Gilda Mavromatis

love running ❤️ Ex Race Director: SPAR Grand Prix and Women’s Challenge: Mbombela @[email protected]

[Gilda Mavromatis @gildamavro]

@ComradesRace https://t.co/4W8cMAvNoI We have our own initiative in Nelspruit too 🌯

[Verashni Pillay @verashni]

This photo was taken in 2008. I was a young reporter, notebook in hand, in Khayelitsha, trying to make sense of the first wave of xenophobic violence to rip through this country.

I was profoundly affected. I watched Somalian mothers in tents, cradling their babies in disbelief. Spoke to Ethiopian men, almost crying from the shock and pain of it all. I thought: We will never let this happen again.

Yet, here we are.

Eighteen years later and I'm watching the same fires, literal and figurative, and the same dangerous lies spreading faster than ever, turbocharged by social media and amplified by politicians who should know better.

But the numbers do not support the narrative.

Immigrants, documented and undocumented combined, make up roughly 4 million people. That is about 5% of our population. The idea that 5% of the country is responsible for our crime, our unemployment, our collapsing healthcare? It is not just wrong, it is mathematically absurd.

Look at who the Zondo and Madlanga Commissions have implicated. Look at rape statistics: 120 women a day, and a third of South African men have admitted to committing rape. Are we really blaming foreigners for that?

If every undocumented immigrant left tomorrow, your local public hospital would still be broken. Not because of the person standing ahead of you in the queue, but because of corruption, mismanagement and decades of underfunding that have nothing to do with them. 

March and March's June 30 deadline is not a peaceful protest. It is a dog whistle. And the media and political figures who treat it as legitimate activism are complicit in what it is actually designed to trigger.

I started https://t.co/z34ZpKPsT3 because I believe that access to accurate, contextual information is not a nice-to-have. It is the foundation of a functioning democracy. And a democracy that allows dangerous misinformation to go unchallenged, that allows real economic despair to be weaponised against the most vulnerable, is one that is putting itself at serious risk.

We have covered this crisis extensively at https://t.co/z34ZpKPsT3. We will keep doing so. Because owe it to each other to do better.

#SouthAfrica #Xenophobia #MediaLiteracy #Journalism #Democracy #Explain #FactsMatter #SouthAfricanMedia #BuildingInPublic #Immigration

[Sibusiso Vilane @sibueverest]

It is official, We got the Guinness World Record. I am so thrilled by this because, as mentioned many times before, none of my other firsts ever made it to Guinness World Record. Only in a book called South Africa's firsts that my Everest Summit was recognised. Here we go.

[The Running Mann @runningmann100]

There’s no sidestepping the BrahGate Bib Bandit scandal for former Stormer Morgan Newman. Wonder if this will make the sports news on Good Hope FM this evening?
https://t.co/qzDMiDbKcI

#BrahGate #TTOM #twooceansmarathon #morgannewman

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

Did he explain to you how, despite representing the NP,

Despite representing the party that was the architect and enforcer of apartheid,

Despite his party having imprisoned Nelson Mandela for 27 years,

Despite the ANC winning the majority of the vote,

Despite all of this, when his heart should have been filled with revenge and unbridled anger,

Despite all of this,

Despite it all,

Mandela appointed him, Roelf Meyer, a Deputy Minister of Law and Order during the height of apartheid’s brutalities, its enforcer, and later Minister of Defence as tensions rose when it ended,

Did he tell you that despite all of this, Nelson Mandela opened his heart and invited him into his Cabinet?

Did he tell you that Nelson Mandela’s spirit was not an anomaly?

Did he tell you why the transition was largely peaceful, when all expected a race war?

Did he tell why even Nelson Mandela would not have stopped a people angry and hurt, but they too, chose not to do this but co-exist and 32 years later, this has not changed?

Did he tell you the core of “why,” as a reflection of “who?”

Forgiving to a degree of self-harm. Trusting when distrust ought to prevail. Loyal when disloyalty would not be misplaced.

Did he tell you as a result most South Africans just want to live in peace and get along?

Did he tell you that a dark underbelly of violent crime exists in South Africa?

Did he tell you that the cause of the violent crime is the same cause in the American cities that sit with some South African cities in the upper echelons of cities with the most homicides in the world?

