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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 5d

The spirit of Bandung burns in the Sahel. These states forced the military to throw the French out, resisting neocolonialism through action. Anti-imperialism lives in protest, not in policy. Dismantle neocolonialism
@vijayprashad.bsky.social
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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 9d

This wasn’t just history. It was a blueprint for anti-communist slaughter. The lessons of 1965 matter today more than ever. We owe it to the past, and the future, to remember, organize, and resist ✊️

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 9d

The CIA had infiltrated the PKI, knew about the plot, and informed Suharto. As the left fumbled to respond, the repression was swift and brutal. Villages turned into killing fields. The Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), once the 3rd largest in the world, was annihilated.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 9d

This didn’t come from nowhere. Left leaders like Tan Malaka, Musso, and Amir Sjarifuddin had already been eliminated. In 1965, a failed coup attempt by leftist officers gave Suharto the pretext for a bloodbath, and the West cheered him on.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 9d

On 30 Sept 1965, one of the worst massacres of the 20th century began. Backed by the CIA, the Indonesian military and right-wing mobs slaughtered up to 1 million communists and leftists. A methodical purge erased a powerful movement.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 15d

🔊 Hear from @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social as he calls for a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons. A powerful message for peace, diplomacy, and global disarmament.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 20d

Wada Masako, a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing, asks: ‘What is dignity? Should human beings be treated like that?’ Her testimony is a call for peace and nuclear disarmament.

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 21d

''A world free of nuclear weapons is possible. Together we can achieve it'' @carlosu02.bsky.social during our webinar on Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · 22d

Jeremy Corbyn during our webinar on Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism on his experience in #Hiroshima, 80 years after the bombings

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Sep 8

LAI27 at Manifiesta !
ManiFiesta is the festival of solidarity where activism meets culture and internationalism

📢 The League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign is cosponsoring the panel discussion:
“The Global South, BRICS, China… The World is Tilting”
🗓 September 13
🕐 1:00 – 2:45 PM

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Sep 6

Jeremy Corbyn — convener of the League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign (LAI27) — reminds us:
If humanity has already outlawed biological weapons and landmines, we can and must do the same for nuclear weapons — even more destructive and dangerous than both combined.

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thomas Sankara’s legacy is alive!
Read @tricontinental.bsky.social 's dossier on the emerging paradigm in the Sahel reflecting a rejection of the imperial command model and a political horizon aligned with the emancipatory aspirations of the Global South. thetricontinental.org/dossier-sahe...

The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty

On the heels of popular military coups, how are Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger returning to a path of sovereignty while navigating a legacy of dependency and internal-external security challenges?

thetricontinental.org

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Aug 15

Economic sanctions are weaponized by wealthy nations against the vulnerable. 💥
1971-2021: US/EU sanctions linked to 564,258 annual deaths ⚰️ — 5x higher than battle casualties. 🔻
It's structural violence collapsing:
• Healthcare 🩺
• Economies 💸
• Lives 💔
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis

Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy tool, highlighting the...

www.thelancet.com

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide.

Exactly why we are organizing a webinar on Nuclear Disarmament and the Struggle Against Imperialism. Info and registration: www.eventbrite.be/e/nuclear-di...

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Aug 12

In his latest @tricontinental.bsky.social newsletter, #LAI27 convener @vijayprashad.bsky.social pays tribute to anti-imperialist heroes like Fanon and Lumumba who died young but made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles. thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

A Tribute to All Those Who Fought for a Better World and Died So Young: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2025)

Though they died young, revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon and Patrice Lumumba made invaluable contributions to anti-colonial and national liberation struggles.

thetricontinental.org

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Emergency Conference of The Hague Group on #Palestine demonstrates that the Spirit of Bandung—the legacy of resistance against imperialist and colonial violence—remains alive. #LAI27
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@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
www.lai27.net/blog-2-1/eme...

Bogotá Meeting on Palestine Decides Concrete Measures to Halt Genocide — LAI 27 centennial commemoration

Several conveners of the League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign attended the Emergency Conference on Palestine in Bogotá, Colombia on July 15–16.

www.lai27.net

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Jul 4

"To isolate what is happening in #Gaza from the broader structures of occupation, #imperialism and settler colonialism is to misunderstand its function in the world system." NUMSA's Mbuso Ngubane in @mailandguardian.bsky.social on Palestine and anti-imperialist resistance. mg.co.za/thought-lead...

The Hague Group revives the possibility of a new internationalism

The grouping, made up of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, is a challenge to the West on Israel’s war in Gaza

mg.co.za

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 21

May 22
1848 – Slavery abolished in Martinique.
After a workers’ rebellion made the decree a reality.
Not a gift from France—but a win forced by resistance.
#LAI27 #AntiImperialistHistory #Martinique

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 18

May 18
1980 – The Gwangju Uprising begins in South Korea.
Students and workers rise against a U.S.-backed military dictatorship.
Democracy crushed with bullets—but resistance endures.
#AntiImperialistHistory #LAI27

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 15

May 15
1948 – Nakba Day.
Palestinians remember the catastrophe of dispossession.
Not just history—ongoing colonialism, apartheid, and resistance.

League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 10

May 10
1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa.
From prisoner to president, ending formal apartheid.
But the struggle against imperial economics—land, capital, power—continues.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 7

May 7
1954 – The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends.
Vietnamese revolutionaries defeat the French, ending colonial rule in Indochina.
The first major blow to Western empire in Southeast Asia.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 4

May 4
1919 – May Fourth Movement erupts in China.
Students protest imperialist carve-up of China after WWI.
Sparks a surge of anti-colonial, anti-feudal energy.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · May 1

May 1 - International Workers’ Day (1886)
Born from the Haymarket Affair in Chicago, this day honors global labor struggles tied to anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Workers worldwide unite against exploitation.

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League Against Imperialism Centennial Campaign @lai2027.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Spirit of Bandung
April 30, 2025 – 19h - 21h30

Les Atelier des Tanneurs, 1000 Brussels

www.lai27.net/the-spirit-o...

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