This article was written hours before the mass terrorist act that targeted Hezbollah members through pagers in the afternoon of 17 September, thus enhancing its title's topicality.
In recent days, Israeli threats regarding an imminent attack on Lebanon have multiplied, especially since the Israeli pre-emptive attack on Hezbollah on the 25^th of August, which was followed by the party's attack in retaliation for the assassination of military commander Fouad Shukr. Since that day, a chorus (…)

Presentation at the Trotsky Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico City, August 23, 2024.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Lev Davidovich Bronstein have been known to most of the world by their aliases from the revolutionary underground: Lenin and Trotsky. The very core of their identities is bound up with their uncompromised and uncompromising revolutionary commitments. More than this, any revolutionary of today or tomorrow who wants to be effective must have a serious familiarity with who they were, what (…)

As Israeli ministers, generals, and academics bay for a decisive new phase in the war, this is what Operation Starvation and Extermination would look like.
Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza city, July 28, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
The date is October, November, or December 2024, or maybe early 2025. The Israeli military has just launched a new operation throughout northern Gaza — “Operation Order and Clean-up,” we'll call it. The army orders the temporary evacuation of all (…)

Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel's efforts to scare off international activists.
Last Friday's protest in the Palestinian town of Beita began like every week, with residents and activists gathering for noon prayers on a hill close to the Israeli settler outpost of Eviatar. Located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the outpost was established in May 2021 on land belonging to residents of Beita. Ever since, (…)

Children are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries.
Children's lives in the UK are changing.
They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution and the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits.
But why did this happen to our children? This rise in child poverty is a change that has not been found to have (…)