The taboo of Palestine overtook the minds of museum and gallery curators who feared funding cuts and protests.

With every passing day it becomes ever clearer that the regime of George W. Bush has been wounded severely both domestically as a result of his criminal negligence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and globally, as a result of the illegal invasion of Iraq.

In the earnest effort to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons and open a future that is full of hope, the task of abolishing nuclear weapons is called for more urgently than ever.

Over the trajectory of its development, the World Social Forum (WSF) has become the main event for popular movements from many countries.

Cuba will neither be an accomplice to nor will it remain a silent spectator over the obvious attempt to impose the creation of the Human Rights Council under the United States and its main allies’ conditions.

The multi-billion dollar Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project has only two clear beneficiaries: the Bush administration and Lockheed Martin.

The experience of more than five years of global gatherings of those people and organizations opposing neo-liberalism has led to the creation of a new collective conscience.

Much has been said and done in response to the deliberately offensive anti-Muslim cartoons published late last year by a conservative Danish newspaper.

It remains to be seen whether globalization has left much room for indigenous cultures to negotiate a space for themselves in a world of encroaching global polities and often uncompromising nation-state boundaries.

The South African CP is of the view that while it is essential to build a broad front of women’s organization, such an objective will not be attained unless we build a vibrant, working class-led, progressive women’s movement.

The continuation of the provocative policies by the reactionaries can only benefit the extreme right in the Bush administration.

The return to the negotiating table must be well-intentioned, and not a ploy to buy time. This is the only way of reducing the tensions and finding suitable means of achieving Iran’s national interests.

The implications of Hamas's sweeping win in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza cannot be limited to the geopolitical boundaries of the Occupied Territories.

The response by a number of Western governments to the election of Hamas in the Palestinian elections blows sky-high any belief that they have a genuine commitment to democratic elections.

There is nothing remotely developmental about the WTO. "Activists around the world have vowed to continue fighting the human suffering and environmental destruction being perpetuated by the WTO in 2006."

More than 54 thousand Palestinians suffer from the problem of not having an identity card, either by not being registered with the Israeli authorities at birth, or by having foreign nationalities.

On January 25, Hamas surprised the world with a dominating victory in the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in ten years. Although the world was stunned, the case for Hamas, and more importantly the case against Fatah, was made over the last few months by the actions of each group.

The tsunami that erupted in the Indian Ocean from the massive 9.0 earthquake on 26 December 2004 was incredibly powerful, immensely destructive, and very deadly, perhaps killing a quarter of a million people or more. Tsunamis come in many forms.

THE stunning victory won by Hamas in the Palestinian elections indicates, at the least, that the Palestinian Authority has demonstrated its ability to run a transparent and fair election. This is in stark contrast to the US where a candidate backed by big business and the military industrial complex can steal an election through corruption, intimidation and media complicity.

Politics makes strange bedfellows. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the rightwing adventurer who got himself elected President of Iran, has proclaimed his desire to see Israel destroyed and Ariel Sharon die. Pat Robertson, who will support Israel to the last unconverted Jew, has issued a statement to the effect that Sharon’s stroke was the Lord’s revenge.