Martin Barakov

PhD researcher focusing on (post-)socialist urban development.

[Volodymyr Ishchenko @Volod_Ishchenko]

Even junior scientists like my parents had a kitchen like this in Soviet Kiev without any assistance from their own parents. I would have to work much longer to get something like this on my own in post-Soviet Ukraine.

[David Broder @broderly]

Poll shows German Green voters are far less likely (28%) than general public (53%) to agree that "I'm very concerned that prices are rising so sharply that I won't be able to pay my bills". Grim example of "neoliberals with bicycles"

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

BREAKING: Today, the United Nations voted 170-6 on "The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination".

Those voting against:

🇺🇸United States
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷Argentina
🇵🇾Paraguay
🇫🇲Micronesia
🇳🇷Nauru

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

Not surprised. War was beneficial for Russia and totally destroyed Ukraine. Continuing this war is beneficial to Russia not Ukraine. Why war must end and why we’ve been saying the war must end! Peace calls were interpreted as pro-Russian when in fact it was pro-Ukrainian

[Volodymyr Ishchenko @Volod_Ishchenko]

One of the many facts that are difficult to reconcile with the ethnonationalist interpretation of the war.

[Digital Cosmonaut @iamkosmonaut]

The morning was off to a good start
#urbex #lostplaces

[Søren Mau @sorenmau]

the entire text of Capital vol. 1 as a poster

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇧🇴 Bolivia’s armed forces have been forced to withdraw from the Presidential Palace — and counter-protestors have filled the Plaza Murillo in support of the democratically elected MAS government.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

🇧🇴🚨COUP ATTEMPT DEFEATED:

Democratically-elected socialist President Luis Arce celebrates with the masses after the coup leader Juan José Zuñiga was forced to withdraw after a face-off and popular mobilisation to stop the coup

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Julian Assange is a hero for the ages.

What he endured for all of us is unimaginable.

This is him boarding the plane at Stansted yesterday.

Savour this moment.

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

Yesterday at the People's Circle for Palestine at @UofT, a woman carrying an Israeli flag pulled out a knife as someone tried to stop her from ripping down banners from the fence

As far as witnesses saw, police did not arrest her, take her knife, or trespass her from the space

[Popular Cradle Podcast @popularcradle]

On this Nakba Day, we are publishing our first episode, in which Yara, Mohammed, and Rhiannon talk about the history of Palestinian resistance to Zionism—and why that story doesn’t start with the Nakba.

https://t.co/L8hhKh5m8g

[waniza • وانزہ @wanizawasi]

my university will offer programs in social justice and then unleash riot police on you for doing the social justice

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

UAW 4811 members have voted by a super majority to authorize a strike.

[Peace, Land, and Bread @plbmagazine]

📕 PRE-ORDERS OPEN NOW!📕

🇵🇸 As we mark Nakba Day, we are proud to announce the May 29 release of The Palestinian Resistance: Historical Documents of the P.L.O. This collection of foundational organizational writings from the Palestine Liberation Organization is an excellent historical record of the crucible of the 1960s and 1970s, and—perhaps more importantly—a critical organizational resource for activists and organizers fighting for liberation, both in Palestine and around the world.

🖌️ With a critical new foreword from our comrades and series collaborators at @guerrilla_pod, as well as an afterword from the brilliant @pawelwargan, engage in a critical study of the organizational narratives, policies, and practices that have ignited radical political discourse worldwide, shaping the fight for Palestinian self-determination.

📅 Hardcover pre-orders open now! Pre-order today to receive your copy on May 29—all profits from book sales go directly to the Middle East Children’s Alliance.

📗 US Hardcover: https://t.co/WzqK64TyhI
📘 UK Hardcover: https://t.co/iY4kbhesRh
📦 For bookstore pre-orders and stocking requests: https://t.co/M4Yr7c3Jfw
📍Hardcover ISBN: 979-8-8692-2552-8

[Hüseyin Dogru (Back-Up) @redstreamnet]

HAPPENING NOW: Pro-Palestine activists have launched an offensive against Germany’s Zionist “left” in Hamburg. In this pre-recorded video, the activists are announcing their plans to reclaim Rote Flora, an occupied building that is a base for German Zionists who identify as "anti-fascists".

Currently, over 50 anti-imperialist activists entered Rote Flora, brandishing Palestine flags and pyrotechnics, demanding the expulsion of Zionists from left-wing spaces across Germany. The presence of Zionists in the German left has become pervasive due to the Antideutsche (anti-Germans), a bizarre movement that is unique to Germany.

Even though the Antideutsche developed out of Marxist circles and claims to be anti-fascist, it is violently pro-Israel and pro-US imperialism, and has been agitating in favor of Germany's extreme crackdown on Palestine solidarity since October 7 last year.

The offensive by pro-Palestine activists aims to restore Rote Flora to its internationalist roots, as it was when initially occupied in 1989.

[UofT Occupy for Palestine @occupyuoft]

The more they try to silence us the louder we will be.

@uoft divest now!

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

We are holding a Strike Authorization vote May 13-15th. 🧵 (1/9)

[Hüseyin Dogru (Back-Up) @redstreamnet]

red. Media spoke to Bolivian students and staff members who've joined the international wave of student occupations for Palestine. Unlike Europe and the US, university authorities here have endorsed the protests rather than repress them.

We spoke to staff about why they have sided with protests and with students about what their demands are in a country that has already broken all relations with Israel.