DEBATES & OPINIONS

Daphna Baram* discusses the deepening impact of neoliberal policies on an increasingly divided country and argues that the Left is leaving workers prey to religious fundamentalism and neo-fascism.

The Workers Advice Centre* reports on Arab women’s demand for work, to relieve their poverty and to empower themselves

In this article Assaf Adiv* discusses the recentteachers strike in the in Israel, an important step in the struggle for social change in Israel.

Poet Aharon Shabtai discusses the influence of the Occupation on Israeli culture with Nir Nader (NN)

In this overview article Savera Kalideen traces the historical origins of the Palestine Israeli conflict

May 1948: The State of Israel is declared on the basis of the UN Partition Resolution 181. May 1948: 5 Arab states enter Israel to protect […]

The difference between the Jewish soul … and the soul of all the Gentiles … is greater and deeper than the difference between the soul of a man and the soul of an animal. — Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935)

This article discusses the aims of the book club, the books they have read and their plans for 2008.

John Appolis* argues that control over the state is essential to capital accumulation for the black political elite in ZANU-PF. Strategies and tactics in the Zimbabwean struggle should be informed by such an understanding.

Munyaradzi Gwisai* argues that the solution to the present crisis in Zimbabwe lies in a revolution from below rather than a bourgeois deal from above.