Israel鈥檚 siege of Northern Gaza and its violation of the recently signed ceasefire deal in Lebanon were the people鈥檚 focus at the 60th聽consecutive week of protests for Palestine.
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Isaac Nellist discusses Israel鈥檚 latest attacks on Lebanon and talks to Zack Schofield, an activist with Rising Tide, about Labor鈥檚 expansion of coal mining in New South Wales and how we can resist.
The 50th week of continuous protests against Israel鈥檚 genocide came days after their terrorist attacks on the people of Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
Protesters marked 11 months of Israel鈥檚 genocidal assault against the people of Gaza over September 7鈥8, as Israel thwarts negotiations for a ceasefire and Israelis take to streets.听Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Hundreds of people have staged a protest outside the government headquarters in Beirut in the second consecutive day of protests against the ongoing economic crisis, reports Peoples Dispatch.
The deadly ammonium nitrate explosion in Lebanon is a symptom of capitalism's disregard for human life and the environment, writes John Molyneux.听
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced a new government on January 21. The cabinet, made up of technocratic ministers backed by the main parties, is promising to tackle the country's deep economic crisis.听Karim Traboulsi reports on the protest movement, which shows no sign of letting up.
Now in its second month, the uprising in Lebanon is revealing its nature and cultural character.
The word inscribed upon the wrist of the iconic 6-metre high fist in downtown Beirut 鈥 which was firebombed early Friday morning but was rebuilt the following day 鈥 is 孬賵乇丞 (thawra); meaning revolution, and this is what is going on here.
Two weeks of sustained mass protests across Lebanon have forced the government of Prime Minister Saad Hariri to resign. At its peak, the movement united to form a 170 kilometre-long human chain from Tripoli to Tyre. While Hariri鈥檚 resignation met one of the movement鈥檚 demands, demonstrators have vowed to keep struggling for more fundamental change in the country. Nizar Hassan, who participated in the uprising as a member of the LilHaqqi movement, looks at the origins and dynamics behind the protests.
Today, Tarshiha is promoted on AirBnB as Ma鈥檃lot-Tarshiha in the Galilee region of Israel and, depending on your budget, you can book somewhere chic and stylish to take in the stunning views or a more humble, village style experience. Seventy years ago though, Tarshiha was a village in Palestine.
The Socialist Alliance and its youth wing, Resistance, expresses our solidarity with the people of Paris and Beirut who were targeted in back-to-back acts of terror by ISIS forces in the past few days.
As news arrived yesterday of terror attacks in Paris that ultimately left more than 120 people dead, US President Barack Obama characterized the situation as 鈥渉eartbreaking鈥 and an assault 鈥渙n all of humanity.鈥
But his presidential sympathy was conspicuously absent the previous day when terror attacks in Beirut left more than 40 dead. Predictably, Western media and social media were much less vocal about the slaughter in Lebanon.
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