Redlines: May 24, 2025

Daily revolutionary dispatches from the frontlines of global class war, settler empire, and technofascist recalibration.

Africa

Libya: Migrants Left to Die in NATO’s Desert Graveyard

Seven Sudanese migrants were found dead in the sands of southeastern Libya—abandoned by a broken-down smuggler’s vehicle, left to die slowly under the sun. Twenty-two more, including children, were rescued after surviving 11 days without food or water. Five are still missing. This isn’t a tragedy—it’s policy. Libya was shattered by NATO’s “humanitarian” bombs and turned into a holding cell for human beings fleeing wars created by empire. Now, its deserts function as Europe’s racialized moat. The bodies pile up while Brussels debates quotas, and the border regime remains fully intact. What we’re witnessing is necropolitics—a calculated tolerance for Black death to protect the illusion of Western civilization. Fortress Europe is not failing. It’s functioning exactly as designed.

Guinea-Bissau: ECOWAS Flees as Embalo Consolidates Power

The ECOWAS delegation packed its bags and left Guinea-Bissau after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo threatened to expel them. Their crime? Trying to broker an electoral timeline. Embalo’s term, according to the opposition, expired in February. But like any good client of empire, he’s bought himself time with a court ruling and repression. Two coup attempts, a dissolved parliament, postponed elections, and now—tea with Putin. The West fears Embalo’s flirtation with Moscow, but the real story is this: dual crises of legitimacy—both of the colonial state and of the West’s fading grip over its outposts. Guinea-Bissau is a live wire in the circuitry of a dying unipolar order, and every new round of repression reveals how thin the veil of “democracy” really is.

Tanzania: Reawakening the Spirit of Nyerere in a Multipolar World

Tanzania has unveiled a foreign policy doctrine rooted in Pan-Africanism and strategic non-alignment—reviving the radical legacy of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in a world gasping for new alternatives. From regional integration and economic diplomacy to climate leadership and diaspora empowerment, President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s launch of this policy marks a sovereign pivot against the tides of neocolonial extraction and Western dependency. It’s a roadmap for anti-imperialist relevance in the 21st century—where Kiswahili becomes a weapon of cultural unity, and Tanzania’s diplomatic footprint stretches from Dar to BRICS+. This isn’t nostalgia—it’s insurgent memory made actionable. When the West offers debt, Tanzania is offering a vision. And visions—when rooted in the people—are more powerful than sanctions.

Asia

China and Indonesia Call Bluff on ‘Rules-Based Order’

China and Indonesia just reminded the world that “multilateralism” doesn’t have to mean bending the knee to Washington’s WTO thuggery. Premier Li Qiang and President Prabowo Subianto are building bridges—not just trade ones, but political ones—against the current of hyper-imperialist fragmentation. Their declaration of “true multilateralism” is a direct shot at the West’s counterfeit version, where only the strong write the rules and everyone else is told to follow or be sanctioned. This alliance, forged on the edges of empire, isn’t utopian—it’s practical, strategic, and quietly revolutionary. Because real multilateralism doesn’t emerge from think tank panels in Brussels—it’s born in the Global South’s refusal to die quietly.

India Sends a Billion-Dollar Message—But to Whom?

India just dropped a billion-dollar “aid” package to Bangladesh—but don’t let the price tag fool you. This isn’t generosity. It’s leverage. After a top Bangladeshi official made belligerent remarks about India’s northeast, New Delhi responded with what it knows best: soft-power muscle wrapped in rupee diplomacy. The move reeks of imperialist recalibration: economic largesse deployed not to uplift the region, but to discipline it. While Delhi postures as regional hegemon, Bangladesh is reminded who underwrites the border and who calls the bluff. This isn’t South-South solidarity—it’s the Subcontinental version of dollar diplomacy, and the working classes on both sides of the border will be the ones paying the bill.

ASEAN Summit 2025: Can Vision 2045 See Through the Smoke?

ASEAN leaders are gathering in Malaysia to chart a course toward “Vision 2045”—a future of regional unity, economic development, and peace. But the contradictions are hard to ignore. Myanmar remains in flames under a genocidal junta, U.S. warships crowd the South China Sea, and tariff warfare is throttling regional economies. The summit’s lofty goals read like a consultant’s brochure, but the real work—solidarity with the people of Myanmar, resistance to military encirclement, and economic integration free from IMF chokeholds—has yet to begin. What ASEAN needs is not another strategic blueprint. It needs a political awakening. Vision without struggle is just paperwork.

