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Figen Yuksekdag: A woman of substance
The leader of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) faces spending the rest of her life in solitary confinement on trumped-up charges of terrorism, writes STEVE SWEENEY
TIME TO ACT: HDP Chairwoman Figen Yuksekdag (centre) meets the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe delegation in Ankara in August 2016
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
Born into a Turkish farming family, Figen Yuksekdag is a revolutionary leader who should be revered as an icon across the world as a leading feminist, socialist and Marxist.
Despite leading one of the most inspirational struggles in Europe and beyond, however, her name is barely known outside Turkey or the Kurdish movement.
Figen Yuksekdag is a Marxist and revolutionary, described by some as a “radical feminist”, who was elected as the co-leader of the HDP alongside Selahattin Demirtas in 2014.
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