Australia is the only colonised nation that has never signed a treaty with its Indigenous Peoples, and the only Western nation without a Bill of Rights. An expert panel set up by the Australian Government to gage public support for the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, will spend the next few months finalising its recommendations, writes Jerico Mandybur.

Serbia, a nation which once wished for a European future, is now filled with locals turning their backs on the European Union. Milly Stilinovic, on the streets of Belgrade, was faced with an evident hostility towards the reigning democratic government and abhorrence to the demands of the European Union.

Economic crises are inevitable under capitalism. The fundamental and fatal flaw of capitalism is the mechanism for profits to rise at the expense of wages and consumption. Global capitalism is now in a bottomless mire, and the final nail in the coffin will be the failure of politicians and mainstream economists to understand the modus operandi of the capitalist economic system, writes Bill Waters.

Class is often considered to be a dirty word – except when prefaced by ‘middle’, and ‘class warfare’ has been hijacked by the ‘wrong’ class: the ruling class. It’s time to reconsider these ideas, writes Michael Parenti.

The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world, writes Sebastián Marincolo.

Palestinian people – including veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada expose the realities of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. Lynda Renham-Cook reports.