The flaws in humanity. Flawed humans that exist as a feature of the human race, no geographic boundary contains. Governing errors that like in the US, exist in SA.

Did he tell you that much of this violence occurs within communities, therefore, if you must reduce it, intra-racial rather than between them, and is not driven by racial ideology?

Did he tell you that inter-racial violence is not a defining feature of South Africa’s crime patterns?

Did he tell you that most violent crime is not targeted by profession, and farmers, account for a tiny statistical fraction of overall category of killings, well under 1% in most years?

Did he tell you to drop your preconceived notions of who South Africa is, because they are wrong, learn and speak from a place of truth?

Did he tell you that, like he did, you will have to learn from your errors, dispel your racial & ideologically based fallacies, and talk?

I hope you listened.

I hope you do better. For your sake, for the US’s sake, for South Africa’s sake.

We are complex, but we are not murderous savages devoid of humanity.

We are a proud people. We are loyal people.

And that means that closing ranks when a threat, an insult, or an assessment is wrong and unfair, is a guarantee. Political differences be damned. Race be damned.

So unbreakable is that fortress of unity that we would sooner live with dire consequences behind it than live under the rule of an external force.

I, personally, just an ordinary, Jane Public wish you well because if you do not succeed, a war of attrition will continue, and South Africa in a position of consequences be damned will not be first to fold because that strong is the need not to be subjected to anything that infringes on our sovereignty.

Those consequences will be undeserved. And your failure to convince, deserved.

There is a middle ground.

Be like Roelf. Talk. Learn. Extend a hand. And a hand extended in genuine intent to build together will be warmly embraced.

Without that, backs will turn so fast there will be nothing left for you to achieve.

Good luck.

[Kevin Tanaka @ItsKevinTanaka]

Gabor Maté on why women bear the greatest burden of illness:

"Women have 70-80% of autoimmune disease."

They're also twice as likely to be diagnosed with PTSD and far more likely to be prescribed anti-anxiety or antidepressant medications.

During COVID, the New York Times ran a headline calling women "society's shock absorbers," describing how women took on the stress of their families and spouses, then felt guilty when they couldn't alleviate it.

Maté argues there's nothing mysterious about these statistics once you understand what culture demands of women:

"If you understand how the culture then imposes its own expectations on certain groups, adding to their stress, then there's absolutely nothing miraculous or nothing mysterious about why women have more autoimmune disease."

He points to the patriarchal assignment of emotional labour as the root cause. Women are expected to absorb the stress of everyone around them and are made to feel guilty if they don't. As Maté puts it:

"Women's guilt is another control mechanism on the part of the culture."

He then raises a striking example: the changing gender ratio in multiple sclerosis.

In the 1930s, the ratio was roughly one to one. Today, it's three and a half women to every man.

Maté systematically rules out the usual explanations: "Can't be the genes, because they don't change in a population over 80 years. Can't be the climate or the diet, that didn't change more for one gender than another."

What did change? The role women were asked to play.

Women were already carrying the emotional weight of their families. But over recent decades, they've also taken on the role of wage earners driven by economic pressure on middle and lower classes and by their own desire to build lives outside the home.

Maté is clear that this shift could have been manageable had one critical thing happened alongside it:

The emotional burden being shared.

"All of which would have been okay had the other role of sharing the emotional burden been shared. But it hasn't. It still falls upon women."

The implication is sobering: the diseases women disproportionately suffer from aren't random biological misfortune. They're the physical cost of a culture that keeps adding to women's load without ever redistributing it.

[Daniel Mlabwa @mlabwa]

How much it cost us to drive across 7 Southern Africa countries in 36 days. This is in response to the questions a lot of people have asked so they can also prepare for similar trip

In overview: 13,663KM, 8 people, 2 cars, 36 days

[Sibusiso Vilane @sibueverest]

Yes, it is done.
Climbed the Highest Volcano in the world, taking 11 hrs to get up, fighting wind, cold and steep gradient to get to the top. Then, from the Summit, click "Start" and ran 42 km marathon together with 4 others. And me,the only African.
I am thrilled.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

2025 was a pivotal year. We knew it would be a decade ago. This is why we added the number 25 to our movement’s name and logo back then. Because we knew that, having failed to democratise, Europe would descend into a cesspit of xenophobia, economic stagnation, rampant inequality, discontent and, thus, neofascism, state repression and, yes, warmongering.

