Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has little to do with self-determination and far more to do with strategy, offering Israel a potential military foothold near Yemen, says JE ROSENBERG
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There are bigger prizes to be won than mere ‘black recognition’
Our movement mustn’t limit itself to the odd statue of a black person or plaque – it is the reality of racism and working-class exploitation that must be confronted head on, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran
From Chartists and Suffragettes to Irish republicans and today’s Palestine activists, the treatment of hunger strikers exposes a consistent pattern in how the British state represses those it deems political prisoners, says KEITH FLETT
In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution, warns MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
A statement from the Parti Communiste Francais
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines our laws concerning the treatment of animals and their rights
WE ARE in the greatest eruption against racism and for black liberation since 1968.
In April that year smoke rose above every black ghetto in the US following the murder of the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King in the city of Memphis.
As so many black and anti-racist radicals have said for half a century in response to Establishment jibes about violence and the movements against oppression: we had a prince of non-violent mass action — you assassinated him.
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Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year
Sixty years after his murder, it is up to all of us to defy ruling-class attempts to sanitise or distort his revolutionary legacy by upholding his deep understanding of capitalism’s ties to racism and empire, writes ISAAC SANEY