Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Green Left Weekly
Thousands of people rallied and marched in cities around Australia on August 12, demanding an immediate end to Israel’s wars on Lebanon and Palestine.
A diverse crowd of more than 5000 joined the rally in Sydney, organised by the Australian Arabic Committee in Solidarity with the People of (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Q. Since last Wednesday, the Israeli Army has been imposing a siege on Lebanon and bombarding the country as a result of the abduction of two of its soldiers and the killing of seven others by a Lebanese Hezbollah commando unit. Israel’s reaction was predictable, even in its disproportion. What (…)
, by RCG (Lebanon)
By their attempt to kill a large number of unarmed civilians, and to destroy infrastructure that has been previously destroyed many times, the current Zionist government, in response to “The sincere promise” operation that the fighters of Hezbollah lately performed, aims at changing the rules of (…)
, by HIDOUCI Ghazi
The Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation was enacted in August 2005 and approved by referendum on September 29, 2005. The law stipulates the closure of cases of prosecution and the termination of sentences for people who committed acts of violence between 1992 and 2006, excluding those (…)
, by HEVER Shir
“It is in fact astonishing that the divestment campaign should have generated so much controversy, given that its primary demand is simply that a country that is showered with official and unofficial American assistance […] merely acknowledge and implement the rule of law.”
—Saree Makdisi1 (…)
, by PARSI Trita
When Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” in October 2005, the world appeared to be light years away from the end of history. It seemed that ideologues had once more taken the reins of power and rejoined a battle in which there could be no (…)
, by NUJ
The National Union of Jounalists is to hold a demonstration outside Bush House, London, on Monday (5/6) in support of two BBC producers - both NUJ members - who were attacked after covering a meeting of the General Assembly of the Journalists’ Syndicate in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
The (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, WEISSMAN Suzi
Susan Weissman: Gilbert Achcar teaches political science at the University of Paris and also works in Berlin. He contributes to various publications including Le Monde Diplomatique and Monthly Review. His recent books are “The Clash of Barbarisms”, with a new edition coming out this year from (…)
, by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
There are 120 members in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The main loser is definitely the Likud which collapsed from 40 MKs to 11. Even if one takes into consideration the strengthening of the far-right, which almost doubled its votes (from 12 to 21), the Israeli Right suffered a major (…)
, by CHALOZIN-DOVRAT Lin
On March 18, 2004, Ha’yir Weekly, a major Tel-Aviv weekend paper (Ha’aretz Group), published an interview with a certain Tali Fahima - a young woman age 28 working as a secretary in a respectable law firm in Tel-Aviv - in which she stated strongly her positions against the Israeli assassination (…)
, by SOUEIF Ahdaf
Every sector of Egyptian society is struggling with the government to stop further chaos spreading across the Arab region.
It is now a year since the government of Egypt jacked up the violence of its response to pro-reform demonstrators. On the streets of the capital, state security forces (…)
, by EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
The two Youth for Change activists, Mohamed el-Sharqawi and Karim el-Sha’er, arrested yesterday by plain clothes security, were brutally tortured and sexually abused, say their lawyers and fellow activists who managed to see the two last night at the State Security Prosecutor’s office. (…)
, by PURKAYASTHA Prabir
The Iran issue is now reaching a flash point with a number of reports coming out of the Bush administration of a military strike and even the possible use of nuclear “bunker” bombs to “destroy” Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Even if the nuclear scenario is discounted, the move to bring Iran under (…)
, by MIR-HOSSEINI Ziba
In early June, Zanestan — an Iran-based online journal — announced a rally in Haft Tir Square, one of Tehran’s busiest, to protest legal discrimination suffered by Iranian women. The demonstration was also called to commemorate two landmark events in women’s struggle for equality in Iran. The (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
50 democracy activists arrested in Egypt
April 27, 2006
Fifty democracy activists in Egypt have been arrested and detained during peaceful protests at the Judges’ Club in Cairo. Police attacked and beat activists, hospitalizing Judge Mahmoud Hamza, a leading campaigner for judicial (…)
, by SOLOMON Andrew
Here’s a story they tell in Libya. Three contestants are in a race to run five hundred metres carrying a bag of rats. The first sets off at a good pace, but after a hundred metres the rats have chewed through the bag and spill onto the course. The second contestant gets to a hundred and fifty (…)
, by SLACKMAN Michael
CAIRO, Egypt, April 27 - Thousands of riot police sealed off access to Egypt’s High Court today, beating and arresting protesters who turned out to support two judges brought before a disciplinary panel for declaring that there was fraud in previous elections.
Police beat and arrested (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
At about 3:00 am on Monday 24 April, the Egyptian police raided a solidarity sit-in organised by Kefaya members and other activists of the democratic movement in front of the Judges Club in Cairo. The sit-in aimed at expressing solidarity with the Judges in their sit-in (inside their club) in (…)
, by ANTONIUS Rachad, LOTAYEF Ehab
One year ago, Egyptians went to the polls to vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow multiple candidate presidential elections for the first time.
While this amendment was hailed by the Egyptian government and its supporters as the beginning of a new era of democratic reforms, it (…)
, by EL AITA Samir
Syria underwent profound changes since 2005 in its regional and international positioning, as well as in its internal political situation. This policy brief discusses the domestic prospects for change and the potential for reforms and analyzes the impact of regional and international (…)
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