Subjects Archives: Human Rights

The film Civil War addresses the paradox that the only way to stop polarisation is to take a side.

This is truly a new political fact: particularly on the issue of war, but not only, the 20-year-olds are coming back on the scene.

Hamas is holding 132 hostages: 130 of them were taken captive on October 7 and two were taken hostage before then (one in 2014, the other in 2015).

To rebel is justified. Palestine must be free! Palestine will be free!

The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.

The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care.

Israel has not yet provided sufficient evidence to support its claims that employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were affiliated with the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, The Guardian reported, citing an independent review led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

The United States tells the world and its citizens that it is the greatest country on the planet, where freedom and democracy reign, and where there is an American dream that gives everyone the opportunity to live flourishing “middle class” lives with white-fenced houses and two cars. For the American working masses, however, as the great critical comedian George Carlin noted, “it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

Israel is abusing UNRWA employees detained in Gaza in order to extract forced confessions against the agency, with detainees describing being subjected to acts of torture.

This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organisation and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners.

There is a chilling parallel between what happened during the peak of the Irish famine and the current global refugee crisis.

On Friday afternoon, the German capital of Berlin witnessed scenes reminiscent of the era of the Nazi regime.

U.S. sanctions against Venezuela have led to severe episodes of food insecurity, which have taken years of grassroots efforts to overcome.

From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.

During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.

Arrested on the same day as his friend Julian Assange in 2019, software developer and activist Ola Bini has faced years of persecution in Ecuador. Despite being declared innocent in 2023, an appeals court has now convicted him for “Attempted Non-Consensual Access to a Computer System”.

Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.

The Reckoning is a magnificent conclusion to a quartet of books on New World slavery, explaining the role of slavery and its abolition in the rise of American power, finds Chris Bambery.

The western media and political classes have made more noise about the Israeli killing of seven aid workers than about the 32,000 dead Palestinians.

Amid the intensifying water crisis that plagues billions of people across the world, Israel is using water as a weapon in its war against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.