyed local civilizations: the Inca, Maya and Aztec empires, which were developing along their own path. Nothing more horrible than the conquest that followed «Columbus Day» has the continent experienced in its entire history.
✍️ The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano described this historical moment thus:
«In 1492, the natives discovered that they were Indians,
discovered that they lived in America,
discovered that they were naked,
discovered that sin existed,
discovered that they owed obedience to a king and a queen of another world
and to a god of another heaven,
and that this god had invented guilt and clothing,
and had ordered burned alive
those who worshipped the moon and the sun,
the earth and the rain that quenches it…»
🇲🇽 However, life continues, despite all the wounds and the centuries of colonial rule of Spain and Portugal in South and Central America and the Caribbean. One can live eternally in the shadow of received traumas, building an identity of victim, but there is another path. Precisely that path was chosen by the working people of Ibero-America and their political leaders: Fidel Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, Raúl Prebisch, Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa and many others. It is the path of integration around a common identity stretching across both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The pain caused by colonization is forever imprinted in the memory of peoples — take at least the works of Gabriel García Márquez — but the remaining community of language and culture is a unique resource for building ties, a basis for genuine internationalism on a regional scale. However, Ibero-America can become truly united only when power in it belongs to local working people, and not to American transnational corporations and their political puppets.
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⭐️ Speech in Mexico City. For socialism, multipolarity and the restoration of life!
🇨🇱 SOVINTERN comrade Jorge Gálvez — political secretary of the Labour Party of Chile (Marxist-Leninist) and national coordinator of the Sovereign Left of Chile — on behalf of the delegation of the international socialist network at the seminar «Parties and New Society», organized by the Labour Party of Mexico, delivered a fiery speech with an appeal to all supporters of genuine progress and freedom.
🔥 In his appeal, Comrade Gálvez reminded those gathered of the main acute issues of our time and clearly outlined SOVINTERN's position on them.
«In this global confrontation, SOVINTERN once again confirms its firm support for the Russian Federation in the face of NATO's encirclement and for the Islamic Republic of Iran in its sovereign steadfastness. We welcome the break with neocolonialism in Africa — in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso — and maintain our consistent commitment to Cuba and Nicaragua».
❗️ Immediately free Nicolás Maduro, Cilia Flores and all political prisoners!
❗️ Stop the imperialist aggression!
❗️ For socialism, multipolarity and the restoration of life!
The full version of the speech can be found on our website.
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African children — guinea pigs?
❗In Guinea-Bissau, Danish researchers are preparing to conduct an experiment involving 14,000 newborns to study the effects of hepatitis B vaccination. Half of the infants will receive the vaccine at birth, while the other half will not receive it during the first six weeks of life. Meanwhile, the WHO recommends vaccinating children within the first 24 hours after birth, as infection during infancy significantly increases the risk of chronic infection and serious health consequences. Nevertheless, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has allocated $1.6 million to the study, while U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has publicly praised its organizers.
🔊Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, believes that the experiment also serves a political purpose:
“He [Kennedy] wants to make sure that newborns in the United States are no longer vaccinated at birth. He is taking advantage of the circumstances in a developing country… Are African children somehow more expendable than children here?”,
— according to Offit, serious ethical restrictions would prevent such a study from being conducted in the United States itself.
❗️ Stig Børsen Hansen, a member of the Danish ethics committee, criticized the experiment:
“Now you are entering newborns into a lottery to test a hypothesis. They become infected with hepatitis B as part of a research project.“
According to him, children randomly assigned to the group that does not receive the vaccine at birth — those who “lose the lottery” — are exposed to risks from their very first days of life. He and three other committee members resigned in protest against the experiment.
❗️ Earlier this year, the project had already been suspended over an ethical scandal, but it has now been restarted. European and American elites are willing to put the health of African children at risk for the sake of their own ambitions and political goals. This is particularly cynical in a country with a high prevalence of hepatitis B, where thousands of infants have become bargaining chips for Western neocolonialists.
