"The complexity of the Israel/Palestine conflict is that at its root is a conflict between two fundamentally legitimate aspirations", Vivienne Porzsolt claimed in Green Left Weekly No. 110. This assertion is
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Palestinian academic, Dr Ilham Abu Ghazaleh, toured Australia recently for the United Church, speaking on a range of issues relating to the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank by Israel. A linguistics professor at Jerusalem's
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Up to half a million civilian refugees have been created by a week of Israeli bombing and shelling of southern Lebanon. More than 8000 Israeli artillery shells have indiscriminately pounded towns and villages. One hundred
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"I was very young when we left Jaffa in 1948, when my family became refugees", Dr Ilham Abu Ghazaleh recalls. "Life was extremely difficult. We lived on the bare minimum. We emigrated to another city where we had uncles and
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Just a year ago, on July 22, the federal government convened the Youth Jobs Summit. Media hype around the summit sought to create the impression that its aim was to create jobs, particularly for young people. However, the real
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On July 26, 1953, 131 young Cubans attacked the Moncada military garrison in Santiago de Cuba, while a smaller group attacked army headquarters at Bayamo. The events were the beginning of a mass movement that would end of the
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Islamic fundamentalism, and Islam in general, cannot be taken out of historical and political context. Western media hype portraying Islam as an inspiration for terror clouds the real nature of Islam in the Middle East. Green
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"The Resistance national conference is one of the best vehicles for young activists to discuss, plan and think about radical politics. "Young people around the world are becoming increasingly active and organised to change
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Islamic fundamentalism is the West's new bogy. Over the last two years the Western media have cultivated a fear of Islam, portraying devout Muslims as masked gunmen who threaten to take power in several Middle Eastern
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ANC youth leader to tour AustraliaJeremiah Ndou, head of the ANC Youth League International Affairs Department, will be a guest of the radical youth organisation Resistance at its 22nd national conference in July.
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The ninth round of Middle East peace negotiations opened on April 27. Israel's opening presentation by Yossi Gal signalled some changes in Israel's position. "We come to these talks with the feeling that we should move beyond
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The alternative newspaper Broadside has joined Modern Times and Australian Left Review. Its last edition appeared last week. Green Left Weekly spoke to Broadside's editor, Ian Milliss, about the reason for the paper's closure