That’s why we created DiEM25 in the first place. Not out of vanity. Not so much because we believed we would succeed in democratising the European Union, and thus save the EU from itself. No, our real purpose was to create a transnational movement of like-minded radical progressives whose duty would be, together, to pick up Europe’s pieces once Europe’s rulers drove Europe into the rocks. That moment is now.

Even we, who had predicted how Europe’s policies of austerity for the many and massive money printing for Big Finance and Big Business would bring on a postmodern version of the 1930s – even we are rubbing our eyes at the sight of the extent of the warmongering that poisons the minds of Europeans.

Last month, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius told us that we “…already had our last summer of peace”, his government releasing an app that helps Germans locate their nearest bunker.

Another man with great daddy issues, Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, declared that “we are Russia’s next target” and “must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured”.

Professional soldiers chimed in. Sir Richard Knighton, the UK chief of defence staff, called on Britain’s “sons and daughters” to be ready to fight. A French general, Fabien Mandon, encouraged the people of France to prepare “to lose its children, to suffer economically because defence production must take precedence”.

And to cap it all, Europe’s foreign and defence policy chief, Kaja Kallas, the former Estonian Prime Minister who had not so long ago outrageously declared Europe’s objective to be the breakup of Russia into multiple ethnic mini states, revised history with the even more outrageous statement that Russia had never been attacked by a European nation – as if Hitler and Operation Barbarossa never happened.

DiEM25’s analysis had foreshadowed all that. We had predicted that, since our generation’s 1929, yes, the banking disaster of 2008, austerity for the masses and money-printing for the very few would fashion a new great stagnation, a new xenophobia, a new environment in which the illusion of a peaceful, civilised Europe would evaporate, unveiling a dark Europe that went to war with its people by desperately seeking enemies beyond its borders.

Since 2016, DiEM25 has been showing Europeans an alternative path. We called it the Green New Deal for Europe, and we ran with it in European and national elections. Though we had little electoral success, our Green New Deal for Europe was an important contribution because it still shines today as a guide to the path not taken – to the path that Europe could and should have taken but didn’t because it was not in the interest of the oligarchs running Europe to take it.

Fast forward to 2025, the year DiEM25 had warned would shatter all illusions – the year of the disintegration of the European Union’s financial, political, geostrategic and ethical façade. And, by golly, 2025 did not fail to disappoint – in fact, it proved even more poignant than we, at DiEM25, had foreshadowed. How? By delivering three almighty blows that changed everything.

The first blow was that Russia won the Ukraine war over Europe’s combined leadership who, idiotically, committed rhetorically to a Ukrainian victory they were unwilling even to bankroll – let alone send troops to deliver. Now, with its strategy in tatters, Europe is exposed as a self-deceived victim of its own hubris. Think about it: To achieve the victory over Russia they craved, they would have to approve spending they considered too expensive. So, they settled on the worst possible strategy for Ukraine and for Europe: sending just enough equipment to Ukraine to prolong the bleeding without altering the war’s course. Their real incentive? With zero concern for Ukraine or its people, Europe had banked on a never-ending Ukrainian war to justify its only remaining growth strategy – I call it military Keynesianism, a last-ditch stand against Europe’s deindustrialisation. That plan is now also in ruins.

The second blow was that China won the trade and tech war against the United States, leveraging its monopoly over rare earths and mobilising its “whole-nation system” toward technological autarky. Europe, having dutifully imposed on China the sanctions dictated by the White House, was left with the worst of all worlds: increasingly shut out of the lucrative Chinese market for its high-value goods, yet receiving none of the lavish subsidies and on-shoring benefits of Biden’s, now rescinded, US Inflation Reduction Act. By choosing to act as a strategic subcontractor to the US, the EU accelerated its own deindustrialisation. This was not a loss in a trade war; it was a geopolitical checkmate, and Europe featured only as the losing side’s pawn.

The third blow was the ease with which Trump won his tariff war with the EU. At the end of their meeting at one of Trump’s golf clubs in Scotland, choreographed by his men to maximize her humiliation, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, struggled to portray a surrender document as a “landmark agreement.” Tariffs on European exports to the US jumped from 0.5% to 15% and in some cases to 25% and 50%. Long-standing EU tariffs on US exports were cancelled. Last but not least, Mrs von der Leyen committed to $700 billion of European investment in US industry on US soil – money that can come only from diverting mainly German investments to chemical factories in Texas and car plants in Ohio. This was more than a bad deal. It was an unprecedented colonial-style capital extraction treaty, formalising Europe’s transition from an industrial competitor to a supplicant.

