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Julius Nyerere, born on this day in 1922, was a socialist and anti-colonial Tanzanian politician who promoted a Pan-Africanist ideology known as Ujamaa, which means "extended family" or "brotherhood" in Swahili.
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika. His father was the chief of the small Zanaki tribe. He was 12 before he started school (he had to walk 26 miles to Musoma to do so). Later, he transferred for his secondary education to the Tabora Government Secondary School. His intelligence was quickly recognized by the Roman Catholic fathers who taught him. He went on, with their help, to train as a teacher at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). On gaining his Certificate, he taught for three years and then went on a government scholarship to study history and political economy for his Master of Arts at the University of Edinburgh (he was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. In Edinburgh, partly through his encounter with Fabian thinking, Nyerere began to develop his particular vision of connecting socialism with African communal living.
On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching. He was reported as saying that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident. Working to bring a number of different nationalist factions into one grouping he achieved this in 1954 with the formation of TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union). He became President of the Union (a post he held until 1977), entered the Legislative Council in 1958 and became chief minister in 1960. A year later Tanganyika was granted internal self-government and Nyerere became premier. Full independence came in December 1961.
In 1962, Nyerere was elected the first president of Tanganyika, a predecessor to modern Tanzania and a newly independent republic. His administration emphasized decolonizing society and the state, also unsuccessfully pursuing a Pan-Africanist East African Federation with Uganda and Kenya.
In 1967, Nyerere issued the "Arusha Declaration", forbidding government leaders from owning shares or holding directorates in private companies, receiving more than one salary, or owning any houses that they rented to others. In compliance with this declaration, Nyerere sold his second home and his wife donated her poultry farm to a local co-operative.
Nyerere’s integrity, ability as a political orator and organizer, and readiness to work with different groupings was a significant factor in independence being achieved without bloodshed. In this he was helped by the co-operative attitude of the last British governor — Sir Richard Turnbull. In 1964, following a coup in Zanzibar (and an attempted coup in Tanganyika itself) Nyerere negotiated with the new leaders in Zanzibar and agreed to absorb them into the union government. The result was the creation of the Republic of Tanzania.
Nyerere's government also aided in liberation struggles elsewhere in Africa, training and aiding anti-apartheid South African groups and helping to depose Ugandan ruler Idi Amin. In 1985, Nyerere stepped down as President and was succeeded by Ali Hassan Mwinyi in a notably peaceful and stable transition of power.
"Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated."
Julius Nyerere
- Biography : Julius Kambarage Nyerere
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I was looking around in old UN documents and found this statement made by Libya in a 1976 Security Council meeting. It is not the only such statement but is relatively brief and stands on its own without requiring explanation of context. In the spoilers I included a bit more details.
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The topic of the meeting was:
Request by the Libyan Arab Republic and Pakistan for consideration of the serious situation arising from recent developments in the occupied Arab territories: Letter dated 19 March 1976 from the Permanent Representatives of the Libyan Arab Republic and Pakistan to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/12017)
See also:
- Security Council official records, 31st year, 1893rd meeting, 22 March 1976, New York. - Full text of meeting record
- Letter dated 19 March 1976 (the contents are substantially re-stated in the text quoted below)
- From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1976: Fifty Years Ago: Al-Aqsa protest - Newspaper - DAWN.COM - I had a hard time actually finding information about the specific topic of this UN Security Council meeting without resorting to a book
- Ben Gvir raids Al-Aqsa as Israel plans to reopen mosque to settler incursions | Middle East Eye (April 7 2026) - Situation update
Speaker: Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Permanent Representative of Libyan Arab Republic to the United Nations
specific to the situation of Al-Aqsa Mosque
A few preceding paragraphs
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28. The delegation of Pakistan and my delegation in our letter . of 19 March [S/12017], requested an urgent meeting of the Security Council in order to consider the serious situation arising from recent developments in the occupied territories of Palestine. The situation has continued to deteriorate in Jerusalem and other parts of the occupied West Bank.
29. In his letter dated 23 February [§/12017], the Acting Permanent Observer of the Palestine Liberation Organization drew attention to the widespread protests and demonstrations against the terrorism of the occupation authorities by the Palestinians living in Jerusalem and other major West Bank towns and to the large-scale arrests and other repressive measures ordered by the Zionist authorities.
