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Before the planes can drop the bombs, capitalist newspapers and TV networks have to spread the lies. In 1898, U.S. banksters wanted to grab Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.

They used the explosion aboard the battleship USS Maine while it was docked in Havana to do so. Two hundred sixty sailors were killed. From coast-to-coast, newspapers ran headlines proclaiming “Remember the Maine!”

Within 10 weeks Congress declared war on Spain. Not until 1976 did U.S. Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, as the head of an official inquiry, admit that the explosion was accidental and that Spain wasn’t responsible. Puerto Rico is still a U.S. colony.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson claimed Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U.S. naval vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. This big lie was the excuse to step up bombing of Vietnam and Laos. Millions of people were killed in that dirty war, including 58,000 GIs.

Who can forget George W. Bush’s Big Lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people whose family members were killed certainly can’t.

Now the target of war propaganda is the Russian Federation. An elected Ukrainian government was overthrown eight years ago with the assistance of fascist gangs. The 2014 coup was greased by $5 billion in U.S. payoffs since 1991.

The CIA was behind the Ukraine coup just as it pulled the strings in overthrowing Chile’s elected President Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973. Communist organizations were outlawed in both Chile and Ukraine.

The Ukrainian regime even banned the singing of the revolutionary anthem “the Internationale,” which was which was written to commemorate the Paris Commune. Over 40 people were murdered when the House of Trade Unions in Odessa was set on fire by neo-Nazis.

This is the “democracy” that President Biden wants us to support. The man in the White House said nothing about 14,000 people being killed in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics by intense shelling by Ukraine.

The Russian intervention has helped rescue people in Donetsk and Lugansk. It’s aimed to prevent Ukraine from being a NATO base against Russia. Pentagon generals view the Russian Federation as six million square miles to be occupied by the U.S.

Lying in order to invade Russia

It’s not new for capitalist newspapers to lie about Russia. “Documents prove Lenine and Trotzky hired by Germans” was the New York Times’ front-page headline on Sept. 15, 1918.

The sensational article — first of a series — claimed Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were “German agents” and “the Bolshevist revolution was arranged for by the German Great General Staff.”

According to the Times, the millions of people from dozens of nationalities that rose up in a socialist revolution, was just a conspiracy hatched by the German Kaiser. This is like John Birch Society members who claim the Black Lives Matter movement or the French Revolution are and were the result of conspiracies.

The 1918 Big Lie was based on 70 documents provided by U.S. government agent Edgar Sisson. The problem was the “Sisson Documents,” supposedly originating from different locations, were almost all typed on the same manual typewriter.

It was an obvious fraud that swiftly boomeranged. In the 1950s, retired U.S. Ambassador George Kennan — himself a Cold War architect — pronounced them forgeries.

Yet this fake news was used by President Woodrow Wilson to justify sending troops to occupy Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok in revolutionary Russia. That didn’t stop Seattle dock workers from smashing crates of rifles going to former Czarist Admiral Kolchak, who threw suspected Bolsheviks into the boilers of steam locomotives.

Black Liberation fighters including Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones and Paul Robeson were inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution.

Less than two months after the “Sisson Documents” were published, German workers and sailors, inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, overthrew the Kaiser.

Triumph and defeat

The Soviet Union that resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution lifted up people from more than 100 nationalities. They established the world’s first and largest affirmative action programs that fought for equality.

Ukraine is a good example. Between 1915 and 1965, the number of students in Ukraine more than tripled to reach 8.5 million. In the same period the number of college students increased twenty times. (“National Languages in the USSR: Problems and Solutions” by M. I. Isayev.)

These students were taught primarily in Ukrainian. Compare that to the mission schools in the United States and Canada where Indigenous youth were beaten if they spoke their own languages. Many died.

Never forget that 27 million Soviet people, including millions of Ukrainians, died defeating Hitler. It was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. One of the sheroes was the Ukrainian woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko who killed 309 Nazis. 

Tragically the Soviet Union was overthrown 30 years ago. Like Reconstruction’s bloody overthrow by the Ku Klux Klan, it was a defeat for all poor and working people.

While monuments to Confederate slave masters have been toppled by the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of statues of revolutionaries and Red Army leaders have been destroyed in Ukraine. Meanwhile statues of the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, whose followers slaughtered thousands of Jewish and Polish people, have been erected.

Eighty-one million people voted against Trump and racism in 2020. They didn’t vote for a war against the Russian Federation.

Our enemies are the landlords who are jacking-up rents by as much as 40%. President Biden isn’t able to defend voting rights but he’s threatening a new dangerous armed conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.

Hands off the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and the Russian Federation!

On Feb. 17, Struggle-La Lucha interviewed Clarence Thomas, a third-generation longshore worker, retired past secretary-treasurer of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 and author of “Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March.” The book is about the struggles of ILWU Local 10, one of the most radical unions in the country and maybe the world. It is an anthology based on articles and interviews, photographs, and posters, with Thomas’ introductory analysis containing vital lessons for today’s labor movement.

Struggle-La Lucha: It’s great to be talking with you as Local 10 and the Oakland teachers, along with other labor and community activists, rally in Oscar Grant Plaza to stop the privatization of Howard Terminal and the closure of eleven Oakland schools.

Clarence Thomas: At present, the City Council of Oakland is voting to certify an Environmental Impact Report presented by John Fisher, owner of the Oakland A’s baseball team, in his quest to gentrify the Port of Oakland with a waterfront ballpark and development at Howard Terminal.

The Port of Oakland is the third busiest port on the West Coast, an economic engine for the entire region of northern California. ILWU Local 10 is the largest labor force at the Port of Oakland. It has a long militant labor history.

SLL: Why is the history of the ILWU Local 10 so important in this struggle? 

CT: In the 1934 San Francisco General Strike, dock workers led by the legendary union leader Harry Bridges won control of the hiring hall and ended discriminatory hiring practices, known as the “shape-up.” During the following years, ILWU Local 10 — with African American leadership — became internationally recognized as one of the most democratic and radical trade unions in the U.S.

