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Books to help readers understand the Palestinians sense of loss of homeland and the 75-year conflict with Israel.

As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza’s civilians, it's important to understand how we reached this point – and what it means for the future, writes Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook Declassified U.K. More than a decade ago, Israel started to unde

From the First Fleet to the courtrooms of Tennant Creek and elsewhere, the one genuinely immutable aspect of 'the world's oldest continuous culture' has been brutality, especially against women and children. Why has the plethora of well-funded Aboriginal councils not tackled the violence? The evidence suggests they can’t solve the problem because they are the problem

Paul Le Blanc — Consistent partisans of actual democracy insist that people have the right to shape their own future. This includes the right to struggle for self-determination.

Jonathan Cook responds to Cheney's warning against the re-election of Donald Trump. By Jonathan Cook MintPress News There is not much to thank Dick Cheney for. But perhaps he deserves credit for one thing: illustrating how effectively our political systems can rehabilitate even the most mo

Activist and author Micheal Euade has traced the history of the struggle for Catalonian nationhood and  its intersection with class struggle from the medieval period to the present in his 2022 book, A People’s History of Catalonia. Alex Salmon reviews.

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Expert on Chinese relations with the west who played a leading role in the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding

Brad Evans’ profile on The Conversation

Louis Allday’s introduction to the newly reissued biography of Ghassan Kanafani outlines the choice Kanafani made between being an organic participant in the resistance and his life as a writer. Kanafani chose, and in doing so, chose his fate.

In January of 2022, a UK-based independent investigative firm called Stoke White Investigations revealed that one of its clients, Karim, had been tortured while in detention in Kashmir. Reports of arbitrary detentions and torture by the Indian military against Kashmiris are not uncommon in the Indian-occupied region. But Karim’s description of his interrogators was peculiar: They were not of Indian origin, he alleged, but white and spoke with US accents. They seemed to show little interest in ...