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On the nature of violence and self-defence
The right of self-defence applies only to the oppressed, not the oppressor, argues MARCEL CARTIER
Palestinians inspect the damage of destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Friday October 27
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
“THE Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements, plagued by violence, their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
These were the words uttered by UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres last week during a session of the security council that sent Israel into an absolute frenzy.
Guterres was expressing what so many have been able to see with resolute clarity over the past few weeks — that Hamas’s military operation inside of Israel on October 7 did not “happen in a vacuum.”
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Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING