Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
Latest editorial
Exposing the role of big tech companies in promoting Israeli apartheid
Hundreds of tech workers have been protesting against Google and Amazon signing a deal with the Israeli government to develop AI tools under the Nimbus project which will be used to control Palestinian movements, reports ABDUL RAHMAN
Workers from Amazon and Google and community supporters protesting Project Nimbus outside Google headquarters
[sunnyorganizes / Twitter]
Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Remembering a legendary trade unionist and inspirational leader
Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
HUNDREDS of employees of the world’s biggest tech companies have joined together to prevent their employers’ collaboration with the state of Israel. The No Tech for Apartheid movement raises questions related to big tech companies such as Google and Amazon’s disregard for ethical standards and their growing complicity with the Israeli occupation.
A joint statement issued with the consent of over 1,000 Google and Amazon employees asserts that “technology should be used to bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism.”
The movement is inspired by the successful fight against apartheid in South Africa. It has pointed out that Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s joint project with the state of Israel is nothing new but part of a long list of similar previous collaborations like with the US Department of Defence, Immigrants and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and various state and local police departments to provide different types of data and processing tools.
Similar stories
CARLOS MARTINEZ responds to liberal hawk Simon Tisdall’s evidence-free China-bashing and asks whose agenda it really serves
KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS