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The Tocsin 7/30

  “Hidden in Plain Sight”: Hundreds of Immigrant Children and Teens Housed in Opaque Network of Chicago-Area Shelters Alt-Right Attackers Attempt To Destroy #OccupyICE Camps   Virgin Airlines Says It Will No Longer Help To Deport Immigrants "Doing The Right Thing": Trump Hails Deadly Anti-Refugee Policies Of Salvini Government Italy Launches Criminal Investigation Against Lifeboat Rescue Group Thuggish, Gangster-Like, And Random Violence Against Migrants In Athens   #Seebrucke: Demonstrators Across Germany Protest Against Seehofer Immigrant Policies #DayX: Dictator Erdogan To Travel To Germany, Receive A State Banquet, Honour Guard   #Rojava #YPJ: Kurdish-Led Forces Work With Syrian Government In Bid To End War #AffaireBennalla: Protestors Demonstrate In Paris Over Ongoing Macron Government Scandal     'I'm Impulsive, But Not Violent,' Says Sacked Macron Bodyguard The Benalla Incident: Hearkening Back To Gladio?   ...

The Tocsin 7/26

ICE Still Holds Thousands Of Children In Their Captivity As Family Reunification Deadline Passes ICE Coerced Dozens Of Immigrant Parents To Give Up Their Kids, ACLU Says ICE Detainee Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Spent 21 Days In Solitary Confinement, Then Took His Own Life UN REPORT: 1,500 Refugees Have Died In Mediterranean in 2018, Italy Deadliest Route Italy: Police Forcibly Clear Huge Roma Camp, Salvini Hails "Law And Order" Ismail Khawari, 26-Year-Old Migrant Elin Ersson Protected, Has Now Been Deported. Germany's New Culture Wars: Artists, Theatres Face Off Against Anti-Refugee AfD As It Threatens To Cut Their Funding, End Reign Of "68ers" The International Movement Of Human Beings And The Racist Backlash The Extreme Right Radicalised The US Public. Now They're Doing The Same To The FBI. PODCAST: Paul Mason On How To Defeat The Rising Fascism In Europe And The US EU-US Soybean Deal Means GMOs Will Be Pouring Into Europe Wi...

Corbyn, Brexit, And "Red-Brown" Confusionism Of EU Opponents

With the second rise of UKIP, the toxic rallies for Tommy Robinson, and the normalisation of genuine fascists like Steve Bannon by British radio shows and Gammon-baiter Piers Morgan, the far-right is seemingly gaining more ground in Britain than ever, and – in a moment of “literal communism” and manifestations against Trump – the tone of the Brexit debate has thus become increasingly – how would I put it? – divisive. The battle flags have been unfurled, and, especially after the release of convincing reports on fraud by Team Leave during the referendum, it is becoming seemingly impossible for a left-winger to approve of Brexit publicly, let alone make a case for it. Which is why Jeremy Corbyn’s speech last week saw comments across the board that he was echoing the language of UKIP and Trump, and even becoming the “far-right’s new hero.” Combined with the scare over anti-Semitism (a reactionary tradition), one could be forgiven for believing that the leader of the opposition w...

The Tocsin 7/25

Swedish Woman Shows Quiet Power Of Civil Disobedience As She Blocks A Deportation Swedish Plane Protester Elin Ersson: ‘I Knew I Couldn't Back Down – I Had To Do What I Could' VIDEO: Watch The Direct Action Against Deportation Attacks On Kurds In A Greek Camp Shows Conflict In Syria Has Followed Refugees Abroad Germany’s Bloody Secret: Politicians & Arms Producers Cozy Up, Sell Weapons To Anyone The New Balkan Route: Refugees Flee Frontex Authorities With Solidarity Aid Left-Wing Groups Help Pick Up Pieces Of Athens Climate Disaster - Death Toll Rises Greece: Gang Of 20 Nazi Goons Attack Refugees With Poles - Two Hospitalised The Realities Of The Mental Health Crisis For Refugees On Greece’s Samos Island #AffaireBenalla: Channelling Trump, Macron Says Media ‘No Longer Seeks Truth’ Macron Aide: French Police Raid Disgraced Benalla's Office Emmanuel Macron Blurts Out: Alexandre Benalla Is Not My Lover." Uh? How to Get Involved with...

The Tocsin 7/24

Europe Places Monetary Value On Africans As Plan To Pay Member States 6000 Euros Per Refugee Gains Traction Report Shows Growing Threats To Eco Activists And Land Defenders Globally By State And Corporate Goons Reflecting On The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, Ten Years Later Greek Wildfires Kill 74+ People Amid Climate Crisis As Migrants, Anarchists Help Rescue Efforts Also, The Arctic Circle Is Currently On Fire. (Voracious Consumption) x (Rising Population) = Planetary Crisis As Wildfires Rage and Heat Records Broken Worldwide, Corporate Media Urged to Cover Human Responsibility For Extreme Weather #AffaireBenalla: Macron Admits Role As 80% Of Public Expresses Outrage, No-Confidence Motion Tabled In Crisis Macron's Monarchal Worldview Means He Sees Any Protestors As Unruly Subjects Melenchon Defends CRS Riot Police Even As Students And Unionists Slam Violence Alexandre Benalla: Henchman At Centre Of French Watergate Tony Blair Institute Working ...

The Tocsin 7/23

#AffaireBenalla: Macron Roiled In Huge Political Crisis As Private Thug - CRS Links Hinted Government Covers For Macron And CRS Violence As Scandal Foments The Unholy Alliance Between The Liberal President And The Vichy-Derived CRS ICE Has Conducted Hundreds Of Raids In New York Since Trump Came To Power. Here’s What Those Operations Look Like. Feminists Must Fight Against ICE Racist Rape Culture And Fascism Migrant Kids In Detention Centres Are Being Drugged, Told Not To Hug, Forced To Bathe In Sinks Just 34 Democrats Vote Against House Resolution Hailing ICE Thugs Massive Viral Hate Against Immigrant Children In US By Far Right, Even Far From Border Trump May Now Begin Deporting People Already Granted US Citizenship Given What The US Has Done To The World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In Switzerland: Refugees' Rights Activists Place Signs Highlighting Brutality Of Euro Capitalist Policy Deaths At Sea Expose Flaws Of Italy-Libya Migration Pact Confin...