| |  |  | 💥 Summer 2024 is on fire! Today we launch registrations for SPARK! Organizing for Revolution: Summer School at The People's Forum, a six-week hybrid course for organizers, visionaries, and all who are committed to struggle to build a new world, which will take place from July 9 to August 15. 🇵🇸 An unprecedented mass movement for Palestine has taken the world by storm, igniting a profound shift in the consciousness of millions, while the U.S. ruling class, desperate to maintain its hegemony, is struggling to fulfill its imperialist agenda as it enters a controversial election cycle in the midst of a serious political crisis. The future, uncertain and volatile, holds many dangers but also many opportunities for the working and oppressed class. One thing is certain – the people of the world demand change. But how does historical and societal change actually occur? What does it mean to be a revolutionary in times of intense political crisis? How do we organize for revolution? | | | | |  | Smoke billows from fires started by Israeli shelling on the forested area of southern Lebanon on June 15, 2024 (Photo via Rabih Daher/AFP) | | |
| Israel provokes regional conflict This week, Israeli forces approved plans for a military offensive targeting Hezbollah in preparation for an “all-out war” in Lebanon. This escalation reveals that both Israel and the U.S. have failed to secure their position in the region, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s only path to maintaining power is through permanent war in the region. On Wednesday, June 19, Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced that the resistance group would be ready for war if Israel were to attack Lebanon. Over the past months, Hezbollah has worn down Israeli air defense systems, enabling them to send a drone across the border and capture images of classified sites and ports in Israel. The Iranian mission to the UN remarked in a statement that any further escalation by Israel would come with heavy consequences. | | |  | India, which has faced record-shattering heat this summer, also has one of the highest levels of exposure to air pollution. (Photo via Clean Air Fund) | | |
| Global heat wave reaches new levels, as climate crisis worsens This summer, a global heat wave has seen temperatures reach unprecedented levels. In May, India experienced the longest heat wave in its history, and all over Asia, Europe, the United States—where over 65 million people are under heat alerts—and across the world, temperatures are at record highs. In Gaza, the UN has warned that the scorching heat could exacerbate the health conditions of Palestinians who have been displaced due to bombardment, and are experiencing extreme levels of hunger and thirst. Air pollution, intensified by industrial manufacturing, is the second leading cause of death around the world, and it mostly affects people in the Global South who bear the brunt of the escalating climate crisis. | | |  | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addresses a crowd in Maracaibo, June 20, 2024. (Photo via X/@PresidencialVen) | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This week, we launch the English language version of MUTINY: a docuseries to deepen our understandings of the struggle and political landscape for working people across the globe! Inspired by Peter Merten’s book, "Mutiny: How Our World is Tilting," this 4-part series explores the problems facing and undertaken by working-class people across the world. Watch today! | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | - In New York City, activists dropped a banner over Grand Central Station as part of The Palestinian Youth Movement’s new transnational arms embargo campaign targeting Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, for profiting from the genocide of Palestinians by handling logistics for major weapons manufacturers.
- On Tuesday, June 18, in Nairobi, Kenya, hundreds of protestors were arrested while rejecting the proposed punitive measures of the Finance Bill 2024, an IMF-backed bill that threatens exorbitant taxes for working people on necessities.
- In China, a group of scientists published a report on the use of stem cells to effectively cure Type 2 diabetes, while the US government pushes legislation to restrict collaboration with Chinese pharmaceuticals.
- Despite brutal repression of protest and attempts to silence dissent through fear, organizations in Argentina took to the streets to protest a set of economic and political reforms proposed by President Javier Milei’s far-right government.
- At the Ukraine “peace” conference in Switzerland, many countries of the Global South broke with the West and refused to sign the final joint communique, underlining the need for Russian participation for any initiative to be credible.
- After talks amidst growing tension in the Korean peninsula, Russia and North Korea signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement for mutual military assistance in the case of aggression against either country.
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