30. Later, in his letter dated 12 March [§/12012)] to you, Mr. President, and to the Secretary-General, Mr. Baroody, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, conveyed a statement by the members of the Islamic Conference concerning these serious developments in the occupied Arab territories. The members of the Islamic Conference requested the Council to keep under urgent attention the situation in Jerusalem and in the rest of the occupied territories and warned that it might be further aggravated.
31. On 19 March, the Secretary-General expressed his concern over the serious situation in the occupied territories, and the following statement was issued:
The Secretary-General is concerned over the recent incidents in Israeli-occupied territory which have resulted in human suffering and casualties.
These incidents underline once again the danger inherent in the present situation in the: Middle East and the urgent need for increased efforts in the search for a just and lasting peace: m the area.
32. Those recent incidents were provoked by the ruling of an Israeli magistrate last 28 January concerning prayer by Jews in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is revered by Moslems throughout the world as one of our holiest shrines.
That ruling cannot be considered in isolation but must be seen, along with recent actions and aggressions, as part of the Zionist policy of absorbing occupied Jerusalem and changing its cultural and demographic character in wilful and calculated defiance of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on the subject.
The deliberate Zionist policy aims at radically changing the cultural, religious, demographic and political status of the land and undermining the spiritual values of the Holy City and its universal sacred character; in violation of Council resolutions concerning the status of Jerusalem and the profanation and desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque—resolutions 252 (1968), 267 (1969), 271 (1969) and 298 (1971)—as well as of Assembly resolutions 2253 (ES-V) and 2254 (ES-V).
33. The policy of Judaization of Jerusalem is being implemented by numerous measures, inter alia, the expropriation of Arab lands and the setting up of new Jewish quarters, the continuation of the policy of alienation of the inhabitants from their Arab history, civilization and culture, the exploitation of the economy of Jerusalem in view of its total absorption the suppression of Islamic and Christian institutions and measures designed to compel the Arab population of Jerusalem to leave their homes and properties.
34. The scandalous Zionist record of defiance of the United Nations is well known.
In spite of the fact that the Zionist entity was conditionally admitted to the United Nations, and that it based its existence on a United Nations resolution, the Zionist entity has shown nothing but contempt for the international Organization and international public opinion. This defiant attitude is reflected in many declarations and measures taken by the Zionist authorities.
For example, following the war of June 1967, Mr. Levi Eshkol stated that Israel would never execute ‘the General Assembly’s decisions even "if the United Nations votes by 121 votes to 1".
Golda Meir cynically said, “If a resolution is passed not to our liking, so what? After all, it is not a tank firing at you.”
An under-secretary in the Israeli Foreign Ministry was reported to have declared, “What does United Nations resolution amount to? Ninety votes, ninety speeches. What else?’’
Recently, Mr. Herzog attacked the United Nations and reaffirmed the Israeli attitude to all United Nations resolutions when he declared that “Council resolutions will join hundreds of other United Nations resolutions in the waste-paper basket”.
Israel's representative, Chaim Herzog (father of current president Isaac Herzog) was seated at the table during this remark. Herzog marks 50 years since father tore anti-Israel UN resolution (JNS Nov 2025)
35. Since 1947—for a period of almost 30 years—the Zionists have refused to comply with United Nations resolutions, decisions and appeals. The United Nations has repeatedly condemned Zionist actions in Palestine and in the occupied Arab territories. However, Israel continues its arrogant disregard of the wishes and dec1snons of the international commumty
36. What should be the international community’s answer to the stubborn Zionist defiance? We must find the appropriate answer. In fact, the Zionists piot to gain time while creating faits accomplis in the area.
Every Israeli aggression is also an experiment to discover how much more the world will tolerate. Every time Isracl defies the United Nations without receiving the appropriate response, the authority of the Organization is further eroded.
The international community must take effective measures by imposing appropriate sanctions against the racist and aggressive Zionist entity, which was illegally granted a home and membership in the United Nations and which persists in disregarding the overwhelming will of the United Nations and the international community.
In fact, the recent serious development in the situation in the occupied territories is a logical result of the long continued deliberate Israeli aggressive and racist policies, since the Zionist entity is, by its very nature, inherently racist, terrorist and expansionist.
37. From its inception, zionism planned the creation of a Jewish State which was to be exclusively Jewish.
Palestine was populated by Arabs, but that fact was deliberately ignored. Zionists spoke in terms of “people without a land to a land without people".
According to the Zionist ideology, the establishment of the Jewish State was from the outset based on displacement of the Arabs. For the Zionists, Arabs do not really count as people.