These three shocks form a synergistic trilogy. Europe’s defeat in Ukraine has revealed its strategic blind spots and punctured its military Keynesian project. Trump’s acquiescence to China’s President Xi Jinping has triggered a flood of Chinese exports to the EU. The shakedown in Scotland has cost Europe its accumulated capital and any lingering hope of parity.

This emerging G2 world resembles a gladiatorial arena where the European Union and the United Kingdom now wander aimlessly. In this new, harder, colder world order, Europe’s oligarchs, Europe’s failing ruling class, Europe’s lumpen bourgeoisie, panic-stricken, are ready to destroy what is left of Europe’s social fabric to save themselves.

They will warmonger till the cows come home.
They will demonise every foreigner who is not loaded with money.
They will use austerity to turn us against each other, to buy time for themselves.
They will use fear to turn one proud people against another.
They will use loathing to turn communities against themselves.
They will embrace every authoritarian measure to silence dissent.
They will embrace every form of misanthropy to maintain their fading power.

Already, we have seen how they never encounter a war they don’t like. We saw the panache with which they made Europe complicit to Israel’s never-ending genocide of the Palestinian people. We witnessed their readiness to demonstrate that they are as keen to humiliate migrants and asylum seekers as the next racist bigot.

Is this not the time for the rest of us to do something about it? If not in 2026, then when? “Do what?”, I hear you ask. Well, how about resisting them, to begin with? Resistance is existence, the Palestinians have taught us decades ago. More recently they also taught us that existence, in itself, can be a form of resistance.

We know what needs to be done. DiEM25 has demonstrated, through our Green New Deal for Europe, how we can push huge investments into good quality green jobs; how we can socialise our money, democratise our workplaces, lift locals up without putting foreigners down. We know all this. And we also know that our rulers will rather see the planet burn than allow for any of this to happen. Which means one thing: First, we resist them. Then we resist once more. Only then, will have earned the right to dream of a future that is, once again, something to look forward to.

So, this is DiEM25’s message for 2026, our message for the next decade, all the way to 2035: Let us resist. And let us make our resistance not only effective and creative but also fun, joyous, inspiring. Together.

Happy New Year and, of course, Carpe DiEM25!

https://t.co/Sx35CWqxmO

[Darren Olivier @darren_olivier]

@SaudiWesterna @Lolita721611021 It sickens me to see these same old racist myths making the rounds again, year after year, despite plenty of evidence disputing them. The Arms Deal Commission, for instance, had copious evidence about every step of the process, including details on the training.

[Kass Naidoo @KassNaidoo]

South Africa has taken important steps in women’s cricket, but to match the WPL, WBBL and the Hundred and to truly challenge for ICC titles, a women’s franchise league is the urgent next step.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

BDS is what would have made the difference, turning an empty gesture - the recognition of Palestine - into an ethical, useful, game changer.

Hello, I am Yanis Varoufakis here to discuss the (hugely) belated recognition of the State of Palestine by a number of Western governments – Britain’s, France’s, Canada’s and Australia’s.

If only they had done this many decades ago, maybe Israel’s ethnic cleansing of a people whose existence Israel did not recognise, on a land that Israel was keen to expropriate from these unrecognised people, maybe that ethnic cleansing project would have been halted - maybe it would not have morphed into the genocide that is unfolding with untold cruelty as we speak.

Is it not a good thing that the governments of Britain, France, Canada and Australia were forced by public opinion, by sensational losses in voter support, to recognise the State of Palestine. I suppose it is a good thing.

But, friends, make no mistake. I am very much afraid that Keir Starmer, Emanuel Macron, Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese did not recognise Palestine so as to ensure that it comes into existence as a real, a sovereign state for a people Israel has put on death row but only so that they do not actually do what they can to end the genocide and to make the Palestinian state a possibility.

In a nutshell, these Western governments, after decades of complicity, are suddenly falling over themselves to perform a performative act in a manner that does nothing to bring about that which they proclaim: a functioning Palestinian State.

