Street beatings, stabbings and mosques under siege: Racist attacks carried out by the far-right targets Muslims, Black and Asian people as the UK is engulfed in far-right race riots —> independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

The Lost Stories of the Communist International —> By Tony Wood, for The Nation thenation.com/article/politi…

NOW Neighbourhood action against the far-right and racism, Stoke Newngton, London

Anti-racism protesters gather across England - in pictures theguardian.com/uk-news/galler…

Yesterday, was with antifascists from all walks of life in Stoke Newington, London. We gathered to rally together and defend our community against racist attacks targeting Muslims, refugees, and people of colour as part of the far-right riots happening across the UK. #NoPasaran

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik steps down months after protests —> edition.cnn.com/2024/08/14/bus…?

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

"As we enter an eleventh month of the relentless genocide in Gaza ... students are using their summer to prepare for yet another semester of the Student Intifada. No level of academic repression or police violence will stop us." National Students for Justice in Palestine theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Where we are at in the United Kingdom.

Looking forward to witnessing Robin D. G. Kelley's brilliance tonight at the The Stuart Hall Foundation stuarthallfoundation.org/events/autumn-…

The US citizen killed by Israel in the West Bank on Friday was identified as 26-year-old Ayşenur Eygi, a resident of Seattle who was born in Turkey. “It was an intentional killing that cannot be justified,” according to witness Jonathan Pollak. bit.ly/3ATPUMl

American killed in West Bank was longtime activist ‘bearing witness to oppression’, friends say —> theguardian.com/world/article/…

From Rachel Corrie to Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. Internationalists, PRESENTE.

‘Empire and Radical International Thought’ is on my ‘to read’ list. It looks fab!

In her recent essay, "On Left Internationalism", Dr Ayça Çubukçu reflects on "how contemporary left internationalism could think through—and beyond—both 'humanity' and 'nation' when positioning its struggles." Read more👇 buff.ly/3z49J34

Please APPLY! Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs anywhere The Palestinian American Research Center Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces the 3rd Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences. --> dev.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-as…

Dr. Elias Warraq, an ophthalmologist in Lebanon, said more than 60% of his patients ended up with an eye removed. “In my 25 years of practice, I never removed as many eyes as yesterday.” I am shattered.