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Violent Misogynists, Reactionaries, And Fascists Wanted 2018 To Be The "Counter-1968." They've Gotten Their Wish.

In the first few months of 2016, the spirits of three young women - all fighting in various areas of the Global South, against poverty, Apartheid, fascism, and fundamentalism - hung over the world. Anna Campbell, 22, a British anarchist and eco-feminist, gunned down by the forces of Turkish dictator Erdogan and extremist groups tied to ISIS. Ahed Tamimi, 17, a rebellious child prisoner in the wider prison state of Israel. Marielle Franco, 38, a Brazilian murdered in the belly of a neoliberal police state. All three represented popular resistance against an increasingly hostile and patriarchal world, governed by the supreme diktats of markets and Empire. Their dreams reflect the ideals of millions of young women - but not just women - in the poorest regions of the earth. 2018 was supposed to be the "year of the woman." Between a massive March manifestation - lively, anarchistic, and rebellious - against the patriarchy in Spain, the exposure of sexual violence by the obs...

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 6/7

#AntiG7 #FuckG7: Activists In Quebec City Begin Protests Against G7 Leaders' Summit Anti-G7 Protests Both A Test And An Opportunity For Quebec's Social Movements Smaller Protest Crowds At Recent G7 Summits Signal Shift Tn Tactics, Not A Slackening Of Activism ‘Prepared For War’: How Anticapitalists & Black Blocs Protesting The G7 Get Ready #NoG7: Who, What, Where And Why? Tight Security To Keep Protesters Far From Summit HQ... Amnesty International On Hand To Observe Police Brutality At G7... The G7 Summit In La Malbaie Is A Climate Crime Scene #BindingTreaty: Report Of The Working Group On The Issue Of Human Rights And Transnational Corporations And Other Business Enterprises Brands Including Ikea Shun New Safety Accord After Rana Plaza Disaster   Statement By Front-Line Volunteers And Activists: Refugees Welcome! Salvini And The Racist Immigration Policy Of Italy’s New Government Is Giving A Green Light To Racial Violence Nameless And Un-Mourned: Ide...

The Tocsin 5/10

#NonALaSelection #Mai2018: Over A Dozen University Occupations And Evictions Sweep France Ahead Of Major Street Battles The World Today With Tariq Ali - France In Revolt: 1968 vs 2018 EU Must Stand Up To US, But Has Been "Pathetic" -Atlanticist Wolfgang Munchau #NoPAG: Over 40,000 Protest As #CSU In Bavaria Plans To Pass "New Gestapo" Police State Powers Against Left, #Refugees #NoG20: Cops Raided Anarchist Library #Kalabalik In #Berlin Internationalist Commune Of #Rojava: In Memory of Ş. Ulrike Meinhof Protests In Argentina As #Macri Returns The Infamous #IMF To The Country Podcast: Globalisation, Neoliberalism, and Debt- The Origins Of The World Of 2018 “Creating Wealth” Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road After Federal Court Of Canada Ruling: The End Of #ISDS In #NAFTA & #CETA? “These Guys Are Either Incompetent or Dishonest” – Betting Against the Bank of England "1930s Style Of Living"-Trump To Roll Ba...

The Tocsin 4/23

  Right-Wing Extremists Attack Refugees With Fire & Bottles, Police Arrest 120 Migrants As Children Are Injured & Hospitalised Italy/France: Crossing the border – March against the frontiers 5 Reasons Global Free Movement Isn’t Such a Bad Idea An Italian Court Decision Could Keep Rescue Boats From Saving Refugees in the Mediterranean The Coming Opportunity. An Overview of Anti-Macron Mobilisations #ZADResist: Deadline Days Away in the #ZAD After Weekend of Defiant Rebuilding TFN #7: In ZAD We Trust Ahead Of Macron's United States Tour: Don't Be Fooled By Emmanuel Macron The "Moderate" Earth Day: From The ZAD to Kinder Morgan To Mariner East 2, Conflict Over The Future Of Earth New #NAFTA Will Allow Tar Sands, Fracking With Impunity & Roll Back Bans: New Report From Greenpeace, NGOs #StopKM: Is the Oil Industry Canada's 'Deep State'? Degrowth: The Solution That Must Not Be Named Turning Back The Clock: ...

The Tocsin 4/9

  #ZAD #NDDL Eviction Draws Massive Resistance, Fiery Battles As Environmentalists Seek To Defend Squat   2,500 Military Riot Police Deploy Toxic CS Gas Against Ecologists, Antifas Respond With Burning Barricades and Molotovs Barricades Alight As Students Prepare for "Night of Resistance" Click HERE For #ZADResist Liveblog & Updates The ZAD Struggles: There Is More Than One Way To End This World   Anonymous "Commando Nicole" Begins Operations, Sets Road Alight In Solidarity With ZAD, Workers and Students Hambi Sqautters Call For German Uprisings to Stop Assualt on French Squats, Universities   Rolling Trains Strikes Costing Billionaire Operators 100 Million Euros Per Day #CRS=IDF #ZAD: Macron's Cops Attack Journalists With Teargas And Ban Press From Eviction   Macron Meets With Bin Salman, Who He Calls A "Hero Of Democracy" And "The Embodiment Of The French Revolution" As He Considers Attacking Syria "...