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#Colonialism
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Translation: NPP (pro-statehood party) gathers for collective delusional moment #BackInTheUSColony.
> Congress may be in no mood, but NPP leaders urge continued struggle for statehood https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/congress-may-be-in-no-mood-but-npp-leaders-urge-continued-struggle-for-statehood
San Juan Daily Star · Congress may be in no mood, but NPP leaders urge continued struggle for statehoodBy The Star StaffLeaders of the New Progressive Party (NPP) convened on Sunday at the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan to mark the 168th anniversary of the birth of Dr. José Celso Barbosa, the founding father of the statehood movement in Puerto Rico.They made a strong call for the relentless pursuit of statehood. Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz underscored the necessity of following Barbosa’s model to bring about monumental historical changes.“Let me be clear: the mo
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council has launched an inquiry into "non-compliance" by deep sea mining front-runner The Metals Company (TMC).
TMC is planning to apply to mine exclusively through United States regulations ordered by President Trump, circumventing the ISA process.
RNZ · International Seabed Authority launches inquiry into deep sea mining firm The Metals Company
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Ah yes, 'Colonialism'...we're seeing the effects of that raw and unfiltered from a little slice of Hell on Earth than Israel has made...
The Guardian · Edinburgh University could unadopt antisemitism definition after report into its colonial links
oggi a roma, al pantheon: insieme per gaza
#Gaza #genocide #genocidio #Palestine #Palestina #warcrimes #sionismo #zionism #starvingpeople #starvingcivilians #iof #idf #colonialism #sionisti #izrahell #israelterroriststate #invasion #israelcriminalstate #israelestatocriminale #children #bambini #massacri #deportazione #concentramento
"Thus, an essential part of the struggle to abolish capitalism is the struggle to eliminate all forms of national oppression, including every manifestation of settler colonialism. Part of accomplishing this is to interrogate the connected relationship between the interests of the capitalist ruling class when they engage in colonialism, especially settler colonialism and when they engage in the imperialist stage of capitalism, so we can fight them at every turn for the liberation of all workers and oppressed everywhere."
Workers World · From Palestine to Turtle Island: Smash the capitalists’ settler states! Part 2This is Part Two of a series based on a talk given at a national Workers World Party meeting held on May 18. Part One can be found at workers.org/2025/06/86117/.
Settler colonialism is an important aspect of the national question with its own specific material conditions and history. The question
**A colonial hangover or a linguistic leg-up? India grapples with the enduring appeal of English**
_“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion._
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/india/india-bjp-english-language-tensions-intl-hnk-dst.
CNN · A colonial hangover or a linguistic leg-up? India grapples with the enduring appeal of English
Another slaughtered infant by the blockade of aid in #Gaza
Indigenous leaders denounce Alberta's plans to alter water management
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Alberta #NWT #Canada #IndigenousRights #WaterIsLife #Politics #OilSands #Environment #ProtectTheLand #ClimateCrisis #CleanWater #Colonialism #Treaty8
https://the-14.com/indigenous-leaders-denounce-albertas-plans-to-alter-water-management/
Whiteness is forgetting as civic duty.
The Violence of the Archive
#NaomiKlein argues in her book #Doppelganger that when we - as individuals or collectively - deny our own failings & locate all evils in an objectified Other, we perpetrate on others the abuses that have deeply scarred us. This cycle is broken only when we learn to embrace our whole selves, acknowledge our histories & to heal. Individually & collectively.
ABC News · Israel's actions in Gaza put it at risk of becoming a global pariah
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And the Netherlands surely have to work on their own colonial crimes. Enslaving people to work on plantations in Surinam was even done by Christian priests who became rich in the process. They gave up on missionary work because if they had converted the indigenous population which they deemed not to be human they couldn't really exploit them as slaves any more
DeutschlandfunkSurinamische Herrnhuter-Gemeinde in Amsterdam: Die Kirchen und die Kolonialzeit
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Lest we forget:
“#Colonialism is a parasitic disease of the West & #Zionism is the most virulent strain of the disease!”
- Prof Haim Bresheeth, former IDF soldier & pro-Palestine campaigner/ activist
“European opulence is literally a scandal for it was built on the backs of slaves, it fed on the blood of slaves, and owes its very existence to the soil and subsoil of the underdeveloped world. Europe's well-being and progress were built with the sweat and corpses of blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Asians. This we are determined never to forget.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
It didn't work, you can't hide a genocide, you can't make people unsee what they have seen.
Now comes the Stick, to try to beat it out of us...
The Guardian · Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war
Today in Labor History July 25, 1909: "Tragic Week," a series of bloody clashes between the Spanish army and the working classes of Catalonia, began. The violence came as anarchists, socialists and free masons protested the military’s mustering of reservists to fight a colonial war in Morocco. Most of the soldiers were the workers and peasants, and the sole breadwinners for their families, while the wealthy were allowed to buy their way out of service. They blockaded roads, stopped troop trains, overturned trams, burned down building owned by the corrupt Catholic Church, and called for a General Strike on July 26. Police and military attacked the workers, killing up to 150 people. Over 1,000 were indicted for armed rebellion. Several cops and soldiers also died in the fighting. Five, including the anarchist educator, Francisco Ferrer, founder of the Modern School, were wrongfully executed. Ferrer's execution triggered international protests, including in the U.S. and Latin America.
You can read my complete article on Ferrer and the History of the Modern School here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/
Today in Labor History July 25, 1898: The U.S. invaded Spanish-held Puerto Rico, as U.S. Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles landed and secured the port at Guánica. The U.S. claimed it was liberating Puerto Ricans from colonialism. However, the U.S. has kept Puerto Rico in a near-colonial non-state status ever since, exploiting its resources and people and granting only nominal rights to its residents.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #puertorico #imperialism #colonialism #novel #fiction #HistoricalFiction #author #writer @bookstadon
France waged a brutal, hidden colonial war in Cameroon (1950s-60s), installing the Biya regime, which continues autocratic rule today.
France maintains "state-imposed amnesia" to preserve its "human rights" image and "Françafrique" neocolonial influence.
Cameroonian historians uncover this past despite French denial. Growing anti-French sentiment means France must choose between supporting Biya or genuine self-determination for Cameroonians.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/france-cameroon-colonialism-war-biya/
jacobin.comFrance’s Secret War in Cameroon Is Still Choking Its PeopleThe world’s oldest president, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, is running for yet another term. Biya’s autocratic rule stems directly from a brutal colonial war France waged in the 1950s and ’60s while keeping it virtually hidden from the outside world.