COLUMBIA UPDATE: Protesters are chanting “let the students go!” in front of a long line of police as they load entire buses of arrested students.

“The US blockade against Cuba, like the genocide in Gaza, is a constant reminder of the egregious violence of the imperialist world order and why we must overcome it. So too is the ecological crisis,” says Jason Hickel at the 50th anniversary Congress on the NIEO

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

Earlier today, the Israeli occupation targeted tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah with incendiary ammunition.

The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions has called for global strikes and solidarity on May Day.

Rafeef Ziadah of Workers in Palestine speaks to Progressive International about fostering worker-to-worker global solidarity to build momentum for a free Palestine.

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Students have taken over Hamilton Hall.

This escalation is in line with uprisings in 1968, 1985 and 1996, which Columbia repressed then and celebrates today.

All power to students putting their bodies and livelihoods on the line to stand against genocide.

On this day in 1975, following the success of the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, The Vietnamese forces of liberation rolled into Saigon, overthrew the puppet regime of the South and banished the American aggressor for all eternity, bringing 29 years of continuous war to an end.

James K. Galbraith: global South countries should coordinate a collective default on external debt.

In addition to liberating the South from financial imperialism this would force the US to nationalise its banking sector and do the whole world a favour.

This is beautiful. Those whose land McGill sits on is give permission to the protesters to be on it.

No fear, no surrender as we continue the movement to end the US-Israeli genocide against Palestinians. Virginia Tech's administration has doubled down on its anti-Palestinian racism and its commitment to supporting genocide. We will continue to fight for Palestinian liberation.

Dozens of Columbia students and community members have barricaded themselves inside the Hamilton building to protest the University’s complicity in the genocidal war on Gaza. Hundreds of students are picketing outside the building as well as the encampment.

Just a reminder that Germany kicked off the Holocaust by rendering all Jewish Germans stateless. They had no passports and no travel papers, so they were either trapped in place or had to rely on illegal ways to escape the mass murder.

When Germany renders people stateless --

I'm hearing disturbing reports that students face suspension if they don’t end their peaceful protests in #Columbiauniversity in the USA. This is a clear violation of their right to peaceful assembly

A better world is possible. But just saying this is not enough. Such a future must be seized, and achieving this will require a struggle for national liberation and economic sovereignty in the global South.

Solidarity with Bikrum Gill - author of vital analysis like this - who has been arrested at Virginia Tech University overnight.

Beautiful day to be in Cuba with so many people from all over the world fighting to revive the Bandung spirit and build a new New International Economic Order

'Never allow US-Japanese war on China.'
'Free Palestine!'

Student protests spread to Japan

LIVE: The Progressive International Summit on the 50th Anniversary of the New International Economic Order is kicking off at Havana’s historic Capitol building. #NIEO50

Good morning from Havana.

Memorial to the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel, outside the White House Correspondents Dinner which is filled with the those who sponsor this slaughter and those who provide the propaganda for it.