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Bernie Sanders on the devastation in Palestine

We publish here the video (from X, formerly Twitter) in which US Senator Bernie Sanders addresses the Prime Minister of Israel on the Palestinian issue: Bernie Sanders: “No, Mr. Netanyahu, you are not anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas point out that in…

May Day 2024 in Ghent (Belgium): Remembering the Roots, Embracing the Future

Historical context of May Day As the calendar turned to 1st of May 2024, the internationally recognized workers day or May Day, many protests were organized worldwide. Celebrating, and reminding us the struggle of the brave generations before us that…

“This Is the Conscience of a Nation”: Columbia Faculty Back Students as Campus Movement Continues

In New York, police moved in on Fordham University protesters just hours after they set up their encampment at Fordham’s Lincoln Square campus. The Fordham raid came a day after New York police arrested nearly 300 protesters at Columbia University…

Big Tech seeks to consolidate its hold on journalism

“Can Journalism Survive AI?” was the provocative title of one of the key presentations at the recent Perugia International Journalism Festival (#ijf24, April 17-21).  Young activists from the Perugia Social Center “Turba” say no, it cannot. The topic of AI…

New Book About NATO By Medea Benjamin and David Swanson

NATO What You Need To Know By MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON “An indispensable primer. It can save your life — indeed all of our lives…NATO is a clear and present danger to world peace, a war machine run amok.”…

Columbia students occupy Hamilton Hall after school suspends students. New protest encampments all over the US

Students at Columbia University took over Hamilton Hall just after midnight after the school began suspending students who refused to leave the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which began almost two weeks ago. The hall was also the site of a historic…

Yeheli Cialic: “Israel, we cannot stand by and watch. Silence is complicity”

Yeheli Cialic is the coordinator of Mesarvot, a network of young Israeli conscientious objectors who refuse to join the army in protest of the occupation and the war in Gaza, a choice that means going against everything they have been…

It has been proven that wars do not resolve conflicts.

For those who create wars, there are no days or nights, no summers or winters; what matters is to show dark areas where birds of prey fly over corpses. The images they show us are of devastation. Only in this…

12 years of ‘legalized theft’ of our sea

A little more than a decade ago, the Fishing Law was based on acts of corruption. Investigations by the Public Prosecutor’s Office uncovered the financing of parliamentarians at the time by the big fishing companies and established the bribery of…

The struggle against apartheid in Palestine and Latin America

On the occasion of the 76th commemoration of the Nakba, the First World Conference against Apartheid in Palestine will be held in Gauteng, South Africa, from 10 to 12 May, under the slogan “Towards a global front against Israeli genocide…

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