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[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour has just passed away. May he rest in peace.

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

The Guardian has published an open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, signed by Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rashid Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Judith Butler, Walden Bello, among others.

These are not people to be dismissed lightly. Several have given their lives to the anti-imperialist and Black liberation movements, and one of them is writing from inside a US prison. I take no pleasure in disagreeing with them. But the letter is wrong, and plays an objectively harmful role.

Its central image is the “two blades of a scissors”: the Islamic Republic on one side, US and Israeli imperialism on the other, with the Iranian people crushed between them. It inserts a symmetry between the world’s major imperialist power and an anti-imperialist state that has never invaded another country, and which has stood consistently with the oppressed from Palestine to South Africa to Venezuela.

The load-bearing phrase is this: “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism.” Exactly how “hollow” is Tehran’s anti-imperialism? 😵‍💫

For four decades, while almost every Arab government made its accommodation with Washington and Tel Aviv, Iran armed, funded and sustained the Palestinian resistance. It refused normalisation when the Abraham Accords put enormous inducements on the table. It has absorbed forty years of sanctions, assassinations of scientists, sabotaged infrastructure, and now an open war of aggression, rather than abandon that position.

The states that normalised are not being bombed. Hollow anti-imperialism is a communiqué and a hashtag. Iran’s anti-imperialism has been measured in the blood of 168 Minab schoolgirls, in the bombing of its hospitals and oil depots.

One can vehemently disagree with aspects of Iran’s domestic politics, but the question at hand is: where do we stand in the global struggle against imperialism? What side of the barricade are we on? Do we support a criminal war of aggression waged by the US and Israel, or we we support the resistance to that war? Do we support genocide in Gaza, or do we support the country that has been the Palestinian resistance’s most consistent ally for decades?

This letter dissolves the distinction entirely. It asks us to refuse the choice. But in a war of aggression there is no third position available, because only one party benefits from your neutrality – and it’s not the party being bombed.

The letter appears in a British newspaper, six months into a US-Israeli war, at the precise moment when Washington cannot win militarily and needs the political terrain softened. It recycles a familiar vocabulary – sham trials, systematic torture, the targeting of minorities – without sourcing, in the genre that has preceded and accompanied every single regime-change war. Whatever the signatories intended, that is the function it will serve: making the moral case for war.

Angela Davis was imprisoned by a state that told the world she was a terrorist. Mumia Abu-Jamal is imprisoned by that state today. These are people who know exactly what happens when an empire manufactures the moral case for crushing its enemies. They would not have signed, half a century ago, a letter denouncing both blades of the scissors – COINTELPRO on one side and the Black Panther Party on the other.

Progressive and anti-war forces have a duty to support Iran against war, sanctions, regime change plots and destabilisation.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

Anni Kanafani on her late husband Ghassan Kanafani :

“Love of life necessitates violence. Ghassan wasn’t a pacifist. He was killed in the class struggle like Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thälmann, Lumumba and Che Guevara. As they loved life, so did he. Like them he saw the necessity of revolutionary violence as self-defence against the oppression from the exploiting classes. In spite of repeated threats against his life he was not subdued.

The Palestinian liberation movement has been forced to answer violence with violence; it has sacrificed itself in the unequal struggle and it has been forced to face death every day. A Western correspondent asked Ghassan shortly before his assassination: “Does death have a meaning to you?”

“Of course death means a lot. The important thing is to know why. Self-sacrifice, within the context of revolutionary action, is an expression of the very highest understanding of life, and of the struggle to make life worthy of a human being. The love of life for a person becomes a love for the life of his people’s masses, and his rejection that their life persists in being full of continuous misery, suffering and hardship. Hence, his understanding of life becomes a social virtue, capable of convincing the militant fighter that self-sacrifice is a redemption of his people’s life. This is a maximum expression of attachment to life.”

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Mothers in Gaza played Ms Rachel videos to distract their children during amputations because there was no anesthesia.

[Majid Jordan @majidjordan]

Thank you for being here through it all. Our new album, Two Roads, is dear to our hearts. Coming 08.28.

Pre-save now:
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[Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism @beyond_capital]

A 26-year-old man from Chicago, Il. was arrested this weekend after allegedly hacking into the Cook County Human Services system & approving every single application for food stamps.
But he didn’t stop there - he reportedly had new EBT cards mailed out to applicants with $2.5K loaded on each, and even credited existing cardholders with an extra $2.5K.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

A new Palestinian Feminist Collective report concludes that sexualized violence, including rape and sexual enslavement, has been used by Zionist militias and later the Israeli state as a deliberate tool of displacement, domination, torture, and control—from the Nakba to the present. The report demonstrates that the sexual humiliation, torture, rape, blackmail, and targeting of Palestinians since October 2023 are not aberrations but the continuation of a longstanding, institutionalized architecture of settler colonial violence.

[Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9]

a birthday cake Cuba, 1997

[Muntadhar al-Zaidi @muntazer_zaidi]

Nice I want one🙏

[Omer Osman @OmerOsman200]

Victor Wembanyama confirms he wore the thobe in honour of Eid al-Adha.

Eid Mubarak to Wemby, and to all the Muslim Spurs fans. ❤️🌙

May Allah SWT guide him ان شاء الله

[Majid Jordan @majidjordan]

COLD out now…

Summer is around the corner and there’s plenty more to come.

See you again soon [|]

[Chris AR Blauvelt @arblauvelt]

Brother Amin Abdullah was the security guard who was martyred at the Islamic Center of San Diego. He gave his life to protect the lives of countless students and congregants.

One of his last Facebook posts said:

"What is success? To many people success is financial stability, good reputation, beauty, etc.
As for ME! Wallahi, thumma Wallahi. It is returning back to Allah OUR creator with the same pure soul he loaned me at birth.
Having the Mala'ikah [angels] of Allahu ta'ala saying
"don't fear and don't grieve, but receive the glad tidings of Jannah which you were promised by the Most forgiving and Most Merciful".

May Allahu ta'ala grant us Husnal Khatimah, AAAAMEEEEN🤲"

May the Most Merciful meet you with those beautiful glad tidings, oh Amin. You're safe now

[Nadine @HiKifakCava]

this is an insane article to write

[Majid Jordan @majidjordan]

🔊🪫

[pigs are haram @ayeeezus]

summer 2026 is gonna be so good

[Majid Jordan @majidjordan]

COLD

[bvchi_1980 @1980Bvchi]

Tulip season in Chicago. We do landscaping right.

#Chicago
#Tulip
#Architecture

[pigs are haram @ayeeezus]

having to teach online from chicago but during kuwait school hours is criminal 😭 idk how i'm gonna do another 6 weeks of this

[Aamer @IbnKulthum]

The actual translation is far more poetic. “From here the first letter of literacy was launched towards every corner of Earth.”