SLL: I’ve heard Fisher’s project described as building an “amusement park on top of an assembly line.”

CT: Fisher wants to shut down Howard Terminal and replace it with a 35,000 seat ballpark; including 3,000 skybox condominiums for the wealthy, where you can watch a baseball game from your condo; a 400-room luxury hotel; and 1.8 million square feet of retail and commercial space.

Presently, there is no infrastructure for public traffic at all at the port. Two railroad lines run right in front of the Howard Terminal. One is for Amtrak, the other is for Union Pacific Railroad which at times carry hazardous material.

There are good reasons why ports and other maritime facilities have zoning laws; which says that no matter how beautiful the scenery may be in terms of skylines and waterfront, you can’t build housing on the maritime facilities.

SLL: Who Is John Fisher?

CT: He is a right-wing billionaire, who owns the Oakland A’s, Gap clothing store, and is one of the major U.S. landowners. He is instrumental in many other gentrifying projects.

Fisher happens to be a major player in funding and operating charter schools. He owns KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) charter schools and has affiliations with Rocketship charter schools. Fisher and his family are very much involved in the implementation of charter schools on the West Coast.

The reason why I’m emphasizing this is because the city of Oakland is in the midst of closing schools in predominantly African American and Brown communities. For the record, along with generations of ­other African American and working-class families, I have been the beneficiary of Oakland Unified School District. If we want to have real working-class democracy and not just bourgeois democracy, we need public schools. If a country does not invest in its youth, it has no future.

When they close public schools, it’s a precursor for charter schools. They are creating an environment where public schools can be converted into condominiums.

My father, Clarence C. Thomas, Sr., and his family were part of the great Black migration from Mississippi to Oakland, California, in 1936. He enrolled in Clawson Elementary School. For more than 20 years, Clawson elementary has been the site of upscale condominiums in Oakland. When I talk about the closure of schools — then the schools being converted into high-cost condominiums — it is based upon fact. 

SLL: I see that Local 10 and the Oakland teachers have joined forces.

CT: There are currently two Oakland teachers at Westlake Middle School — Maurice André San-Chez and Moses Olanrewaju Omolade — who are on a 17-day hunger strike. These teachers are demanding that the state invest money in education and not in closing schools. They say they will end their hunger strike if California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District, and the School Board members, meet with them.

Thus far, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Newsom have been very dismissive of the teachers’ demands. 

Gov. Newsom wants to fashion himself as some kind of progressive. He had an opportunity to release many political prisoners from California state prisons, based on humanitarian release, because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He refused to do that. 

We have to be very clear about whose interests the Democratic Party serves, which leads me to bring up the issue of how Democratic politicians claim to be friends of labor. They have been demonstrating that they are anything but.

First of all, I’d like to call attention to two prominent California politicians. One is Rob Bonta, who is currently the Attorney General for the State of California. Bonta played a major role in effectuating legislation that would allow the publicly owned Howard terminal, specifically designated for maritime use, to be used as a site for recreation and luxury housing. In his role as State Assemblyman, Bonta and State Senator Nancy Skinner have been working in collaboration to make Fisher’s gentrification plan possible. 

Fisher is the stingiest baseball owner in Major League Baseball. This is not just hyperbole. During the pandemic last year he refused to pay the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority the rent on the property where the A’s currently play baseball. He said he had not been able to generate any money because of the pandemic. Yet he’s attempting to acquire some of the largest public space in the city of Oakland. He wants an amusement park for the rich at a thriving working port. 

SLL: Will Oakland benefit in any way from Fisher’s proposal?

CT: No! The city of Oakland, like many major cities, is suffering from a lack of affordable housing. There is a growing population of people who are living on the streets and in parks. John Fisher is asking for a billion dollars from Oakland taxpayers to pay for infrastructure, on-site and off-site, for this development. 

It’s important for people who will be reading this interview to understand how neoliberal policies are driving John Fisher’s efforts at the Port of Oakland. Neoliberalism is generally associated with economic policies including privatization, which is what is taking place at Howard Terminal and the closure of Oakland Public Schools. 

SLL: Are other union leaders supporting Local 10 and the teachers?

CT: Most of the unions represented by the Alameda County Central Labor Council are supporting Fisher’s project. The reason is because of the very large membership of the Building Trades unions. The Building Trades also have a lot of money and they support Democratic politicians. If we are to be very truthful, the Building Trades have a long history of racism and exclusion of people of color in their ranks. They say that the project will generate jobs. Yes, it will. Most of those jobs will be the better paying jobs which will go to the members of the Building Trades. 

What happens after the project is built? What jobs will be available to the working class in the city? Not the kind of jobs that will allow them to be able to rent apartments or buy homes. 

Let me get to some specifics as to what this development would mean to port workers at the Port of Oakland. ILWU Local 10 is the only predominantly African American longshore union on the entire West Coast. Local 10 has a history of social justice, activism, and solidarity with the oppressed and the working class, at home and abroad. 

ILWU Local 10 is one of the few places in the entire United States of America where Black people, specifically Black women and other women of color, can work and make the same amount of money as white men. 

This development would curtail the future not only of ILWU members but also mitigate the capacity for the Port of Oakland in the midst of a pandemic. It is absolutely scandalous. The reason for this interview with you today is to be able to shed some light on it. 

SLL: How did you become a member of ILWU Local 10?

CT: My grandfather migrated from Louisiana and went to work in a shipyard in Oakland in 1943. One year later he became a member of the ILWU. Some 20 years later, in 1963 — the year of the March on Washington — my father became a member of ILWU. In 1965 my great uncle Robert Harmon also became a member of Local 10. After the passing of my father, while an active member of Local 10 in 1985, I became a member of Local 10.

Trent Willis, who just completed his second term as ILWU Local 10 President, is a third-generation longshore worker. His father went to work on the waterfront the same year as my dad. 

Leo Robinson, the rank-and-file leader of ILWU who was responsible for writing the historic resolution calling for the boycott of South Africa’s apartheid cargo — also became a member of Local 10 in 1963. 

