This statistic stunned me: In the past five years, NATO’s European members and Canada increased their military spending at a higher pace than the six European great powers in the five years preceding World War I. Today, there are more active armed conflicts around the world than at any moment since 1946. All but one are in the Global South, and NATO countries are heavily implicated in all of them. Europe’s rearmament is therefore both a symptom of a renewed assault on the countries of the Global South, and, unmistakably, reflects preparations for a wider global war. That is why the 30 October day of action by Europe’s dockworkers is so vital. It is not only aimed at stopping weapons flows to the Zionist entity. It takes shot at imperialism’s entire military apparatus, which wages war on the global periphery while decimating whatever remains of Europe’s social democratic arrangement. In Europe, these kinds of actions are as rare as they are risky. In Italy, for example, ports are now designated as national security sites — the Italian State Prosecutor recently declared that Italy is part of a “fragmented and hybrid world war” — and strikes can be subject to severe legal penalties. And yet they are urgent. More than 50 years ago, Frantz Fanon asked when the “sleeping beauty” of the European proletariat might rise to the moment and acknowledge that it has often rallied "behind the position of our common masters on colonial issues”. The dockworkers are preparing to break with that long impasse. That is why we are launching a fundraiser to support participating workers and unions ahead of the strike on October 30. Please contribute what you can. If the campaign succeeds, we hope to take it further afield — to all sites where workers can arrest the flows powering NATO’s war machine.

AfD DID NOT RISE. IT WAS RAISED Capitalism does not need AfD yet. Fascism is unnecessary while liberal democracy, single market and export machine serve it better. The parties capital controls deliver what the AfD promises. The AfD is the reserve, in case they stop delivering.

„Die Verwandten von Kocak und Mitglieder des Clans haben Tür an Tür gewohnt“ to.welt.de/Ge8Bd1o

NATO's Rutte: Europe was not able to take out the nuclear capability of Iran. We couldn’t. We will have the capabilities in 10 years — we can, and we should. It should also be us taking care of the Houthis in the Red Sea, and not the Americans. Of course there are always ramifications, but the ramifications start from a premise that it is good that the Americans did this. And I am one believing that it was absolutely essential for the Americans to take on Iran.

Ready for it? This is Sean Sammit, who stabbed HIMSELF at Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield, then claimed it was an antisemitic attack. Police found the knife and his Apple Watch data disproved his story. He admitted staging it and was charged. "Antisemitic Horror" 😑

Dass die CDU rund um das Holocaust-Gedenken im Parlament gemeinsam mit der AfD stimmte, hat mich tief erschüttert. Für mich hinterlässt das den Eindruck, dass die Union den Kampf gegen Antisemitismus nur instrumentalisiert.

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