The Breach | From divesting from fossil fuels, to repealing the Doctrine of Discovery, to historic labour strikes, movements won several important victories this year

People's World | The views of Cuban leaders on problems now enveloping the country shed light on the realities of a nation under siege and a revolution in trouble. The information is pertinent to the solidarity efforts of Cuba’s friends abroad.

The Breach | In response to complaints about its coverage, CBC says Israeli state violence is different than Hamas’ violence because the killing of Palestinians happens “remotely”

Canadian Dimension | On the rapidly changing legal norms of warfare in the Occupied Territories and beyond

Jacobin | Last week saw the death of Jacques Delors, a leading architect of the European Union at the turn of the 1990s. Delors promised the EU would be a “social Europe” — a dream fatally undermined by the budget-cutting dogmas on which it was built.

2024 looks like being one of slowing economic growth for most countries and probably more slipping into recession in Europe, Latin America and Asia. The debt crisis in those countries in the so-called global south that don’t have energy or minerals to sell will worsen. So even if the US avoids an outright slump again this year, it wont feel like a ‘soft landing’ for most people in the world.