I am mentioning this because it is so important to understand what the ILWU meant to people who reside in the Bay Area and the impact that they’ve made, not only in the Bay Area but across the country and around the world. 

Former Oakland mayor and U.S. Congress member Ronald V. Dellums, whose father was a longshore worker, attended Westlake Middle School where the teachers are currently on a hunger strike. Rep. Dellums played a critical role in Congress in advocating for sanctions against apartheid South Africa.

Dellums, Robinson, and I all graduated from Oakland Technical High School. It is not a coincidence that all of our social justice activism was in some way influenced by our fathers’ membership in ILWU Local 10, one of the most democratic and militant rank-and-file unions. 

In conclusion, during the years when there has been turmoil in the fight to end segregation and apartheid in the U.S., those waterfront jobs have meant so much to many in the Bay Area, not only Black people but the entire working class. 

The union jobs allowed dock workers in the community to buy homes, to send their children to college, even though some of those members had no higher education at all. It enabled them to effectuate political change in the Bay Area. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison and did a worldwide tour, he came to Oakland where the longshore workers had refused to unload South African cargo. Mandela spoke to thousands at the Oakland Coliseum where the Oakland A’s currently play baseball.

“NATO’s enlargement in the last decades has been a great success and has also paved the way for a further enlargement of the EU”: this was reiterated last Saturday at the Munich Security Conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. In order to fully understand his words, it is necessary to reconstruct this “great success” story in its essential terms.

It begins in the same year – 1999 – in which NATO demolishes Yugoslavia with war and, at the Washington summit, announces that it wants to “conduct crisis response operations, not provided for in Article 5, outside Alliance territory”. Forgetting that it had committed itself to Russia “not to expand even one inch to the East”, NATO began its expansion to the East. It includes the first three countries of the former Warsaw Pact: Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary. Then, in 2004, it extends to seven more: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (formerly part of the USSR); Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia (formerly part of the Warsaw Pact); Slovenia (formerly part of the Yugoslav Federation). In 2009, NATO incorporates Albania (formerly a member of the Warsaw Pact) and Croatia (formerly part of the Yugoslav Federation); in 2017, Montenegro (formerly part of Yugoslavia); in 2020, North Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) In twenty years, NATO expands from 16 to 30 countries.

In this way, Washington achieves a triple result. It extends the military alliance close to Russia, even inside the territory of the former USSR, and maintains the levers of command: the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe is, “by tradition”, always a US general appointed by the US president and the other key commands also belong to the US. At the same time, Washington ties the Eastern countries not so much to the Alliance, but directly to the US. Romania and Bulgaria, as soon as they entered, immediately made available to the United States the important military bases of Constanta and Burgas on the Black Sea. The third result obtained by Washington with the enlargement of NATO to the East is the strengthening of its influence in Europe. Out of the ten Central-Eastern European countries that joined NATO between 1999 and 2004, seven joined the European Union between 2004 and 2007: the United States superimposed NATO on the EU, which expanded to the East, over Europe.

Today 21 of the 27 countries of the European Union belong to NATO under US command. The North Atlantic Council, the Alliance’s political body, according to NATO rules decides not by majority but always “unanimously and by common accord”, i.e. in agreement with what is decided in Washington. The participation of the major European powers in these decisions (excluding Italy, which obeys by keeping silent) generally takes place through secret negotiations with Washington on give and take. This involves a further weakening of European parliaments, in particular the Italian one, already deprived of real decision-making powers on foreign and military policy.

In this framework, Europe finds itself today in an even more dangerous situation than during the Cold War. Three other countries – Bosnia Herzegovina (formerly part of Yugoslavia), Georgia and Ukraine (formerly part of the USSR) – are candidates to join NATO. Stoltenberg, spokesman for the US before NATO, declares that “we keep the door open and if the Kremlin’s goal is to have less NATO on Russia’s borders, it will only get more NATO.”

In the US-NATO escalation, clearly directed to explode a large-scale war in the heart of Europe, nuclear weapons come into play. In three months, the U.S. begins mass production of the new B61-12 nuclear bombs, which will be deployed under U.S. command in Italy and other European countries, probably also in the East even closer to Russia. In addition to these, the U.S. has in Europe two land bases in Romania and Poland and four warships equipped with the Aegis missile system, capable of launching not only anti-missile missiles but also cruise missiles with nuclear warheads. They are also preparing intermediate-range nuclear missiles to be deployed in Europe against Russia, the invented enemy that can, however, respond destructively if attacked.

To all this is added the economic and social impact of growing military spending. At the meeting of defense ministers, Stoltenberg triumphantly announced that “this is the seventh consecutive year of increased defense spending by European Allies, increased by $270 billion since 2014.” More public money diverted from social spending and productive investment, while European countries have yet to recover from the 2020-21 economic lockdown. Italian military spending has exceeded 70 million euros per day, but it’s not enough. Prime Minister Draghi has already announced “We must provide ourselves with a more significant defense: it is very clear that we will have to spend much more than we have done so far”. Very clear: let’s tighten our belts so that NATO can expand.

Source: Il Manifesto (Italy)

La profecía de Marshall McLuhan de que “el sucesor de la política será la propaganda” se ha cumplido. La propaganda en bruto es ahora la norma en las democracias occidentales, especialmente en Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña.

En cuestiones de guerra y paz, el engaño ministerial se presenta como noticia. Se censuran los hechos incómodos, se alimentan los demonios. El modelo es la propaganda corporativa, la moneda de la época. En 1964, McLuhan declaró célebremente: “El medio es el mensaje”. Ahora la mentira es el mensaje.

¿Pero es esto nuevo? Hace más de un siglo que Edward Bernays, el padre de la manipulación empresarial, inventó las “relaciones públicas” como fachada para la propaganda de guerra. Lo que es nuevo es la eliminación virtual de la disidencia en la corriente principal.

El gran editor David Bowman, autor de The Captive Press, llamó a esto “una defenestración de todos los que se niegan a seguir una línea y a tragarse lo desagradable y son valientes”. Se refería a los periodistas independientes y a los denunciantes, los inconformistas honestos a los que las organizaciones de medios alguna vez dieron espacio, a menudo con orgullo. Ese espacio ha sido abolido.

