Bulletin

Articles

• Iraqi Women Journalists Forum Takes Part in Demonstrations: Demands Protection of Journalists and Demonstrators
  26 October, by Iraqi Women Journalists Forum (IWJF)

  IWJF took part in protests in Baghdad and the provinces on Friday 25th October to demand constitutional rights, change the government, and hold early elections.
  The demonstrations in Baghdad and the provinces witnessed a large participation with tens of thousands, most of them young, people chanting in the name of Iraq, demanding punishment for the corrupt people and changing the government.
  According to the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , more than 2562 (...)

• Kashmir: Three Months Later
  31 October, by Vinod Mubayi and Raza Mir

  For the vast majority of the people of Kashmir, the agony continues with no end in sight. Dribs and drabs of the reduction of oppressive measures, like restoration of landline telephones that few people have, treated by the credulous Indian media as restoration of normalcy, cut little ice with the local populace; they are akin to the rolls of toilet paper that Trump tossed out to hungry and ailing Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of hurricane Maria. For many of the thousands arrested and even (...)

• Our Brezhnev Moment
  24 October, by George Monbiot

  Neoliberalism has stalled, so the fanatics in government are using Brexit to revive it.
  At first sight it’s incomprehensible. Why risk everything for a no-deal Brexit? Breaking up their own party, losing their parliamentary majority, dismantling the United Kingdom (1) trashing the economy, triggering shortages of food and medicine (2): how could any objective, for the Conservative and Unionist Party, be worth these costs? What good does it do them?
  Yes, some people will benefit. To judge (...)

• Justin Trudeau’s Political Setback: A Surprise to the World, but Not to Canada
  23 October, by Jeremy Wildeman

  From riding to power comfortably four years ago, the Canadian prime minister must now head a minority government.
  Canada’s federal election campaign highlighted a struggle that caught the world by surprise. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the ropes throughout the campaign, just four years after his meteoric rise to power and global fandom, even though he ultimately managed to win a minority government.
  His struggles did not come as much of a surprise for Canadian progressives, (...)

• Appeal to Bollywood Actors to Support BDS Movement
  24 October, by Alternatives international

  We, members of the artistic community in Canada and the USA, appeal to the actors from Bollywood to withdraw their participation to the Indo Fest TLV to be held in Tel Aviv, Israel later this month.
  We make this appeal because Israel overtly uses culture as a form of propaganda to deny human rights to Palestinians and justify occupation and apartheid type of horrors against the Palestinian people. Just as South African anti-apartheid activists had called on international artists, writers (...)

• Revolution and Counterrevolution in Rojava
  28 October, by Fouad Oveisy

  As I write, the revolution in Rojava is under existential threat. This threat was aggravated by a controversial roller coaster of recent events. After a late Sunday night phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the White House released a statement on the withdrawal of the United States military from northeast Syria. The brief statement authorized, effectively, a colonial handover of northeast Syria to Turkey. On Wednesday morning of (...)

• Chileans Have Launched a General Strike Against Austerity
  24 October, by Felipe Lagos-Rojas and Francisca Gómez-Baeza

  Chile is the original home of neoliberalism, first begun after the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in 1973. If you listen closely to mass protests on the streets today, you can hear Allende’s last words: “The people must defend themselves.”
  In Chile’s main cities, armed forces and tanks are filling the streets. But civilians are holding their ground, refusing to abandon public space. Official reports indicate eleven fatalities so far, though there are indications that the number is (...)