Despite the claims by Israel’s top military and political figures that its army doesn’t target journalists, an independent UN commission of inquiry found that soldiers did just that during Gaza’s Great March of Return protests.
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Food, famine and war
This is a global crisis and requires global action in the same way that the pandemic should have been dealt with and the climate crisis needs.
The Left and military aid to Ukraine
An exchange between two Jacobin writers on the question of military aid to Ukraine.
Right-wing Supreme Court poised to make US gun carnage even worse
The court’s reactionary justices, most of whom were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, are “potentially poised to take down one of the nation’s oldest and most restrictive gun-control laws this summer.”
Colombia: The end of the Uribista cycle
Beyond the speculation and the last-minute shifts, there is a climate of tension in the streets of Colombia. Petro himself has been warning of an eventual coup d’état and a fraud that would seek to prevent a triumph that his followers take for granted.
21 Fallacies feeding ‘Cancel Culture’ and holding back the contemporary U.S. Left
Does the US Left have a “cancel culture” problem? Or is ‘cancel culture’ just a cynical right-wing bogeyman aimed at disparaging leftists, Millennials, and academia?
What role for elected officials in the class struggle?
Every socialist interprets the past considering arguments they want to make in the present. But it’s also true that one can’t just “cut history to fit a model,” especially if that history doesn’t even explain the past.
Australia: Good riddance to Morrison, time to fight Labor!
The union leaders have stood by for years while the bosses and governments have got away with whittling away jobs and workplace rights. That has to end.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part III)
This is the final installment of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared as “From quagmire to defeat” in the International Socialist Review.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part II)
Here, we feature the second of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared as “From the overthrow of Diem to the Tet Offensive” in the International Socialist Review. The final installment will follow.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part I)
Here, we feature the first of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared in the International Socialist Review. The other installments will follow.
Israel promises more ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Despite Israel’s ongoing repression, Palestinians inside the Zionist state and in the occupied Palestinian territories have continued to resist Zionist settler-colonialism, occupation and oppression.
War in Ukraine has brought Poland’s inhumane abortion laws to light
War has returned to Europe, which means that rape as a weapon of war has also returned to Europe. Unwanted pregnancies from these rapes are happening today, right here in Europe.
Al Jazeera condemns Israeli attack on Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral
The news network said that attack on mourners participating in the funeral ‘violates all norms and international laws’.
US groups demand full probe after Israeli forces kill journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known 51-year-old Palestinian-American correspondent, was wearing a helmet and press jacket that clearly identified her as a journalist when Israeli forces shot her in the face as she covered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.