La histeria bélica que ha llegado como un maremoto en las últimas semanas y meses es el ejemplo más llamativo. Conocida por su jerga, “dar forma a la narrativa”, la gran parte, si no la mayoría, es pura propaganda.

Los rusos vienen. Rusia es peor que mala. Putin es malvado, “un nazi como Hitler”, salivó el parlamentario laborista Chris Bryant. Ucrania está a punto de ser invadida por Rusia: esta noche, esta semana, la próxima semana. Las fuentes incluyen a un ex propagandista de la CIA que ahora habla por el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos y no ofrece ninguna prueba de sus afirmaciones sobre las acciones rusas porque “viene del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos”.

La regla de la no-evidencia también se aplica en Londres. La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores británica, Liz Truss, que gastó 500.000 libras de dinero público volando a Australia en un avión privado para advertir al Gobierno de Canberra que tanto Rusia como China estaban listos para atacar, no ofreció ninguna prueba. Las cabezas antípodas asintieron; la “narrativa” es indiscutible allí. Una rara excepción, el ex primer ministro Paul Keating, calificó de “demente” el belicismo de Truss.

Truss confundió con ligereza a los países del Báltico y del Mar Negro. En Moscú, le dijo al ministro de Asuntos Exteriores ruso que Gran Bretaña nunca aceptaría la soberanía rusa sobre Rostov y Vorónezh, hasta que se le señaló que esos lugares no formaban parte de Ucrania, sino de Rusia. Lean la prensa rusa sobre la bufonada de esta pretendienta al 10 de Downing Street y retuérzance.

Toda esta farsa, protagonizada recientemente por Boris Johnson en Moscú interpretando una versión payasa de su héroe, Churchill, podría disfrutarse como sátira si no fuera por su abuso deliberado de los hechos y de la comprensión histórica y el peligro real de guerra.

Vladimir Putin se refiere al “genocidio” en la región oriental de Dombás, en Ucrania. Tras el golpe de Estado del 2014 en Ucrania – orquestado por la “persona clave” de Barack Obama en Kiev, Victoria Nuland – el régimen golpista, infestado de neonazis, lanzó una campaña de terror contra el Dombás de habla rusa, que representa un tercio de la población de Ucrania.

Supervisadas por el director de la CIA, John Brennan, en Kiev, las “unidades especiales de seguridad” coordinaron ataques salvajes contra la población de Dombás, que se oponía al golpe. Los vídeos y los informes de testigos presenciales muestran a matones fascistas en autobuses, quemando la sede del sindicato en la ciudad de Odesa, asesinando a 41 personas atrapadas en su interior. La policía se mantiene al margen. Obama felicitó al régimen golpista “debidamente elegido” por su “notable moderación”.

En los medios estadounidenses se minimizó la atrocidad de Odesa, calificándola de “turbia” y de “tragedia” en la que “nacionalistas” (neonazis) atacaron a “separatistas” (personas que recogían firmas para un referéndum sobre una Ucrania federal). El Wall Street Journal de Rupert Murdoch condenó a las víctimas: “Un incendio mortal en Ucrania probablemente provocado por rebeldes, dice el Gobierno”.

El profesor Stephen Cohen, aclamado como la principal autoridad estadounidense en materia de Rusia, escribió:

“La quema hasta la muerte de rusos étnicos y otras personas en Odesa… despertó recuerdos de los escuadrones de exterminio nazis en Ucrania durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. … [Hoy] los ataques al estilo de las tropas de asalto contra homosexuales, judíos, ancianos de etnia rusa y otros ciudadanos ‘impuros’ se han extendido en toda la Ucrania gobernada por Kiev, junto con las marchas de antorchas que recuerdan a las que acabaron por encender Alemania a finales de l920 y comienzos de los 30…”

“La policía y las autoridades legales oficiales no hacen prácticamente nada para impedir estos actos neofascistas ni para condenarlos. Por el contrario, Kiev los fomenta oficialmente rehabilitando sistemáticamente e incluso conmemorando a los colaboradores ucranianos con los pogromos de exterminio alemanes nazis…, cambiando el nombre de las calles en su honor, construyéndoles monumentos, reescribiendo la historia para glorificarlos, y más…”

Hoy en día, rara vez se habla de la Ucrania neonazi. Que los británicos estén entrenando a la Guardia Nacional ucraniana, que incluye neonazis, no es noticia. (Véase el informe desclasificado de Matt Kennard en Consortium News del 15 de febrero). El regreso del fascismo violento y avalado a la Europa del siglo XXI, para citar a Harold Pinter, “nunca sucedió… ni siquiera mientras estaba sucediendo”.

El 16 de diciembre, las Naciones Unidas presentaron una resolución que pedía “combatir la glorificación del nazismo, el neonazismo y otras prácticas que contribuyen a alimentar las formas contemporáneas de racismo”. Las únicas naciones que votaron en contra fueron Estados Unidos y Ucrania.

Casi todos los rusos saben que fue a través de las llanuras de la “zona fronteriza” de Ucrania que las divisiones de Hitler barrieron desde el oeste en 1941, reforzadas por los cultistas y colaboradores nazis de Ucrania. El resultado fue más de 20 millones de muertos rusos.

Dejando a un lado las maniobras y el cinismo de la geopolítica, sean cuales sean los actores, esta memoria histórica es el motor de las propuestas de seguridad de Rusia, que buscan el respeto y la autoprotección, publicadas en Moscú en la semana en que la ONU votó 130-2 a favor de volver ilegal el nazismo. Estas son:

• La OTAN garantiza que no desplegará misiles en las naciones fronterizas con Rusia. (Ya están en marcha desde Eslovenia hasta Rumanía, y le seguirá Polonia).
• La OTAN detendrá los ejercicios militares y navales en las naciones y mares fronterizos con Rusia.
• Ucrania no se convertirá en miembro de la OTAN.
• que Occidente y Rusia firmen un pacto de seguridad vinculante entre Oriente y Occidente.
• que se restablezca el acuerdo histórico entre Estados Unidos y Rusia sobre armas nucleares de alcance intermedio. (Estados Unidos lo abandonó en 2019).

