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  • Leftists of one form or another

    Leftists of one form or another

    Lynne Segal considers the conflicts rumbling within second wave feminism in the 1970s, not least Selma James’ disruptive Wages for Housework campaign.
  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 3

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 3

    Since October 7, pro-Palestine students at universities across the world have faced unprecedented levels of censorship from their institutions, often fueled by their billionaire donors. As part of Verso's Palestine Uncensored series, Francesco Anselmetti details Harvard's policy of censorship and repression.
  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 2

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 2

    At LSE, an arcane rule barring event chairs from "expressing their own views on the subject matter of the event," prevented Dr Ayça Çubukçu from delivering the following remarks denouncing Israel's horrific siege in Gaza and highlighting the enormous solidarity demonstrations that have taken place over the past month.
  • Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 1

    Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 1

    This is the first testimonial in our blog series, Palestine Uncensored: Diaries of Censorship. Hannah Elsisi documents the impossibility of keeping up with the levels of censorship in the West and Israel's mounting atrocities in Gaza in an email.
  • From the River to the Sea

    From the River to the Sea

    No words can fully express Palestine’s seventy years of catastrophe, no words except: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
  • Death in the Air

    Death in the Air

    The Gazan writer Asmaa al-Ghoul, with around 20 others scattered across the globe, is on a hunger strike with just one goal and one demand—to stop the war. Here, Ben Ehrenreich writes on al-Ghoul's life and work, and her campaign to end the Israeli assault on Gaza.
  • Our strength, our pain and our solidarity

    Our strength, our pain and our solidarity

    "Why should the Palestinians be the perpetual refugees of this world, and forced to pay for this continent's horrific crimes?" Palestinian philosopher Yasmeen Daher's spoke at a November 4 rally in Berlin, denouncing the German government's Islamophobia and abuse of collective Holocaust guilt.
  • Gaza One Month Later: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani

    Gaza One Month Later: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani

    One month into Israel's siege on Gaza, Mouin Rabbani and Norman Finkelstein discuss the political dynamics underlying the war. Rabbani and Finkelstein argue that the Biden administration's support for Israel's decimation of Gaza stems not only from its strategic support for Israel, but from a perception that Hamas's October 7 attacks were also an assault on US hegemony in the region.