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Monthly Archives: February 2008

From Occupation and Resistance

Celebrating the Palestinian poetry of Resistance

Thrombosis in the veins of Petroleum
Taha Muhammad Ali
When I was a child
I fell into the abyss
but didn’t die;
I drowned in the pond
when I was young,
but did not die;
and now, God help us—
one of my habits is running
into battalions of land mines
along the border,
as my songs
and the days of my youth
are […]

SACP: Fidel Castro resigns

The SACP [South African Communist Party — ed.] has received the news that Cde Fidel Castro will not be available for the next term of office as President of Cuba and Chief Commander of the Cuban Armed Forces.
We wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Cde Fidel Castro for having been an exemplary revolutionary who […]

Comrade Jim Jones in Defense of Stalin

Jones: —(unintelligible word) the life cycle, the life cycle of uh, revolutionaries over and over again repeat themselves. I’m not Lenin, I don’t have that great capacity. We weren’t the originators of the hope of the world, October 17 Revolution, although I’m sure I would’ve been if I had been there, and uh— to some, […]

Sri Lanka: Peace and justice for Tamils needs international action

Margaret Gleeson, Brisbane
16 February 2008
A packed public meeting at Brisbane’s Activist Centre on February 6 heard Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese consultant physician in Brisbane, deliver a passionate and informative presentation on the long struggle of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking minority against persecution by that country’s Sinhalese-dominated government.
Senewiratne, who comes from the family that has produced […]

End the Siege of Gaza

An Interview with Baha Abu Hussein, Palestinian Progressive Youth Union 
From: Fight Back!
The following interview with Baha Abu Hussein, the Director of International Relations in the Palestinian Progressive Youth Union, was conducted by Kosta Harlan.
Baha Abu Hussein, who lives in Gaza, was one of the delegates to the March 2007 conference in solidarity with the […]