Lizard by the River

On June 10, U.S. strikes destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik, a town in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the reservoirs held 2,500 cubic meters and supplied drinking water to more than 20,000 people in 10 villages. He called the attack a “calculated war crime.”

A New York Times visual analysis published June 11 confirmed the account: precision-guided U.S. munitions struck two drinking-water facilities, and the Times’ analysts noted that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure would constitute a war crime.

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Che Guevara and his comrades, Bolivia.

The Yan’an Research Association can best be understood as a loose association of intellectuals within the Chinese Communist cadre acting as a think tank and military education specialist group. Many of its known members held significant leadership and teaching positions at Kangda (抗日军政大学; ENG: The War of Resistance University for Military and Political Affairs) and its various branch schools. They prolifically wrote materials for political and military education. Mao Zedong and other members of the military leadership had founded the group on the eve of the escalation of Japan’s invasion of China to a full-scale war in 1937. It was part of a greater goal to promote a culture of military intellectualism within the Red Army (later the Eighth Route Army) both to better understand the enterprise of warfighting, especially at the previously little-understood strategic level, and to improve the quality of military education across all ranks, including for guerrillas. The result was a rich collection of military writings, including On Guerrilla Warfare and its sister works.

this stands out not just because it underlines the collective nature of knowledge production within ML parties and movements more broadly, but because it shows the importance of the organized production and dissemination of specialist knowledge when attempting large tasks

December 11, 1964 - “Homeland or Death!” are the famous words communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara said at the UN General Assembly on this day in 1964. In his speech, Che denounced US interventions worldwide and called for resistance against imperialism.

Six decades later, Che’s words remain as relevant as ever, as the Palestinian people continue their unwavering resistance against the Israeli occupation, acting on behalf of US imperialism in the Middle East.

Two members of National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, one wearing a Che Guevara beret, wait in a house, Choco department, Colombia, May 23, 2019.