The Massacres at Sabra and Shatilla Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine September 17th, 2004 Twenty-two years ago, from September 16th-18th, 1982, the people of Palestine and the world were assaulted by a horrendous crime—the bloody massacres at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. Sabra and Shatilla, …

How the Zionists Use Hamas As A Tool of Provocation from The Internationalist April 19 2002 publication  of “The Internationalist Group” (a split from the Spartacist League)   From its beginnings over a century ago, the object of the Zionist movement has been to create an ethnically and religiously exclusive …

Theses on Globalisation and the Palestinian Resistance Nassar Ibrahim and Dr. Majed Nassar 1.1 There can be little doubt that the anti-globalisation movement has been garnering increasing public support over the last decade. This support has often erupted publicly and very explosively, most famously in Seattle in 1999 but also …

Periodically, Turning the Tide prints first-person accounts of the way the contradictions of racism and privilege, identification with and opposition to the empire, and conflicting “racial” identifications play out in people’s real life experiences. We are printing in this issue such an account of the emotional and political impact on …

Palestinian Political Prisoners  July 2003 “It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in the world.” – Avigdor Lieberman , Israeli Transport Minister [1] Frequently Asked Questions: 1.   How many Palestinian prisoners are there? As of July 8, 2003, …

Imperialism and the Criminalization of the Palestinian People: An Anarchist Analysis By Carol Baker and Shawn O’ Hern Onward Newspaper, a source of “Anarchist News, Opinion, Theory and Strategy  for Today” As organizers with Richmond Food not Bombs, we have facts on hand when discussing the politics of Food not …

AFGHAN BOOMERANG America’s nurture of militant Islam and the miscalculations of Osama Bin Laden Challenge Special Supplement November 9, 2001 by Yacov Ben Efrat Introduction: Made by the USA Until recently, the name “Afghanistan” had an exotic ring to many, but not to US policy-makers. For a decade (1979-1989) they …

Behind the twenty-first century Intifada from Aufheben #10, September 2001 Introduction As we go to press, the USA is making a serious effort to salvage the Oslo ‘peace process’, as a central part of their strategy to mobilize and impose a unity on the world bourgeoisie behind ‘the war on …