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The Egyptian Uprising

February 10, 2011October 23, 2018

More at The Real News -Chris Shortsleeve The uprising in Egypt is escalating. Imperialists who have said that ‘stability’ is what makes for good democracy, racists who have said that Arabs do not want their freedom, patriarchs who have said that women do not attend, much less lead, protests, and the Western middle classes who

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Palestine today, but what about tomorrow?

June 10, 2010October 27, 2018

By Will and jubayr Last week, we all watched as the Obama administration asked to get “all the facts” before releasing a comprehensive statement about the murder of 9 Palestine solidarity activists by the Israeli Defense Force aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.  If he just waits a little longer, he might be able to find

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Iran Retrospective

January 5, 2010October 27, 2018

By Will and mlove Two weekends ago in Iran hundreds of thousands people (perhaps more) took to the streets once again and defied the clerical regime. The holiday of Ashura was turned into another referendum in the streets with people marching, as well as attacking police stations and banks. Not only were about a dozen

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Afro-Asian Solidarity from Below or Above?

December 27, 2009October 27, 2018

by Will Afro-Asian solidarity is the basic idea that people from these backgrounds have struggled together against white supremacy and colonialism.  This can be expanded to how both have influenced each other culturally in terms of music, food, and clothes. I have felt this takes on a particularly important dimension in the United States where

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Collapse of the Palestinian Authority?

November 23, 2009October 27, 2018

Is the Palestinian Authority (PA) going to collapse?  If not the PA, then is Fatah imploding? No one can say for sure, but the succession of events over the past several months brings these questions to mind; questions which could drastically reshape the struggle for Palestine as we know it. The current change in the

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Nidal Hasan: The Soul of a People

November 12, 2009July 6, 2020

For the moment, no one can say for sure that they understand the dynamics behind the events at Ft. Hood involving Nidal Hasan. What is clear is that he attacked military personnel whose sole purpose is to kill Arabs and Muslims. This should not be forgotten. He was humiliated and attacked for being Arab and

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Crashing the Party: Protesting Apartheid Celebrations in Seattle

October 30, 2009October 27, 2018

-gila The following are two speeches, one by myself and the other by Wen, given at a rally protesting Israel’s Independence Day at the University of Washington in April, 2009. Each year, the Zionist groups on campus take the opportunity to hold what they call “IsraelPalooza,” which they frame as a purely cultural Independence Day

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The Labor Movement in Egypt

October 16, 2009October 27, 2018

written with mlove Over the past three years the energy of Egyptian workers has created exciting  possibilities for the working class across the Middle East. In December of 2006 over 24,000 workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving company in Ghazl el-Mahalla initiated a wave of strikes and industrial actions that has extended well beyond the

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Iran: Charting Unknown Territory

October 7, 2009October 27, 2018

by Will   This has been a huge couple of weeks for developments regarding Iran.  While Gathering Forces has not had a chance to discuss the massive protests which erupted in Iran over the summer, the urgency of what has taken place with Iran declaring basic civilian nuclear capabilities, Israel hawkish stance towards Iran, and

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More victories against Israeli apartheid

September 24, 2009October 27, 2018

As the Obama administration reversed its decision to force a freeze on West Bank settlements as a pre-condition for restarting the so-called “peace process,” more important developments were happening in Palestine solidarity. The first is the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation officially endorsed the call for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

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