Middle East

Gaza: Starvation Is the Strategy

The Zionist siege of Gaza has reached a new depth of cruelty: starvation as a counterinsurgency tactic. Israel’s blockade has throttled aid deliveries, with the World Food Program reporting that 15 aid trucks were violently looted—by the starving, not the greedy. One in five Gazans now faces famine. Israel blames “lawlessness,” but this is what happens when you block food, destroy bakeries, and then frame hunger as a security threat. The Western press calls it “chaos.” We call it settler-colonial genocide by famine.

Reoccupation and Repression: Empire on Its Own Terms

A recent column in The European Conservative cheered the permanent Israeli reoccupation of Gaza as the death knell of the “neoliberal-globalist order” in the Middle East. But what it really celebrates is the normalization of apartheid under a new name. This isn’t sovereignty—it’s settler revanchism wrapped in religious myth and military doctrine. The article glorifies 60 years of colonization, military operations, and the orchestration of civil war between Hamas and Fatah. What’s being cast as “security” is actually permanent war economy, enforced displacement, and mass incarceration. Gaza is not being liberated. It’s being digested—turned into a testing ground for algorithmic occupation and techno-militarized pacification. This isn’t the end of globalism. It’s its digitized afterlife.

Iran: Enrichment Is Sovereignty, Not a Bargaining Chip

Iran’s right to enrich uranium—guaranteed under international law—is once again being framed as a threat, not a sovereign entitlement. With nuclear talks looming, Tehran has made it plain: enrichment is non-negotiable. The U.S. demands submission, but Iran demands dignity. As Supreme Leader Khamenei put it: “We don’t need anyone’s permission.” The Western narrative treats enrichment like provocation, but it’s empire that broke the 2015 deal, not Iran. This isn’t about centrifuges. It’s about sovereignty under siege.

Central/South America & the Caribbean

Argentina: The Ghost of El Eternauta Haunts the Junta’s Children

Nearly half a century after the military dictatorship waged war against its own people, the ghost of Héctor Germán Oesterheld—creator of the revolutionary sci-fi classic El Eternauta—has returned. A symbol of art as resistance, Oesterheld was “disappeared” for daring to imagine a world free from imperial rule. His granddaughters, likely born in captivity, were stolen and given new names by those who wore uniforms and tortured in the name of ‘order.’ Now, as Argentina confronts its past once again, this is more than a historical reckoning—it’s a reminder that fascism never disappears. It mutates. And memory, when weaponized, becomes a battleground.

Guyana: The Border Crisis Beneath Parliamentary Theater

Guyana’s opposition walked out of Parliament this week, protesting their exclusion from a motion rebuking Venezuela’s renewed claims to the oil-rich Essequibo region. But this isn’t just a border dispute. It’s an imperial wound reopened. Behind the scenes, ExxonMobil lurks, profiting off the same lands once carved up by British colonialists. Guyana’s ruling class invokes nationalism to rally the masses, while hiding its entanglement with foreign capital. Venezuela, sanctioned and isolated, is also navigating contradictions. This isn’t about lines on a map—it’s about sovereignty being auctioned to the highest bidder. The people of Guyana deserve peace—but not at the price of recolonization by multinationals waving flags of “development.”

Ethiopia-Brazil: South-South Solidarity Beyond Lip Service

While Washington stages coups and Brussels imposes sanctions, Ethiopia and Brazil are building something else: cooperation rooted in technology transfer, not extraction. In Addis Ababa, Deputy Prime Minister Temesgen Tiruneh met with Brazilian aerospace and development firms to forge new partnerships in aviation, education, and industrial capacity. This is not the hollow “globalization” of yesteryear—it’s multipolar alignment in motion. What’s being built here is modest, but it matters. Because every satellite launched without a Western stamp, every engineer trained without IMF debt strings, is one step closer to anti-imperialist sovereignty in the 21st century.

Europe

Trump’s Tariff Blitz Exposes Europe’s Dependency Crisis

Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tariff on EU imports, reigniting a transatlantic trade war long in the making. But this isn’t just about aluminum or car parts—it’s about empire recalibrating its economic weapons. Europe, the junior partner in the imperialist order, is learning that loyalty doesn’t guarantee protection. While Brussels whines about “mutual respect,” Wall Street sharpens the knives. Europe outsourced its industry, bowed to U.S. sanctions regimes, and now finds itself staring down the barrel of American economic nationalism. This is what imperialist decay looks like: allies turned targets, free trade turned hostage-taking, and the illusion of unity turned to dust.

