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Solidarity with Guantanamo hunger strikers, Part 2
“My decision to go on hunger strike points to the need for new forces to defend the idea of universal human rights. Although the number of inmates refusing to take food at Guantanamo has recently declined substantially, solidarity remains a vitally important factor.” Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Carol Anne Grayson, Clive Stafford Smith, David Nicholl, Fordham International Law Journal, Frankie Boyle, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes, Human rights, Hunger strike, international humanitarian law, London, Mos Def, Orange Free State, Reprieve, torture, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, war on terror, Yasiin Bey
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Solidarity with Guantanamo hunger strikers, Part 1
From the November-December 2013 issue of News & Letters: Solidarity with Guantanamo hunger strikers London, England—Some found it strange that a man voluntarily stopped eating for over 20 days. I found it hard. After all, I like to eat as … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Carol Anne Grayson, Clive Stafford Smith, David Nicholl, Frankie Boyle, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes, Human rights, international humanitarian law, London, Mos Def, Reprieve, torture, war on terror, Yasiin Bey
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News and Letters Committees Call for Plenum 2013
You can find this on the News and Letters website. OFFICIAL CALL FOR PLENUM to Work Out Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2013-2014 February 24, 2013 To All Members of News and Letters Committees Dear Friends: The world today is riven between … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Al Nusra, American Civilization on Trial, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Black history, climate change, Cold War, counter-revolution, Crossroads of History: Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East, democracy, Egypt, global warming, India, Iran, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iraq war, Karl Marx, Kashmir, Mali, Marxist-Humanism, Mohamed Morsi, Muammar Qaddafi, negation of the negation, News and Letters Committees, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Pakistan, patriarchy, philosophy of revolution, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, sexism, Shinzo Abe, Spanish Revolution, state capitalism, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syria, Tahrir Squares, Taliban, Voting Rights Act, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), war on terror, women's liberation movement
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Yemen: famine, drones and freedom
From the new November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters World in View Yemen: famine, drones and freedom by Gerry Emmett Demands for freedom and dignity drove the Arab Spring. In Tunisia, in Tahrir Square in Egypt, in Daraa, Syria, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmed Ali Saleh, al Qaeda, Alaa Al-Eryani, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Arab spring, Change Square, Daraa, drone strikes, Heykal Bafana, Ibrahim al-Khatab, Middle East revolutions, Sana'a, Saudi Arabia, Shatha Al-Harazi, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syria, Tahrir Square, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World, Tunisia Jasmine Revolution, war on terror, world food crisis, Yemen, Yemeni
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