Workers of the world
In an increasingly interconnected world, the struggles of working people don’t stop at national borders. Supply chains and capital flows certainly do not. Why should solidarity?
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‘We lose many patients’: Inside Gaza’s last hospitals
“Hospitals have become targets for the Israeli occupation and the Israeli army. Many hospitals have been destroyed… Doctors, nurses, and medical teams have been kidnapped from hospital premises.”
Gaza City residents defy Israel’s orders to evacuate: ‘We’re staying here’
“We already experienced displacement. We can’t do it again. We’re staying here. Whatever happens, happens. Even if they crush us under their tanks.”
For Gazans, ‘there is no optimism’ the war will actually end
“There is no optimism,” one Gaza resident, Nusfat Modin, tells TRNN. “You can’t negotiate with these people. A deal, no deal—we have no hope. No one—ask anyone.”
Special report: Workers and the European crisis
‘We have experienced every kind of oppression’: Gaza’s children speak
“Every time I speak to other moms, they say: ‘My child wasn’t like this before the war.’”
Why US veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
Including over 50 vessels, delegations from at least 44 countries, and activists, organizers, and people of conscience from around the world, the Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest maritime mission in history to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
‘We found them torn to pieces’: Israel bombs one of Gaza’s last sanctuaries
“We didn’t just lose the place, we lost our souls in this war. We lost our children, our learning. Our children’s future is gone. The place can be rebuilt, but what’s inside us will never go back to how it was.”
‘Whoever goes there dies’: Gaza ‘aid distribution’ sites are deathtraps
“When they ran out of targets in Gaza, they resorted to killing civilians trying to get aid. The Americans and the Israelis are setting a trap for us.”
‘The missiles represented hope’: Palestinians in Gaza react to Iran bombing Israel
“Honestly, I felt, ‘Please God, just push Israel back a bit [so] they might leave us alone, a little.”
‘Even our dreams were destroyed’: Gaza’s lost universities
“I saw the protests at Columbia University. There were protests in solidarity with Gaza… Of course, when we [in Gaza] see all this, we feel a sense of pride and gratitude.”
‘We won’t leave’: Palestinians respond to Trump plans to clear Gaza
“Pharaoh himself could come—we won’t leave”
‘Sadly, there are martyrs among our colleagues’: Israel continues targeting and killing journalists in Lebanon
In this documentary report from Lebanon, TRNN speaks with journalists who continue to report on Israel’s war crimes even after they have been targeted and injured and their colleagues have been killed.
‘Blood mixed with rubble’: Gaza and the ceasefire that wasn’t
For an all-too-brief moment, after a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel went into effect on Jan. 19, the slaughter in Gaza halted. Before Israel broke the ceasefire and resumed its siege of Gaza, TRNN spoke to displaced Palestinians who hoped that the war was finally over.
Surviving genocide, and Gaza’s bitter winter
Gaza’s plunging winter temperatures are taking a toll on millions of displaced Palestinians who have nothing but nylon tents for shelter.
‘The sea is forbidden’: Gaza’s fishermen remain steadfast against Israeli attacks
In spite of the threat of death, Gaza’s fishermen persevere to earn a living from the sea, and cling to their heritage and identity.
‘Trump is forcing us … to enter illegally’: Migration surges at US-Mexico border ahead of inauguration
Forced to choose between a dangerous crossing or becoming stranded after Jan. 20, many migrants are risking their lives to cross the border before Trump’s inauguration.
‘My kids go to sleep hungry’: Gaza starves amid Israeli blockade
Food is a weapon in Israel’s war on Gaza, where millions struggle to eat as the Zionist regime intentionally blocks critically needed aid.
‘The street was covered in dead women and children’: Inside Sudan’s counter-revolution
Both sides in Sudan’s civil war, which has plunged the nation into a humanitarian catastrophe, share the political aim of suppressing the pro-democracy movement.
With nowhere left to turn, Gaza’s refugees shelter in hospitals
With over two thirds of Gaza’s buildings destroyed by Israeli bombing, hospitals are doubling as refugee camps for displaced people.
A Palestinian survivor of Israeli torture’s chilling testimony: ‘Even their medics are Nazis’
Detained at Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp for a month in 2023, Rafik Hamdi Darwish Yasin offers testimony about his horrific experience in this exclusive interview.
Inside Gaza’s last hospitals: ‘We’re experiencing loss everyday’
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has put at least 114 hospitals and clinics out of service, yet nurses and doctors vow to continue providing care under the worst conditions imaginable.
