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“Never Seen Anything Like This in New York City” – Enormous Protests Against the USA’s Far-Right Trump Régime – the World Awakes April 5 2025

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Global Anti-Trump Protests Erupt, April 5 2025, Link :
Global Anti-Trump Protests Erupt – April 5 2025

Ukraine, Palestine : Occupation is a Crime

Some on-the-spot activist commentaries :

I have never seen anything like this in New York City. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Mor Naaman (@informor.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:33:30.536Z

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Mor Naaman (@informor.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:33:30.536Z

I promise you that not all Americans have given up on our Ukrainian brothers and sisters! Or democracy. Slava Ukraini!

American media doesn't seem to be adequately covering what's really happening in the US. Anti Trump/Musk and Pro-Ukraine ProtestsA story in pictures.

Lexxi 🦋 🦋 🇺🇲 / 🇨🇦 💙 (@lexximagic.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T00:43:05.467Z

London Calling :

London, UK#HandsOff anti-Trump/Putin protests.For us it's Hands-off Ukraine.

Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T20:42:33.909Z

Tanya Vyhovsky, A Vermont State Senator reports :

From inside the statehouse in Montpelier (The Capitol of Vermont) – it was good to see people waking up, now this has to be sustained, organized and intentional.

Information, Tanya Vyhovsky :
Tanya Vyhovsky, State Senator, Vermont

Tim White :

The nationwide anti-Trump protests in the USA are well underway.

Here are photos from just a small selection of varying cities. Minnesota, New York, Orlando (love the Ukraine flags) and Montpelier, a town in Vermont with only 7000 inhabitants!

The nationwide anti-Trump protests in the USA are well underway.Here photos from just a small selection of varying cities. Minnesota, New York, Orlando (love the Ukraine flags) and Montpelier, a town in Vermont with only 7000 inhabitants!

Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T19:11:09.968Z

There will be no peace without justice: Statement of Ukrainian civil society organizations on the US-Russia negotiations

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No Peace Without Justice – Statement of ukrainian Civil Society on the US-Russia Negotiations – ESSF


No Peace Without Justice – Statement of Ukrainian Civil Society On the US-Russia Negotiations – Zmina

We, representatives of [Ukrainian] civil society and human rights organizations, decisively condemn the negotiations between the delegations of the Russian Federation and the United States regarding Ukraine, which took place in Saudi Arabia, as well as the plans to create negotiating groups without the participation of Ukraine. Any agreements about Ukraine without its direct participation are not only unacceptable, but also contradict the fundamental principles of international law, the sovereignty of states, and the right of the people of Ukraine to independently determine their future.

Such agreements are fundamentally incapable of accomplishing sustainable peace and international security, creating additional security, economic, and other threats to states that will support them. This path repeats the fatal mistake the international community made during the Munich Agreement of 1938, which, as was discovered later, did not satisfy the encroachment of the aggressor state and led to an even more destructive war.

Ukraine is not an object, but a sovereign state affected by aggression

Russia continues waging a full-scale war against Ukraine in violation of the fundamental principles of international law, including the prohibition to use force against the territorial integrity and political independence of any state enshrined in the UN Charter. This has been recognized not only by numerous decisions of international organizations, but also supported by the majority of countries in the world. The aggression committed by the Russian Federation has already resulted in numerous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the likely genocide of the Ukrainian people.

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Musk vs Maga on Immgration

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A war between vipers in the USA.

During Christmas 2024, writes Simon Hannah, the internet was a blaze with a fierce row on the far right in the USA. 

This useful story comes from the British website, Anti-Capitalist Resistance.

Link :
Musk V Maga on Immigration

Key grassroots leaders of the recently triumphant MAGA movement went to war with Elon Musk on the question of immigration, in a spectacular argument that pointed to political divisions within their movement.

Tensions were already rising as Musk fanboys had started to promote their favourite capitalist as a co-president or ‘the real VP’ which angered the rampant egotism of Donald Trump who does not tolerate any competition. Musk made clear at a recent rally that Musk could never be president. Why? Because “He wasn’t born here”.  Musk, a South African who is now naturalised as a US citizen would always ultimately be an outsider for the MAGA people. 

This was the kindling for the wider explosion. Just before Christmas Day, Trump appointed US-Indian venture capitalist Siram Krishnan to be policy lead on AI. This was met with anger from some of the MAGA faithful – Krishnan had previously been a Democrat supporter so was seen as a suspect, but also crucially – not American. Well not fully ‘American’ in the way that they care about i.e. white. 

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Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, and the Gruesome Twosome of the British Tory Party

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On the western and eastern sides of the Atlantic Ocean a ferocious viper war has erupted.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s favourite attack-dog Elon Musk is trying to remote-control British politics.

Reform leader Nigel Farage’s typically British stiff upper-lip response is described below : it is like the Fawlty Towers episode when Basil Fawlty failed to produce a Waldorf Salad for a tyrannical American diner who had paid the bungling guest-house owner a generous bribe :

Financial Times, January 6 2025

Before long Trump will dispose of Musk, just as Russian strongman Putin bumped off Mr Prigozhin.

Musk might, at some point, jangle some of his loose change in the direction of far-right Irish political operators. The nearest Irish equivalent to Musk’s suggested Nigel Farage – Tommy Robinson marriage is a direct link between the beggar-gombeens of the Dublin Dáil and the convicted kick boxer/rapist Conor McGregor. The Independent Ireland (II) party had to dump a McGregor associate, Phil Sutcliffe, from its candidate list after Nikita Hand won a court victory over the kick-boxing rapist.

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