Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on repression and includes content relating to human rights violations, restriction of citizen and civil freedoms and rights of political activists, dissidents and the general population, surveillance, police brutality, imprisonment, acts of violence terror such as summary executions and torture.
It was virtually inevitable that, once the British government decided to actively support Israelās mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an unprecedented, authoritarian crackdown…
In August 2024, Palestine Action activists raided an Israeli arms factory in Bristol, causing property damage and a clash with security. Though…
On Monday, June 8, I received terrible news from my friend Rosa, a youth activist and the founder of three community gardens…
In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional…
I just got back from Labor Notes. Itās the biggest conference of the grassroots, activist wing of the labor movement. Thousands of…
Bolivia is at breaking point. For over forty days, the cities of La Paz and El Alto, along with the regions of…
On June 12, 2026, a UK judge at Woolwich Crown Court convicted four Palestine Action activists as terrorists and sentenced them to…
There now seems to be general recognition about the praxis the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), via the state it controls, is pursuing.…
Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, releasing a new set of…
Original essay, Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund, by Leivick Hodes. Translation and commentary by Madeleine Cohen. INTRODUCTION Polish…
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