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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 8/13

CORBYN, NETANYAHU SPAR ON TWITTER Galloway: Media Drowning In Its Own Mendacity Over Wreath Scandal...... Details Emerge Of Plot To Oust Corbyn Or Split UK Labour Party..... Israeli Journalist Says Corbyn Should Be PM And That Israeli Lobby Working To Smear Him Boris Johnson Courts Far Right, Insults Journalists With Column And Bizarre Tea Stunt What's With The UK Media's Double Standards On Racism? Brazil: Minister Of Public Security Confirms That “State Agents” Were Involved In The Assassination Of Marielle Franco Lula De Silva: There Is A Right-Wing Coup Underway In Brazil Repression Intensifies In Argentina After Macri Unleashes The Military For IMF Rule Think Tank EUDisinfo Blames Interest In Benalla Affair On "Russian Trolls," Smears Melenchon And Leftists As Part Of Information War Campaign #DisinfoEUGate: Flawed Data And Shoddy Methodology Mark Atlanticist Report Amid "Benalla Affair," French Police Working With Pr...

The Tocsin 8/8

The Fight Is Far From Over': Protesters Clash With Riot Police In Argentina After Lawmakers Reject Legalized Abortion VIDEO: Fire And Fury Spill Over In BA After Senate Shoots Down Abortion Bill Feminism And Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead The Far-Right Has Their Dystopia - So We Must Revive The Alter-Globalist Utopia! The Fundamental Problem With ‘Free Speech’ & UK Television On The Phony Martyrdom Of Tommy Robinson Bookshops, Bannon And The Fight Against Fascism EXPOSED: Israel Running Campaign Against Jeremy Corbyn Cook: Labour’s Crisis Is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism Telegraph Slanders John McDonnell...… Israel Strikes Gaza 140 Times As New War Looms Netanyahu Prepares Orbanesque Campaign Against "Foundations" And The Left Eyewitness Onboard Boat To Gaza Says Israeli Forces Beat Passengers And Stole Thousands Of Dollars, Antibiotics During Raid Palestine Ambassador To UK: Israel’s Actions Against Flotilla Are Piracy ...

The Tocsin 8/7

#AllOutPDX #AllOutAugust: Portland Event Shows Open Allegiance Of Police With Alt-Right Trump, Miller Plot Restricting Citizenship For So-Called "Legal" Immigrants Meet The Far-Right Conspiracy Idiots Who Stormed Bookmarks Empathy Pours In To Bookmarks Following Fascistic Assualt 12 Right-Wing "Red Tory" Labour MPs Meeting To Sabotage Elected Corbyn Government Pro-Israel Campaigner Brags About "Weaponising" Antisemitism To Banish Jeremy Corbyn "From Public Life" Centrists Plan To Overthrow Corbyn By Miraculously Becoming Popular Thousands Demonstrate In Germany Against Far-Right Attacks On Refugee Rescue Ships "The Most Important Challenge Of Our Day Is To Escape The Borders Of Nation States" "European Alternatives" Hosts Workshops To Defeat Rising White Bigotry As Well As Neoliberalism Trump Administration Siding With Former Obama Aide At UN To Protect Industry Profits Brazil: Bolsonaro's...

The Tocsin 8/6

  #AllOutPDX: White Nationalists Run Wild In Portland, Antifa Counter-Protestors Attacked By Cops   "You Killed Heather Heyer!" Residents Manifest Against Alt-Right   Neo-Nazis Provided With Private Metro Cars, Perks By State..... Police Use Stun Grenades, Pepperspray, Teargas Against Anti-Racists.....   Masked Extreme-Right Mob Attacks Bookmarks Bookshop, Tear Up Books On Anti-Semitism Everything Wrong Is The Fault Of '68: The Far-Right's Avenue Towards Regaining Cultural Hegemony By Trashing The Left  Socialism Has Spend 40 Years Answering For Its "Crimes." Time To Put Capitalism In The Dock. Brazil's Coming Election Is The Epitome Of The World's Ongoing Political Crisis   Brazil: Subfascist Bolsonaro Picks Coup-Mongering General For Running Mate The Worst-Case Scenario: A Successful Coup Against Corbyn Would Lead To A Truly Anti-Semitic Labour Party     Tom Watson Flails After He Draws Huge Public Rebuke For His ...

The Tocsin 7/16

#Seebruecke: Thousands Took The Streets Across Germany To Protest Against Drownings And Border Closures #Zurich: No Borders! Against The Criminalisation Of Lifeboats And Aid Workers! #Ventimiglia Open City: 10 Thousand Marched Against The Borders After Italy Allows 450 to Dock, EU Members To Share Migrants USA: Just 57 Of 3,000 Separated Children In Cages Reunited With Parents Trump's America Only Nation To Vote Against Migrants Rights Bill In UN Assembly, Passed 192-1 Thousands Protest Through Central London Against The Far-Right And Tommy Robinson Trade Unionist Attacked By White Nationalist Mob At Demo Beating Back The Far-Right: For A Humane And Tolerant Politics- Except Towards Fascists American Fascist Bannon Sparks Outrage With BBC Farage Interview EXPOSED: Robinson Bankrolled By Arch-Racists Daniel Pipes, Gaffneyites Helsinki: Mass Protests Against War, Right-Wing Repression Of Trump And Putin Journalist Wielding "Nuclear Weapon Ban...