Todo esto viene a ser un borrador integral para un proyecto de plan de paz para toda la Europa de posguerra y debería ser acogido con satisfacción por Occidente. Pero, ¿quién entiende su importancia en Gran Bretaña? Lo que se les dice es que Putin es un paria y una amenaza para la cristiandad.

Los ucranianos de habla rusa, sometidos durante siete años a un bloqueo económico por parte de Kiev, están luchando por su supervivencia. El ejército “en masa” del que rara vez oímos hablar, es el de las 13 brigadas del ejército ucraniano que asedian Dombás: se calcula que son 150.000 soldados. Si atacan, la provocación a Rusia significará, casi con seguridad, la guerra.

En 2015, con la mediación de alemanes y franceses, los presidentes de Rusia, Ucrania, Alemania y Francia se reunieron en Minsk y firmaron un acuerdo de paz provisional. Ucrania aceptó ofrecer autonomía a Dombás, ahora las repúblicas autoproclamadas de Donetsk y Luhansk.

El acuerdo de Minsk nunca ha tenido una oportunidad. En Gran Bretaña la línea, amplificada por Boris Johnson, es que Ucrania está siendo “dictada” por los líderes mundiales. Por su parte, Gran Bretaña está armando a Ucrania y entrenando a su ejército.

Desde la primera Guerra Fría, la OTAN realmente ha marchado hasta la frontera más sensible de Rusia, habiendo demostrado su sangrienta agresión en Yugoslavia, Afganistán, Irak y Libia, e incumpliendo las solemnes promesas de retirarse. Habiendo arrastrado a los “aliados” europeos a guerras estadounidenses que no les conciernen, el gran tópico es que la propia OTAN es la verdadera amenaza para la seguridad europea.

En Gran Bretaña, se desencadena una xenofobia estatal y mediática ante la sola mención de “Rusia”. Obsérvese la hostilidad visceral con la que la BBC informa sobre Rusia. ¿Por qué? ¿Es porque la restauración de la mitología imperial exige, sobre todo, un enemigo permanente? Ciertamente, nos merecemos algo mejor.

Este artículo fue producido para Globetrotter.

John Pilger es un galardonado periodista, cineasta y escritor. Puedes leer su biografía completa en su sitio web, y seguirlo en Twitter: @JohnPilger.

Feb. 21 – Before dawn on Feb. 20, the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to cross the Seversky Donets River in Lugansk, near the Russian border, and attack positions of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR). The antifascist militia soldiers drove back the Ukrainian troops. As they fled, the Ukrainian soldiers fired on the village of Pionerskoye, destroying five homes and killing two civilians.

Since Feb. 18, the independent republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass mining region have come under heavy attack from Ukraine. There have already been multiple attempts by the Ukrainian military to break through the 200-mile ceasefire “line of contact” established in 2015, to find a vulnerable spot to begin an invasion, including one Feb. 20 at the Svetlodarsk Arc, about halfway between the republics’ capitals, and one that is ongoing at the time of writing in the south of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), near the fascist-occupied city of Mariupol.

The attacks are the most intense the region has seen since the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Militias defeated a Ukrainian invasion in February 2015 at the Battle of Debaltsevo. The renewed assault by the U.S.-supported government in Kiev is in flagrant violation of the 2015 Minsk II ceasefire accords, to which Ukraine is a signatory.

Since 2014, more than 14,000 people have died in Ukraine’s war on Donbass.

The illegal Ukrainian attacks are carried out with hundreds of tons of weapons supplied by the United States and other countries of the NATO military alliance. Many of these weapons are in the hands of neo-Nazi battalions that have pledged to ethnically and politically “cleanse” the Donbass of its Russian-speaking and other “foreign” residents and leftist Ukrainians.

More than 150,000 Ukrainian troops, or roughly two-thirds of the country’s military, is currently stationed on the line of contact, poised to invade. Strategic points are occupied by the Right Sector, Azov Battalion and other fascist groups that have been officially incorporated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces and received military training from the U.S., Canada and Britain.

As Struggle-La Lucha has frequently explained, the true danger of invasion is not coming from the Russian Federation against Ukraine, but from Ukraine against the people of Donbass. Washington has been relentlessly pushing the government of Ukrainian President Zelensky to attack Donbass for months in hopes of provoking a confrontation with Russia.

As it has done before every major war in its history, U.S. imperialism is lying about the real causes of the war crisis in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Like the claim of “weapons of mass destruction” 20 years ago that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the hue and cry from Washington and the corporate media about an “imminent Russian invasion” stands reality on its head. 

It is the four million residents of Donbass – who have lived under the shadow of war and blockade for nearly eight years – who are facing the consequences of U.S-NATO lies. They continue to resist. They need our solidarity now more than ever.

Evacuation ordered

On Feb. 17, as a gesture of goodwill after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the pullback of some Russian troops from their defensive positions on the country’s western border. 

Instead of accepting Moscow’s olive branch, Washington and Kiev took this as the opportunity to launch a major attack on the small republics near Russia. President Joe Biden once more declared that Putin had “decided to invade Ukraine.” This shows that Biden & Co. had no interest in preventing a war, only inciting it.

On Feb. 18, with the intensification of Ukraine’s attacks and the clear preparations for invasion,  Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik — heads of state of the DPR and LPR — announced the voluntary evacuation of civilians to Russia. Priority is given to elders, children and parents. So far more than 53,000 people have been evacuated to hastily prepared refugee centers in Rostov-on-Don and other cities in western Russia.

Soon after, Pushilin and Pasechnik ordered the full mobilization of the male population between the ages of 18 and 55 for service in the People’s Militia to defend their embattled homeland. Many other Donbass residents of all genders and ages, including political exiles from Ukraine, have decided to stay and resist, including workers responsible for the upkeep of infrastructure and vital services, healthcare workers and political activists.

