JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
‘Sacrifice is the brother of freedom’
Reflections by former Irish and Palestinian hunger strikers shine a light on the latter’s continuing use of this protest to resist Israeli persecution, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
Palestinian Solidarity Mural in Belfast
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MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers
Edited: Norma Hashim
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IT IS self-harm and a last resort, yet the hunger strike is a powerful weapon of resistance.
As former UNHRC Special Rapporteur for Palestine Richard Falk writes in his foreword to this book, it is “the ultimate form of non-violence possessing unlimited symbolic potential.”
And nowhere has it been more integral to struggles against oppression than in Ireland and Palestine — both victims of colonial injustice rooted in British imperialism.
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