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100 years ago, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926. Despite Cuba being a small, impoverished island, Fidel became one of the most prominent and influential leaders in world history, as a guerrilla fighter, an internationalist revolutionary, and a head of state. By Calla
VPol55,832 次观看 • 12 天前
On August 21, 1971, revolutionary politicized prisoner George Jackson was assassinated at California’s San Quentin State Prison. The official story from that day still doesn’t add up, and many supporters believe August 21 was a staged breakout attempt used as a pretext to assassinate him before George could execute his real escape. By Calla
VPol16,177 次观看 • 4 天前
“Genocide served as an existential mechanism for capital as it coalesced into Western imperialist capital,” explained freed political prisoner and Lebanese revolutionary Georges Abdallah in an interview with VPol journalist Calla Walsh (Calla) at the Burj Al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in the Palestine International Center. ￭ “Take the United States, for instance: it was built as a nation through a genocide that claimed the lives of 25 to 35 million men and women… The Aboriginal people, the planet's original inhabitants, were wiped out to make way for the emergence of Australia… Israel represents the latest incarnation of these Western capitalist genocidaires.” ￭ “Naturally, to confront this, one must be aware of the dynamics of capital itself, rather than getting sidetracked by other subterfuges… In other words, our own national bourgeoisie, whether Palestinian, Lebanese, or Jordanian, is complicit in this phenomenon. We need the social bloc in our region, specifically in Egypt, home to 120 million people right next to Gaza, to mobilize; as yet, they have not moved.”
VPol39,035 次观看 • 18 天前
![On August 7, 1970, 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson was martyred while attempting a hostage-taking operation in the Marin County Courthouse north of San Francisco, California, to free his older brother George Jackson from Soledad State Prison. ￭ George, who was martyred a year later in an escape attempt, mourned Jonathan, but said, most of all he was proud, that Jonathan’s “death only [sharpened his] fighting spirit,” and that “Escape from the myth, the hoax, by moving people into action against the terror of the state—counter-terrorism—is the real significance of the August 7th affair.” ￭ These events later led to the tradition of observing Black August, an annual, month-long commemoration originating in California's prison system to honor Black political prisoners, freedom fighters, and global resistance against racial and colonial oppression.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2085686784512381428/amplify_video_thumb/2085686409004777472/img/OeY4s9xim3GJtPDs.jpg)
On August 7, 1970, 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson was martyred while attempting a hostage-taking operation in the Marin County Courthouse north of San Francisco, California, to free his older brother George Jackson from Soledad State Prison. ￭ George, who was martyred a year later in an escape attempt, mourned Jonathan, but said, most of all he was proud, that Jonathan’s “death only [sharpened his] fighting spirit,” and that “Escape from the myth, the hoax, by moving people into action against the terror of the state—counter-terrorism—is the real significance of the August 7th affair.” ￭ These events later led to the tradition of observing Black August, an annual, month-long commemoration originating in California's prison system to honor Black political prisoners, freedom fighters, and global resistance against racial and colonial oppression.
VPol39,043 次观看 • 18 天前
Anarchism is “a self-neutralizing, non-ideology in many respects” that fails to “identify the primary contradiction” as imperialism, said Evan Katsounis, a US-Greek anti-imperialist organizer, in an interview with VPol journalist Calla. ￭ “The statephobia that is inherent to anarchism” promotes a “notion of an ethical solidarity of all peoples against all regimes,” erasing the distinction between states that are “imperialist, Jewish supremacist, or white supremacist formations,” and the “anti-imperialist state and national movements within the periphery” struggling for liberation through their state-building projects. ￭ “To be across the board in a dogmatic and uncritical way against all states in all circumstances… is an infantile analysis,” said Katsounis, arguing that organizers within the imperial core should focus on “building a strategy around anti-imperialist international principles in support of national liberation movements.” ￭ Full interview will be published on VPol’s Youtube soon.
