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Toufic Haddad and Phil Gasper 6 February, 2024 (Reprinted from Links magazine. https://links.org.au/palestinian-resistance-and-war-gaza-interview-toufic-haddad) First published at New Politics. Toufic Haddad is a Palestinian author and academic living in Jerusalem. His book Palestine Ltd.: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory was published in 2016. He was interviewed on Zoom by New Politics editorial board member Phil Gasper on November 25,ContinueContinue reading “Palestinian resistance and the war in Gaza: An interview with Toufic Haddad”

By Lennie Brenner Barricade Books, Fort Lee, New Jersey, 2002, 342 pp. Reviewed by Barry Sheppard This book is important reading now in the context of the Israel-U.S. genocidal war in Gaza, part of a drive to expel Palestinians from the land Israel rules from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and from EgyptContinueContinue reading “51 DOCUMENTS — Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis”

Ni Sonny Melencio, Chairperson, Partido Lakas ng Masa 1. Ang banggaan ng kampong Marcos Jr. at ng kampong Duterte ay hindi lamang banggaan ng dalawang makapangyarihang dinastiyang pampulitika. Nasa likod nito ang galaw ng oligarkiya sa Pilipinas at ng mga kapitalistang sumusuporta sa sinumang kampo. 2. Nakakaisang taon at kalahati pa lamang sa pwesto siContinueContinue reading “Pahayag Hinggil sa Banggaan ng Dalawang Pangunahing Dinastiya sa Bansa”

Transcription of an interview reprinted from Democracy Now, February 1, 2024. Accessed online at https://shorturl.at/kFMTY The U.S. continues to launch airstrikes on Yemen in response to the campaign of missile and drone attacks on commercial ships along key global trade routes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden led by Ansar Allah, also knownContinueContinue reading ““The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah”

(International Law) Hand pushing scale out of balance. Unequal Concept. Vector illustration By Perry Anderson [Reprinted from New Left Review 143, September-October 2023. ] In 1929 Lucien Febvre offered the first systematic reflection on the evolution of the meanings of the term ‘civilization’, from singular ideal, which he dated to the third quarter of theContinueContinue reading “The Standard of Civilization”

ni Sonny Melencio TUWING may mauupong bagong kinatawan ng naghaharing uri sa bansa, ang pagbabago ng Konstitusyon ay lagi nang kinahihibangang adyenda. Mula kay FVR, Estrada, Macapagal-Arroyo, at Duterte – liban lang sa anak ni Cory na si Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III – ito ay lagi nang obsesyon nila. Parang isang monumento na kailangang tibaginContinueContinue reading “ANG BAGONG PAKANA NA ISALAKSAK ANG ‘CHA-CHA’ SA PAMAMAGITAN NG PEOPLE’S INITIATIVE”

Sana’a Yemen. People mobilizing against US-UK attacks. Posting from Free Palestine. By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard Joe Biden said he would do it. For weeks Yemen’s Houthi-led government has been hitting commercial shipping to and from Israel in the Red Sea, in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Israel’s Eilat Port has seen anContinueContinue reading “Biden’s Launches Wider Middle East War for Israel”

 Ito ang pangunahing dokumentong pinagtibay ng ika-4 na Kongreso ng Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) noong Setyembre 30, 2023 sa University of the Philippines. Inilalathala para maipalaganap ang nilalaman ng Plataporma ng Gobyerno ng Masa mula ngayon hanggang transisyon tungong sosyalismo. ANG PLATAPORMA NG GOBYERNO NG MASA ay plataporma ng gobyerno na binubuo ng mgaContinueContinue reading “Plataporma ng Gobyerno ng Masa”

SONNY MELENCIO* ‘Capitalism cannot solve global warming and the destruction of the ecosystem as these are brought about by the operations of the system itself’ [This was written during the COP27 Conference. There will be a COP28 Conference in November this year to be held in Dubai.] COP27 (the 27th Conference of the Parties on ClimateContinueContinue reading “ECOSOCIALISM: ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALIST ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS”

  By Reihana Mohideen Notes of a presentation at the PLM Webinar, November 18, 2023 It’s clear that the Israeli state and government aim to drive out the Palestinian people from Gaza  – a second Al Nakba. We are witnessing a program of ethnic cleansing – mass murder and driving Palestinians out of Gaza. BabiesContinueContinue reading “The Rise of International Anti-War Movements in Solidarity with Palestine & Against Israeli-U.S. Occupation”