Bulletin

Articles

• Welcome to 2020 India: In BJP Ruled States, Police Recreating Nazi Thugs Atrocities Against Minorities and Protestors
  31 December 2019, by Editors, INSAF Bulletin

  We are acutely aware of the unprecedented, non-violent yet militant struggles breaking out all over the country against the arbitrary and undemocratic actions of the Central Government of Prime Minister Modi, in particular the legislative passage of the blatantly unconstitutional Citizens Amendment Act (CAA) and the related moves to implement the anti-minority National Register of Citizens (NRC) and link it to the National Population Register (NPR) to harass minorities and create a (...)

• Why a ’Green New Deal’ Must be Decolonial
  9 December 2019, by Vijay Kolinjivadi

  The Green New Deal will not work unless it dismantles neocolonial structures exploiting nature and people.
  Discussions of a Green New Deal (GND) have been all the rage these days, as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets around the world to demand action on climate change.
  First proposed in 2008 to initiate a comprehensive action plan to combat climate change in the UK, the Green New Deal (GND) has come to global attention, gaining particular traction in North America.
  Its (...)

• Gender Equality: Still a Long Way Down the Line
  27 December 2019, by Messaoud Romdhani

  “Mind the Gap!!”
  In 1993, the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, defining such violence as “any act of gender-based violence that results, or is likely to result in physical, sexual or physical harm or suffering to women,” it does not matter whether that violence occurs in “public or private life.”
  Twenty six years after the start of that campaign, we are not out of the woods yet, and figures speak for themselves. Worldwide, one in three (...)

• Statement by Montreal Residents Against Police Brutality in India, CAA, NRC
  21 December 2019, by India Civil Watch and CERAS

  We, the residents and citizens of Tiohtiá:ke (e.g. unceded Indigenous territory otherwise known as Montreal), stand in solidarity with students and citizens exercising their fundamental democratic right to dissent and protest across India.
  Over the past several days, we have witnessed many peaceful protests and demonstrations against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019. The Act provisions for preferential treatment of religious minorities (...)

• Debate: Fascism Is Not Simply Imposed From Above
  11 December 2019, by Ania Loomba and Partha P. Chakrabartty

  It is time to call this regime by its name. What we are seeing is not procedural or substantive fascism; this is fascism.
  We woke up today to professor Arjun Appadurai’s insightful piece in The Wire, where he identified that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) is an ‘innovation’ that marks a ‘successful closing of the gap between procedural fascism and substantive fascism.’ While we agree with his terrifying prognosis, we would argue that taking a view of fascism as simply imposed or (...)

• The Urgency to Struggle Against the Rise of Nuclear Weapons and the Militarization of the Planet
  31 December 2019, by Donald Cuccioletta

  This is the second article in the series of four, the first was published in the December 2019 issue of the AIJ.
  The implosion of the Soviet Union took the world by surprise but it also gave us a sense of hope for the future. The end of Stalinist regimes ushered in a new beginning of reflection on socialism for the 21st century. The struggles and wars of the 20th century would give way to a new sense of engagement for peace by the peoples of the major countries of our world. Of course this (...)

• Iraq’s Communists Given New Life by Protests
  12 December 2019, by Alex MacDonald

  Compared to the ostentatiously huge buildings afforded to some of the parties in Baghdad, the headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) are relatively humble. The building comprises a shop, offices and a small function room decorated with modernist art and depictions of communist martyrs, including former executed leader Yusuf Salman Yusuf.
  Iraq’s oldest continuously existing political party is no longer the mighty force it was in the mid-20th century when it was arguably the largest (...)