VPol246,543 次观看 • 4 个月前
Both the US and Cuba were founded upon settler colonialism, genocide of Indigenous peoples, and chattel slavery of abducted Africans. So why is US nationalism reactionary, while Cuban nationalism is revolutionary? ￭ Nationalism itself isn’t inherently reactionary or revolutionary — it depends on the context, whether it is an oppressor nation or an oppressed nation, whether it is in service of liberation or in service of imperialism and its national comprador class. ￭ Just like Israeli nationalism, US nationalism emerged as a settler identity built upon genocide. ￭ Martyred Palestinian revolutionary Basel Al-Araj argued that the Israeli occupation is “almost a carbon copy of America,” and the best approach to win US people over to the Palestinian cause is “to dismantle the idea of America in their minds… It is impossible to win over an American to our side without them opposing the idea of America.” By Calla
VPol113,285 次观看 • 2 个月前
Israeli occupation forces are smashing surveillance cameras across Tel Aviv and other Israeli-occupied cities as part of a media blackout policy aimed at concealing the extent of damage resulting from Iranian missile strikes. ￭ According to Larry Johnson, a former analyst for a US intelligence agency, the reason Israel is “controlling the information so tightly is that they are taking a severe beating.” ￭ Larry Wilkerson, a retired US Army Colonel, added: “The amount of damage the Iranians are inflicting on Tel Aviv is very bad and these attacks are relentless; this is not a one-off hit. It continues relentlessly.”
VPol185,649 次观看 • 5 个月前
Iranian legal scholar Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi explains how it is materially and analytically incorrect to equate between the police in the imperial core, which acts as a domestic arm for the empire, and police in Global South countries like Iran that are resisting imperialism. In Iran, the police is "not the enemy" of the people, but is defending their national sovereignty from US and Israeli destabilization.
VPol240,715 次观看 • 7 个月前
![“The West completely” misunderstands “the discourse of Islam and Shi'ism” that Iran’s “resistance is rooted in,” said Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi (Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي) in an interview with Prof. Bikrum Gill (Bikrum Gill) on The East is a Podcast (The East is a Podcast). ￭ The martyrdom of Sayyed Khamenei “also reinforced this, at least for Iranians inside, people have been talking about how Imam Hussein, who was killed with his entire family, he also refused to bow, he refused to hide, and [Sayyed Khamenei] was killed also with his wife, with his daughter, with his niece, with several members of his family.” ￭ “This has shifted how propaganda has also shaped some Iranians and how they think about their leadership… they're seeing that it is the leaders and military commanders willing to… die for Iran's protection and for broader liberation of the region, against everything that western propaganda has been trying to make people think or believe.” #VPol](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2033519066552365230/ext_tw_video_thumb/2033518835043598336/pu/img/d4HSNvE2JV06SQ3a.jpg)
“The West completely” misunderstands “the discourse of Islam and Shi'ism” that Iran’s “resistance is rooted in,” said Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi (Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي) in an interview with Prof. Bikrum Gill (Bikrum Gill) on The East is a Podcast (The East is a Podcast). ￭ The martyrdom of Sayyed Khamenei “also reinforced this, at least for Iranians inside, people have been talking about how Imam Hussein, who was killed with his entire family, he also refused to bow, he refused to hide, and [Sayyed Khamenei] was killed also with his wife, with his daughter, with his niece, with several members of his family.” ￭ “This has shifted how propaganda has also shaped some Iranians and how they think about their leadership… they're seeing that it is the leaders and military commanders willing to… die for Iran's protection and for broader liberation of the region, against everything that western propaganda has been trying to make people think or believe.” #VPol
VPol140,668 次观看 • 5 个月前
Israel killed Rahma, a Sri Lankan foreign worker, in an airstrike on Habboush in South Lebanon after she chose to remain behind to care for abandoned animals. In a previous voice message, she explained: "I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid for the animals." ￭ "I hope Israel strikes me and my animals. If we are killed, then let it be together. I'm not afraid of death; I'm afraid for the animals. God created me as He created them, yet out of fear for your own lives, you left them behind,” Rahma said.
