Bulletin

Articles

• International Court and Justice for Gaza: A Public Meeting On The ICJ Ruling
  23 February, by Indians for Palestine

  By January 11, 2024, the daily death rate in Gaza was higher than in any other major 21st-century conflict. The death toll in Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has now crossed 29,000, most of whom are women and children, with over 70,000 Gazans wounded. Among those killed are approximately 85 journalists and media workers, 152 UN workers, 600 health workers and 12,000 children. The long-term impacts of this continuing massacre go far beyond the immediate casualties: deepening poverty, severe (…)

• Undoing Oslo
  22 March, by Alberto Toscano

  Five months into Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people – a compendium of colonial violence, from the bombing of maternity wards to what Raphael Lemkin once called ‘racial discrimination in feeding’ – there has been no shortage of critical commentary. Diaspora intellectuals have worked tireless to counter Zionist hasbara; yet when Palestinians are called upon, it is usually to bear witness to brutality and dispossession, not to give their political prescriptions. Haidar (…)

• Line of Succession
  23 February, by John Sidel

  This year, elections across the world are offering a stark reminder that voters can expect very little from liberal democracy, even under conditions of ‘free and fair’ competition. It’s easy to bemoan the rigged results in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Russia, or the advantages of incumbency for the BJP in India and the ANC in South Africa. But the spectacle of a Biden-Trump rematch in the US, plus the dismal expectations for a Starmer government in the UK, suggest that problems with contemporary (…)

• If It Isn’t a Genocide in Gaza, Then What Is It?
  14 January, by Gideon Levy

  Let us assume that Israel’s position at The Hague is right and just and Israel committed no genocide or anything close to it. So what is this? What do you call the mass killing, which continues even as these lines are being written, without discrimination, without restraint, on a scale that is difficult to imagine?
  What to call dying children on hospital floors, some of whom have no one left in the world, and hungry elderly civilians fleeing for their lives from the unceasing threat of (…)

• 2024: Wake Up Call For The Left
  17 April, by Editorial, Amandla!

  The coming 2024 national and provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting. By all accounts, the ANC is not likely to win an outright majority, and new configurations of power might emerge. The failure to be present in these elections is indicative of the state of the Left and of the labour and social movements. They are a shadow of the movements which were so decisive in (…)

• WSF 2024 Reveals True Face of Nepal’s Communist Rulers
  19 March, by Lok Bhattarai

  Nepal’s socio-political landscape, dominated by international aid-driven initiatives and limited grassroots activism, stands in contrast to the WSF’s ethos of grassroots mobilization and autonomous social movements.
  The dilemma in Nepal lies in the juxtaposition of its present government, led by former Maoist rebels who once championed the abolition of individual property and the establishment of a communist state, with their lack of interest, formal support, and participation in the (…)