The idea of a North-South divide in Trade Union membership and activity here in the UK has long persisted, often rooted in outdated stereotypes of men in cloth caps, cigarettes dangling from mouths, waiting for shipyard work. But the reality is more complex than that. Yes, while historical factors have shaped Union membership across the […]
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On the night of March 8, Mahmoud Khalil and his wife Noor Abdalla were walking back to their apartment on the campus of Columbia University, after eating their Iftar meal, when they were approached by ICE agents, who had followed the couple into their. The lead agent, Elvin Hernandez, asked Mahmoud if he was, “Mahmoud […]
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+ Netanyahu never wanted a ceasefire in Gaza. It was forced upon him. Not by Biden or Trump, but his own Israeli population, desperate to see the hostages returned, whose lives and health were being threatened by the same brutal policies his regime was inflicting on the people of Gaza. Thus it was not at […]
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You may have heard that, in New York State, there has been an unauthorized strike of prison guards in 40 of the state’s 42 prisons, and that a settlement has been proposed by the governor. Ostensibly, the guards have been protesting understaffing and unsafe conditions; but more importantly, they have used their strike to distract […]
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+ The Netanyahu government has circulated a plan for Gaza that places the Strip under tighter Israeli control than before the war, shattering any notion that Israel is preparing to end its occupation. Under the plan, which Israel sent to the UN and humanitarian aid groups, aid would be distributed inside “humanitarian bubbles” under the […]
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Ahmed Samra (17), Ahmed Elawdan (16), and Seifalla Elbeltagy (15) weren’t just dead. Between December 27 and 29 they were left to die, made to die in subzero temperatures and bitter winds in a remote, rugged forest of southeastern Bulgaria, murdered by the Bulgarian authorities who knew they were there, and exactly where. The activist […]
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+ Like the Biblical Job (Ayyūb in Arabic, where he is revered as a prophet), every possible misfortune has been visited upon the Palestinians of Gaza. I use the word “visited” in the sense of something being inflicted from outside by outsiders. Something wicked in this case. Unimaginable and unremitting violence has been done to […]
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+ Sherman burnt Atlanta to the ground, but its residents weren’t evicted to Curaçao. Ypres was obliterated twice in WW I, but its citizens weren’t shipped to Corsica. Dresden was firebombed to ashes, but its residents weren’t rounded up and sent to Antigua. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, but their irradiated populations weren’t deported to […]
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When Israeli troops launched their ground invasion of northern Gaza in 2023, one of the first places they rolled into was the Abu Suffiyeh family farm in the Jabalya area (see pdf, page 301). The attackers had targeted the farm, with its thriving olive, pomegranate, and citrus orchards, for total destruction, because it lay in […]
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+ Your neighbor burns down the house that your family has lived in since the previous family home, a hundred miles to the north, was demolished 75 years ago by your neighbor’s grandfather. The fire kills your wife, two of your five children, and your mother. The claims adjuster, who is also the principle investor […]
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For those of you scoring at home, you may have noticed the Biden administration’s lackluster performance in the arena of public lands and wildlife conservation. Using baseball as a metaphor, the Biden team had a few brilliant moments in an otherwise forgettable four years that, in its confused approach, reminds us of Abbott and Costello’s famous […]
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On the night of June 21, 1976, summer solstice, I flew from New York to Stockholm. I sat at a north-side window and watched in wonder as the sun went down, down, down, but not under, and rose again. We arrived in Stockholm at 3:30 a.m., and it was broad daylight. It’s an odd thing […]
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“Israel has destroyed everything in Gaza. Everything. Except the sacred bond between a people and their land. Their roots run too deep. Their history covers millennia. The wounds of their Nakba have yet to heal.” – Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN + How do you compensate for 35 years of being knocked off […]
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+ After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: + At least 47,161 Palestinians have been listed by the Ministry of Health as being killed by Israeli military actions. Another 12,000 or so are missing under the bomb rubble and presumed dead. […]
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Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds of miles away in the Zocalo, the central plaza of Mexico City. As thousands filled the historic space on January 12, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s first woman president, was preparing to […]
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It never used to be the case here in the UK that people ignored the unions. As the Grateful Dead sang back in the 1970s: ‘What a long, strange trip it’s been.’ It was following Tory prime minister Edward Heath’s fall in the 1970s that the late financier Jimmy Goldsmith backed something sinister called Truemid—the […]
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When you ask me what was sound like growing up, I’ll say my tongue was as red as all good tombs. She, too, wanted to be a bird. So ask why the pelican screams. So ask why the plants are dead. No one modeled joy; Our freedom drenched in so much grief I look at […]
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People in Global South countries have agency. They can and do understand the realities of their material conditions. Apparently it is necessary to write the preceding two sentences.
You, dear reader, may be wondering why I have written such obvious statements. Don’t people everywhere possess agency, the ability to understand and act upon the political, cultural and social conditions of their community, nation and country? Yes of course they do. So why write the obvious? Because it appears that there are those, sadly partisans of the Left, that don’t believe the peoples of the Global South have agency.
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From Weinstein to Epstein to Diddy to R. Kelly, the under-your-nose reality of human sex-trafficking—a.k.a., modern slavery—continues to make headlines. But one moviemaker presaged today’s press 25 years ago. Today, documentarian Tony Zierra (Filmworker (2017)) gives us a fresh perspective on an overlooked work of art. Time Changes Everything In 1999, Warner Bros released director […]
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To be a journalist in Gaza is to be a target of the Israelis. To be a Palestinian journalist is to be a target of the Israelis and the international press, which refuses to recognize you as a media of their tribe. How else to explain the otherwise incomprehensible indifference to the systematic slaughter of […]
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