Philadelphia At least three people protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) occupations were murdered in 2026 —Keith Porter Jr., Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. However, according to The Guardian on Jan. 28, another 38 people have died while in ICE custody since January 2025. Each one had a life, . . .
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Philadelphia Shoppers at the Mifflin Street Target store in South Philadelphia witnessed a surprise protest on Feb. 5 when over 100 activists gathered near the registers and started chanting “ICE out of Target now!” Sit-down inside Target store during anti-ICE protest, Philadelphia, Feb. 5, 2026. WW Photo: Joe Piette After . . .
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The foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Aragchi, gave a speech at the Al Jazeera forum in Doha, Qatar focused on “The Palestinian cause and the Regional Balance of Power in the Context of an Emerging Multipolar World.” (IRNA, Feb. 7) Map of West Asian countries His talk contained several important . . .
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Since its inception, Workers World newspaper has highlighted the Black Liberation struggle and Civil Rights Movement and has celebrated their heroes, from Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner to Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Feb. 21, 2026, will mark the 61st anniversary of the assassination of . . .
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In an interview with NBC, victims of Jeffrey Epstein have accused attorney general Pam Bondi of foul play:
BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence!
“I think we all realize now that [the DOJ] really wanted to silence us, and [they] thought that [they] could… pic.twitter.com/c6zeiFFAvG
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 12, 2026
Ed Krassenstein wrote above:
BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims’ names as a way to threaten them into silence!
“I think we all realize now that [the DOJ] really wanted to silence us, and [they] thought that [they] could scare us by putting our names out there.”
“It had a list of victims, and one was redacted. That makes no sense. This is a list of victims. That is INTENTIONAL!”
This is an impeachable offense. Pam Bondi needs to be impeached immediately!
The women speaking in the video are the same group who stood behind Pam Bondi when she spoke before the Justice Department Oversight committee. The reason the women are raising their hands in the below image is because they were asked to indicate which of them have been ignored by Bondi’s Department of Justice (DoJ):
An image we won't soon forget. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to look at Epstein survivors pictured behind her on the Hill today. pic.twitter.com/KYCBQCXz3Y
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 11, 2026
Regarding coverage of victims, Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the Canary:
According to BBC News, on Friday 30th January two lawyers for Epstein’s victims insisted that a New York federal judge order the DOJ to remove the website holding the files. They stated that the negligent release was:
“the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history”.
At the Canary, we agree wholeheartedly.
This US-led failure to redact identifying images and names of victims has made the complete removal of such content the only viable response. Once again, women around the world are left feeling exposed and vulnerable, while so-called efforts to ‘protect women’ operate instead to shied powerful perpetrators of abuse. Yet again, a manipulative and abusive system has retraumatised the very women it was ostensibly meant to serve.
For more on the Epstein Files, please read:
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The Hamas Movement posted the following statement on its website on Feb. 7, 2026: We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), commend the decision by dockworkers’ unions in more than 20 ports across the Mediterranean Sea, particularly in Greece, Italy, Türkiye, Spain and Morocco, to suspend work for an entire . . .
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The BBC is looking for a new head of its Arabic-language service to please Israel lobbyists. Mouthpieces for the occupation had complained it was too quick to blame Israel for its actions. The move is intended to force BBC Arabic to use the same dishonest framing as its English-language services.
The manufactured furore began in November 2025. Pro-Israel pressure groups complained that the BBC Arabic coverage of its ‘war’ in Gaza was “critically different” from English coverage. This meant that it was – this is not satire — “painting Israel as the aggressor” in Gaza.
Yes, genocidal Israel has murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza along with hundreds of journalists and their families. It uses weapons that are illegal under humanitarian law on families in tents. But saying Israel is the aggressor is beyond the pale to the BBC. There was also criticism of BBC Arabic’s guests, because two of them had supported violence against Israelis.
