February 28, 2008 – 5:11 pm
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 […]
February 28, 2008 – 5:09 pm
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 […]
February 25, 2008 – 6:53 am
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, […]
February 23, 2008 – 11:34 am
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 […]
February 16, 2008 – 12:29 pm
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 […]