League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign
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🇧🇫 Thomas Sankara was assassinated on 15 October 1987. The Marxist president of Burkina Faso fought for pan-African unity against the stranglehold of IMF debt and to feed his people. He succeeded: the UN recognized that hunger had been eradicated in just four years ✊
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To honor truth is not to celebrate empire. #ColumbusDay glorifies conquest; #IndigenousPeoplesDay honors survival, resistance, and the living cultures that outlasted it. The future is decolonial ✊️
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His voyage reshaped history through science and navigation, but also through conquest and cruelty. The violence that followed destroyed civilizations and set the foundations for centuries of colonial oppression.
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The so-called Age of Discovery was a commercial project for gold, slaves, and domination. Columbus sailed not to unite worlds, but to claim and exploit them.
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Trump is glorifying the memory of Columbus by reviving #ColumbusDay, but that’s an insult to Native Americans. 1492 didn’t mark the start of a dream; it marked the beginning of genocide.
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The spirit of Bandung wasn’t just about being free; it was about being free together. The Global South has always fought for freedom, but Bandung was a radical moment of collective liberation. Made possible through unity and solidarity @progintl.bsky.social
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The spirit of Bandung burns in the Sahel. These states forced the military to throw the French out, resisting neocolonialism through action. Anti-imperialism lives in protest, not in policy. Dismantle neocolonialism
@vijayprashad.bsky.social
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This wasn’t just history. It was a blueprint for anti-communist slaughter. The lessons of 1965 matter today more than ever. We owe it to the past, and the future, to remember, organize, and resist ✊️
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The CIA had infiltrated the PKI, knew about the plot, and informed Suharto. As the left fumbled to respond, the repression was swift and brutal. Villages turned into killing fields. The Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), once the 3rd largest in the world, was annihilated.
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This didn’t come from nowhere. Left leaders like Tan Malaka, Musso, and Amir Sjarifuddin had already been eliminated. In 1965, a failed coup attempt by leftist officers gave Suharto the pretext for a bloodbath, and the West cheered him on.
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On 30 Sept 1965, one of the worst massacres of the 20th century began. Backed by the CIA, the Indonesian military and right-wing mobs slaughtered up to 1 million communists and leftists. A methodical purge erased a powerful movement.
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🔊 Hear from @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social as he calls for a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons. A powerful message for peace, diplomacy, and global disarmament.

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Wada Masako, a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing, asks: ‘What is dignity? Should human beings be treated like that?’ Her testimony is a call for peace and nuclear disarmament.
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''A world free of nuclear weapons is possible. Together we can achieve it'' @carlosu02.bsky.social during our webinar on Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism

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Jeremy Corbyn during our webinar on Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism on his experience in #Hiroshima, 80 years after the bombings
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LAI27 at Manifiesta !
ManiFiesta is the festival of solidarity where activism meets culture and internationalism

📢 The League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign is cosponsoring the panel discussion:
“The Global South, BRICS, China… The World is Tilting”
🗓 September 13
🕐 1:00 – 2:45 PM
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Jeremy Corbyn — convener of the League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign (LAI27) — reminds us:
If humanity has already outlawed biological weapons and landmines, we can and must do the same for nuclear weapons — even more destructive and dangerous than both combined.
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Economic sanctions are weaponized by wealthy nations against the vulnerable. 💥
1971-2021: US/EU sanctions linked to 564,258 annual deaths ⚰️ — 5x higher than battle casualties. 🔻
It's structural violence collapsing:
• Healthcare 🩺
• Economies 💸
• Lives 💔
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis
Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy tool, highlighting the...
www.thelancet.com
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Since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide.

Exactly why we are organizing a webinar on Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism. Info and registration: www.eventbrite.be/e/nuclear-di...

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"To isolate what is happening in #Gaza from the broader structures of occupation, #imperialism and settler colonialism is to misunderstand its function in the world system." NUMSA's Mbuso Ngubane in @mailandguardian.bsky.social on Palestine and anti-imperialist resistance. mg.co.za/thought-lead...
The Hague Group revives the possibility of a new internationalism
The grouping, made up of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, is a challenge to the West on Israel’s war in Gaza
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May 22
1848 – Slavery abolished in Martinique.
After a workers’ rebellion made the decree a reality.
Not a gift from France—but a win forced by resistance.
#LAI27 #AntiImperialistHistory #Martinique
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May 18
1980 – The Gwangju Uprising begins in South Korea.
Students and workers rise against a U.S.-backed military dictatorship.
Democracy crushed with bullets—but resistance endures.
#AntiImperialistHistory #LAI27