please help if you can

the oldest squat of Winterthur/CH in Switzerland is imminently threatened to be evicted in August. Gisi, at General-Gusian-Street 31, was squatted in January 1997 & is until now used as home for a lot of people without much money as a social meeting point & non-profit culturals space.

https://en.squat.net/2026/08/04/winterthur-defend-all-squats-defend-decent-housing-for-all-gisi-bleibt/

“It’s an awful situation, made worse by this heatwave,..

There are lots of children, newborns, elderly and disabled people, and those with complicated illnesses who are struggling in this heat…But we are very united community, of all nationalities and backgrounds. What this government doesn’t seem to understand is that if we had a decent job and could earn money, then we wouldn’t be in this situation.” ~ Petronela Podaro, a domestic worker from Romania camp

#heatwave #italy #squat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/05/hundreds-camp-in-rome-heatwave-as-meloni-government-cracks-down-on-squats

a new book looks at the roots of transnational far-right’s obsessions with South Africa — and how they might be countered: Augusta Dell’Omo’s Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War was published by Columbia University Press in March 2026.

“Amid these ongoing attacks, Saving Apartheid serves as a reminder that global anti-democratic networks transcend executive branch coordination to include collaboration among legislators, civil society, and the technology sector. Dell’Omo demonstrates, though, that the fate of anti-egalitarian social movements are not predetermined. In the United States and beyond, a range of far-right actors seek to stoke violence, chill dissent, and undermine equal protection – but their long-term success is far from guaranteed. To confront the threat of the far right, pro-democracy movements will require similarly diverse coalitions to contest authoritarianism wherever it exists, from political and economic structures to social and cultural arenas.”

#apartheid #global #books #rightwing
https://inkstickmedia.com/trumps-south-africa-obsession-stems-from-far-right-fantasies/

LATEST for PWS

As Abelardo takes office, his US-backed security policy is raising questions.

De la Espriella plans to relaunch 'Plan Patriota,' but critics point to human rights violations the first time it was tried.

“De la Espriella wants to disband the Truth Commission as well as the Colombian Peace Court, which prosecutes the worst offenders of the civil war.”

does not bode well for the people of Colombia

https://www.piratewireservices.com/p/as-abelardo-takes-office-his-us-backed

Fortress Europe’s deadly borders

Ceuta mass crossing exposes Europe’s deadly border regime
Comment, Aug 4th
Morocco has become one of Spain and the EU’s main ‘offshore subcontractors’ for migration control
~ Blade Runner ~

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/08/04/ceutas-mass-crossing-exposes-deadly-european-border-regime/

unbelievable - and yet every part of every day is - unbelievable

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school

When solidarity becomes a crime

“The point is this: forming an illegal group, preaching against Sharia, collusion; these are not the names of crimes, these are the translation of the government's fear of any relationship that is formed outside its control. When several people gather together to defend the rights of a child, without asking permission from the government, without having a formal hierarchy, the government sees it as a group, because spontaneous solidarity itself is a threat to it. This is exactly what anarchism has been saying for centuries: centralized power fears the self-organization of the people more than any weapon.”

https://www.anarshism.com/fa/when-solidarity-is-a-crime/

the Reno office (which handles prosecutions for cases originating in Northern Nevada & many rural counties) doesn’t have ANY DOJ prosecutors.

“Trump also said in a Truth Social post that the lawyers leaving the government are ‘Radical Left Deep State Lunatics’."

hell of an obit: Rod Liddle was an opinion columnist whose “defining achievement has been turning provocation into a profession & outrage into a personal brand”.

“[Rod] has found himself accused of racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, ableism & the deliberate stoking of division”.

https://dorseteye.com/rod-liddle-the-patron-saint-of-hate-journalism-is-dead/

“I quoted this entire rant unedited without any sanewashing, complete with three or four restatements of the ‘bitching about people who made your prosperity possible’ talking point, just to give you some idea of how much filler is in the podcast.”

we generally don’t think of Kevin Carson as the comedic wit he is 😂

Brenda Heal aka Brenda Rose, educator, used her own non-white school children as potential targets for her anti-immigration speech last Saturday.

“Racist learning support teacher Brenda Heal from Crispin School in Street Somerset has been sacked!” ~ Plymouth UK Antifascists

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/07/the-far-right-school-worker-who-turned-her-own-black-and-asian-pupils-into-targets/