VPol67,439 次观看 • 2 个月前
After pro-Palestine philanthropist Fergie Chambers’ arrest, people in Gaza are panicking on how they’ll raise donations for fundraisers, as Chambers has likely been the largest individual donor to Gaza fundraisers, whether to personal GoFundMe’s or grassroots humanitarian aid groups. ￭ This isn’t about one person being a savior. It’s the reality on the ground in Gaza that life depends on donations from outside, as the Israeli siege intensifies, UNRWA is gutted of funding, and a few thousand dollars to a GoFundMe can make the difference of life or death. ￭ The Sameer Project (The Sameer Project) said “Fergie’s donations are the reason we have a bakery that feeds thousands of people per month. His funds also helped provide meals, water and medication for displaced Palestinians. Now he’s being persecuted for this. Advocate for Fergie’s release now!” ￭ A solidarity fundraiser (🇮🇷🔻🇵🇸) posted, “Fergie has been covering the costly medical care for this Gazan evacuee in Egypt who needs $8000 every two months to prevent kidney failure. If Fergie is imprisoned she can die of kidney failure like her little sister did! Her life depends on Fergie’s help.” ￭ Wissam Shabat (Wissam Shabat 𓂆 🇵🇸), the brother of martyred journalist Hossam Shabat, said, “Fergie and Stella (his wife) have been the main reason a lot of families in Gaza can afford the basics everyday. I have seen the help they give. Direct support to starving families and they are persecuting him for it. Full solidarity with Fergie and shame on those who slander him. Will YOU step up and support us now? We have lost a giant but we can get him back. SPEAK UP. We love you Fergie from Gaza.” By Calla
VPol37,683 次观看 • 1 个月前
A new investigation by Venezuelanalysis (Venezuelanalysis) reveals the Israeli occupation mission to Venezuela was packed with officials and NGOs with deep ties to the genocide in Gaza and the atrocity propaganda spread to justify it, as Acting President Delcy Rodríguez opens the door to potential restoration of diplomatic ties with the occupation. By Calla
VPol13,292 次观看 • 14 天前
“We, as journalists in Lebanon, will honor their memory by continuing to work today and tomorrow and every day until the Israeli army is out of South Lebanon,” said Courtney Bonneau courtneybonneauimages, VPol Contributor and photojournalist, after the IOF assassinated Lebanese journalists Ali Choieb and Fatima Ftouni, as well as photojournalist Mohammad Ftouni today. ￭ Ali Choieb, veteran resistance journalist with Al Manar, and Fatima Ftouni, correspondent to southern Lebanon for Al Mayadeen, were assassinated in a deliberately targeted Israeli drone strike on several press vehicles in Jezzine, southern Lebanon while fulfilling their professional duties. ￭ “Today, while documenting these war crimes and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, they became victims of a war crime themselves.” #VPol
VPol93,248 次观看 • 5 个月前
NOW ON YOUTUBE: Dr. Lara Sheehi, clinical psychologist, host of the Psychic Militancy podcast, and author of “From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary” Futures, joined Vocal Politics journalist Calla Walsh (Calla) to unpack "psychic militancy," her framework for understanding the mind as a contested battleground of imperial and colonial power. ￭ From the US to Palestine to Lebanon to the legacy of Fanon and Che Guevara, Sheehi makes the case that inner psychological work isn't a distraction from revolutionary struggle, but a precondition for it. ￭ You can watch the full YouTube video here:
VPol19,751 次观看 • 25 天前
Why did the US and Israel attack Iran’s Sharif University, its most advanced site of technological development? Dr. Farhad Ardalan, a renowned Iranian physicist and professor at Sharif University, explained in an interview with VPol contributor Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi (Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي). ￭ “We have to have an advanced military. We have to have an advanced industry. Israelis know this. They want to prevent it. So, this war was about prevention, destroying the industry in Iran, destroying the state structure, if possible, destroying the state itself to tear apart Iran into various pieces, and especially the modern military. Everybody knows that the future wars will be based on AI,” hence the targeting of the university’s data center/AI hub, and “drones, which we see are very important, already are a significant part of the military.” #VPol
VPol75,755 次观看 • 4 个月前
The Trump admin is launching “an unprecedented global offensive” against what they describe as “the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.” Simultaneously, the State Department announced an exceptionally broad and ambiguous “new visa restriction policy that targets members of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups.” ￭ Building upon NSPM-7 and Trump’s baseless designation of “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist” group, the definitions of “Far Left Terrorism” and support for it are so broad and vague that they could criminalize attending a meeting or sending a Venmo transaction for a political group. ￭ The lack of a definition of “Antifa,” or “Far Left Terrorism” isn’t a flaw, but functionally the whole point: when something has no fixed boundaries, whoever gets to define it also gets to decide, without limit, who falls inside or outside those boundaries, turning the machinery of state power against anyone the government decides is a threat. By Calla
VPol22,398 次观看 • 1 个月前
On the final days of Sayyed Ali Khamenei’s funeral procession, the US has escalated its attacks against Iran, including attacking the railway VPol and other journalists traveled on from Tehran to Mashhad, in an attempt to prevent mourners from attending the burial. VPol journalist Calla Walsh (Calla) reports from Mashhad, as Trump promises more attacks in the coming hours. ￭ At a NATO meeting in Turkey, Trump claimed the MoU is “over” and described the Iranian people as a “cancer” that needs to be cut out early, while Iran has struck US bases across the region, and vowed that any further aggression will result in even more severe and unprecedented retaliatory strikes.