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Not our flag, not our country, not our war
🚨 A rally against the possible introduction of military conscription was held outside Downing Street in London, organized by the Workers Party of Britain and the Anti-Conscription League. Participants included the party’s deputy leader and former British ambassador to Bahrain and Syria, Peter Ford, SOVINTERN regional coordinator Jesse Winnie, and former MP Andrew Bridgen. Under the slogan “Not our flag, not our country, not our war,” protesters opposed sending British youth to fight in Ukraine for NATO’s interests.
«These are the real opportunities that should be given to the youth, engineering, education, healthcare, any way to develop the youth so that they live their best lives.»
— said Jesse Winnie, speaking out against sending young Britons into the meat grinder. One of the speakers also emphasized that for Russian families, who suffered enormous losses in the fight against fascism, the Great Patriotic War remains a living memory, making it particularly absurd to push Europe toward another military confrontation with Russia.
What is the point of a monument? What is the point of a war memorial or a poppy or a remembrance day when they are ready to do it all over again? To take our young women and men and send them to die in a foreign country? War and conscription is when we're ordered to fight our government's enemies. Revolution is when you realize that it's your government that's the enemy.
❗️ In closing, former British MP Andrew Bridgen recalled an old saying:
“When all the political parties agree on anything it's always very bad news for the people.”
According to him, there are no longer any voices of reason left in the British Parliament calling for peace negotiations with Russia. That is precisely why it is necessary to build a broad movement capable of uniting people of different political views, to prevent the elites from making young people pay for their decisions with their lives.
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Money has no smell. Stock market speculators in Turkey are deepening the economic crisis
🖇️🇹🇷 The Istanbul Prosecutor's Office is investigating stock market manipulation that has devastated the Turkish economy. The BIST 100 index plunged by 16.65% in a single month, marking the largest decline since the 2008 crisis. Speculators, including Central Bank officials, artificially inflated the prices of numerous financial assets for personal enrichment. Eighty-five suspects have been detained, measures have been taken against 207 individuals, and the assets of dozens of figures have been frozen. Manipulative schemes have been uncovered: the prices of certain securities soared nearly 100-fold. A total of 131 funds were involved in the schemes, and as many as 455,000 investors may have suffered from the speculators' actions.
🥇⚡️ But the problem is not individual fraudsters — it is the existing economic system. While the country suffocates under 32% inflation and a falling lira, financiers gamble on the stock exchange, draining money from the real economy. They create nothing; they merely redistribute what belongs to others. And when the scheme collapses, it is not they who pay the price, but thousands of small investors who have lost their savings and millions of citizens whose wages continue to lose value.
⭐️ Capital does not care about the country. In pursuit of profit, it is ready to destroy the economy, plunge people into poverty and wreck the very market it parasitizes, all for the profits of a handful of oligarchs. Money does have a smell — the smell of millions of ruined lives.
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Lebanon that is looking for friends
🇱🇧🇺🇸 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun thanked Donald Trump for lifting the 41-year ban on direct flights between the countries. Lebanon called this a sign of trust and hopes for further cooperation. But behind this gratitude lies deep dependence. The Lebanese army has lived on American money for decades: since 2004, the US has invested more than $3 billion in it. After 2019, the dependence only grew — soldiers' salaries, fuel, equipment all come from Washington. And in return, the Lebanese army, as the American envoy frankly admitted, is arming not to fight Israel, but to confront the pro-Iranian armed organization Hezbollah.
📜🔫 Dependence on the US is in fact even deeper. Lebanon confronts the US ally Israel, and Beirut's diplomacy with Tel Aviv also goes through Washington. Over the past six months, the IDF has turned southern Lebanon into scorched earth, and many settlements have been destroyed. All rounds of negotiations, ceasefire agreements, important arrangements — all this happens in the US and under its pressure. Thus, the White House has all the necessary instruments to provoke escalation again and again and deepen its influence in the country, using the role of mediator.
📈😈 Beirut is looking for a patron — and so far finds only a master. But patronage is not given for free: it requires loyalty, and loyalty requires dependence. Lebanon must remember: one can look for friends, but one must not cease to be oneself in the process.