On the night of Feb. 20-21, as Ukrainian shock troops attempted to break through the DPR’s southern border near Russia, shelling by Kiev’s military knocked out the pumping station that provides drinking water for 21,000 residents. The Donetsk News Agency reported that a Ukrainian saboteur blew himself up attempting to place a bomb at the railway station in Donetsk, the capital city. Two schools were reported damaged by shelling. 

Meanwhile, in a stark provocation, fire from Ukrainian-controlled territory destroyed a border outpost on Russian territory. Earlier, two Ukrainian shells were reported to have hit fields in Russia’s Rostov region.

Voices from Donbass

After a Ukrainian projectile exploded outside her home, Anzhela Martynenko, a resident of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, told a News Front reporter: “The shelling has started since yesterday. The child and I did not sleep, the child was frightened. 

“Why are we being fired upon? Please tell us what we did to [Ukrainian President] Zelensky? Why have we been suffering for eight years? Innocent people, children. … There is nowhere to hide, peaceful people live here – miners, teachers, doctors, children who still go to kindergarten.”

To the Biden administration, the New York Times and Washington Post, Bloomberg News and CNN, these embattled residents of Donbass are reduced to a “Russian false flag operation,” “separatists” and “Russian proxies.” 

To Democratic and Republican politicians, like the oligarchs and neo-Nazis of Kiev, the workers of Donbass are merely collateral damage, incidental casualities encountered in reaching the goal of NATO expansion and the suffocation of Russia.

As the Ukrainian military sends exploding shells whistling into civilian areas of Lugansk and Donetsk, its Sabotage and Reconnaissance Groups (DRGs) attempt to sow fear by infiltrating the republics and carrying out acts of terror. 

On the night of Feb. 18, as Ukrainian bombs rained on the world’s longest gas pipeline, causing a massive explosion in the capital of Lugansk, a DRG blew up the car of the Donetsk People’s Militia leader outside the government center in Donetsk. No one was killed. 

Then, on Feb. 20, a dramatic night battle took place between DPR special forces and a Ukrainian DRG in the Kievsky district of Donetsk. Two DPR troops were wounded. One Ukrainian terrorist was killed, and another taken prisoner.

Alexey Albu, an antifascist exile from Odessa, Ukraine, now living in Lugansk, witnessed the aftermath of the gas pipeline explosion from his home. He told Struggle-La Lucha: “The next day we tried to evacuate our comrades, but Ukrainian Nazis mined an important bridge in Samsonovka village. There was a big traffic jam. We drove in fields and got lost many times. When we came back we saw that the bridge was open and a lot of cars went to the border.”

Stanislav Retinsky, a secretary of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic, told SLL: “Due to the aggravation of the situation on the front line through the fault of Ukraine, the educational process, cultural and sports events have been suspended in the Donetsk People’s Republic. 

“Due to the increased demand, there was a temporary shortage of fuel at petrol stations. Large queues can be observed near ATMs. In this regard, the Central Republican Bank has set a daily cash withdrawal limit on one card of 10 thousand rubles. 

“At the same time, card payments in retail chain stores can be carried out without restrictions. Hospitals are operating normally.”

Sveta Licht, a political activist who grew up in Donetsk and returned there after the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Kiev, explained: “The evacuation that is currently taking place in Donbass is voluntary. Everyone who left, left of their own will. 

“Most of the remaining are those who left in 2014-15 and now do not want to, or their work is related to the functioning of important infrastructure, for example. Among those who remain, it is really people ready to become volunteers [to defend against invasion].

“We don’t panic, we’re fine. We are not planning to evacuate for now according to family circumstances. … Plus, the elderly and children are the priority, the republic is saving pensioners from nursing homes and orphanages first, and that’s right. Those who had to live as refugees will understand.”

It is because of the bravery, determination and sacrifice of the Donbass people that U.S. ambitions to provoke a bigger war with Russia have been held back for the last eight years. They continue to resist, true to the traditions of their Soviet ancestors who fought back and defeated the German Nazi occupation and its Ukrainian collaborators during World War II.

Today the responsibility of the workers of the world, and especially those in the U.S. and other NATO countries, is to extend the hand of solidarity to them and shut down Washington’s war plans.

Tell Klobuchar and Congress: No U.S. war with Russia! End U.S. intervention in Ukraine!

⏰ Thursday, February 24 st 4:30 p.m.
📍 in front of Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office, 1200 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis

Join us for a picket in front of Senator Klobuchar’s office to say no to US intervention in Ukraine, including:

• No military aid to Ukraine!
• No sanctions!
• Money for schools not for war!
• Wars abroad militarize society – stop police violence!

Initiated by the Minnesota Peace Action Committee and co-sponsored by the Anti-War Committee, Climate Justice Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, May Day Books, MN War Tax Resistance, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Twin Cities Assange Defense and Women Against Military Madness

In a tweet, the member of the Political Bureau and Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, wrote: “We strongly reject the propagandistic and communicational hysteria unleashed by the U.S. government against Russia and we firmly oppose the expansion of NATO to the borders of that brother country”.

The last week – that of the Russian “invasion” of Ukraine, fabricated by Washington – ended, and with it even the Russian military maneuvers, scheduled in advance, began the timeline for the return home of those involved.

Both the President of the United States, Joe Biden, as well as the highest exponents of NATO and some European rulers or subordinates were left wanting the shots to ring out and insisted on new lies on the same subject, but now more towards the inside of Ukraine than in the foreign environment.

The Kyiv government, used as “bait” for Russia to “take the bait” of the West and provoke a war, seems to be disappointed by so many lies and manipulation of those who have promised it NATO membership and the guarantee of its security in the face of a possible reaction from Moscow.

However, with these actions, the only thing they have caused Ukraine is a substantial economic loss that already exceeds $3 billion, without counting the bills that will be passed on later for the “aid” in weapons of all kinds that they are providing it with. But where are the shots and the supposed casualties caused by the Russian invasion? Where did the tanks and artillery that Washington announced would reach Kyiv come in.

Then they remembered a key piece in this puzzle: the separatist republics of Donbass with their territories of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR), in Ukraine, became, overnight, the spark of a new provocation against Moscow.

