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The prediction that these divisions could undermine the Israeli state from within seems premature at this stage. But there is no doubt that they have exposed serious cracks in the Zionist edifice – ones that may well widen over the coming years.

Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failure

125 years after his birth, Paul Robeson, the civil rights titan, remains a role model for battling racism and fascism. The words written on his gravestone: “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.”

A violent end in a violent time? It's got the world wondering.

Hemedti’s career is an object lesson in political entrepreneurship by a specialist in violence. His conduct and (as of now) impunity are the surest indicator that politics of the mercenary kind that have long defined the Sudanese periphery, have been brought home to the capital city.

The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.

The Court ruled that the manufacturer can keep classifying the product as a spray, not a butter or margarine — and telling consumers that each serving is free of calories and fats.

Although May ’68 itself failed to deliver a revolution, the lessons of the era – alliance-building by including liberation struggles outside of socialism – shaped my later time in power.

During the Great Depression, St Louis’s Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. Black workers, mostly women, worked harder and made less than their white counterparts. So they went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them on the picket line.

Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.