Essays & Interviews
‘A Productive Language’: On Western Intellectual Paradigms and Refaat al-Areer
Placing Refaat Al-Areer's life alongside the likes of Hanna Mikhail and Fathi al-Shiqaqi as examples of Amilcar Cabral's class suicide in action, Ameed Faleh assesses the way that Palestinian intellectuals have sought to advance the Palestinian liberation struggle through their work, battling against attempts to foreclose it through normalisation and peace talks.
‘A Bond of the Same Nature’: Cartographies of Affiliation in the Global South
Tracing Palestine’s gradual role as a vanguard for Third World struggles, Suleiman Hodali details how the diverse set of triumphs, lessons, and tactics of resistance in the country formed a set of theories and practices for resistance against imperialism upon which others modelled their own forms of struggle.
Two Logics of War: Liberation Against Genocide
Unable to defeat the Palestinian armed resistance in successive battles, Israel has turned instead to intensifying its genocidal violence against unarmed Palestinians as the means to restore its necessary equation of material and ideological force.
Direct Action and the Global Fight Against Israel’s Arms Industry
Amid Western governments’ active participation in the genocide in Gaza, Liam Doherty describes the current state of organised and unorganised resistance in the imperialist core against manufacturers that facilitate the destruction of Palestine.
‘Got Fuck All’: Brendan ‘The Dark’ Hughes’ Dissident Republicanism
Marking the 15th anniversary of Brendan Hughes’ death, a short anthology of his writings – The Dark: Selected Writings of Brendan Hughes – bears testimony to a life which took Hughes from urban guerrilla, political prisoner, hunger striker and folk hero to reluctant dissident and outcast, told in its protagonist's own words.
‘The situation in the North of Ireland remains a colonial one’: An interview with Odrán de Bhaldraithe
Ahead of its publication on the 22nd of June, Louis Allday spoke to Odrán de Bhaldraithe about Neglect in the North of Ireland, a book that details the manifest neglect in the North’s economy, its politics, housing, and healthcare, the root of which is clear: British rule.
Time for real change? Sinn Féin and the recent Stormont election
Instead of celebrating the demise of the British institutions as a welcome step on the road to reunification, Sinn Féin find themselves pleading with their unionist partners in the administration of British rule in Ireland to return to Stormont. That the largest republican party is showing such commitment to the smooth functioning of the northern state should be worrying to anyone invested in reunification.
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- China
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- Third World
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