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As western political leaders and xenophobic forces rally against Islam and Arabs following a recent wave of far-right successes and anti-immigrant sentiment,, Palestinian groups animated by a secular and socialist ideology have been on the front lines fighting the Islamic State terrorist organisation in Syria, a development sorely underplayed by the western press. According to the Jerusalem Post , since April 12, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the PFLP-GC and its' allies in the region are working with the government of Syria to liberate the Yarmouk area of Damascus from ISIS, which controls 60% of the area. Yarmouk has long been home to a majority of Syria's Palestinian refugees who escaped to the country following the establishment of the state of Israel. In 2012, the right-wing Free Syrian Army (FSA) and its allies, the Al-Nusra Front, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda linked to Saudi Arabian ideology, began an intense uprising there against the Palestinia...

  #Manif19Avril: Macron Faces Continuing Rebellions of Students, CGT, Pensioners As Huge Protests Sweep French Cities Police Deploy Water Cannon During Clashes at Macron Reform Protests in Paris (PHOTOS)   Full Video and Photo Coverage of CRS Violence & Direct Action, Graffiti Art During #Greve19Avril French Student Collective At Nanterre Demands Withdrawal of All Neoliberal Laws, Billions In Higher Education Investment From Malmö to Nantes and beyond, let's ZAD the Earth! #ZAD #NDDL Reportback: Two days in France COPS ATTEMPTING EVICTION OF PONT VALLEY PROTECTION CAMP AGAINST PIPELINE OLIGARCHY   #StopETP: Private #Spycops Using Psychological Warfare & Floodlights to Prevent Activists From Sleeping At Tree Sit Leaked Documents Show European Pipeline's Alleged "Benefits" Are A Fraud TTIP's Return Official: Merkel Reaches Out To Trump With Intensified Deal Oil and Water: ETP & Sunoco's History of Pipeline Spills   Report...

Alongside The Railroad Workers, We Can Make Macron And His Government Bite The Dust The Hotwire #27: Legal victory for the Tarnac 9—calls for May Day actions—Vive la ZAD! Belgian MEP Gives Macron Mock Gift To Criticise His Attack On The ZAD France: In Lyon, we shut down the Bastion! G7 and Extractivism: An Event By And For The Rule Of Kinder Morgan And Tar Sands Canadian High Commission in London Blockaded by "Crudeau Oil" Pipeline In Ecologist Action Stop Kinder Morgan! Legal Defence Fund For Activists Keep Saying No: Stopping ETP And Ending The Mariner East 2 Pipeline Naomi Klein Warns War In Syria or Iran Will Increase Oil Projects In Canada, Fracking With UK Business Elites Profiting From War, It’s No Wonder the Syrian Conflict Continues Blackwater Mercenary Oligarch Erik Prince To Team Up With Egypt, Jihadists For US In Syria The World Needs To See The Letters An Eight-Year-Old Wrote To Theresa May And Donald Trump After The Syrian A...

Farmers, Citizens Protest Macron-Trudeau Meeting To Push #CETA As French Rebellions Spread Friends Of The Earth Release New Report On Food Sovereignty & Stopping #EUTrade Deals Canada’s First Nations Leaders Pledge to Block Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion EU Commission Won't Let Member States Or Citizens Vote On #JEFTA, Documents Reveal EU Trade Secrecy Prevents Citizens From Accessing Almost All Information On Corporate Deals As Transnational Corporations Write Regulations "On Fire:" Macron Reels As Air France Joins Rolling Strike Wave & Students Turn Out En Masse The National Assembly Adopts The Railway Reform! Come On The Street On The 19th! #France: Riots & 25 Cars Lit Up After A Prisoner Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances Macron Dreamed of Celebrating May ’68 — and Then Sent in the Riot Cops Diagram: Information And Sourcing of Teargas Canisters Used Against #ZAD #NDDL Eco Activists, Sorbonne Students, & Journalist...

BARBARISM May, Macron & Trump Attack Syrian Capital, Neighborhoods With Rockets As The Ideology Of Liberal Democratic Interventionism Self-Immolates Illegal Missile Attacks Target Universities, Civilian Areas Netanyahu, Saudi, Erdogan, NATO Hail Strike, Bolton Contacted Israel For Help Strikes In Syria - The Hard Facts (Lee Camp & Max Blumenthal) Over 200 Socialist, Communist, Green, & Anarchist Organisations Opposed Saturday's Airstrikes In Syria (FULL LIST) Corbyn: Attack Was Legally Questionable And Highly Reckless Internationalist Commune of Rojava: Against NATO’s Imperialist Attacks in Syria The Spoils of Bloodlust, Part I: Raytheon Military Stocks Hit 20-Year High Amid Imperialist Assault The Spoils of Bloodlust, Part II: War Criminal Trump's Approval Ratings Rise to 51%, Gangster Tories Gain 4% To Tie With Labour Syrian Ambassador To The UN: Criminal Western Powers Aim To Seize Syria's Resources By Force Strikes, Oc...

Over 200 socialist, communist, green, social-democratic and labour parties and organisations from 93 countries with a combined membership of over 150 million people have condemned or spoken out against Saturday's attack on Syria by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Israel, according to statements posted on the websites of the parties or their parent organizations involved. The parties come from a wide swath of the ideological spectrum, from the most reformist to the most revolutionary, and from all continents bar Antarctica. Although they obviously have wide differences in policy- nobody can say the Chinese Communist Party has the same perspective as the Green Party of England and Wales, or the Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine, the commitment of so many left-wing political organisations to anti-imperialist principles or at the least basic international law is a sign that left unity is not only possible, but necessary on the issue of opposing a pot...

VIDEO: Police State: Macron Launches CRS to Attack the Sorbonne #NonALaSelection #Sorbonne CRS Horribly Wound Protesters, Chemical, Blood And Bullet Injuries Is May 1968 About to Happen Again, or Be Surpassed? Mass Strikes, Occupations and the Fight for the Future Perfect in France May 68 Veteran Ex-Students Express Solidarity With ZAD, Students In Letter One in Three French Students Ready to Confront Police: Study Demonstration in Paris- From the Free Town of Tolbiac to the Gare d'Austerlitz Architects, Urbanists, Thinkers, And Citizens: A Statement For The ZAD And What It Represents Actions For #ZAD in Brussels By Anti-TTIP Group Join A Protest Against Syria Strikes! Click Here For UK!   Click Here For US! LIVE: Latest From Syria From Forex Wire CORBYN: May Is Waiting For Donald Trump's Instructions On Syria Italy, Netherlands, More EU States Join Merkel In Refusing Attack On Syria Die Linke Leader Kipping: Germany Should Veto A...