Hugh Green continues his great service of translating articles that are responding intelligently to the Democracia Real Ya and Wikiacampadas demos in Spain. Most recently he’s put up one by communications maestro Manuel Castells (see  John Green’s book reviews of his The Information Age Trilogy and Conversations with Manuel Castells)
Hugh says he translated it as [...]

Ronnie Kasrils will launch his new book
“The Unlikely Secret Agent”
Dublin on the 14th June.
Connolly Book
“The Unlikely Secret Agent” by South African struggle veteran Ronnie Kasrils.
The book is a real-life romance and thriller about his late [...]

This article originally appeared in New Europe today. Republished with the kind permission of the author.
The press coverage of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest leaves me ambivalent. Like every other journalist who has written about the matter, I am not qualified to speculate on whether he committed the crime for which he has been charged. Rape [...]

Over the weekend, William Wall brought this 2002 article by David Graeber, which has recently been republished on the site Autonomy Against Barbarism, to my attention. It reminded me of John Green’s review of Graeber’s “Possibilities” which we put up in 2008. The reason AAB are posting Graeber’s NLR article now is because of the [...]

This article was originally published in China.org.cn. It is being republished here with the kind permission of the author.

Discussions between China and the European Union (EU) have speeded up during 2011. To take just the most recent events, the second China-EU Strategic Dialogue was held in Hungary on May 12-15. European Council President Van Rompuy [...]

Pirooz Daneshmandi talks to Denis Halliday, the Irish peace activists and former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq (September 1, 1997 to 1998). A 34-year veteran of the UN, Halliday resigned in 1998 over the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq, characterizing them as “genocide”.
In the interview Halliday discusses his reasons for resigning as Humanitarian Coordinator in [...]

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, a new form of
“international peace operation emerged as the dominant security activity of the United Nations: missions aimed at helping war-torn countries make the transition from a fragile ceasefire to a stable peace, or what became known as “post-conflict peacebuilding.”[i] [...]

An open letter written to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé calling for an urgent change to France’s current policies in Africa.  Signatories below. This letter was originally published in l’Humanite on April 1st 2011. This translation by David Lundy was published in l’Humanite in English.
Four years ago, on the eve of presidential [...]

The April edition of the Socialist Voice is out. You can view it in PDF here, or read it on the Website here.
The articles this month are:
* Stress tests needed for working people! [NL]
* Anglo-Irish Bank records historic losses [NL]
* A tale of two Europes [NC]
* Workers in struggle
* Workers’ rights under sustained attack [EMC]
* [...]