World

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Green Left’s Alex Salmon spoke to Tamer Shaaban, a 20-year-old engineering student trapped in Gaza, about how his family’s life was torn apart when Israel launched its genocidal war in October last year.

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The federal agency responsible for overseeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has found that officers from the secretive Critical Response Unit violated the rights of anti-logging activists in the Fairy Creek watershed, in British Columbia. Jeff Shantz reports.

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Alberto Fujimori’s 10 years in power were characterised by rampant corruption and horrific acts of violence against Peruvians, writes Ana Zorita.

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How might we develop a socialist approach to technologies, in the face of the threat of rapid, potentially uncontrollable, climate change? Simon Pirani offers his contribution.

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The United States’ anti-Russia campaign took a new twist on September 2, when four activists were put on trial, accused of being Russian agents and conspiring against the US government, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

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Israel has been rocked by an explosion of strikes and protests in recent weeks. Federico Fuentes spoke to Standing Together national field organiser Uri Weltmann in Israel about the protests and their impact on Israeli politics.

Mexico’s senate passed a judicial overhaul that will see nearly all the country’s judges elected by popular vote instead of by government appointment. The hypocritical nature of the US reaction to the reforms is laid bare when looking at the deeply undemocratic judicial system in the US, writes Barry Sheppard.

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In part two of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to community organiser and Chavista activist Gerardo Rojas about the current state of community organising in the country under the combined impacts of sanctions, opposition political violence and the government’s shift away from promoting people’s participation.

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Federico Fuentes spoke to community organiser and Chavista activist Gerardo Rojas on September 4, about why we might be witnessing the Nicolás Maduro government’s final break with the Bolivarian process of radical change initiated by former president Hugo Chávez.

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In the occupied West Bank, Israel’s project of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians reached a new stage on August 28, when it launched its biggest invasion and assault on the territory in 22 years, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

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French president Emmanuel Macron has named right-wing politician Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, ignoring the popular vote that gave the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire the largest group in the National Assembly, reports John Mullen.

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Indigenous Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand are currently facing multiple attacks on their rights and wellbeing by the ruling conservative coalition government, led by the National party, reports Zara Lomas.