Category: International Relations
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Cementing Neo-Colonial Relations: the EU–Mercosur ‘Free’ Trade Deal
“EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal,” declared the Stop EU-Mercosur campaign alliance, a coalition of more than 450 organisations from … Keep reading »
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An Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel
Palestinian trade unions issue an urgent global call to action: Stop arming Israel and end all complicity! Keep reading »
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Brief Animated History of the Question of Palestine
1917 – 1947: British mandate Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, … Watch video »
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Decolonising Development with Frantz Fanon
The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world. Fanon … Keep reading »
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The Korean War Continues With Biden’s Renewal of Travel Ban to North Korea
The draconian travel ban prevents as many as 100,000 Koreans in the United States from visiting family members in North Korea. Keep reading »
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Building the Left In and Outside of Parliament
Marc Botenga (PTB, Belgium), Member of the European Parliament (MEP), speaks about workers’ alliances across Europe and why we need more of them, the EU bureaucracy and political culture he … Keep reading »
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War Breaks Out in Northern Ethiopia
“The worst-case scenario is unfolding in Ethiopia,” Gabriel Bizuneh tells me, as he organizes in the Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C. Once again, the federal government is at war with … Keep reading »
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France: Voices from Below
In the political sequence opened by the social movement against the French government’s pension reform (setting the legal retirement age at 64 years instead of 62), official discourse has been … Keep reading »
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Renewing the Left in South Africa: Not Just Doom and Gloom
This article seeks to respond to the questions posed by Amandla! which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the Left intellectually, programmatically and organisationally? What has … Keep reading »
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Will Israel’s Offensive Against Jenin End Palestinian Resistance?
Israeli occupation forces and border police carried out a broad offensive on Monday morning against the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Israeli troops killed … Keep reading »
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The Electoral Collapse of SYRIZA: The Left and the Coming Election
The meteoric rise of SYRIZA in Greece in 2012 and the resounding double victory of 2015 (one in January and the second in September, after the great compromise of July … Keep reading »
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A Geopolitical European Union?
On taking office as President of the EU Commission in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to create a ‘geopolitical Commission’: “We have enormous tasks ahead of us: … Keep reading »