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.

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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.

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🟡 BREAKING: Nicolás Maduro has been sworn in as President of Venezuela for the period 2025-2031 following his election victory on June 28, 2024. The US-backed opposition had announced plans for their own proclamation today, but there have been no announcements yet.

The grasping, malicious, frenzied filthy avidity of the money-bags, the cowed servility of their hangers-on is the true social source of the present wail raised by the spineless intellectuals—from those of Rech to those of Novaya Zhizn— against violence on the part of the proletariat and the revolutionary peasants. Such is the objective meaning of their howls, their pathetic speeches, their clownish cries of “freedom” (freedom for the capitalists to oppress the people), etc. They would be “prepared” to recognise socialism, if mankind could Jump straight into it in one spectacular leap, without any of the friction, the struggles, the exploiters’ gnashing of teeth, or their diverse attempts to preserve the old order, or smuggle it back through the window, without the revolutionary proletariat responding to each attempt in a violent manner. These spineless hangers-on of the bourgeoisie with intellectualist pretensions are quite “prepared” to wade into the water provided they do not get their feet wet.

The drooping intellectuals are terrified when the bourgeoisie and the civil servants, employees, doctors, engineers, etc., who have grown accustomed to serving the bourgeoisie, go to extremes in their resistance. They tremble and utter even shriller cries about the need for a return to “conciliation”. Like all true friends of the oppressed class, we can only derive satisfaction from the exploiters’ extreme measures of resistance, because we do not expect the proletariat to mature for power in an atmosphere of cajoling and persuasion, in a school of mealy sermons or didactic declamations, but in the school of life and struggle. To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags.

The strength of the proletariat and the peasantry allied to it grows with the resistance of the bourgeoisie and its retainers. As their enemies, the exploiters, step up their resistance, the exploited mature and gain in strength; they grow and learn and they cast out the “old Adam” of wage-slavery. Victory will be on the side of the exploited, for on their side is life, numerical strength, the strength of the mass, the strength of the inexhaustible sources of all that is selfless, dedicated and honest, all that is surging forward and awakening to the building of the new, all the vast reserves of energy and talent latent in the so-called “common people”, the workers and peasants. Victory will be theirs.

V. I. Lenin
Fear Of The Collapse Of Tile Old And The Fight For Tile New

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Mosaic of Lenin in the abandoned military settlement near the former airport Brand- Germany

The struggle for political rights, for the right to receive doctorates and other academic degrees, and for equal pay for equal work, is not the full sum of the fight for equality. To become really free woman has to throw off the heavy chains of the current forms of the family, which are outmoded and oppressive. For women, the solution of the family question is no less important than the achievement of political equality and economic independence.

In the family of today, the structure of which is confirmed by custom and law, woman is oppressed not only as a person but as a wife and mother, in most of the countries of the civilised world the civil code places women in a greater or lesser dependence on her husband, and awards the husband not, only the right to dispose of her property but also the right of moral and physical dominance over her. ...

Alexandra Kollontai
1909
The Social Basis of the Woman Question

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 This is what Democracy in the West actually looks like.

And remember, they're willing to go till the last Ukrainian!

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❕Venezuela breaks off relations with Paraguay

#Venezuela #Paraguay

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