The Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale was forced temporarily to shut its doors on the second day of the preview after the activist group Pussy Riot staged a chaotic protest against the country’s inclusion in the art festival.

Wearing pink balaclavas, the protesters ran towards the Russian pavilion where they gathered outside and lit pink, blue and yellow flares while playing punk music and shouting slogans, including “Blood is Russia’s Art”.

At one stage the group of about 40 activists, including members of the feminist activist group Femen, attempted to enter the Russian pavilion but were pushed back by police, who lined the entrance.

Trump is threatening to remove about 5000 troops from Germany, and threatening to do something similar in Spain, Italy and other European countries where the US has bases and Trump does not like their governments’ positions on his and Netanyahu’s war of choice on Iran. Why stop there? Trump does not own those countries. European leaders should request that all US troops leave their countries, as well as leave Greenland, and that US bases in those places be closed.

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The Habs are heading back to Tampa, but the Bell Centre will be rocking just as hard as Benchmark International Arena on Sunday as the team looks to pack the building for the biggest postseason viewing party in town on the arena’s central scoreboard. Tickets for the Round 1 Watch Party – Bell Centre edition – which will cost $12 for any seat in the house – will go on sale on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. ET, with all ticket profits going to support the Montreal Canadiens Alumni Association.

In the six months since a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, more than 800 civilians have been killed and living conditions have remained dire. Meanwhile, Palestinians in the West Bank face a surge in violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers. While the world’s attention has turned to the war in Iran, is there any end to the suffering in sight? Annie Kelly speaks to the Guardian’s chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison

“One of the greatest cures for despair and depression is to do something, and to do something with the people who care,” says Rebecca Solnit. In this episode of Movement Memos, host Kelly Hayes talks with Solnit about hope, backlash, political memory, and why history can help us understand our own power. Their conversation explores feminism, climate grief, authoritarianism, misogyny, interdependence, and why the right’s push to roll back hard-won freedoms is also a reaction to how much movements have already changed the world.

Sixty years ago, opposition to America’s war in Vietnam, a major attack concerned the costs of diverting U.S. resources away from social spending to the military, what was called Guns and Butter.

I was the junior member of the Columbia University triumvirate headed by Seymour Melman and Terence McCarthy. We lectured widely, wrote in magazines such as Ramparts and newspapers. The New York Tribune still existed as an alternative to The New York Times, and regularly published our critiques in its interviews and on its editorial pages.