Kyiv, with its army, is staging a montage that cannot be sustained, but which already this weekend left some civilians dead and more than 40,000 people of Russian origin were forced to cross the border and take refuge in the Russian region of Rostov.

In view of the heated warlike mood, both Russia and Belarus, which had already ended their joint military maneuvers, have decided to prolong them. Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin described the current scenario as “a strong smell of gunpowder” in the region, with the possibility of “Europe being pushed into a war”, as several neighboring countries are accumulating more advanced weapons, according to RT.

He also reiterated that the goal of the Russian and Belarusian maneuvers remains the same: “to ensure an adequate response and de-escalation of the enemies’ military preparations.”

In the meantime, the spark in Donbas may become, with the help of the West and the mainstream press at its service, a detonator that will make what Russia and the international community want to avoid – a war – a reality.

Source: Walter Lippmann/Granma

En un tuit, el miembro del Buró Político y canciller cubano, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, escribió: «Rechazamos enérgicamente la histeria propagandística y comunicacional que desata el Gobierno de EE. UU contra Rusia y nos oponemos firmemente a la expansión de la OTAN hasta las fronteras de ese hermano país»

La última semana –la de la «invasión» rusa a Ucrania, fabricada por Washington– terminó, y con ella hasta las maniobras militares rusas, programadas de antemano, comenzaron el cronograma de regreso a casa de los involucrados.

Tanto el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, como los máximos exponentes de la OTAN y algunos gobernantes o subordinados europeos se quedaron con las ganas de que sonaran los tiros e insistieron en nuevas mentiras sobre el mismo tema, pero ahora más hacia el interior de Ucrania que en el entorno foráneo.

El Gobierno de Kiev, utilizado como «carnada» para que Rusia «mordiera» el anzuelo de Occidente y provocara una guerra, parece decepcionado ante tanta mentira y manipulación de quienes le han prometido la entrada a la OTAN y la garantía de su seguridad ante una posible reacción de Moscú.

Sin embargo, con esas acciones lo único que han provocado a Ucrania es una cuantiosa pérdida económica que ya supera los 3 000 millones de dólares, sin contarse las facturas que le pasarán luego por la «ayuda» en armas de todo tipo que le están facilitando. Pero, y los tiros y las supuestas bajas que provocaría la invasión rusa, dónde están. Por dónde entraron los tanques y la artillería que anunció Washington llegaría hasta Kiev.

Entonces recordaron una pieza clave en este rompecabezas: las repúblicas separatistas de Donbás con sus territorios de Donetsk (RPD) y Lugansk (RPL), en Ucrania, se convertían, de la noche a la mañana, en la chispa de una nueva provocación contra Moscú.

Kiev, con su ejército, está escenificando un montaje incapaz de sostenerse, pero que ya este fin de semana dejaba algunos civiles muertos y más de 40 000 personas de origen ruso se vieron obligadas a cruzar la frontera y guarecerse en la región rusa de Rostov.

Ante lo caldeado de los ánimos bélicos, tanto Rusia como Bielorrusia, que ya terminaban sus maniobras militares conjuntas, han decidido prolongarlas. El ministro de Defensa bielorruso, Víktor Jrenin, calificó el escenario actual con «un fuerte olor a pólvora» en la región, con la posibilidad de que «Europa sea empujada a una guerra», pues varios países vecinos están acumulando armas más avanzadas,  según RT.

Además, reiteró que el objetivo de las maniobras de Rusia y Bielorrusia sigue siendo el mismo: «garantizar una respuesta adecuada y la desescalada de los preparativos militares de los enemigos».

Mientras, la chispa en Donbás puede convertirse, con la ayuda occidental y de la gran prensa a su servicio, en un detonante que haga realidad lo que Rusia y la comunidad internacional quieren evitar: una guerra.

Fuente: Granma

A faculty panel has unanimously sided with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in a grievance she filed through her union, the SFSU chapter of the California Faculty Association. Dr. Abdulhadi’s grievance reiterated her demand for SFSU to fulfill its outstanding commitment to build Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies by hiring two additional tenure-track faculty members, institutionally supporting AMED, stopping the attempt to dismantle AMED, and ending the creation of the hostile work environment to which Dr. Abdulhadi has been subjected for at least 13 years for her directorship of AMED and her refusal to abandon it.

Issued yesterday by the three-person Faculty Hearing Committee that adjudicated Dr. Abdulhadi’s grievance on February 4, a report agreed with Dr. Abdulhadi’s claims that SFSU breached her hiring contract and fostered a hostile work environment to pressure her to give up AMED Studies. The Faculty Hearing Committee supported Dr. Abdulhadi, and upheld AMED’s independence and integrity.

The statutory grievance filed by Dr. Abdulhadi documented SFSU’s refusal to honor the original Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) which the university signed when it recruited Dr. Abdulhadi to create and direct the AMED program in 2005. That MOU stipulated that two additional tenure-track positions would be hired along with Dr. Abdulhadi to ensure a full and sustainable academic, communal and advocacy multi-site space on the history, politics, cultures and social movements of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian communities as they intersect with and contribute to the indivisibility of justice within and outside of the College of Ethnic Studies at SFSU. The fact that those faculty positions were never filled served to thwart AMED Studies and turn it into a token, one-person operation without possibility of growth and development – had it not been for Dr. Abdulhadi’s tenacity and determination to resist such designs.  In addition, the grievance detailed how the university created a hostile work and study environment on campus for Dr. Abdulhadi and her Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students and their allies, including anti-Zionist Jewish students, staff and colleagues. These efforts have been publicly decried by numerous scholars and academic organizations, including the SFSU chapter of the California Faculty Association.

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The February 4 Faculty Hearing Committee rejected the university’s claims, including several bad faith actions that sought to undermine the transparency of the grievance hearing. Not only did the SFSU Administration fail to submit the list of witnesses and evidence on time as per their own deadline. The university representatives made a mockery of the proceedings by sharing the names of their witnesses less than 24 hours before the hearing, contrary to the very agreement on which they had insisted.