Commenting on the BBC Arabic reshuffle, the Arabic-speaking Israeli ‘journalist’ Edy Cohen, welcomed the move:
https://x.com/EdyCohen/status/2019788772385177737
“Impartiality and editorial accuracy”? Right. But, as if this wasn’t hypocritical enough, Edy Cohen is no stranger to racist, inflammatory posts himself. In September 2024, in the midst of Israel’s genocide and talking to Israeli Channel 14 — the “pet channel of Likud and its far-right governing coalition partners” — he lumped the whole “Arab world” together into a mass that only responds to force and will attack Israel if it is “perceived as weak”:
In this world, the equation is simple: When Israel uses force and employs force – the Arab world and terrorist groups are afraid. When Israel hesitates and takes policy actions like containment or non-escalation, it’s perceived as weak, and invites further blows from terror organizations.
This was not an aberration for Cohen. He is so notorious for smears and ‘hasbara’ on behalf of Israel that he was the subject of an report titled:
Hashtags and hoaxes: How Edy Cohen engineers the Israeli disinformation machine on Twitter.
The report was published in August 2023, before Israel’s Gaza genocide began, so he didn’t just start after 7 October. It notes that:
Cohen deliberately – and strategically – tarnishes the reputation of Palestinians, Palestinian political factions, and the Palestinian resistance, specifically targeting them to discredit their stance.
It also points out that among Cohen’s most prominent hashtags are “#GloryToIsrael” and “#PalestineIsNotMyCause”.
According to the report, Cohen is helped in the circulation of his fake videos and inflammatory comment by a network of:
accounts bearing Arabic names that exclusively champion Israel and tout the “benefits” of normalization. He shares the posts from these accounts that, in turn, retweet his own posts.
Even though some of these tweets are attributed to real Arab figures who openly endorse normalization, many of them appear to be fake accounts, seemingly created with the specific intent to persuade Arab followers to embrace the concept of normalization.
It appears that Cohen is either formally a part of Israel’s ‘hasbara’ propaganda network, or functionally indistinguishable from those who are. The Misbar report concludes it’s the former:
In sum, Misbar’s comprehensive analysis concludes the Edy Cohen account is one of the many Israeli accounts present in the Arabic online sphere that systematically target Arab audiences, skillfully glossing over and whitewashing Israel’s image for them while concurrently distorting and casting a shadow over Palestinians. This calculated effort also appears designed to sow division within Arab nations and communities whenever the opportunity arises.
Cohen and others like him continue to lecture on ‘impartiality and editorial accuracy’ in BBC Arabic coverage — accusing them of ‘wrongly painting Israel as the aggressor’ in Gaza. Meanwhile, no mainstream UK media outlets will dare challenge this — amplifying the Israel lobby’s narrative instead.
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Green MP Ellie Chowns challenged the thrust of Reform’s entire game on BBC Question Time.
Chowns took apart the notion that immigration is to blame for the UK’s woes:
Reform UK, before it was the Brexit Party, before when it was UKIP, has been busy for many years fermenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country. It’s completely untrue. Inequality is the problem in this country. The housing problems are… because we have had 40 years of governments not investing in housing. The health problems… are because we’ve had governments… failing to invest in our public services, presiding over decline. It’s inequality.
Ellie Chowns, "Reform UK, before it was the Brexit Party, before when it was UKIP, has been busy for many years fermenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country"
"It's completely untrue"
"Inequality is the problem in this country"
"The housing problems is… pic.twitter.com/XYVFIyibVJ
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) February 12, 2026
Indeed, Oxfam found in 2023 that 1% of Britons have more wealth than 70% of the country.
It’s not foreign born people who are the issue — it’s the super rich migrating their finances to avoid tax and Labour — doing nothing to fix the issue. Tax doesn’t fund public spending but it can help control inflation through reducing the amount of pounds available.
Meanwhile, net zero immigration would actually contract the UK economy by 3.6%. Chowns’ is not wrong to diagnose inequality as the core issue — one compounded by the economic disparity such a contraction would cause. People cannot afford to have children, driving dependence on imported workers.
Another reason inequality is the core issue is that it literally caused the 2008 financial crash. That’s because people didn’t have enough money to keep up with inflated house prices. So banks gave them excessive credit — known as sub-prime mortgages — and house prices relative to income have worsened since. No wonder Chowns received such applause on BBC Question Time.
We must also remember that inequality depresses demand for products and services. People currently living in poverty would spend more if they had the security of home ownership, while excess wealth at the top stagnates or inflates the value of assets.
