International News
African Liberation Day: Smash settler colonialism!
by Monica Moorehead, Workers World (USA)
The origin of African Liberation Day is rooted in 1958, when the first elected prime minister of Ghana, the great Pan-Africanist and socialist leader Kwame Nkrumah, convened the First Conference of Independent States held in Accra, Ghana. That conference was attended by eight independent African states.
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Eyewitness Korea
by New Worker correspondent
The DPR Korea is marching along the road to socialism. That was the message of Dermot Hudson who has recently returned from a visit to north Korea and that was the main theme of his talk at a Korean Friendship Association (KFA) meeting in central London last weekend.
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Vietnam: the culture of convenience
by Alex Reeves, VNS
‘Hanging out’ - something that exists in pretty much every culture around the world. Younger people, especially, will always find somewhere to meet and enjoy one another’s company without the watchful gaze of the parental eye. Sadly, despite this being a demographic I can no longer identify myself within, it’s no less fascinating to see the Vietnamese equivalent of my younger years.
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Gaza: the carnage continues
by William Briggs, Guardian (Australian communist weekly)
The slaughter in Gaza goes on. The lies, distortions and hypocrisy from Israel and its allies go on. The anniversary of Nakba, the catastrophe of dispossession on 15th May 1948 has been and gone, been commemorated as never before in all countries. An overwhelming number of states now share a desire to recognise Palestine.
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Scholars denounce Dalai Lama clique
Tibet.cn
Chinese Tibetologists have rebutted the accusations that the Tibetan culture is being destroyed, saying such claims glorified the anachronistic culture of the few serf owners, while ignoring the improvements enjoyed by the Tibetan people.
Zhang Yun, a researcher with the China Tibetology Research Centre, said the “Tibetan culture” uttered by the Dalai Lama clique only represented their own class and had little to do with the vast majority of the people in Tibet .
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A cornered beast
by Guillermo Alvarado, Radio Havana Cuba
The Zionist State of Israel continues its accelerated race to become a pariah in the world of nations, after the highest body of justice of the UN ordered the immediate cessation of military operations against the defenceless Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.
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Features
Israel’s Unending Genocidal War on the Palestinians
by Vijay Prashad, People’s Democracy (India)
AFTER seven months, the lead prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan KC, decided to announce that he would be looking into framing warrants regarding Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. With nearly 40,000 people dead and 10,000 missing, and with over two million people displaced and threatened with death from bombs or from disease, this war is one of the worst in recent years. Israel’s military has deliberated cut off Gaza from food and water and has systematically bombed institutions of the state and civil society so that any return of the displaced will be more than difficult
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Paving the way for fascists
by John Miles, Sputnik
The West has committed many atrocities in the name of spreading liberal European values.
Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party has been rocked by scandal in recent days after its top candidate in forthcoming European Union elections defended the Nazi Party’s notorious Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary organisation.
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