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Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East
An alternative approach to understanding Palestine – one that is framed by the wider region and the Middle East’s central place in our fossil fuel-centred world. Keep reading »
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The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel
Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an, or Standing Together, is a Jewish-Arab social movement in Israel that organises against racism and occupation, and for equality and social justice. Federico Fuentes interviewed Standing Together’s … Keep reading »
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Law At Work: Class, Property, Capitalism
This essay is an excerpt from Harry Glasbeek’s new book Law At Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, Between the Lines, 2024. For thousands of years, workers … Keep reading »
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New President in Mexico to Accelerate the Energy Transition
Claudia Sheinbaum’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2nd, 2024, has been welcomed by two of the country’s main energy unions, UNTyPP and SME. During her campaign Sheinbaum, … Keep reading »
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Canada’s Countering Foreign Interference Act: Raising the Alarm about Bill C-70
To the members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, House of Commons, Parliament of Canada, Ottawa: We are writing to you today to express our deep … Keep reading »
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Why I Chant “From the River to the Sea”
Supporters of Palestinian liberation have been chanting the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free” for many years. I myself, a Jewish advocate of human equality, … Keep reading »
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Statement on Morning Encampment Raid at York University
[Content Warning: The following statement references police violence and racism, colonialism, imperialism, and anti-Indigenous racism. — YFS] On June 5, 2024, York University students launched the York Popular University for … Keep reading »
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The Next Front in Palestine Solidarity: Worker Strikes
The symbiotic relationship between universities and the military puts higher education workers in a position of significant structural power. Keep reading »
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The Economic Fallout of India under Modi and the BJP
India is the world’s largest democracy, but perhaps not as secular as it was before PM Narendra Modi, leader of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), came to power in 2014. … Keep reading »
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Open Letter to Canadian Government: Support the ICC’s Work
The following is an open letter that I had the pleasure and honour of drafting alongside Canadian justice and accountability leaders Alex Neve, Heidi Mathews, Ardi Imseis, Kjell Anderson, Leilani … Keep reading »
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The Inexorable Rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party
Can Europe’s last insurgent left-wing force maintain its momentum after this super election year? Keep reading »
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Enabling Dictatorship and Destroying Democracy
In Timothy Ryback’s recently published book Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, he explains how the establishment (the political and economic ruling elite) allowed Hitler and the Nazi Party to … Keep reading »