“Did you not get the message that we grow in numbers, our resistance grows because your repression is what makes us grow” At a National March for Palestine on January 31, the UK’s Metropolitan Police arrested a Palestinian man for chanting “intifada,” following a report made on the force’s X account. The arrest, during a largely peaceful protest calling for an end to UK arms exports to Israel, has reignited concerns over free speech and the policing of pro-Palestinian expression. | TRT World

One Iranian woman, known for the viral video where she lit a cigarette from a photo of Khamenei, has once again become a symbol of resistance. That act, which inspired activists inside Iran and around the world, was rooted in a refusal to bow to fear or repression. Many of those same voices celebrated following the announcement that Khamenei was eliminated in the recent coordinated strikes. For too long, the regime has terrorized its own people and exported violence in the form of terrorism. Fre

The brutal repression of protests in Iran must be utterly condemned. Protesters are being killed in the thousands, detained, and silenced as the regime responds with extreme violence to anger driven by worsening material conditions and deep, long standing grievances. The Iranian working class, women, and oppressed minorities are suffering profoundly under a repressive state that came to power through the massacre of socialists, and militant workers, and has governed ever since in the interests o