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🇲🇽 SOVINTERN in Mexico
⭐️ On Thursday, the 30th international seminar «Parties and New Society» started in the capital of Mexico under the auspices of the Mexican Labour Party. More than 30 gathered organizations are SOVINTERN comrades.
🏛 A broad range of global and regional issues was discussed: from the transformation of the world order to the strategy and tactics of parties in an age of growing social and international tension. The event was also attended by prominent leaders: former President of Colombia Gustavo Petro and presidential candidate of Peru, SOVINTERN comrade Roberto Sánchez.
❗️ Tomorrow we will share details and the speech of our comrade from the podium of this event!
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The Korean Path Against Foreign Scripts
🇰🇵 On October 10, 1945, the history of the Workers' Party of Korea began, with which the formation of the DPRK is inextricably linked. The country, which had survived Japanese colonial rule, the division of the peninsula and the devastating Korean War, rebuilt cities, industry and infrastructure practically from scratch. The new state faced the task of preserving its independence under conditions of constant external pressure.
⭐️ The history of the Workers' Party of Korea is an example of how far a state can go in its striving to ensure its own security and not depend on others' guarantees. The DPRK staked on self-reliance, its own defence industry and nuclear deterrence, and created a military potential that the world's largest powers are forced to take into account.
«Our party fights for the complete liberation of the country from the yoke of foreign imperialism and for the building of an independent, sovereign and democratic state»,
— Kim Il Sung stated in the report presented at the party's founding congress.
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🪖 The memory of Che cannot be melted away. Fire only makes it stronger, even more resilient
🗿 If someone starts tearing down monuments, it means they have stolen something from you and want to divert your attention. Deputies from President Milei's party «La Libertad Avanza» proposed dismantling the monument to Ernesto Che Guevara, erected in his native city of Rosario, Santa Fe province, and replacing it with a sculpture of footballer Lionel Messi, who recently ended his career.
🔥 The very process of creating the Che monument for his 80th birthday in 2008 was highly creative: artist Andrés Zerneri launched a campaign to collect keys across the country. He melted them down and made them the base for the future 4-metre monument. Thousands of caring people donated more than 75,000 keys to pay tribute to a compatriot of planetary scale.
🇦🇷 The idea of erecting a monument to Messi, especially in Santa Fe — which is also his native province — is not at all bad. This man has earned recognition as an athlete, he is respected and loved all over the world. But for this one cannot destroy another part of one's own history, which is what the libertarians are trying to exploit. The claim that Messi is a figure who unites people, while Che, on the contrary, is merely cheap manipulation. Ernesto by his own example showed that Ibero-Americans are one civilization. As in any modern society, there is no place in it for capitalist parasites feeding on the grief of millions of ordinary people. Che unites hundreds of millions on both sides of the Atlantic and even wider.
😭 Reasoning in the spirit of the primitive logic of the initiators, one could with equal success accuse Messi of his figure creating a conflict with Ronaldo's fans. Because of football, by the way, a war even broke out between El Salvador and Honduras. So one should not touch history. The wisdom that the Argentine libertarian swindlers lack consists in multiplying the heritage of their people, and not in the barbaric destruction of what, due to a lack of culture, displeases certain parties and personalities.
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👊 There are no liberators. People liberate themselves. Che Guevara Memorial Day
🔫 On October 9, 1967, Bolivian government executioners killed the courageous Latin American revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. This man was always at the epicentre of the anti-colonial revolutionary struggle — in Cuba, in the Congo and in Bolivia. Relying on the successful Cuban experience, he believed that with the help of a small ideological guerrilla focal point one could ignite a revolutionary fire in the most oppressed and backward countries, where the sharpness of social contradictions reaches its peak.
📜 No material can encompass the full entirety of Che Guevara's ideological and life path, so it is worth dwelling on just one thing. Perhaps the martyr's death that Che accepted was the only possible outcome for him. Being a revolutionary ready to give everything for others, he was by nature incompatible with the activity of a political functionary. Desk routine would have killed him faster than a bullet. Possibly that is precisely why he left the post of Cuba's Minister of Industry.
