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As the US withdrawal from Afghanistan continues, Kieran Allen argues that media coverage is attempting to lay a protective propaganda blanket over the twenty-year history of the occupation. In 1975, US helicopters scrambled to leave Saigon. In 2021, the US has made a hurried exit from Kabul, leaving behind
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In the aftermath of recent protests in Cuba and ongoing efforts by US elites to intervene on the island, Brian Kelly argues for a principled opposition to the threat of imperialist intervention and against the uncritical attitude adopted by much of the Left towards the Cuban bureaucracy. The outbreak of
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Many claim the recent shaky ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians is the result of a call by Joe Biden to halt hostilities. But this is to misread the situation. A poll published on Israel’s Channel 12 indicated that 72 percent of Israelis thought the air campaign in Gaza
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European governments have long given Israel political cover for their occupation of Palestine and the violence that comes with it. Adrienne Wallace looks at another aspect of this support for Israel: massive arms sales. While news of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine will stop the immediate bombardment of the
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In the wake of the latest assault by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people in East Jerusalem and Gaza, Rebel News is launching a series on Palestine. Here John Molyneux examines the often-used smear against pro-Palestinian activists that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. The argument, almost invariably
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At the beginning of February Myanmar’s military staged a vicious coup. Glenda Cimino details the brutal repression being meted out to those protesting the Junta’s rule and argues for international solidarity. Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering India, Bangladesh,
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Medb McDaid and JS Titus argue that police powers need to be curtailed, not expanded, in the context of the heavy handed policing of the vigil for Sarah Everard. On Saturday 13th March we attended the vigil to remember Sarah Everard in Clapham Common. Sarah was snatched and killed on
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After months of pressure, the Irish government recently announced travel quarantine measures. However, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin argues they fall far short of what’s required, another example of the government putting the wealthy first. At the end of January 2020, US president Donald Trump declared a ban on all foreign
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What place do elections have within socialist strategy? Does the restrictive nature of democracy under capitalism—intentionally stacked in favour of wealthy elites—mean the ballot is of little use for the workers movement or, conversely, that socialists should settle for what they can get from the lesser of two
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Cailín McCaffery looks at the radical history of International Women’s Day, arguing that the day and all it holds remains critical in the fight for real liberation. “We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.” – Bernadette Devlin This past year has
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Sipho Sibanda is a human rights activist who has lived in Belfast since 2015 and specifically focuses on the rights of people seeking refuge in Northern Ireland. In June 2020, Sipho was one of the speakers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Belfast which galvanised thousands of people to
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The race for a vaccine has highlighted the divide between the world’s richest and poorest nations. Finbar Lynch argues for a not-for-profit People’s Vaccine through a suspension of intellectual property rights in order to tackle the pandemic at a global level. “The doctrine that in time