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‘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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RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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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