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| Palestine solidarity
What’s behind the rise of BDS?In its nine-year existence, the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement has boldly redefined the battle for Palestine in the simple, straightforward terms of human rights. More than any other tactic of the Palestinian liberation movement, the BDS campaign has succeeded in creating a global outpouring of support for Palestinian rights and placed Israel’s violations of them under international scrutiny like never before. -> read article... |
| USA
Two Years after the CTU Strike: “Reform” Plague Still SpreadsIt has been two years since the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) struck for the first time in over 20 years and changed the discourse on education in the United States. The strike was historic in making issues of race and class central to a contract struggle and in garnering public support to defend public education. -> read article... |
| Armenia-Azeibaijan
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and role of Russia Dialogue between societies, not between authorities: Once again about the situation in Karabakh (a left activists’ view from Erevan)
The end of July saw a flaring up of the simmering conflict around the unrecognized Nagono Karabakh republic. The confrontation between the Nagorno-Karabakh, that is, Armenian, and Azeri militaries in the course of which both sides sustained serious losses (at least 20 reported dead), marked a new level of escalation. -> read article... |