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Civilization crisis, limits of the planet, inequality, assaults to democracy, permanent war state and people in resistance. There is no time Other than the one that has touched us. Joan Manuel Serrat Crisis of the hegemonic civilizational pattern We are experiencing...
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,...
The student strike wave that swept through the Canadian province of Quebec the past several months, now beginning to spark in other Canadian provinces and campuses, is a watershed moment in the struggle against neoliberal austerity in Canada. What began as a revolt...
May 4, 2012 is a day that I shall not forget. Early in the morning, I heard that my trade union comrade and friend, Olaitan Oyerinde, had been killed. He was shot four times in his home, in front of his wife, about an hour after midnight. Lintin, as some of us used to...
Phillip Tobias, who died on 7th June 2012 aged 86, was probably South Africa’s most honoured and decorated scientist. He was world renowned for his path-finding work in palaeoanthropology that combined studies of paleontology and physical anthropology. At a time when...
Dr. Mads Gilbert and a team of Palestinian surgeons prepare emergency treatment at al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s invasion of Gaza in January 2009. (NORWAC) For many people around the world, Israel’s three-week attack on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009...
Amid the focus on the economic hardships caused by Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, it has been easy for many to overlook the fact that the territory’s 1.6 million people have been kept under a cultural siege as well. This is ironic because much...
This year has borne witness to some staggeringly large student protests, with over 200,000 recently taking to the streets of Montreal in opposition to tuition fee hikes. But a less spotlighted action took place last week at the University of the Witwatersrand in...
Continually lost in the ongoing row about the mooted youth wage subsidy is the context in which it is being proposed. Not just the national, but the global context. It is a context in which there are fewer and fewer jobs for more and more job seekers. At the same...