Alternatives International Journal

Articles

2 June, by Suzanna Khoshabi
Neo-Fascism: The Beginning of a New Chapter in Europe’s History?

Scattered across seven years, seven cities, and seven professions, nine of the victims of the ‘Doener murders’ had one thing in common: a shared status as immigrants in Germany. It took the German (...)
2 June, by Kathryn Rockwell
Crossing the Line: Will the United States Intervene in Syria?

Despite its best efforts, the Obama administration is sliding down a slippery slope towards intervention in Syria. A humanitarian crisis that has cost between 80, 000 and 120, 000 lives, and (...)
2 June, by Bradley Castelli
Muslim Minorities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka

In the past year, tensions between Buddhists and Muslims have been rising in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Both states are home to minority Islamic ethnic groups that have forcibly assumed the role (...)
2 June, by Anne Guay
Kenyan Indemnities and Empire History

Last October, three Kenyan elders won the right to claim compensation for their torture in British colonial prison camps after bringing their cases to the London High Court. The scale is of an (...)
2 June, by Tariqa Tandon
National Food Security Bill Debated in Indian Parliament

India’s reports on hunger and malnutrition are abysmal. For a rapidly developing country, showing much promise for the future, it still remains a country with one of the highest rates of (...)
2 June, by Sta Kuzviwanza
The New Scramble for Global Farmland

A recent article in the Guardian UK reporting land evictions in Laos and Cambodia has brought to attention, once again, the recent phenomena of global land grabs by private investors in Asia, (...)
2 June, by Olivia Zeydler
Avoiding Tragedy: A New Role of Corporate Involvement in the Aftermath of the Bangladesh Factory Collapse

The April 24 collapse of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza factory took the lives of 1,127 individuals, and left more than 1000 injured. The tragedy gained significant international attention, shedding (...)
2 June, by Bipasha Sultana
The Endemic of Rape in India: Will the Newly Amended Rape Laws Address the Root of the Problem?

Nation-wide protests have provoked a re-consideration of existing rape laws in India. These were triggered by the fatal rape incident in New Delhi this past December, in which a 23 year old (...)
2 June, by Houda Chergui
A Violent yet Successful Transition in Civilian Governance in Pakistan

Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif was the victor of Pakistan’s recent National Assembly elections, his party securing 125 of the 137 seats needed to form a majority government. (...)
2 June, by Michael Sabelli
An Interview with Andrés Fontecilla of Québec Solidaire

I want to start by speaking to you about your nomination as president of Québec Solidaire (QS), and what are you going to do to continue the development/growth of QS? To begin with, I was elected (...)
2 June, by Joanny Bélair
Is the Harper Government Going too far to Control Information?

In our digital era, in which the media is so ubiquitous and people are so connected, we tend to think that we are well informed. However, it appears that for the state, it is not very difficult (...)
1 May, by Climate Space Steering Committee
To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present

Our Proposal for Changing the System and not the Climate The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated (...)
1 May, by Houda Chergui
Concern Over China’s Environment

China has been anything but immune to environmental criticisms in the past: from Melamine-tainted milk powder, to exploding watermelons, to pesticide-riddled vegetables and antibiotic-induced (...)
1 May, by Suzanna Khoshabi
Thatcher and Femenism

Earlier this month the United Kingdom laid its longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century to R.I.P. However, the nation is divided over whether this stands for Rest In Peace, or Rest In (...)
1 May, by Anne Guay
An Aggregate Picture of Post-Invasion Iraq

Since the beginning of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, a total of 189,000 people have died as a direct cause of the war. The numbers include American and allied troops, opposition forces, (...)