“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and still fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life in all its forms.”
-Leila Khaled, Palestinian liberation fighter
"Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense!" -Eugene Debs
Socialist luminary and union agitator Eugene V. Debs died on this day in 1926.
Debs’s life and work was inspired by an unwavering belief that a more just and free world was possible, and that it would be created through class struggle.
Israel can’t stop all the boats. They are still sailing towards Gaza. Only a quarter of the boats were stopped. The rest are continuing their journey towards Gaza. Beautiful and courageous souls aboard these boats. My friend shared this photo from one of the boats. Onwards.
The Gilboa jailbreak showed the world that even with nothing but a spoon, Palestinians could tear through Israel’s strongest prison walls. As Assata said, a wall is just a wall, and it can be brought down. With news of her passing, her words live on in every act of defiance.