This is part of a series of articles detailing the policies and platform the Socialist Alliance will be taking to the Federal election.
self determination
An article by journalist Elizabeth Farrelly, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 11 titled 鈥淧rotecting a cultural right to abuse鈥, starts by posing the question, 鈥淎t what point does autonomy slide into apartheid?鈥
Moroccan occupation forces brutally attacked and destroyed the Saharawi Gdeim Izik protest camp on November 8, which had grown to over 20,000 since being established on October 9.
World renowned novelist and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is facing escalating threats of violence in India because of her support for justice in Kashmir 鈥 the disputed region partitioned between India and Pakistan and occupied by military forces in the area India controls.
On September 27, the repressive police apparatus of the Spanish state was brought to bear on the Askapena, the internationalist organisation of the Basque pro-independence left.