the Palestinian resistance organisation Hamas publically renounced the Syrian regime on Friday of last week. Its public break with its one time ally president Bashar al Assad sent an important message.
Protests erupted across Afghanistan last week after copies of the Quran were found in an incinerator at Bagram, the biggest US base in the country.
Refugees collect prescriptions in a tent field hospital run by a German NGO. As landless people they are not eligible for treatment in government hospitals, no matter how desperate their condition.
Last week I argued that locating women’s oppression within the family and the rise of class society helps us to understand why it exists.
The wave of popular revolutions across the Middle East is radically shaking up established political structures and allegiances—and the tremors from these centres of unrest have had an effect on Palestine too.
The rift between Hamas and Fatah runs very deep, despite their reconciliation last year.
Israel did not share the worldwide celebration of the fall of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Women’s lives today are dramatically different to how they were just a few decades ago.
World leaders are in a panic about the future of the eurozone and the economic crisis in Greece.
For Western rulers Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has gone from reformer to war criminal. At the same time his repression of protests against his regime is threatening to drive large numbers of Syrians into the arms of the West.
Panos Garganas, Editor of Workers Solidarity The experience of 15 general strikes over two years has resulted in a high level of radicalisation.The employers are on the offensive. The IMF and EU say the government must cut wages to be more competitive.
Forty years ago this month, a mass picket shut down Saltley coking depot during a miners’ strike—and turned the tide in the dispute.
