The Australian Socialist Alliance released this statement on March 6. The Socialist Alliance in Australia expresses its deepest sympathies with the people and government of Venezuela on the death of Companero Hugo Chavez Frias on March 5. His passing is a huge loss...
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Palestinian Culture: 64 Years Under Israeli Assault | by IMEU
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 late July,...
PCHRO: The EU fails to uphold international law in its relations with Israel
Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations/Al Haq 26 July 2012 Following the Association Council meeting on 24 July 2012 between the European Union (EU) and Israel, it was announced that the EU has agreed upon developing cooperation with Israel by offering it...
Rwandan genocide survivors still waiting for reparation | by Juergen Schurr
The survivors of one of the worst genocides in modern history are fast losing hope that they will ever be compensated. ALMOST two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, in which up to 1 million people died, hundreds of thousands of survivors are still waiting for...
The Spectre of South Africa | by John Reynolds
Next week, the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in Cape Town’s famous District Six. In the 1970s, 60,000 residents of District Six were forcibly removed following its designation as a White Area by the apartheid regime. Based on...
The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels | by John Pilger
"Information Clearing House" -- On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African...
Libya: The West’s new client? | by Simon Assaf
The uprising in Libya was inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. But the intervention of Nato forces changed the situation dramatically. Simon Assaf asks if Libya is now destined to become a client state of Western powers or whether its revolution could...
‘Somalia on Verge of Worst Humanitarian Tragedy’ | by Yohannan Chemarapally
WAR torn Somalia faces yet another grave threat as the worst drought in decades devastates vast expanses of land in the Horn of Africa region. The other countries affected to a lesser extent are Ethiopia and Kenya. By early August, according to reports by...