£1 million sitting in a bank account would be spent by hundreds of less well off people, but if just one person has it no economic growth happens. It doesn’t necessarily mean everything should be entirely economically equal, but the level of disparity today is simply ridiculous. On top of that, immigration adds further demand for products and services, expanding the economy.
Reform’s whole mantra is completely wrong — economically and morally. Chowns got right to the heart of it on BBC Question Time and the audience thanked her for it.
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On Thursday, February 12, an estimated 300 million workers, peasants, students, and professionals from diverse sectors mobilized across India, staging one of the largest coordinated actions in recent years. The nationwide upsurge was organized to defend labor and social rights and to protest the policies of the country’s far-right government.
The strike call was issued by the Central Trade Unions (CTUs), a joint platform bringing together India’s major labor federations, including the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), and the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), among others.
Responding to the call, workers halted production and services in thousands of coal mines, refineries, industrial plants, banks, and transport networks, with disruptions extending even to remote regions of the country.
The mobilization was not confined to industrial labor. Millions of farmers and agricultural laborers also joined the action under the banner of organizations such as the Samyukta Kisan Sabha (SKM) and the All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWA). Demonstrations were organized at district headquarters and village centers nationwide, highlighting the breadth of rural participation. In several states — including Kerala, Odisha, and Tripura — commercial activity came largely to a standstill, as businesses closed in solidarity with the strike.
Mass rallies were also held outside government offices, where thousands marched with banners, placards, and red flags, chanting slogans against government policies. Among the central demands was the revocation of recent trade agreements concluded by India with the United States and the European Union. The CTUs, SKM, and left-wing parties argue that these agreements compromise national sovereignty and undermine the livelihoods of millions of farmers by granting foreign agricultural products unrestricted access to Indian markets.
In addition, farmers and workers reiterated their demand for the withdrawal of a series of laws introduced by the Modi administration — including legislation concerning electricity and seed regulation — which they characterize as pro-corporate and detrimental to the broader population.
The strike received the backing of the country’s principal left parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (CPI), and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, among others, reinforcing the broad political support behind the nationwide action.
CPIM: Congratulations to Working Class on Successful General Strike
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) congratulates the working class of our country on the successful general strike today. Peasants and agricultural workers joined the working class in protesting against the notification of the four labour codes, the virtual repeal of the rights based Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, along with other anti-worker, anti-farmer, and anti-people policies of the BJP-led Union government.
The working class made its voice heard loud and clear. The CPI(M) reiterates its solidarity with the workers, farmers, and agricultural workers who are protesting the various anti-people policies of the BJP government.
The government should immediately rescind the notification of the four labour codes and ensure that the hard-won rights of workers are protected. It should rescind the VB-GRAMG legislation, call back the proposal for privatisation of electricity distribution and withdraw the seed bill as well. It should also withdraw from the various Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and trade deals it has signed, particularly with the US and Europe, as they are detrimental to the interests of Indian workers, farmers and people in general.
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Mexico confirms the arrival of its first humanitarian aid shipment to Cuba, as 1,650 more tons of supplies await transport amid U.S. sanctions.
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Data published by the Israeli army shows that 50,632 servicemen fighting in the ranks of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) hold two or more nationalities (listed below).The data does not indicate how many were reservists versus active-duty soldiers — fighting for Israel.
As reported by the Canary’s Joe Glenton, the data was obtained by Declassified UK obtained through a Freedom of Information request.
Americans rank first (12,135), French second (6,100), and Russians third (5,000). Nationals from Germany, Ukraine, Britain, Romania, Poland, Canada, and Latin America also feature on the list. Of these, 4,440 soldiers hold two foreign nationalities, while 162 hold three or more — serving in military operations in Gaza, waged by Israel.
Less expected are Arab nationals from Yemen, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, and Algeria, who appear in the data — albeit in noticeably smaller numbers.
The presence of dual-national IDF servicemen has raised questions about their legal obligations — in other words, when serving in Israel, whose laws are they answerable to.
These concerns have also culminated in criminal investigations into the conduct of soldiers deployed in Gaza since 2023.
