“After more than 40 days of hunger strike, it is no longer the time to try to convince a government that has its head in the sand.”
Palestinian liberation and the MENA revolutions
10 July 2021, by“The liberation of Palestine thus passes through the liberation of all the peoples living under tyrants in Damascus, Riyadh, Doha, Tehran, Ankara, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Amman, and all the others.”
What Juneteenth means in the battle for equality
9 July 2021, by“Let Juneteenth be a renewal of the fight for full equality and working class liberation by the working class in all its multiethnic diversity.”
“Israel is a state that is moving rightwards, with more and more fascist tendencies”
8 July 2021, by ,“If you want to be able to address progressive Israeli Jews, you cannot limit yourself to explaining that all Zionists are colonialists, full stop, but if you want to address the Palestinians in Israel, you cannot put aside your radical criticism of Zionist institutions.”
Burma: The War vs. the People
7 July 2021, by ,“I think we are going to witness a very long, protracted and bloody conflict.”
Under the Heat Dome
6 July 2021, byThe recent heat wave in the Pacific Northwest shattered previous records for high temperatures. By the end of June, Seattle, Washington had hit 104F (40C), Portland Oregon reached 116F (46C), and Lytton, British Columbia, set and broke new records for the highest temperature in all of Canada, peaking at 121F (49C). The event offers another chance to reflect on the condition of our planet and the interconnections of our struggles.
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Batley — No Great Victory for Starmer
5 July 2021, by“But it is those who stand with and make concessions to, the reactionary right who do not understand alliances. […] Hostility to social radicalism is a gift to the Tory right and to creeping fascism.”
A “scientific” congress confines women to role of reproducers
4 July 2021, by“So the response of workers’ organizations and the left to this obscurantist offensive worthy of the Middle Ages cannot be limited to the necessary demands that favour the choice of having - or not having - children: […]. The right of refugees and immigrants to live and work with dignity in Greece, to have children with the same rights as children of Greek families […] is a fundamental battle for an internationalist response, based on the principle of the fundamental right of women to have a child if they want, when they want.”
Palestinian Americans Take the Lead
3 July 2021, by“The truths about Israel and U.S. policy are beginning to be told because of the resistance shown by Palestinians around the world. Self-determination and in the end a secular democratic state can be won.”
Afghanistan’s Tragedy
2 July 2021, by“It is worth imagining what Afghanistan could have been today, had the Carter/Brzezinski administration refrained from efforts to destabilize the Afghan government — which had come to power in a military coup in April 1978 — and the Reagan administration had not created a “Vietnam quagmire” for the Soviet Union.”