So: Let us not applaud them. Let us not be fooled by them. Theirs is not an ethical awakening. It is merely the calculated management of a genocide they are doing nothing to stop. It is hypocrisy polished to a fine sheen, designed not to end the suffering in Gaza, but to sanitise their role in perpetuating it.

On the one hand, we observe the grand theatre of great power diplomacy. The press conferences, the solemn declarations, the recognition of a state that exists on paper. Meanwhile, on the ground, the very foundation of such a state – its people and its institutions – are being systematically erased. These governments—the Starmer, the Macron, the Albanese, the Carney administrations—they want you to be distracted by their "brave" and "principled" stand while they remain complicit in the war crimes, in the ethnic cleansing, in the genocide.

And why now? Why, after the tens of thousands dead, after the schools and hospitals turned to rubble, after thousands of wounded children were forced to survive alone, without their families who now lie buried under blocks of cement?

Because global outrage has reached a boiling point that can no longer be contained by their usual pro-Israeli propaganda. Their recognition of Palestine is a pressure valve, designed precisely to defuse that outrage, to save Israel’s legitimacy, safe in the knowledge that Israel will continue, with their tacit support, to block each and every move toward a viable Palestinian state.

They are recognising a Palestinian state while tacitly conniving with Israel's leaders to ensure it never comes into being. How? By actively refusing to take the one set of actions that has a proven historical record of ending oppression and Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions on the perpetrator.

Thankfully that’s not all. Mercifully, something else is going on. While Western leaders perform their diplomatic pantomime, hundreds of people are sailing right now in the Mediterranean Sea. The Global Sumud Flotilla. A flotilla of teachers, journalists, activists, dreamers, parliamentarians, carrying with them the global majority’s commitment that Israel’s Siege on Gaza, that the planned and meticulously implemented genocide of Palestinians will be terminated – that it will not continue in our name – that the impending acts of piracy by the Israeli state will be exposed for what they are: misanthropic violations of minimum ethical standards, of International Law.

Israeli propaganda, echoed by its apologists, claims these brave souls are "choosing to enter a war zone, to violate prohibited security zones." This is a shameless lie. The flotilla's ships are not entering a war zone. They are heading towards a site of genocide on a land that Israel is illegally occupying—a fact confirmed by the International Court of Justice, which in June 2024 ordered Israel to vacate it.

So, I ask you: if Starmer, Macron, Carney and Albanese really wanted to end the genocide, what would they do? They would not be issuing statements. They would be sending a naval vessel to protect the flotilla! They would be enforcing international law. But they will not. Because their recognition is an empty gesture, and actual solidarity requires a break with organised misanthropy and with the arms dealers who fund them and their political campaigns.

This duality, this chasm between Western governments’ words and deeds, is the essence of their hypocrisy. They grant a piece of paper called ‘statehood’ with one hand, while with the other they continue to arm, fund, and diplomatically shield the very power that ensures this statehood remains a cruel fiction.

They remind me of a monument I once saw in Canberra, Australia’s capital. Walking from the High Court to the National Library, you stumble in a unique monument — a monument celebrating a High Court of Australia judgment. On it are inscribed the magnificent words of Sir Gerard Brennan from the Mabo case: “The common law of this country will perpetuate injustice if it were to continue to persist in characterising the indigenous inhabitants of Australian colonies as people too low in the scale of social organisation to be acknowledged as possessing rights and interests in land.”

A magnificent sentiment. A legal revolution. But what followed? Words on a monument. The recognition of native title was granted, but the power structures, the economic dispossession, the systemic inequality—they were largely left intact. The recognition became a shield *against* more substantive justice. This is the playbook of imperialist white settlers. Recognise a right in theory to avoid implementing it in practice.

This is what is on offer today for Palestine. A state recognised on an imaginary map in a European capital, while on the ground, the apartheid reality is reinforced with every bomb, every bullet, every checkpoint.

The key, the only key that unlocks the door to freedom, is not recognition. It is BDS: boycott, divest and sanction. And its goal? Its goal must be to bring about equal political rights from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. Recognition would have mattered at Oslo. It was the leverage that was squandered. Now, in the absence of any peace process, it is merely symbolic. And in its current form, it is worse than symbolic—it is a pacifier.

