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Cement Production Goes up in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- The Sangwon Cement Complex in the DPRK has produced much more cement than planned from the outset of the new year.

The complex has directed efforts to ensuring the normal operation of production systems at all units in order to carry out the plan set higher than last year.

Workers and technicians of the central control room and the first calcinating workshop have made successes from the outset of the new year by operating and managing the furnaces in a responsible manner and taking necessary measures.

The cement workshop made a contribution to carrying out the plan by applying the efficient working method and closely coordinating between shifts.

Workers of the combined raw material workshop and the coal-grinding workshop improved the rate of equipment by ensuring the granulation of raw materials.

In Defense of Communism: The forgotten holocaust: The 1965-66 massacre against Indonesia's communists
http://www.idcommunism.com/2017/09/the-forgotten-holocaust-1965-66.html

Update on Recent Developments in Tishreen Dam

Turkish warplanes have conducted multiple airstrikes on the Tishreen Dam and its surrounding areas. These attacks coincide with ground attack by Turkish-backed mercenary factions on villages located north of the Tishreen Dam and southeast of Manbij. Intense clashes are ongoing between the Manbij Military Council forces and the mercenary groups.
The mercenary attacks are supported by Turkish aerial bombardments using warplanes and UCAVs, as well as heavy artillery shelling. The clashes are continuing across multiple axes.
In Kobani, Turkish UCAVs targeted a civilian car in the village of Girik, as well as the village of Aslanki, located south of Kobani, subjected to artillery shelling.
The risk of a catastrophic collapse of the Tishreen Dam is increasing. The Turkish state will bear full responsibility for any disaster that may occur at the Dam or other areas in Syria due to the ongoing Turkish air and artillery strikes. These attacks reached a peak intensity earlier this morning and are continuing at this time.

SDF Media Center
January 8, 2025

🇺🇸🇯🇵 US airman jailed for kidnapping, sexually assaulting teen girl in Japan

A US air force member stationed in Okinawa prefecture was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16 in December last year.

The Naha District Court handed down the ruling on Brennon Washington, 25, who had pleaded not guilty. The case not only triggered fresh anti-base sentiment in the prefecture, but also drew attention as local police and the central government did not disclose the incident to the prefectural government.

It was only in June this year, three months after his indictment, that the case came to light through a local media report, sparking protests from the prefectural government.

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🇺🇸🇯🇵 US starts relocating Marines from Japan’s Okinawa over base grievances

The United States has begun relocating thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa, Tokyo and Washington said, after decades of mounting grievances among locals over America’s military presence.

In 2012, the United States said it would redeploy 9,000 Marines from the island where communities complain bases are an unfair burden – with objections ranging from pollution to noise and helicopter crashes.

The relocation began with “a small detachment of approximately 100 logistics support Marines” transferred to the US island territory of Guam, Japan’s defense ministry and the US Marine Corps said.

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On this day, 3 January 1925 anti-Nazi resistance martyr Ulyana Matveevna Gromova was born in the village of Pervomais'kyi in Ukraine.
Aged just 17 when the Nazis occupied her home province, Gromova organised a local underground resistance group of young people in her village. She was arrested the following year during a mass roundup of suspected partisans.
Attempting to learn the names of her comrades the Nazis brutally tortured Gromova: she was whipped with metal, burned with hot irons, had skin and body parts cut off with salt rubbed in the wounds, her arm and ribs were broken and her hair was torn out but she refused to disclose a single name. All the while, she continued to give cheer to her fellow prisoners by reciting poetry.
Gromova was executed in 1943 and thrown down a mine. After the war her body was recovered, buried with other partisans and she was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Working Class History

A lovely article about a small stretch of road in Liverpool town centre which still has proper pubs with actual local regulars, not just the chain pubs that plague the pub trade.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sevenstreets/p/inside-liverpools-most-intriguing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=hv410

The class which took political power into its hands did so knowing that it took power alone.** That is a part of the concept dictatorship of the proletariat. This concept has meaning only when this one class knows that it alone is taking political power in its hands, and does not deceive itself or others with talk about ‘popular’ government, ‘elected by all, sanctified by the whole people

- Lenin

Israeli tanks continue their advance further into Syrian territory, as the HTS-led government allows their land to be occupied

An Israeli mechanized force is spearheading an advance into the villages of al-Asha, Abu Ghara, and Mazraat al-Hiran, located in the the Quneitra countryside of southern Syria. The HTS-government in Damascus has completely abandoned the entire south of Syria, allowing villages to be ethnically cleansed, occupied and civilians to be shot. Israel has occupied the 6 primary sources of water in the nations South, their forces are located only 15-20KM away from Damascus and commit continuous airstrikes throughout the country, even using special forces units to raid areas surrounding Hama and Homs. Instead of challenging Israel, the new Syrian government has made excuses for them and hint at normalisation.