As one of the activists on the Mavi Marmara, I was overjoyed at the news that Turkey had this month issued indictments against those responsible for Israel’s assault on unarmed humanitarian aid workers sailing in international waters for Gaza two years ago today. Nine...
Two visits outside the heart of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marked the highpoints of my visit to that city for the infamous Rio+20 summit. The first was on 14 June with colleagues from the Oilwatch International network and that visit took us to Caxias. This is a...
Handala, Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali’s iconic shoeless refugee boy, reproduced on a wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in where Palestinians have been protesting the confiscation of their land for the expansion of a nearby Israeli settlement. In...
On 27 April 2013 Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), the largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa, established in Durban in 2005. Released a press statement entitled “Marikana: A New Land Occupation Founded on UnFreedom Day 2013.”...
Amandla!: What in your view are the factors that gave rise to the latest assault on Gaza and why did it happen at this time? Why has it taken such an exceptionally brutal form? Gilbert Achcar: The real qualitative escalation in brutality goes along with the drift of...
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