38. Thousands of examples, practices and quotations can be used to illustrate the racism underlying the Zionist movement and the Israeli establishment. These examples confirm the vicious anti-Arab propaganda and the equally vicious glorification of militarism that cultivates hatred and racial aggression.
39. In keeping with the racist Zionist dogma incorporated in the Declaration of the Establishment of Israel in 1948, this racist entity is open for Jewish immigration and for the gathering of exiles. Thus, any Jew anywhere in the world may claim citizenship and enjoy special ethnic and religious privileges.
According to an amendment to the citizenship law adopted in 1971, the exercise of that right does not necessitate immigration to Israel. The racist law of return gives every Jew, regardless of present citizenship, the right to emigrate to Israel. In addition, the law of nationality grants automatic citizenship.
At the same time, Arabs and other non-Jews are denied that privilege. Palestinians whose ancestors lived in Palestine for thousands of years are reduced to second-class citizenship.
40. Many prominent Jewish and non-Jewish thinkers and intellectuals oppose zionism, exposing its fallacies while condemning its inherent racism. The General Assembly in its well-known resolution determined that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination [resolution 3379 (XXX)).
A/RES/3379(XXX): Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.
Voting Summary: Yes: 72 | No: 35 | Abstentions: 32 | Non-Voting: 3 | Total voting membership: 142
41. History teaches us that racism inherently involves terrorism. Zionism, which is both a racist and a terrorist movement, has committed atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Zionist terror organizations have massacred thousands of Arab men, women and children. Arabs in the occupied territories are continually subjected to repressive measures and inhuman laws and regulations that violate elementary human rights.
42. The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories confirmed the violations committed by the Zionist authorities: collective and area punishment; deportation and expulsion; ill-treatment of prisoners and civilians; destruction and demolition of houses and buildings; confiscation and expropriation of properties; and looting and pillaging.
43. It is important to note that these racist and terrorist actions by the Zionists are consistently covered up by an active propaganda campaign. Certain mass media join forces with the Zionists to attempt to cover up the atrocities committed by the Zionists against the Palestinians.
Major General Carl von Horn, in his book Soldiering for Peace, pointed out the distortion of facts by the Zionists. He wrote on page 95:
... we were amazed at the ingenuity of the falsehoods that distorted the true picture. The highly skilled Israeli Information Service and the entire press combined to manufacture a warped, distorted version that was disseminated with professional expertise through every available channel to their own people and their sympathizers and supporters in America and the rest of the world.
Never in all my life had I believed the truth could be so cynically, expertly bent.
44. What should the United Nations do, then? What should the Security Council do? What should the world do with a racist movement and a racist expansionist entity? Should they be treated differently from Nazism and apartheid? The world is now asking what difference exists between the racist régime in South Africa and the racist régime in Palestine. An honest decision is needed. A courageous action is demanded
45. Accordingly, we call on the Security Council to take prompt and effective measures which would halt the deterioration of the situation and put an end to the Israeli criminal actions in the occupied Arab territories.
Notes: OCRed original cleaned up as best effort. Please consult original for accuracy if anything seems strange. Blockquoted paragraphs 28-45 above have not been abbreviated or modified. Except: added paragraph breaks where none existed for easier reading. Non-blockquoted text is annotations added for clarity.
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Democratic senators overwhelmingly voted to block bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel on Wednesday, in a reflection of the Jewish state’s plummeting stock among party rank-and-file and growing anger over the war with Iran.
The Democratic votes on the pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were not enough to overcome universal opposition from Republicans.
“This is where the American people are. The polls are very clear.”
Still, the votes represented a watershed moment in the party’s relationship with Israel and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel had continued to enjoy strong support from Democratic leaders, despite outrage from the base over the war on Gaza. Sanders said the votes signaled that party leaders are finally taking note.
“This is where the American people are. The polls are very clear: The overwhelming majority of American people do not want to continue to give weapons to Netanyahu and his horrific wars in the Mideast,” he said. “I think the Democrats have caught on to that. It took a little while, but they caught on to that. But Republicans, I think, are standing in opposition to millions of their own supporters.”
Some of the most notable names to vote in favor of blocking military transfers to Israel on Wednesday are potential 2028 presidential contenders.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego were among the Democrats to vote for both the resolutions.
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One resolution targeted the sale of the bulldozers that have been used to demolish neighborhoods in Gaza. Critics say the heavy equipment could accelerate the destruction of Palestinian property in the West Bank, an Israeli-occupied territory that has come under greater threat of annexation under the country’s far-right government.
The bulldozer resolution drew support from 40 members of the Democratic caucus.