🆓 However, he also could not have achieved a complete victory in his historical era. Far from all the oppressed working people to whom Che went with open arms were capable of understanding him. Thus, for example, in Bolivia his capture became possible not only because of the CIA's efforts, but also because of betrayal and the indifference of part of the local peasants. Despite his death, Ernesto left behind something far more significant than collections of essays and speeches, even than his own image, long since privatized by mass culture. Che, like Fidel, became the Prometheus of the idea of the collective identity of the working peoples of Ibero-America, who, being Argentine by passport, healed and cared for lepers across the entire continent, left his mark in Mexico, won in Cuba and died in Bolivia. It was later that his banner would be raised by a leader like Hugo Chávez, creating ALBA and becoming for a time the pole of attraction for all the oppressed of the continent.
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Freedom of opinion is guaranteed. So is the arrest that follows.
🚨 In Montenegro, Mikhail Zvinchuk — creator of the Telegram channel «Rybar» — his wife Valeria and three other project employees have been detained. The operation in the city of Risan was carried out by the police and the National Security Agency of Montenegro. The Montenegrin authorities recognized Zvinchuk as a threat to national security and ordered his expulsion from the country. The basis was accusations of involvement in «hybrid activity» and the spread of Russian information influence. After the detention he was released, and now he, together with his associates, is awaiting a flight at the airport. Earlier, the UK and the US accused «Rybar» of spreading Russian propaganda.
❗ The whole problem is that «Rybar» publishes military analytics and covers international conflicts and events from a position that diverges from the Western information and propaganda agenda. In such a case, it is more convenient for the Western elites to clear their information field of an alternative point of view in such a vile manner. This is not the first case of European institutions restricting access to Russian media. In March 2022, the EU Council suspended the broadcasting of RT and Sputnik on the territory of the European Union, explaining the decision as a fight against disinformation.
🔊 If Western states are so confident in their own position, why do alternative sources of information have to be so convulsively restricted? It seems the European elites fear that citizens will begin to compare the official version of events with opposing testimonies and ask inevitable questions that undermine Western narratives.
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Independence is taken, not given. Protests in Pakistan
🇵🇰😇 Pakistan is gripped by a multi-day march on Islamabad. Thousands of supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan set out from Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and are moving towards the capital, demanding his release. The authorities have blocked roads and deployed police forces. Negotiations between the government and Imran Khan's party failed: the authorities denied access to the prisoner and did not fulfil demands for a medical examination.
🏥⚖️ The country is split. On one side is the old elite: dynastic parties, large landowners and the army. On the other is a new force: the urban middle class, young people and Pashtuns, for whom Khan has become a symbol of the struggle against a corrupt system. In 2018–2022, Khan's government introduced universal health insurance, support for the poor and interest-free loans for young people. He was praised for his independent foreign policy and fight against corruption; the prime minister moved closer to Russia, China and Turkey. In 2022, Imran Khan lost power under US pressure because of his neutrality on the special military operation in Ukraine. Since 2023, the former prime minister has been in prison on politically motivated corruption charges.
⭐️ Pakistan must not be anyone's puppet — neither Washington's nor the military's. Imran Khan showed that the country can pursue an independent course. And today thousands of people in the streets are proving: independence is not granted from above. Peoples take it themselves.
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A roof over your head is a luxurious maximum, according to the Spanish elites
🚨 European elites continue to demonstrate open indifference to the fate of their own citizens. Yesterday it became known that 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal had died — a woman whom the Spanish authorities forcibly evicted from her native home in Madrid several weeks ago. The woman's story became a symbol not only of the housing crisis in the country, but also of the policy of authorities who, for the sake of money, are ready to throw thousands of people onto the street.
‼️ After Maricarmen's death, activists took to the streets of Madrid.
«These are not deaths, these are murders»,
«This is class struggle, and we cannot make peace»,
— chanted the participants of the action. For the protesters, the story of the 87-year-old woman became the embodiment of a system in which human life is reduced to a resource for the elites' profit.
