The US-Israeli strikes against Iran are part of a decades-long war against the Islamic Republic which has refused to bow to US demands that it surrender its sovereignty, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
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Martin Luther King Jr. at a Civil Rights March on Washington DC in 1968
Scotland’s deepening crises expose the human cost of political complacency — and the toll it is taking on working-class communities, says NEIL FINDLAY
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Hundreds protested against the US-Israel attacks on Iran in Parliament Square on Saturday, fearing a wider conflagration and horrified by the targeting of young schoolchildren, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
More than a century-and-a-half after its first publication, the message of the first Communist Manifesto continues to resonate throughout the world, says the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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THE recent death of US non-violence guru Gene Sharp and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King provide a good opportunity to reflect on the key role non-violent action has played in winning progressive change.
Sharp, whose extensive writings have influenced many of the campaigns that have overthrown governments across the world, repeatedly emphasised the importance of planning and strategy in carrying out effective non-violent action. Indeed, strategy is “probably more important in non-violent struggle than it is in military conflict,” he told me when I interviewed him in 2012 for Peace News newspaper.
For Sharp, those wishing to understand non-violent struggle needed to research the topic in depth — reading, at a minimum, his lengthy studies on the subject — rather than basing their opinion on “superficial impressions.”
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