The ruling against Israel at the International Court of Justice today is historic, notwithstanding that it fudged South Africa’s request for a provisional order for a ceasefire.
Category: Human rights
Yes, it’s a Genocide
The ongoing suffering, displacement, and destruction in Gaza invoke a sense of urgency in labeling the situation for what it is, and for prompt investigation and adjudication, rather than waiting for a tragic culmination.
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 3
If Xi’s Chinese-style modernization has shattered the myth that modern-is-Western, then why is his economy still so dependent on Western science and technology?
Israeli Conscientious Objector Haggai Matar: Hamas Attack Reflects Israeli Violence in Palestine
Interview of Haggai Matar By Amy Goodman and Juan González on Democracy Now!, Oct. 10, 2023
Zionist Volksgemeinschaft
On the völkisch nature of Zionism and its relation to imperialism
In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
Open Letter on the Occasion of the São Paulo Forum in Brasilia from June 29 to July 2, 2023
Daniel Ortega and what remains of the Sandinista Front present themselves as left-wing and anti-imperialist, but, far from this proclaimed discourse, they have for many years already abandoned their principles…
Kali Akuno to Get 2023 Peace Award
Kali and his fellow members of Cooperation Jackson are creating a model for how the rest of us might be able to achieve peace on and with Earth.
Polarization and protest in Ciudad Juárez
Residents and migrants in Ciudad Juárez have ramped up protest in the wake of the fire that killed forty men detained by the National Migration Institute.
Disappeared for 10 Years in Syria
Everyone you see in the photo above was kidnapped by Assad forces on March 9-11 in 2013. Exactly 10 years ago. The mother depicted, Rania Alabbasi, was a dentist and Syria’s most famous chess champion. In addition to her . . .
On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism
Ukraine has long been a victim of Russian imperialism, pre-capitalist, capitalist, Soviet, and then state-capitalist.
Nicaragua: Ortega Strips Nationality from 94 Opponents
Years ago, the famous Nicaraguan poet Giaconda Belli wrote,
¿Qué sos, Nicaragua
Para dolerme tanto?
What are you, Nicaragua
To hurt me so?
The lines seem particularly poignant and appropriate now.
Nicaragua: Ortega and Biden Make a Deal
The release of the prisoners now makes it possible for President Biden and Blinken to make a deal with Ortega that would improve his situation—removing the sanctions—while increasing U.S. influence in Nicaragua. Ortega accused the opponents he imprisoned of being traitors working for the United States, but it is he who wants a closer relationship with Washington.
Ukraine: Those who choose not to see, those who choose not to hear, those who choose to forget
Those who speak of “peace” by not supporting the legitimate right of Ukrainian peoples to self-determination and to live, those who break with support for national liberation struggles are mistaken and contribute to undermining the rights of all citizens, in Ukraine and around the world.
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White Torture
Frieda Afary reviews a collection of interviews with 12 women political prisoners in Iran.
Feminism Versus Fundamentalism in Afghanistan
Sultani discusses women’s struggle in Afghanistan, historically and against the Taliban regime today.
Help Afghan Women. Do Not Recognize the Taliban Government.
An Interview with a representative of RAWA inside Afghanistan
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