The EU-Israel Romance Begins to Sour—Too Little, Too Late

The European Union says it’s “re-evaluating” its ties with Israel amid the genocidal siege on Gaza. But let’s be honest: this re-evaluation comes after decades of complicity. The EU sold arms, signed trade deals, and preached “shared democratic values” while Gaza starved under blockade. Now, under pressure from millions in the streets and mounting international outrage, Brussels may finally suspend its association agreement. But the people of Palestine know the score: you can’t sanitize colonialism with conditional clauses. This is not a moral awakening—it’s damage control. The only principled position is full anti-imperialist solidarity, not bureaucratic hedging from colonial administrators in suits.

Britain’s Economic Implosion: Made in Westminster, Paid for by the Working Class

The UK press is finally admitting what working-class communities have known for years: the economy is in free fall, and none of the political parties have a clue—or a plan. The Guardian reports tepid GDP growth. The Telegraph declares no party can stop the spiral. Populists like Nigel Farage peddle nationalist fantasies while Labour mumbles technocratic nonsense. Meanwhile, inflation eats wages, public services collapse, and the wealthy buy second homes in Dubai. This isn’t a “cost of living crisis”—it’s capitalist decomposition in real time. Britain’s working class is being told to tighten belts while the ruling class builds lifeboats. The empire that once looted the world now loots its own people.

North America

Border Theater: The Pentagon’s Domestic Deployment

The U.S. just sent another 1,100 troops to the southern border—bringing the total close to 10,000 uniformed personnel now playing immigration police. But let’s be clear: this isn’t about “border security.” It’s about staging a spectacle. It’s technofascist pacification, where military force, surveillance towers, and biometric checkpoints mask a broken empire’s fear of the future. Migration is not a threat—it’s the consequence of neoliberal war, climate collapse, and economic ruin. And instead of addressing those roots, Washington opts for razor wire and riot gear. This is not national defense. It’s counterinsurgency against the poor.

Canada’s Colonial Complicity: Smiling in the Face of Genocide

Canada continues to wrap itself in the flag of human rights while writing blank checks for apartheid. Even as Gaza chokes under Israeli bombardment and children starve in plain view, Ottawa maintains its “unbreakable friendship” with Tel Aviv. What kind of friend greenlights mass murder and calls it self-defense? What kind of democracy censors journalists for naming the crimes? The settler regime’s silence is not neutrality—it’s partnership. Canada’s posture on Palestine isn’t a bug in its foreign policy. It’s the colonial core of it. And the world sees it for what it is: settler solidarity across oceans, drenched in hypocrisy.

Mexico’s Judicial Shakeup: Reform or Realignment?

Mexico is on the verge of electing judges for the first time in its history—a move hailed by some as democratic progress, but derided by others as a power grab. The truth lies in the contradiction. Yes, the judiciary has long been a cartel playground and elite stronghold. But turning judges into campaigners opens new doors for oligarchic state capture dressed in populist clothing. Sheinbaum’s ruling coalition claims it’s decentralizing power. Critics argue it’s just shifting the corruption to a different pocket. Either way, the people’s demand remains the same: a justice system not owned by cartels, oligarchs, or Washington. One built from the ground up—not the ballot box down.

United States

Wall Street Feasts While the Nation Sinks

In just three months, America’s four largest banks raked in a staggering $681.7 billion in asset growth—more than the GDP of Argentina. JPMorgan alone grabbed over half that. And while these financial predators grow fat on interest, bailouts, and algorithmic arbitrage, the U.S. credit rating continues to spiral. This is the essence of financial piracy: the richer the banks get, the poorer the public becomes. They’re not stabilizing the economy—they’re draining it, bleeding it dry through speculation and debt traps. This isn’t a recovery. It’s a hostile takeover.

Trump at West Point: Campaigning with Camouflage

Trump took the stage at West Point wearing a MAGA hat and weaponizing military tradition to drum up electoral fervor. He told cadets their job wasn’t to build nations but to “crush enemies”—which is rich, coming from the man who’s already declared war on migrants, teachers, and dissent itself. His speech wasn’t just a commencement—it was a sermon in service of technofascist militarism, cloaked in patriotic kitsch. He peddled law and order, trashed diversity, and praised war readiness. But what he’s really preparing isn’t just soldiers. He’s prepping an army to defend capital against the people.

Wall Street 2.0: Empire’s New Priesthood

Wall Street isn’t just back—it’s evolved. A new class of financial overlords—hedge funds, private equity sharks, fintech oligarchs—is replacing the old guard. The Economist calls it “transformation.” We call it technofascist consolidation. These are the data-wielding, AI-toting descendants of the robber barons, building empires off gig workers, student loans, and rent hikes. They don’t wear suits anymore. They wear hoodies and speak in code. But make no mistake: they serve the same masters—capital, surveillance, and war. And unless stopped, they will code inequality into the operating system of our lives.