🇫🇷 | France’s protests show no signs of slowing down. Students, workers, and Yellow Vests return to the streets in another nationwide wave of anti-government demonstrations, defying a massive police crackdown.

🇪🇭 | “The Sahrawi people must decide their own future,” said an activist at a rally. Protests spanned Occupied Western Sahara, the refugee camps and the diaspora, demanding self-determination.

What made China’s Long March possible? The “Great Long March Spirit”: overcoming seemingly impossible odds through immense sacrifice, courage, determination and an unwavering commitment to the dream of a New China.

Ever heard of “scholasticide”? Israeli strikes on Gaza’s Islamic University killed three yesterday, bringing the week’s toll to at least ten students and educators. Watch to learn.

As anti-capitalist uprising grow worldwide, the “violent protest” debate is back. In 1979, Kwame Ture answered the same charge by exposing the violence of capitalism itself.

🇫🇷 | HAPPENING NOW: Tear gas, baton charges and mass arrests in Marseille as police crack down on a peaceful protest. Hundreds of thousands march across France, with over 135 arrested today alone.

🇫🇷 | NOW: Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Marseille despite a heavy crackdown by authorities. Our reporter says the situation is tense, with heavy police deployment.

🇫🇷 | Why are students across France still in the streets? Anton, an organizer with PNLR, points to crumbling schools, a university system that sorts by race and class, and a government that hasn’t answered their demands. ⚪️ Full interview:

🇰🇪 | Why are students in Kenya fighting for their lecturers’ pay? On Wednesday, University of Nairobi students barricaded one of the capital’s busiest roads. Police moved in to break up the protest. The students gave the government five hours to pay their lecturers and called on Education Minister Julius Ogamba to resign. “Our lecturers must be paid. They are our parents,” one student said. Lecturers at Kenya’s public universities have been on strike since October 2. They want the government to sign and fund a new pay deal, and they rejected its raise as too small to keep up with rising prices. Behind the strike sits a bigger question: who pays for public universities? The Treasury has not committed to funding the deal from the national budget. A new funding bill gives lecturers’ pay no clear source, and their union warns the cost could shift onto student fees and loans. Ogamba calls the lecturers’ full demands, about $770m, unaffordable. Yet more than 60% of government revenue goes to paying debt, according to the IMF. The squeeze is global. The UN says 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest than on education or health. And students are pushing back. In Argentina, lecturers and students held a fifth national march this month against President Javier Milei’s university cuts. In France, police have detained nearly 6,900 people since high school protests began, most of them minors. In Austria, tens of thousands marched in Vienna on Thursday against a university funding freeze. In Greece, students chanted for free public education “from Greece to France.” In Nigeria, lecturers at state universities have walked out this year over a national pay deal their state governments have not implemented. In the budget it passed last year, Kenya set aside more for interest payments than for health and education combined.

🇸🇩 | At least 153 people have been buried in two mass graves after drones struck a crowded market in Abyei, a disputed territory on the Sudan–South Sudan border. The attack hit Amiet market on Monday, local officials said. They say others remain missing and the death toll is likely to rise. Those killed include Sudanese, South Sudanese and Somali nationals, most of them traders. Doctors Without Borders said it was treating more than 20 wounded, some with severe burns. South Sudan summoned Sudan’s ambassador in protest, and Abyei residents marched on Tuesday to demand protection. UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the attack and called for accountability. Since the war began in 2023, Amiet has become a hub for fuel moving into Sudan. In May, the UN warned that the UAE-backed RSF’s growing presence around the market was raising tensions. The strike came during one of the deadliest weeks of the war. A day earlier, a drone strike on a transport hub in West Kordofan killed at least 80 people.