RhymeXit K'abala ☭

You keep hearing Chullage in that rhymeshit that shakes.

[Communist Party Marxist CPM - Kenya @CommunistsKe]

BOOKER BARRED FROM GERMANY The border cannot silence solidarity https://t.co/5KYSgLDaqw

[Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb]

Le Maroc a voté contre la poursuite du débat sur la levée du blocus illégal de Cuba par les USA 🤮🤮🤮

L’Egypte et Trinidad & Tobago se sont abstenus 🤢🤢

Le Cameroun, le Eswatini, le Sénégal, la Somalie et la Zambie ont lâchement joué la carte de l’absentéisme 🙄

Ô honte!

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

African Proverb Of The Week

When the European colonizer first stepped foot in Africa, he did not meet a “poor”, “starving” continent. Otherwise, he and his descendants would not have gone on to plunder this continent for 500 years. Africa has always been a wealthy continent. It is “poor” today only because its people no longer remember who they are. 500 years of colonial t*rrorism have created a modern African who sees Western societies as the pinnacle of civilization, rather than the parasitic entities they really are. And rather than fight to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, the modern African wastes their whole life seeking success, support and validation in the West.

In the words of Burkina Faso’s founding father, Thomas Sankara, “He who feeds you controls you”, and while Africa cannot be realistically expected to seal itself off from this modern, interconnected world, this North African proverb reminds us that those who depend on others for their basic needs remain at the mercy of those others.

So the modern African’s relationships with the rest of the world must be guided by the facts of history, and who is actually on their side.

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇰🇪 | Moments ago the Kenyan police arrested several protesters as authorities seal off Nairobi to stop bigger demonstrations.

Security forces blocked every major road into the capital and halted long-distance buses. Parliament was also protected with razor wire.

The day marks two years since young Kenyans stormed that Parliament against the 2024 Finance Bill. A tragic day, in which police killed more than 60 demonstrators.

The bill followed a tax aligned with the IMF's Medium-Term Revenue Strategy, which sets Kenya a target of raising its tax-to-GDP ratio from 13.5% to 20%.

More than 120 people have been killed across the protest movement since 2024.

The Independent Policing Oversight Authority says only 3 of 62 deaths from 2024 have reached court. Human Rights Watch counts 41 people still missing.

[Joan Cook from PBS @MissPavIichenko]

They lost btw

[UmdarTamker @UmdarTamker]

They spent $75 billion fighting Iran, then another $300 billion rebuilding Iran, just to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the war started.

USA the superpower 🤡🤡😂😂

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

The moment of the Iranian flag being unfurled on the turf of SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles

[davina @davina_thfc]

Me supporting every country that has ever been colonised or hurt by the West

[Red Prints Publishing @RedPrintsPub]

This 315-page collection of works discusses the New Economic Policy implemented by Lenin. This topic is seldom studied in the Western left, yet every existing communist-led country references Lenin's blueprint for their own material conditions.

[Fighter 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @NalediChirwa]

Yesses 🥺🙏🏾♥️🤟🏾 #EFFJune16Rally

[mathildafoot @mathilda_kouame]

Toute l’Afrique deriere le Sénégal one love for africa 🙏❤️❤️🇨🇮🇦🇱🇳🇬🇸🇳🇿🇲🇿🇼🇿🇦🇿🇦🇧🇫🇩🇯🇩🇲🇰🇲🇬🇳🇮🇳🇲🇷🇲🇱🇦🇴🇺🇬🇹🇿🇬🇼🇪🇹🇨🇻🇬🇭🇲🇾🇹🇬🇿🇼🇩🇿🇨🇲🇮🇶

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇿🇦 | Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising.

June 16, 1976, the day an apartheid government opened fire on its own schoolchildren in South Africa.

Up to 20,000 students marched through Soweto against a decree forcing Afrikaans into their classrooms. Afrikaans was the language of white settlers and of the apartheid state.

Police fired tear gas, then live ammunition. Young children were shot in the streets. A photographer captured a dying child being carried by another student.

That image became the face of apartheid worldwide. What they were marching against had been in place since 1953.

Bantu Education gave Black children deliberately inferior schools, by 1974, the government was spending seventeen times more on a white child's education than on a Black child's.

Its architect, Hendrik Verwoerd, said in parliament there was no place for Black South Africans "above the level of certain forms of labour."

