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Greece: How Crete Kicked Out Golden Dawn

Jessica Bateman / The Guardian (London)

Teachers and activists in Heraklion explain how they drove the ultra-nationalist, far-right Greek party from the island.

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Iran: Our Bodies Are a Battleground

Annahita Moradi / Red Pepper (London)

Today, a large population of Iranians are displaying civil disobedience. Taking to the streets with their hair illegally on show, they aren’t calling for a hijab ban. But the opposite: the freedom of choice.

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Unravelling of the Palestinian National Movement

Osama Al Sharif / Gulf News (Dubai)

The deepening Fatah-Hamas rift and US-Israel moves have left people to face the vicious occupation on their own.

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The Current Leaders Are an Obstacle To the Unification of Africa

Horace G. Campbell / Pambazuka News (Oxford)

Africa needs a new alliance of traders, workers, small farmers, progressive students, cultural artists and religious leaders to create a new movement for unification and freedom.

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Spain Against Itself

Jorge Tamames / Jacobin (New York)

Over the last decade, the emergence of the indignados movement, Podemos, and Catalonia’s bid for independence have significantly eroded the post-Franco order’s legitimacy.

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In Buenos Aires, All Roads Lead To Resistance

Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

Activists from across Latin America and the world marched to reject the G20 Summit.

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To Understand the ‘Yellow Vests’, Look To French Guiana

Manu Saadia / Washington Post

During the last French presidential campaign, a group of grass-roots activists in Guiana began demonstrating against the sale of a nonprofit hospital to a private operator. As its support widened among the population, the movement and its leaders broadened the scope of their demands.

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More News About the Vests

John Mullen / die Linke Berlin Internationals

France is not on the edge of a revolutionary situation or of a civil war. But the movement is on the rise, and very determined.