Democratic support for the measures came as Americans are increasingly expressing dissatisfaction with Israel in public opinion polls. Hassan El-Tayyab, a policy advocate at the Friends Committee on National Legislation who supported the resolutions, said the votes were a sign that Democrats are starting to take their voters seriously.
“What is happening on the Hill is a lagging indicator of these trends we have seen among Americans,” he said. “These folks are starting to see the writing on the wall, reading these tea leaves, that continually supporting this blank check to Israel is going to cost them electorally.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was among those who voted against it, as did Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Chris Coons, D-Del.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.; John Fetterman, D-Pa.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.
The other resolution, which failed 36–63, was aimed at blocking the transfer of 1,000-pound bombs, of the type that have been linked to civilian casualties in attacks by Israel on Gaza and Lebanon.
That resolution drew support from fewer Democrats. Sens. Gary Peters of Michigan, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Mark Warner of Virginia, and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island joined the others in voting against it.
El-Tayyab said the bulldozer vote seemed to be an easier commitment for some Democrats.
“It was directly tied to annexation efforts by Israel in the West Bank that threatened the two-state solution,” he said.
On the other hand, the massive bombs were viewed by some senators as defensive weapons. “We heard some arguments on the Hill that certain members considered the 1,000-pound bombs defensive in nature, as they were a deterrent that helped prevent attacks,” said El-Tayyab.
The argument, he said, held no water.
Republican Attacks
The breadth of support among Democratic members for the resolutions surprised even of advocates who have sought to cut off the flow of U.S. arms sales to Israel.
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Trying to Block Arms to Israel, Bernie Sanders Denounces AIPAC’s Massive Election Spending](https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/bernie-sanders-aipac-israel-weapons-sales/)
Sanders has fought a long and, at times, lonely fight across administrations to block arms sales to Israel. The first resolution he sponsored, while Democrat Joe Biden was president, drew only minority support within the Democratic caucus.
As the war on Gaza dragged on, however, Democrats’ opinions on Israel soured. The prior high-water mark for one of Sanders’s resolutions was in July 2025, when 27 of the 47-member Senate Democratic caucus, which includes two independents, voted to block the sale of assault rifles to the Israeli police.
“We can look at what is happening in the region right now and understand that this is not business as usual.”
If there was any doubt that 2028 contenders are listening, Kelly, the Arizona senator, dispelled it by introducing Sanders’s resolutions on the Senate floor. A longtime supporter of Israel whose political star has risen in the face of personal attacks from President Donald Trump, Kelly said he would always support the country’s right to exist but could not support the arms transfers.
“Our support for our allies must always be about what makes us stronger and safer,” he said. “And we can look at what is happening in the region right now and understand that this is not business as usual. And it is not making us safer. The United States and Israel are fighting a war against Iran without a clear strategy or goal.”
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., in a joint statement with fellow Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla, tied the arms sales to the ongoing war with Iran.
“We oppose actions that further deepen the United States in an unauthorized conflict in Iran — one with no clear strategy, no legal authority, and no defined end,” he said.
Senate Republicans blasted the resolutions, accusing Democrats of trying to undermine the war effort. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said the resolutions amounted to a helping hand to Iran from Democrats.
“I come to the floor and tell Iran: No one is coming to help you. Not China, not Russia, not North Korea, not Venezuela, not Cuba. Except for the 47 people that sit over here,” Risch said, referring to the Democratic caucus. “They are trying to help you, Iran. We are not going to let that happen. We are not going to abandon our ally, Israel. We are not going to abandon this fight that is taking place. We are going to win this fight, and we have already won it, to a very large extent.”
The arms debate came hours after Senate Democrats voted nearly unanimously, except for Fetterman, in favor of a war powers resolution meant to block Trump’s ongoing war against Iran. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the sole Republican to vote in favor of the resolution.
The final 47–52 tally disappointed advocates who had hoped to draw more GOP support. Still, they remain hopeful that more Republicans will come onboard when Democrats force a vote on other pending Iran war resolutions.
The post The Dam Breaks: Democratic Senators Overwhelmingly Reject Arms Sales to Israel appeared first on The Intercept.
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Wholesome: An agroecology professor called on me to describe the primary contradiction of capitalism
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And then after class said that she would like to teach another one where the question is "should we even have a livestock industry at all?". I told her that I'd love to teach one where I just make the students repeatedly read The Jungle and Grapes of Wrath until they start burning shit down and she replied that it already seems like we're heading that way.
My only good professor.
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