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇫🇷 🇨🇭 | Riot police clashed with anti-G7 protesters in Switzerland.

The demonstrations heated up as police fired tear gas and water cannons at 20,000 demonstrators.

The G7 group, the US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK, is holding a summit across Lake Geneva in the French town of Evian-les-Bains.

France had refused to issue demonstration permits anywhere near the venue, so the protesters gathered on the Swiss side.

The protest was led by the No-G7 coalition, a bloc of more than 60 groups, including Palestinian rights advocates, feminist activists, and environmentalists. The protesters carried banners that read: "No to the G7 and all imperialist alliances."

Switzerland deployed around 4,000 armed forces personnel; France mobilized 8,000 police officers, according to media reports. Some 20 protesters were detained on Friday, Swiss media reported.

By evening, fires were burning across the city. Protesters threw stones, bottles, pieces of cement, and firecrackers at riot police.

The G7 once produced 70% of global GDP. The figure today stands at 40%, while the seven governments represent one-tenth of the global population.

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇮🇩 | Protests intensify in Indonesia as the government sends soldiers to Jakarta.

Here is what's behind the tensions.

Thousands of students marched today under the banner "Menuju Indonesia Bangkrut" — "Towards Indonesia's Bankruptcy."

The students' five demands include lower fuel and food prices, an end to wasteful state spending, and an end to military involvement in civilian affairs.

The Rupiah, Indonesia's currency, fell down to 18,000 per USD on June 4 and is Asia's worst-performing currency this year.

The Jakarta stock market is down roughly 30 percent, the worst-performing major index in the world in 2026, according to Bloomberg.

Prabowo's government allocated 335 trillion rupiah this year to its flagship free meals program, but the program came under criminal investigation; prosecutors raided its headquarters on June 3, a day after its chief was dismissed.

Students are calling the movement "Reformasi Jilid II" — Reform 2.0, invoking the 1998 movement that toppled Suharto. Prabowo served that government as a special forces commander and was discharged over human rights abuses.

The last protest wave, in August 2025, ended with 10 dead and more than 6,000 arrested, according to an independent investigation. The Prabowo government answered the current protests with 4,151 joint police and military personnel, including 500 soldiers.

[Fighter 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @NalediChirwa]

High schoolers are so excited to be first time voters 😂♥️ “I’m a Malema fan! Ever since I was young!” 🥺♥️

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇮🇪 🇬🇧 | Do you know who is behind the riots in Belfast?

You've seen the videos: houses burning and migrants being attacked.

But what the headlines keep missing is who is behind the violence.

They are more than far-right. They are loyalists — loyal to the British Crown, who do not see the six counties of the North as part of Ireland at all. And, in their own words, they are just “getting the foreigners out.”

They move in step with the wider British far right. Tommy Robinson and Reform UK have pushed for protests across the region. On the ground, the method is fear: immigrant families’ addresses shared online, shops set alight, doors kicked in.

This violence has deep roots. Northern Ireland was carved out of Ireland through British partition in 1921, six counties kept under London’s rule. Loyalists fought to stay British, while republicans fought for a united Ireland.

“The Troubles” killed more than 3,500 people before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. And the same loyalism that once burned out Republican neighborhoods is now turning on migrants.

As migrants are chased through the streets, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service responded to 62 incidents in just five hours on the first night. Three houses, a supermarket, and a city bus were set alight.

[SOVINTERN @sovintern_net]

The US wants to place an isolation center in Kenya for its own citizens with Ebola, but the project is seen as imposed from outside and closed off from the public. Construction continues despite court rulings, while reports of the US military-biological presence make the situation even more alarming:
https://t.co/aYf9AmFo3w

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."

Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.

Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.

Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.

That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”

[VOCAL Africa @VOCALAfrica_]

Tensions flared in Nanyuki as police opened fire during ongoing protests against a proposed U.S. Ebola quarantine facility, leaving one demonstrator dead.

[Mister Kitster @MisterKitster]

Brutalidad policial durante el operativo de persecución contra manifestantes en la ciudad de La Paz, ordenado por el gobierno de @Rodrigo_PazP. Se reportó tortura contra detenidos en intervenciones anteriores, además de detenciones arbitrarias.
@CIDH @RELE_CIDH