The US singer-songwriter, who has died at 97, encountered Louis Armstrong and more as she championed civil rights as much as music. In her final interview conducted last week, she explained why she was still angry.
Past solidarity movements teach us that organization is just as important as mobilization. For Palestine solidarity activists it could be useful to look more deeply at the history of international solidarity, particularly in the last three decades.
In 2005, Palestinians called on the world to boycott Israel until it complied with international law. What if we had listened? The current atrocities in Gaza dramatically strengthen the case for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
La Via Campesina on the global political context
The Friends of Chile, An Evening With Salvador Allende Benefit Concert, on May 11, 1974, was one of the first to openly confront the intervention of the U.S. government in the military coup that had overthrown Salvador Allende a year earlier.
From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.
Arrests of 'Angry Patriots' like war blogger Igor Strelkov in Russia have begun. No matter how wrong the Angry Patriots may be, they are punished not for their sins, not even for their principles, but for the fact that they have principles at all.
The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression.
Bringing back proletarian internationalism one May Day at a time
Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.
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