The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
Wikileaks and the El-Masri kidnap case
The importance of the whistleblowing media group was made plain when the Assange trial heard the case of the Lebanese man whose abduction and torture by the CIA it exposed, writes TIM DAWSON
After being exposed by Wikileaks, the US has resisted all attempts to hold it to account for the five months during which the CIA tortured Kahled El-Masri in secret
As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
LAWYERS for the US government wrangled for days to prevent Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings hearing Kahled El-Masri’s evidence.
When eventually his story was laid before the court last week, it was obvious why.
The German shop worker suffered horrific treatment at the hands of the Macedonian police and the CIA.
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