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[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

ALERT 🇪🇨 Ecuador's Government withdrew military security for presidential candidate @LuisaGonzalezEc, endangering her and her family while it welcomes Blackwater's Erik Prince on claims of rising insecurity.

We demand immediate reinstatement of protection for @LuisaGonzalezEc.

[British Palestinian Committee @BritPalCommitt]

📢📢 NEW REPORT: We lay bare the extent of the UK’s military involvement in the Israeli assault on Gaza – a campaign of violence that, exactly one year ago, led the the International Court of Justice to warn of genocide.

https://t.co/bpcHtVSVl2

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

Listening on @NPR right now and one of their presenters described Palestinian children who are due to be released from Israeli prisons & torture dungeons, most of whom held without charges or trial, as “Palestinian males who are minors.”

Otherwise known as “children.”

Children.

[Wafa Ali Mustafa @WafaMustafa9]

I have no news about my detained father in Syria. Like millions of Syrians, I’m torn between hope & fear.

We’re searching through harrowing videos, clinging to any chance. Yet, Key international humanitarian organisations are absent.

The weight of waiting is heavier than ever

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

The first thing they did was go prison to prison and let everyone out. This is how you know these are Syrians, this is a liberation.

[Sarah Hunaidi @SaraHunaidi]

I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.

[Bayan @BayanPalestine]

Let’s put geopolitical analysis aside for a minute and remember that those are humans who deserve to live with dignity and freedom of choice.
The joy on the faces of those who’ve been freed from torture prisons after being wrongfully imprisoned for years in #Syria is unmatched.

[Leila Al-Shami @LeilaShami]

As we celebrate, remember all those who are not with us today ... those who paid the ultimate price in the struggle for a Free Syria. May their souls now rest in peace.
My heart is with every family who will be anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones in detention.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Oh my God. The silence after the screams. This is one of the most horrifying scenes I’ve seen come out of Gaza.

Israel “bombed [these people] and killed a number of them, then people came to rescue them, and mothers cried over their injured sons, then Israel…bombed them again.

All of this happened inside a UNRWA school housing displaced people in Gaza City.”

[Salma @salma_daoudi1]

The release of former Syrian detainees is such a bittersweet moment. My thoughts are with the families of detainees who did not survive the regime’s brutality, with the families still awaiting to know their loved one’s fate, with the families waiting to reunite.

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

Thirteen and a half years ago in March 2011, a group of teenagers in Dara'a, Syria spray painted: "Your turn has come, doctor," in reference to Bashar al-Assad. They were arrested and tortured, which led to protests in what would become the Syrian uprising.

Today is for them.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

#Syria: incredible scenes from the moment the prison cells were opened at the women's detention area of Sednaya prison.

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

Netanyahu and Gallant are now officially international fugitives.

"The Chamber issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024"

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

If you no longer see reports about Israeli massacres in northern Gaza, it’s not because they have stopped, but because the Israeli occupation has killed most of the journalists there for this exact reason: to keep you from knowing about them.

Massacres are being committed 24/7

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

“Two women about to give birth were shot and bled to death in the street, staff said.” As they tried to enter a hospital. A whole year of this with complete bipartisan support from the two major parties.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

20 years in prison for expressing political views in “the only democracy in the Middle East”

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

“Almost every prisoner in Gaza has faced torture, sexual harassment or assault. They strip them, tase them, take pictures to humiliate them. They treat us worse than they treat dogs and cats.”

🇵🇸 Sahar Francis, co-director of @Addameer, tells the @ProgIntl delegation that, “it is worse than it has ever been — because of the humiliation. Detainees have been tortured in the past, but you can emerge from this with a preserved sense of spirit. Israel now seeks to break the spirit and kill their souls. It is humiliation as a tactic of torture.”

[The Hasbara Buster @ibrahimibnyusuf]

So, ethnic cleansing. Thanks for clarifying.