VPol25,637 次观看 • 1 个月前
On the first day of the “ceasefire” in southern Lebanon, the IOF continued artillery shelling in occupied villages, attacked journalist Hadi Hoteit in Kfar Tebnit, and bombed young men returning home to Majdal Zoun. ￭ When the IOF tried to advance in Kfar Tebnit and Majdal Zoun, Hezbollah reportedly responded with two barrages of Kornet missiles. ￭ As the US, Israeli occupation, and the US/Saudi imposed Lebanese authorities continue to try and separate the Lebanese front from the broader Iran-US memorandum of understanding brokered by Pakistan, the resistance has vowed there is no return to pre-March 2, and Israeli violations will be responded to. Hezbollah urged the people of the south to wait to return to their villages, framing the new “Peace Deal” as merely a “prelude” to total liberation of all Lebanese lands, freedom for the abductees in Israeli prisons, and total reconstruction.
VPol35,250 次观看 • 2 个月前
Krystal and Saagar on Breaking Points Commentary (Breaking Points Commentary) hosted Track AIPAC (AIPAC Tracker) founders Cory Archibald (Cory Archibald) and Casey Kennedy, gave their first interview after they were doxxed and harassed by the Zionist lobby for exposing the Israeli lobby’s influence. ￭ In their first interview, they explained that the Israel-Palestine conflict isn’t complicated, US officials support Israel because they’re influenced by foreign interests. ￭ They founded Track AIPAC in April 2024 to make that influence visible and easy to understand, quickly gaining 100K followers. ￭ They revealed they now plan to expand their data project to track hidden donations and expose lobbying networks more deeply.
Vpol110,965 次观看 • 9 个月前
Hezbollah’s fiber-optic FPV drones, which cost under $500, are disabling Israeli Merkava tanks worth $5 to 7 million. The IOF does not have a single weapon in their arsenal that can detect these new drones, which are completely immune to traditional electronic jamming devices. VPol journalist Calla Walsh (Calla) explains. ￭ Rather than a radio link, the fiber-optic drones are physically tethered to their operator by an ultra-thin fiber-optic cable that stretches for up to 60km, transmitting video and data back to the pilot. ￭ The Israeli occupation has been shocked by the introduction of these drones into the battlefield, and there is no indication the IOF had any foresight or intel on Hezbollah’s supply chain. ￭ These drones were first deployed by Russia and Ukraine, but there’s no sign of direct Russian involvement, nor is there any need for it. Rather, Hezbollah is closely studying other warzones to innovate and adapt for their own battle against Israeli occupation, and information on fiber-optic FPVs is open-source. ￭ Israeli media describes it as “a technological arms race, and although Israel is at the forefront of interception technology, there is currently no complete solution to the threat… the battlefield in Lebanon proves that sometimes a single thin thread can threaten even the most heavily armored technological systems… Israel possesses Arrow missiles and F-35 Lightning II aircraft, but it has failed to deal with cheap explosive drones in southern Lebanon.”
VPol53,018 次观看 • 3 个月前