In the UK, human rights groups collaborating with the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights submitted a report to the Metropolitan Police war crimes unit. Their findings highlight the participation of British nationals in Gaza and their possible involvement in suspected war crimes.
In June 2025, Canadian authorities, responding to complaints, launched preliminary investigations into Canadian nationals serving in the IDF suspected of war crimes.
Meanwhile, Belgium is investigating a Belgian soldier fighting for an elite IDF unit deployed in Gaza. That said, Belgium imposes no restrictions on dual nationals serving in foreign militaries.
International organisations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have long called for independent investigations to ensure that dual citizens are acting in compliance with international humanitarian law. A recent investigation by Al Jazeera Arabic found that six Israeli snipers hold dual nationalities and were implicated in attacks targeting civilians in Gaza.
According to local estimates, the war in Gaza, now in its third year, has resulted in more than 72,000 deaths and approximately 171,000 injuries. In addition, there has been widespread destruction of infrastructure, with humanitarian and legal repercussions extending far beyond the battlefield.
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This is the second entry in our series exploring Marx in an approachable manner. Our first piece explored Alienation; now, we move on to the Social Character of Labour.
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On 13 February, the High Court ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group was “disproportionate”. Since then, various politicians including Zarah Sultana have come forwards to voice their support for the ruling. The problem is that many of them didn’t speak up when it counted:
On the vote to proscribe Palestine Action, Liberal Democrat MPs abstained.
Stop gaslighting people.
When it mattered, you didn’t show up. https://t.co/nSd2SHcCWf
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) February 13, 2026
Reporting on the ruling, Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the Canary:
The government’s choice to proscribe Palestine Action has been met by widespread public condemnation both at home and abroad. It has been viewed as an attempt to shut down solidarity that British people have shown with Palestinians through their legal right to protest.
Israel’s ongoing, horrific genocide against Palestine has been met with absolute impunity by Western leaders, resulting in mass protest and civil disobedience across the UK since October 2023. This proscription of direct-action group Palestine Action in the UK has widely been declared as an authoritarian and draconian overreach into the hard-fought civil liberties of British citizens.
Today’s ruling marks a positive step in the right direction.
In the video above, Davey says:
This High Court judgment shows prescribing Palestine action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws. Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers’ money and suppressing civil liberties. Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.
Davey isn’t wrong in what he’s saying. The problem is he’s showing he isn’t a leader — he’s a follower. And others have noticed too:
Ed Davey says banning Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws.
Every single LibDem MP, including Ed Davey, abstained in the vote to ban them (66 had no vote recorded and 6 abstained by voting both for and against) pic.twitter.com/Y8qmDxO1pg
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) February 13, 2026
As Richard Burgon noted, only 22 MPs voted against the government:
I welcome the High Court ruling that the ban on Palestine Action is unlawful.
I was one of just 22 MPs who voted against proscribing Palestine Action and in my speech in Parliament I warned the Government of the consequences of its ban.
The Government must not seek an Appeal.
— Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) February 13, 2026
Only 22 MPs voted against proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. They should be proud of themselves; the other 628 should be ashamed. pic.twitter.com/Z2507SzhI9
— Karl Hansen (@karl_fh) February 13, 2026
Labour MP Karl Turner at least had the decency to admit that he “bottled it”. Just like with Davey, though, this will come across to many as a face saving exercise:
This is true. I bottled it and voted with the government. But should have stood firm. I told them though. PM and Home Sec. https://t.co/b9rfxasDAN
— Karl Turner MP (@KarlTurnerMP) February 13, 2026
Turner also said that Starmer’s government pushed the ban on the basis that they ‘knew more’ than they could let on (something the court case has ultimately disproven):
Just because it’s this MP or that MP on the left of the party warning the powers that be shouldn’t mean the helpful advice is discounted. @johnmcdonnellMP and many others warned the government at the time and we were just pushed aside as not knowing what they knew.
https://t.co/KopDPl7g1d
— Karl Turner MP (@KarlTurnerMP) February 13, 2026
As we’ve reported, Starmer’s government have been a nightmare when it comes to civil liberties. At this point, it’s clear that Labour will kick the PM out before too long. Let’s hope Starmer’s successor learns from his constant failures.
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