As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
A year of genocide: Palestinians emerge stronger despite unimaginable pain
Israel's brutal war on Gaza has exposed it to potential legal accountability and failed to silence Palestinian resistance. Instead, the conflict has recentred the Palestinian cause globally, and revealed the limits of Israeli military power, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Members of the Al-Rabaya family break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan outside their home destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, March 18, 2024
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
NO-ONE had expected that one year would be enough to recentre the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue and that millions of people across the globe would, once again, rally for Palestinian freedom.
The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary expressions of Palestinian “sumud,” or steadfastness.
It is not the enormity of the Israeli war but the degree of the Palestinian sumud that has challenged what once seemed to be a foregone conclusion to the Palestinian struggle.
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