❗️ For Western leaders, solving social problems would appear to be an insurmountable task. Yet for their own ambitions, money is always found — from cut social benefits, for example. For many long years, the leaders of many European states have demonstrated their inability to pursue a policy in the interests of their citizens. It is no surprise that, in total, tens of thousands of people across Europe are taking to the streets against the actions of their authorities, whose approval ratings continue to plummet. And while some dispose of real estate and money to their own advantage, others are forced to fight for their home.
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👊 The barefoot revolution started by the Palestinian resistance became a real shock for Western elites and the last hope of a harassed people for justice. The cruelty with which the war is being waged to this day is the result of more than a century of enmity, which began with the colonization of Palestine with the money of the World Zionist Congress and its British sponsors, who artificially created the State of Israel. Of course, this is not the only cause that has engendered more than one generation of people overflowing with mutual hatred. Such a topic deserves a separate material.
🇺🇳 The «two states» project indeed failed as a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem; however, even the situation during the current war in Western Asia shows that the scenario that blindly copies the PLO's programmes about throwing Israel into the sea, promoted by many dreamers with cannibalistic inclinations, is absolutely unrealistic. Undoubtedly, the remnants of the Axis of Resistance must inflict a military defeat on Israel, the main marker of which may be the overthrow of Netanyahu's regime. But it will not put an end to the mutual hatred of Jews and Arabs in Palestine, will not eliminate the existence of almost 7 million Jews in the territory controlled by Israel. One can only hope that among our comrades there are none who consider it justified to apply symmetrical measures of genocide towards Jews, who have also become part of the local population. If such thoughts still visit you, think about what the Soviet Union could have done with the population of Germany, which destroyed 27 million of its citizens through a deliberate policy of genocide in accordance with the «Ost plan». The USSR showed genuine proletarian mercy and political wisdom towards the people of Germany, without stooping to resemble the Nazi monsters.
❗️ Therefore, the solution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after the necessary victory of the Axis of Resistance and the comprehensive weakening of Western imperialism is the most complex theoretical and practical task of the contemporary progressive movement. While this programme does not exist, counting on «we'll win, and then we'll figure it out» is a losing strategy in the spirit of the White Movement in the Russian Civil War.
In the video, 1970, an interview of the Palestinian activist of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ghassan Kanafani to the American outlet ABC News.
Long live a free, multinational, multi-confessional and prosperous Palestine!
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♥️ The Al-Aqsa Flood did not come out of nowhere. The most successful uprising of the oppressed of the 21st century
«Sensitive people, weeping over the horrors of revolution, drop a few tears also over the horrors that engendered it»,
— Jules Michelet, French historian
🇮🇱 On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance committed an act of retribution against Israel. Western media presented what happened as a terrorist attack, emphasizing the victims, once again reproducing the Zionist manual about «Arab savages and barbarians». All to justify the subsequent genocide, which has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 people and deprived more than 1.5 million of a roof over their heads and the minimum means of subsistence. Netanyahu's right-wing Zionist government hoped to finally cleanse the Gaza Strip — an open-air concentration camp — of Palestinians, to take another step towards «Greater Israel»; however, the war went completely contrary to plan. The Palestinian resistance prepared well, did not allow itself to be physically annihilated and won a moral victory, creating the most powerful wave of solidarity even in Western countries, where young people still take to the streets in support of Palestine's struggle.
🔷 Why is every progressive person today on the side of Palestine?
1️⃣ The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was carried out through five large-scale waves of colonization with the expropriation of land and the expulsion of the Arab population. The first Arab-Israeli war began with the Nakba — a large-scale and cruel expulsion of the Arab population from their land, whose victims numbered more than 600,000 people.
2️⃣ Palestinian Arabs are «second-class people» in Israel's conception. They are deprived of rights in the worst traditions of South African apartheid;
3️⃣ Israel has been methodically colonizing Palestinian lands for decades, hiding behind the «Two States» strategy adopted in 1967. Formally supporting relations with the puppet Fatah administration in the West Bank, Tel Aviv dissolves the territory of Palestine into many small isolated enclaves, depriving local residents of access to basic household amenities, such as access to fresh water. All to expel these people and occupy the territory with Jewish settlers.
