Julian Assange, the elephant in the room at this year's Journalism Festival in Perugia
The Australian journalist/editor is missing from the official program but activists will be distributing a pamphlet showing why his case touches everyone
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The Australian journalist/editor is missing from the official program but activists will be distributing a pamphlet showing why his case touches everyone
PeaceLink English - Out today in Italian: Nils Melzer's exposé of "The Trial of Julian Assange" - The Australian journalist/editor is missing from the official program but activists will be distributing a pamphlet showing why his case touches everyone working in the media. They will also be handing out a flyer on the new Melzer book.
Book Club: An intersectional unpacking of settler colonialism, Zionism and Palestinian liberation, Nada Elia's thought-provoking book connects the dots of transnational solidarity and how Palestinian activism benefits from interconnectedness.
An excerpt from We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few. Direct self-organization makes a constitutional system unnecessary while simultaneously dismantling the rule of property
Robert Fine, who died on 9 June 2018, was a socialist writer unafraid to stand up to much of the left’s received wisdom on the questions of Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism. He opposed the “absolute anti-Zionist” standpoint that one should unreservedly object to (a) Israel’s very existence, rather than the oppressive practices of the Israeli state, and (b) any feelings of Jewish communal or national identification with Israel, even when such feelings are accompanied with harsh condemnation of the Israeli government or genuine horror at the Palestinians’ suffering.