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Biden claims of progress in Gaza truce deal ‘illusion’: Abu Zuhri to AFP
Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by U.S. President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.
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Students left out of discussions about student Gaza protests
Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.
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The invention of the “true transsexual”
The following text navigates through the trans health articles and books published between 1886 and 1966 which appear to have had the greatest influence on the writing of “The Transsexual Phenomenon”, ultimately posing the question: how did we get here?
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The ICJ finds that BDS is not merely a right, but an obligation
The ICJ’s authoritative ruling on the Israeli occupation makes clear that boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid are not only a moral imperative but also a legal obligation.
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Venezuela today: Revolution and elections
In light of recent imperialist aggressions, Chris Gilbert reflects on the challenges and complexities of using elections as a tool for socialist construction.
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Death by incarceration: The U.S. prison system is slowly killing its political prisoners
By denying parole and medical treatment, the U.S. prison system is sentencing its longest-held political prisoners to a slow death.
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Blood remembers
Throughout history, young protesters have stood up against the status quo to bring about change. Generation Z has arisen, offering a priceless sacrifice to free Kenya from a malevolent system of governance.
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Behind India’s Iron Curtain
In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
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Over 30 million cyber attacks per minute since July 28
“All state platforms have been attacked in multiple ways,” said Minister Jiménez when presenting the report. She highlighted that among the affected systems, the National Placement System (SNI) received four million attacks per hour. The SNI is the placement platform for new students in Venezuelan universities.
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“Queers for Palestine” is not self-hatred
Queer people fight for a liberated and just world. Their solidarity with Palestine is therefore simply consistent.
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Defending national sovereignty and delinking. A question of class struggle and rights
Global capital through the international finance system has obtained near hegemony and capitalism is projected as the best and most superior system in history.
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As Texas antifascist found “not guilty,” billionaire GOP mega-donor reportedly bankrolling lawsuit for fascist, anti-semitic group
Members of the New Columbia Movement routinely rally alongside neo-Nazi groups which openly flaunt Nazi imagery.
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What’s behind regime change in Bangladesh
Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Washington further escalates its war on dissent
The last few days have seen the U.S. ramping up its war on domestic political dissent in multiple ways, with U.S. lawmakers petitioning the Biden administration to crack down on anti-genocide protesters it suspects of foreign influence, and a journalist critical of U.S. foreign policy coming under the crosshairs of Washington’s increasingly weaponized Foreign Agents…
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Did a wrestler’s battle against sexual harassment in Indian sports cost her an Olympic medal?
Disqualified after becoming first Indian women wrestler to enter the finals in Olympics, Phogat along with her colleagues have been waging a protracted battle against the sexual harassment in country’s wrestling federation
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What is behind England’s riots
Is there a migration crisis in England? Yes, there is, says John Wight. And it’s not the fault of the migrants.
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The earth can’t endure Nato’s ambitions
NATO’s growing militarism doesn’t just risk widening war, but is deeply implicated in the mounting climate catastrophe, argues Nandita Lal.
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Anti-fascist rallies take the streets away from the racists
Counterfire members attended demonstrations across the country and sent the following reports of the heartening mobilisations against racism and fascism.
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Sheikh Hasina was a time-tested friend
There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event.
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U.S. and UK ambassadors to skip Nagasaki memorial amid controversy
The U.S. and UK ambassadors to Japan will not attend the Nagasaki atomic bomb victim memorial on August 9 due to the Nagasaki administration’s decision not to invite the Israeli envoy.