‘The people will save the people’: Rage and solidarity in the wake of Spain’s floods
Fury at the regional government’s failures to inform and protect its citizenry have provoked nationwide protests, and forced residents of Paiporta, Valencia to organize for their own survival.
India ignites in anti-rape protests after doctor’s murder. Are authorities covering up the truth?
Protests across the nation have flared after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkota this August. Activists say that police are continuing to cover up the truth despite a recent arrest.
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‘I found [my family] in pieces. In pieces.’: Gaza’s orphans speak
Israel’s genocide has killed the parents or caretakers of at least 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza, who must now find a way to survive the war without them.
Under Israeli bombardment, Lebanon’s refugees turn to each other for survival
With over a million people displaced by Israeli bombs, Lebanese society is rising to the occasion to provide shelter and food to those who’ve lost everything.
Spain’s unions wage nationwide general strike for Palestine
Students, NGOs, and workers from over 200 unions across Spain waged a nationwide general strike to demand the Spanish government cut ties with Israel and end all forms of military aid.
‘They will kill me’: The story of Waleed, a young man from the West Bank
Waleed Samer assisted The Real News with filming in the West Bank over the past year. Now forced to leave home by Israel’s violence, he hopes to study abroad.
‘Allah is sufficient for us’: Worshipping in the ruins of Gaza’s mosques
Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza has left nothing untouched—schools, hospitals, homes, and hundreds of mosques. Yet the faithful remain steadfast amid the rubble.
‘Look at our suffering!’: Gaza’s message to the world after a year of genocide
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip speak frankly about the worst year of their lives, from the effects of bombing to lack of sanitation and rampant unemployment.
‘Purgatory’: Gaza’s workers trapped in the West Bank
Before Oct. 7, these Palestinian workers from Gaza had jobs beyond the strip. Now Israel has stripped them of their work permits and trapped them in the West Bank.
From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb
Israel’s deliberate destruction of Gaza’s sanitation and healthcare infrastructure has left millions without clean water or waste disposal—the consequences are already dire, and could get much worse.
‘My dream is for the war to end’: Inside Gaza’s last schools
Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian schools and universities has not deterred teachers from teaching, or students from seeking an education.
Palestinians hold generations of memory—a new documentary aims to help pass them down
‘Palestine Remembers’ is a new collaborative project between The Real News and Shadowgraph, but we need your help to make it happen.
SOAS students call out uni’s investments in white phosphorus
Student encampment organizers have shone a light on SOAS’s investments in companies that produce white phosphorus, an internationally banned incendiary weapon frequently used by the IDF.
Gaza’s children are facing the unspeakable
Living under Israeli bombardment, siege, and famine, Gaza’s children are growing up fast—and finding ways to endure.
Israel is exploiting Palestinians in dangerous ‘e-waste’ factories
The theft of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers forces many Palestinians to turn to unregulated and dangerous electronic recycling factories in the West Bank as their only option for employment.
‘Like a mini Gaza’: IDF raid on Nur Shams causes worst West Bank destruction in decades
The Real News reports from Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, where the IDF recently killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school.
Yemen defies ‘America’s failure’ to stop blockade of Red Sea
“We, the people of Yemen, say to America, the Big Satan, that any actions and aggression will only increase our commitment and joy in achieving our goal of ending the aggression and siege on the people of Palestine.”
‘Get out Yankee’: A South Korean village’s fight against the US military
Since 2016, the residents of the village of Soseong-ri have protested the construction of THAAD, a US missile defense system that uses Korean land to protect US military bases throughout the Pacific.
Javier Milei and Latin America’s New Right
Like El Salvador’s Bukele, the Argentine leader couples tough-on-crime policy with a vicious agenda for austerity, deregulation, and privatization.
Colombian farmers take back land stolen from them by Big Oil
150 families displaced from their farms near Arauquita, Colombia 20 years ago have reclaimed their land from the Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
India’s growing pension movement: Protests rise as BJP government sticks to the new pension policy
Thousands of workers are taking to the streets and staging strikes to demand a return to the old pension system.
Colombia’s drug war returns as peace deal sputters
As the 2016 peace deal struggles to deliver lasting changes, many young Colombians are faced with two options: a life of crime, or the life of an armed revolutionary.
Farmers in Colombia fight multinational oil companies to get their land back
Journalist and filmmaker Rodrigo Vazquez-Salessi reports on the ground from rural Colombia, where displaced families have returned to reclaim their land and to take on the oil companies that are trying to displace them again.
