The War on Palestine Has Gone On for Over 100 Years
Historian Rashid Khalidi reframes the ‘Israel-Palestine Conflict’ in light of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and beyond, breaking down the myth of an ancient and eternal Jewish-Arab antagonism.
An Indomitable Anti-Zionist Jewish Feminist Talks About the Steadfastness (Sumud) of Palestinians
Over the last decade, Ros has become deeply involved with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the US-based, progressive Jewish anti-Zionist activist organization. She has thought deeply about the connections between feminism, human rights, peace, and justice in the context of Israel and Palestine.
Farce at COP28 – 2 Articles
‘COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat’. Also: ‘Climate Summit at the Petroleum Kingdom’.
Think #MeToo Didn’t Make a Real Difference? Think Again
With #MeToo, the impacts have been even more varied and expansive than Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter movements, making it an important case study into how mass mobilization can seed change in many different arenas of society.
Sahel Alliance Seeks Economic Independence
Developments on the African continent, in particular in some Sahel countries, run completely counter to the plans that Western regimes have long nurtured both for the region itself and for the entire continent.
Argentina Is Not for Sale: Unions Respond to Privatization, Regional Solidarity Is Rising
Argentina’s largest trade union confederation (CGT) has warned that it will not accept any rollback of rights or delays in bargaining negotiations. The union also rejected Milei’s threats concerning the paralysis of public works and the privatization of the railways and Aerolíneas Argentinas.
Forward Ever: 40 Years on from the End of the Revolution and the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
This year, Grenada commemorates both 50 years as an independent nation and 40 years since the violent implosion of the People’s Revolutionary Government and subsequent U.S. invasion.
Interview: Operation 1027 and the Growing Armed Alliance Against Myanmar’s Junta
Researcher Aung Kaung Myat unpacks the internal dynamics of the complex coalition of armed groups battling for dominance across Myanmar.
Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
The question is: why have the otherwise different capitalist and socialist systems of the late 20th and early 21st centuries displayed quite similar formal democracies (apparatuses of voting) and equally similar absences of real democracy? Socialists have developed answers that entailed a significant socialist self-criticism.
Noam Chomsky at 95: No Strings on Him
Knowing Noam, I might echo what Bob Dylan had to say about Dave Van Ronk: “No puppet strings on him, ever. He was big, sky-high, and I looked up to him. He came from the land of giants.”