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This week the Palestinians
Asked the UN
For recognition of
The State of Palestine.
They will not be put off
With crumbs.
This week the Israeli
Social protest leaders
Formed a
Committee of experts
To pursue their demand
For an Israeli welfare state.
They will not be put off
With crumbs.
Netanyahu has nothing to offer
To either of them.
(Advert placed in the Israeli paper Ha’aretz, by the Israeli left-wing peace campaign Gush Shalom)
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In 2005, the USA scraped together an alliance of warlords which it hoped would rule Somalia from the capital, Mogadishu.
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Oussama, a militant from the Ligue Gauche des Ouvriers, a Trotskyist organisation in Tunisia, spoke to Workers' Liberty about the recent spate of Islamist violence in Tunisia.
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Nadia El Fani, a Tunisian film-maker, has been targeted by violent religious extremists.
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On 26 May four young men from East London were jailed for at least four or five years each for an attack in July 2010 on a local school teacher.
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A "guest" contribution about the shooting of Osama bin Laden.
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After 11 September 2001, Socialist Worker notoriously "refused to condemn" the massacre of three thousand working people in New York by bin Laden's followers.
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Osama bin Laden targeted working people - nearly 3000 of them on 11 September 2001 - in the confident belief that the imperialist government of the USA would be more hurt by that than his own followers, on the fascistic far right, would be.
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An interview with Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who faced death threats from Islamists for speaking our for women's rights and freedom.
