Olympics
From “Black September“ to October 7: Anti-Palestinian repression in Germany then and now
In September 1972, a Palestinian commando unit took the Israeli Olympic team hostage in Munich. Then, as now, the German state responded with a wave of aggressive racist repression
Cuban Olympic athletes are in Paris, ready to continue making history
Cuba, a country of 11 million inhabitants, is the second most successful country in the Americas in the Olympic Games, only behind the United States.
The largest hotel workers’ strike in modern US history could be around the corner
Hotel workers make Los Angeles rich. But they can no longer afford to live in the city where they work
China’s Olympic battle for legitimacy: the prehistory of the 2022 Beijing Games
Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms: to heal the scars of both exploitative Western colonialism and civil war.
- Nepal heads to first elections since mass protests
- Ecuadorian-Iranian Cultural Center attacked in Quito
- Israel escalates attacks against Lebanon
- Protests break out across South Asia against Iran war and assassination of Khamenei
- Iran continues waves of strikes against US bases in West Asia and offices of Israeli leaders
