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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 8/14

#Seebrücke Documents & Texts: Causes Of Fleeing - A Global Perspective On Climate & Migration More Letters From Eco Activist In German Jail For Protecting Forest From RWE Germany: SPD Crumbling As Repressive Pro-Detention Camp "Left Caucus Of CDU" Donald Trump Cuddles Up To Far-Right Antisemite Viktor Orban The NSA’s Role In A Climate-Changed World: Spying On Nonprofits, North Pole The Disappearance Of The Aral Sea Is An Ecological Tragedy – So Why Is Tourism Booming? Monsanto's Fraudulent Attempt To Overturn Cancer Ruling Won't Succeed - Experts The Hope Of Alterglobalist Ecosocialism: "A Crisis Not Of Nature But Of Society" Labour Prepares For Sellout On IHRA Code With Few Caviets Corbyn Wreath Attack Narrative Collapsing Even As Labour Gains In Polls McDonnell: Forget The Smears, Fight For No. 10 - The Poor Are Getting Poorer. How The Thatcherites Sold BP - And How An Arab State Almost Got Control PODCAST: Setting...

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 7/31

Continuing The Fight Against ICE After Eviction Of Protest Camps Against Racist Policies   #AllOutAugust: Why It's Important That Month Long Tour Of Racist Alt Right Rallies Flops     Facebook, No Unite The Right 2 DC, And McCarthyite "Bad Actors" Smear  A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused In An Immigrant-Detention Center   Reunited With Their Kids, Immigrant Mothers Find Themselves In A Strange, Unforgiving Land Migrants' Return To Libya By Italian Boat Could Breach International Law – UN   Migrant Rescue Ship Aquarius Returns To Sea After Italy-Malta Dispute     Italian Government Roiled By Internal Dispute Over Racist Salvini Rhetoric   Never Lose Sight Of Humanity: Dare To Dream Of A World Without Borders First Asylum-Seeker "Controlled Detention" Center Opens in Germany   Protest In Munich Against Attacks On Refugees, Poverty And War     Australian Governments Illegally Sailed Re...

The Tocsin 7/18

Neoliberalism Has Killed Our Future - It's Time To Move To A Post-Growth Economy US And Canada Are Preparing For A New Standing Rock Over Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Massive Offshore Drilling Sale In Gulf Of Mexico Toxic Timebomb: Why We Must Fight Back Against The World's Plague Of Plastic Warm Solidarity Shout-Out From Klima Kamp In Emmetal To Hambi And UPIII Far-Right Austrian Government, In "Axis" With Italy And Germany, Wants A Registry Of Jews Dutch Finance Minister Claims Refugees Will Be Beaten To A Pulp Because Multiculturalism, Ethnic Mixing Can Never Be Peaceful Grandmothers Manifest In Waves Against Growing Extreme-Right Fascist Threat Right-Wing Trolls Trying To Bully Labour Into Adopting Racist Anti-Semitism Definition Erdogan & ISIS Supporter John Woodcock Resigned From Labour. He Should've Been Kicked Out. A Coup Of The Discredited Centre? "Unity Government" Would Revive The...

The Tocsin 7/5

France: Nantes Riots Escalate As Thousands Of Youth Manifest Against CRS Police Brutality, Department Store Set Alight, More Cars Torched Cops Clash With Student Protestors As Flames Spread Though The Streets.... Nantes: Report By The Assembly Of Those Injured By The Police Berlin: Solidarity With Nantes! Action Against Police Vehicle, Repression Apparatus #OccupyICEPHL: Philadelphia Police, DHS Forces Evict, Destroy Encampment Against ICE From "Socialist Coup" To "Avalanche Of Drugs:" Media Smear Campaign Against #AbolishICE Santiago De Chile: Solidarity To #ICEBreaker Comrades In The USA On Establishment Law And People's Disorder Spain: Revolutionary Feminists Protest Against Sexual Violence, Capitalist Heteropatriarchy From East to West, The New Feminism in European Politics Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead  Increasingly, The Far-Right Regards Human Inequality as “Natural” Euro-Ecologists: Call To Action A...