The three committee members, Drs. Rita Melendez (Chair), Elahe Essani, and Hui Yang, relied on “written documents, direct testimony, and cross-examination of witnesses” to reach their findings defining Dr. Abdulhadi’s grievance “to be serious, thus requiring an immediate remedy.” The committee’s report recognized that Dr. Abdulhadi “met the burden of proof and provided evidence that the former Dean of Ethnic Studies (Dean Monteiro) promised two new faculty positions in AMED as a condition of Dr. Abdulhadi coming to SFSU,” as stipulated in her job offer.  The report rejected the attempt by the SFSU Administration to engage in character assasination of Dr. Abdulhadi, stressing that SFSU “has fostered a hostile environment” and that “lack of hires has resulted in intellectual isolation for Dr. Abdulhadi and has had negative consequences in terms of her building an AMED program.” The report ordered SFSU to “issue an apology to Dr. Abdulhadi for not fulfilling the promise made to her upon her hire and for years of denying the requests for the faculty hires.”

The report comes on the heels of another recent victory achieved by Dr. Abdulhadi, AMED Studies communities, and Palestine scholarship and pedagogy. In October 2021, a Faculty Hearing Committee ruled unanimously that SFSU violated the academic freedom of Dr. Abdulhadi and her colleague, Dr. Tomomi Kinukawa, when the university failed to stand up to Zoom’s silencing and cancellation of an open classroom they co-organized on Palestine, titled “Whose Narratives: Gender, Justice and Resistance: A Conversation with Leila Khaled”, on September 23, 2020. The Faculty Hearing Committee members ordered the university administration to apologize to Drs. Abdulhadi and Kinukawa and host the censored webinar without interference from big tech corporations while also faulting the administration for colluding with The Lawfare Project, a right-wing organization that has been part of a network of pro-Israel lobby industry groups intent on smearing, bullying and silencing scholarship, pedagogy and advocacy for Palestinian freedom for years, including that of Dr. Abdulhadi and AMED. The Lawfare Project’s federal lawsuit against SFSU and Dr. Abdulhadi (the only faculty member named in this lawsuit) was dismissed with prejudice in federal court in 2018 after 18 months of persistent attacks against Dr. Abdulhadi.

Rather than respect members of the SFSU faculty who volunteered their time and exerted their intellectual energy to serve on the Faculty Hearing Committee, SFSU President Lynn Mahoney vetoed the committee’s unanimous decision that called for redress to Drs. Abdulhadi and Kinukawa. In so doing, President Mahoney sought to nullify the committee’s recommendations and sabotage the grievance process. Intellectuals and academics were outraged by President Mahoney’s disregard of faculty rights and due process and called for her immediate resignation. These outcries and calls coincided with similar calls for the resignation of California State University (CSU) Chancellor Joseph Castro, who in fact resigned on February 17, 2022 after reports appeared that he mishandled misconduct complaints. Chancellor Castro had been supportive of Mahoney, giving her a 10% salary increase despite faculty uproar over budget cuts and the firing of a significant number of lecturers, using the COVID pandemic as an excuse.  Castro also presided over the cancellation of the Edward Said faculty position at CSU-Fresno under Zionist pressure.

Academics, public intellectuals, and the broader Palestine justice movement welcome yesterday’s ruling and congratulate members of the Faculty Hearing Committee, Dr. Abdulhadi and the SFSU chapter of the California Faculty Association for their persistence in protecting faculty rights and refusing to join the SFSU Administration in its collusion with the Zionist, orientalist and racist agenda that seeks to silence the teaching of Palestine.  During the 6-hour virtual February 4 hearing, SFSU arrogantly dismissed the seriousness of Dr. Abdulhadi’s grievance and disregarded the university’s own proclaimed principles of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). SFSU’s actions demonstrated its cynicism regarding the university’s well-publicized support for multiculturalism, equity and inclusion, which directly contradicts the history of SFSU’s collaboration with and preferential treatment of Zionist groups, including the recent agreement with Hillel, Hillel International and the Academic Engagement Nework, as well as the SFSU’s longstanding unjustifiable harassment of Dr. Abdulhadi by subjecting her to multiple baseless audits for the sole purpose of discrediting Dr. Abdulhadi and placating the AMCHA Initiative, a pro-Israel lobby group. SFSU’s deceitful practices, misrepresentation of facts, and continued attempts to smear Dr. Abdulhadi’s character in the recent hearing once again showed SFSU’s disdain for the AMED Studies program and its complicity with outside organizations that seek to silence Palestinian voices (see Mondoweiss).

Evidence presented in this most recent hearing, including testimonies by witnesses who were unable to testify due to SFSU’s attempt to subvert the process, such as Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, Dr. James Martel and doctoral candidate Saliem Shehadeh, further demonstrates the corporatization of SFSU and its administration’s collusion with right-wing and Zionist organizations trying to dismantle and destroy the critical AMED Studies program. Testifying for Dr. Abdulhadi were Dr. Tomomi Kinukawa, Dr. Marc Stein, Dr. Blanca Misse, and AMED/Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Leith Ghuloum. Dean Amy Sueyoshi, Associate Dean Catriona Rueda Esquibel and Dean of Faculty Carleen Mandolfo testified for the Administration. Dr. Abdulhadi was represented by Professor of English and member of the Executive Board of the SFSU Chapter of the California Faculty Association, Dr. Larry Hanley. Professor Hanley was supported by a committed team of scholars, public intellectuals and activists representing AMED communities of justice who worked tirelessly and voluntarily to defend Dr. Abdulhadi and AMED Studies and its students as they have done throughout the last 15 years of Dr. Abdulhadi’s battle to build AMED Studies and refusal to be stymied by the Zionist and corporatized agenda within and outside SFSU. Yesterday’s report by the February 4 Faculty Hearing Committee bodes well for the sustainability of critical challenges to these reactionary efforts and the racism and anti-intellectualism they entail.

For more information, contact The International Campaign to Defend Professor Rabab Abdulhadi or write to Team@professorabdulhadidefense.com.