4️⃣ The Gaza Strip was turned by Israel into an open-air concentration camp for 2 million Palestinians since the disengagement as a result of the Second Intifada in 2005. After the fall of the socialist camp and the destruction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the liberation movement was deliberately fragmented, and Israel began to slowly strangle Gaza, blocking economic development and tying the region to «international charity», whose thread it can cut in an instant.
5️⃣ Long before the Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinians became victims of Israeli police arbitrariness: adults and children were deliberately maimed, having their legs and arms broken, thrown into prisons specially created to hold Arabs on any pretext. Notably, this happened not only under the leadership of «right-wing» Zionism, but also when the «left», which is the other side of the same coin, was in power in Tel Aviv.
6️⃣ Israel, which has created a cult of the superiority of the Jewish nation and occupied a land sacred to all followers of the Abrahamic religions, systematically oppressed the local Muslims and Christians, primarily the Armenian community. The religious tolerance of the Zionists is another myth created in the press and mass culture.
War feeds war. Saudi Arabia is reported to be discussing with Syria the possibility of sending Syrian troops to Yemen
🎖🇸🇾 Saudi Arabia, whose army cannot break the Houthis, is seeking support on the side. According to Axios, citing American officials, Riyadh is holding talks with Damascus about the possible dispatch to Yemen of 10,000 to 20,000 Syrian servicemen. The matter was discussed at the meeting of President Ahmad al-Sharaa with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on October 6. The US, according to sources, does not object to such a step: it would make it possible to sustain the Saudi operation without the participation of the US army.
🇸🇦💚 Publicly, Damascus denies the possibility of sending its troops. It is claimed that Syria, ravaged by years of civil war, is now focused on reconstruction, and opening a new front does not suit it. But the problem is deeper. Among the Syrian armed formations there are thousands of Islamist foreign fighters who came to Syria to fight against Assad. After the civil war, there is «nowhere to put» such fighters — and they become a convenient instrument for others' wars.
🛠❗️ Constantly warring Western Asia regularly encounters this problem. For example, after the dissolution of Saddam's army in 2003, tens of thousands of officers were left without means of subsistence and became the backbone of ISIS*. Today Syria risks becoming a new source of uncontrolled militants — and the region again gets a problem that will reproduce violence for decades. The more wars there are in the region, the more militants there are and the further away peace is. This path brings only suffering and destruction both to the population of the region and to the participants in the conflicts. In the long term, the winners are those who want to weaken Western Asia, to use its resources, money and geographical position, bribing elites and fuelling ethnic and religious hatred. The region needs a political force that will consistently seek compromise and heal old wounds, rather than create new ones.
*an international terrorist organization whose activity is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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‼️ Mayor of Saint-Denis came out to protest with the people
🔊 The wave of protests in France is not subsiding. Thousands of schoolchildren and students have already taken to the streets of Paris, and clashes with police have led to severe injuries among teenagers: one lost an eye, another an arm. 18 investigations have been opened into the actions of the security forces. Macron, meanwhile, watches what is happening from his office and limits himself to statements. At the same time, the mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, a representative of «La France Insoumise», demonstrated genuine solidarity with the people. He went straight out into the street with the protesters, tried to shield some of them from the police and in the end got caught up in it himself. This is how a people's politician should look: not discussing society's problems behind the marble walls of offices, but coming out to the people and achieving change together with them.
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Lithuanian elites make nature rest
✈️ The Lithuanian parliament voted to remove Article 137 from the Constitution, which prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases in the country. At the first stage, 106 deputies voted for the change, 18 were against, and six more abstained. Now another vote will be required with an interval of at least three months, and if the outcome is successful, the ban will be lifted.
❗️ Small bug, but stinky — the fundamental principle of the foreign policy line of the Lithuanian elites. Russia has already warned that the deployment of nuclear weapons and the expansion of NATO military infrastructure near its borders will be regarded as further escalation. However, Lithuania is ready to voluntarily turn its own territory into a potential military target.
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Western Asia is torn by wars and contradictions. What are their causes and who started the war in Yemen? About this in our new material.
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