HAMAS HAS BEEN DEMONISED since its attacks on October 7th 2023, leading to the death of 1,200 Israelis. Where did this party come from and how did it develop? Origins and Development Hamas, the Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement”, was officially...
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EUROPE SCARED OF HUGE SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE
ON AN ALMOST DAILY BASIS, criticism of Israel and support for shutdown; for example, the Wei Wei exhibition in London has been closed, and exhibitions in Paris, Berlin and New York have been called off. The world has seen a huge groundswell in support of Palestinians,...
THE THREAT OF YET ANOTHER WAR IN ETHIOPIA
The origins and escalation of the Tigray conflict IT WILL BE TWO YEARS EXACTLY IN November this year since the primordial outbreak of the Ethiopian war in the Tigray region. This war pitted the paramilitary group, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a former...
The Chilean Road to socialism: 50 YEARS AFTER ALLENDE’S DEFEAT
FIFTY YEARS AGO, CHILE’S ROAD TO socialism suffered a devastating defeat. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, spurred by elites, condoned by middle-class sectors and backed by Washington, toppled Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular (Popular Unity, UP). This was...
Privatisation and climate change mean sewage in rivers and seas
THE STATE OF THE WATER industry has been a matter of increasing concern in British politics over recent years. More and more stories have surfaced about the excessive dumping of sewage into rivers and seas. In many local areas, especially on the coast or where rivers...
75 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA, THE CATASTROPHE FOR PALESTINIANS
THE ISRAELI REGIME IS RARELY described for what it is: a settler, colonial state that practices apartheid against Palestinians. Palestinians have been saying this for decades. Human rights organisations, such as Al Haq, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and...
The theory of democratic modernity as a guide for building a new internationalism
The way out of global crisis requires global action. Under the hegemony of the global financial monopolies, the capitalist system is experiencing a general crisis internationally. This is happening at the same time as specific crises, such as the social and...
Pinochet returns: the dark side of the constitutional crisis in Chile
In 2021 and 2022, the exceptionally democratic Constitutional Convention drafted a new Constitution for Chile. In the plebiscite of September 4, 2022, 62% of the Chilean population rejected it. On December 15th of that same year, the parties with parliamentary...
Shackling Philippines to US strategy
By Rasti Delizo The Philippines perpetually aggravates its volatile regional security environment. This breach of international norms betrays the country’s principled duty to uphold a truly independent, non-aligned, peacefully cooperative, and non-belligerent...