A California union’s decision to host a meeting about US policy towards Cuba has prompted a congressional probe and renewed attacks on international solidarity, writes CAMERON HARRISON
The everyday violence of life in occupied Palestine
Since the Nakba, institutional violence by Israel against Palestinians has worked alongside paramilitary and military violence to advance the zionist fantasy of a Jewish state across all of historic Palestine, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
INEXCUSABLE: Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, center, prays over the bodies of his wife, son, daughter, and grandson, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Nuisserat refugee camp, outside a hospital in Deir al Balah, south of the Gaza Strip yesterday
The Baltic state is set to reverse its constitutional prohibition on nuclear weapons and foreign bases as part of accelerated Nato war preparations, warns TOM UNTERRAINER
Long-term underfunding and state neglect, while simultaneously probation services have been undermined, have intensified the prison crises, argues SOLOMON HUGHES
Holyrood incompetence has cost jobs and put the future of Clydeside’s Ferguson Marine shipyard into jeopardy. Its future should have been assured, argues KENNY MACASKILL
With the agitated debate now raging in the media about the early release schemes, Prison Officers Association general secretary STEVE GILLAN gives the view of those who work in the sector
The hounding of the late Jason Arday is an all too familiar experience for many black people. ROGER McKENZIE calls for collective action to combat what can feel like personal isolation
DRIVING along the Jordan River Valley in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) of the West Bank is a stunning experience.
The road is officially called Highway 90. The arable and irrigated land along this road is held militarily and illegally by Israeli settlers, many of whom are not actually Israeli citizens, but residents from the Jewish diaspora.
A United Nations commission report published in 2022 showed that this settlement activity is a crime against international human rights law (transfer of population into an occupied territory).
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