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China brokers a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups
BEIJING has brokered a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, Chinese state media reported today.
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Just Stop Oil vows to continue civil resistance after activists jailed for 21 years over Zoom call
Judge Christopher Hehir set a disturbing precedent on Thursday after he jailed the activists for a total of 21 years at Southwark Crown Court.
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Settlers launch wave of attacks after UN’s highest court rules Israel must end colonisation of West Bank
The court said Israel had no right to sovereignty in the territories, was violating international laws against acquiring territory by force and was impeding Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
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Climate activists shuts down Aberdeen incinerator choking working-class kids
A £150 million waste-to-energy plant sited just 300 yards from a primary school and burning a staggering 150,000 tonnes of unrecycleable waste a year was brought to a standstill on Saturday as Climate Camp Scotland and local campaigners stood together on the picket line.
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What is the ‘social wage?’
The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
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The Xinjiang I saw was a hub of diversity, not oppression
From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.
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Evaluating Roger Casement
PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a valuable contribution to a wider understanding of the remarkable human rights activist turned Irish freedom fighter.
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Julian Assange–from Belmarsh to freedom at last
At long last the WikiLeaks founder is free. For all those who care about freedom of speech it’s time to celebrate, writes TIM DAWSON of the International Federation of Journalists.
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The radical tradition of African self-liberation
ROGER McKENZIE discusses the different Marxist traditions of thought about race and racism in the first in a four-part serialisation of his new book, African Uhuru.
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Marxism and ecology: Does the answer ‘lie in the soil?’
Marx and Engels’ concern with soil provides a focus for understanding the relationship between capitalism and the environment, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
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Students’ Gaza protests spread across Britain
Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.
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Asian ‘NATO’ encircles China
The U.S.-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact, writes FIONA EDWARDS of the No Cold War campaign
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Greepeace future under threat following legal action by oil giants
ENVIRONMENTAL campaign group Greenpeace has warned that its future is under financial threat because of legal action by oil giant Shell.
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Corporations bring ‘slow violence’ to millions
The ruthless pursuit of profit lies behind the tragedy of Palestine as much as the global warming crisis. We should resist it resolutely, writes climate activist MAIR BAIN.
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Lessons from history for women’s liberation
RON JACOBS points out that it wasn’t until anti-imperialist and anti-racist movements formed women’s liberation groups that the fundamental roots of oppression could be addressed.
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Sinophobia unmasked: The racism pandemic
In the shadow of Covid-19, bigotry paints the Chinese identity as synonymous with disease and subversion—discriminatory policies, from visa restrictions to TikTok bans, have been ramped up ever since, writes FIONA SIM.
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Queen Anne’s Bounty: the Church of England struggles with its slavery connections
The paltry new fund embraced by the Church of England is nowhere near what real justice demands: handing over the estimated £1.3 billion derived from trafficked Africans to their descendants, explains STEVE CUSHION.
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Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception
Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.
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Rochdale has shown what can be done
Sunak’s quivering, late-night address, expressing dire concerns over George Galloway’s win in Rochdale, unveils a profound unease within the elite—good. Now let’s build from here, writes ANDREW MURRAY.
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Growth is not good: the great GDP myth
It’s not some question of being realistic yet effective over being compassionate but economically incompetent: there is absolutely no material basis to continue to measure societies by their GDP, explains BERT SCHOUWENBURG