We must understand the fundamental truth, so elegantly captured by that Mabo judgment but so tragically ignored in its aftermath: “Violent instability is baked into any system where one side has power and rights and the other has none.” You cannot have peace, you cannot have security, for anyone—Israeli or Palestinian—under a system of apartheid. The violence of the occupier begets resistance; the violence of the oppressed is then used to justify further, overwhelming state violence. It is a vicious cycle engineered by the powerful.

So, when these Western leaders herald their recognition as a progressive move, ask them one question: Where are the sanctions? Where is the arms embargo? Where are the trade restrictions? Where is the protection for the flotillas?

Until they answer you convincingly, their words are not just hollow. They are weapons. They are the grease for the machinery of genocide. They are the modern-day equivalent of the colonial administrator who acknowledges the humanity of the native in a London speech, while signing the order to clear their land.

Let us not let them get away with it. See their recognition for what it is: a desperate attempt to save a crumbling system of oppression, not to end it.

Our duty is clear. To amplify the call for BDS. To stand with the flotillas. To demand not words on paper, but justice on the ground.

The Palestinian people do not need their hypocritical recognition. They need their freedom. And freedom only comes when the cost of oppression becomes too high for the oppressor to bear.

[boycat @boycatapp]

Heres a list of brand Coca Cola owns, and what you can do today:

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

Remember, capitalism is not defined by “markets and businesses and trade”. It is a system where production is controlled overwhelmingly by capital: the big banks, large corporations, and the 1% who own the majority of investable assets.

And for capital, the purpose of production is not to meet human needs, or to achieve social progress, but to maximize and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.

To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap labour and cheap nature. You have to deny people control over their land, and deny workers access to the yields of their production.

This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded economy. If you intensify the exploitation of your domestic working class and resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a revolution.

To avoid this outcome, you need some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where you can exploit labour and nature with impunity, where you can externalize social and ecological costs, and where any rebellions can be destroyed with brute force.

This is where imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, capitalism requires “an imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap labour and cheap nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

Imperialism is not a side-gig, not an over-reach committed by greedy individuals, it is a structural feature of the capitalist world economy.

Beginning in the long 16th century, the regions of what today we call the global South were forcibly integrated into the Europe-centered capitalist world economy as providers of cheapened labour, resources and goods. This was an extraordinarily violent process, involving colonization, dispossession, mass enslavement, and genocide.

How could anyone possibly justify these horrors? Race. Discourses of white supremacy and racial hierarchy were fabricated by the European ruling classes to dehumanize the majority world, hiving them off from the realm of rights, to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify apocalyptic levels of exploitation and bloodshed in the periphery.

And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower wages to racialised people, and to deny them equal access to resources.

They used racial ideology to construct a global division of labour, a massively inequitable global division of wages, and a global hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of hatred and violence.

Racism, like imperialism itself, is not a side-show to capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few liberal reforms here and there. It has always been central to capitalism and it remains that way today.

Overcoming capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a democratic socialist economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural racism and imperialist violence.

The struggle against racism must be anti-capitalist, and the struggle against capitalism must be anti-racist.

These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin and more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

[MarsAutomatic🇺🇲 @MarsAutomatic]

@markomihkelson What a joke. The world just watched the US run roughshod over the Middle East for decades. It sees what Israel is doing right now. International law? Don't make us laugh. People understand that Russia in Ukraine is pushing back against broader western malfeasance.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨IMPORTANT:

Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups released a new report today based on testimonies provided to lawyers visiting Gaza detainees held in Israel’s underground “Rakevet” section of Ramla Prison and the “Sde Teiman” military camp — both notorious sites of torture.

We share the full report —“Enduring Hell: Gaza Detainees Face Severe Israeli Torture and Terror Behind Bars” — below 👇🏼🧵

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies?

Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/4Q9V4WKKqc

[Harry Burton @HBtoons]

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer. #Gaza

[Gilda Mavromatis @gildamavro]

@suntoshpillay All while not being able to practice, so returning home to work otherwise risk losing your license. It was just too expensive and exhausting 😞

[Gilda Mavromatis @gildamavro]

@suntoshpillay It started with them shutting down for over 6 months during Covid, progressed to losing the application twice. We gave up 😞 it’s so expensive each time to obtain police clearances from country of origin , SAQA confirmation of degrees, letters of good standing.