Bulletin

Articles

• Imagine a Free Palestine
  1 September, by Justin Podur

  I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step from now, not a distant dream that depends on too many unpredictable things going right. I wanted to write about how just a few things going right could change the whole thing – to show, through fiction, the real fragility of the apartheid system that always seems so invincible.
  Gaza is besieged. Its children are systematically (...)

• Gender Equality in Tunisia: Still A Long Way to Go
  1 September, by Messaoud Romdhani

  August 13, is a milestone in the history of women’s emancipation in Tunisia. In 1956 and just a few months after the independence of the country, the new government promulgated the code of personal status that abolished polygamy, set up a judicial procedure for divorce and required that marriage would be performed only through mutual consent. Also, since the 1960’s Tunisian has been providing health access for women and it was the first Muslim country to legalize abortion, two years before (...)

• The Humanist Who Was Pakistan’s Malayali Comrade B.M. Kutty
  1 September, by Beena Sarwar

  He died wanting the same peace that his comrades, young and old, yearned and will keep working for.
  Early on Sunday morning in Karachi, a little over a month after his 89th birthday on July 18, 2019, B.M. Kutty slipped into the ever after. A lifelong activist, trade unionist, political worker, peacemonger, humanist. I like to remember him as I last saw him in Karachi – his big smile, deep voice with its powerful timbre, intense gaze behind the glasses, dapper as usual in bush-shirt and (...)

• Hindutva on the March
  1 September, by Achin Vanaik

  Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective self-determination must be stopped.
  On August 5, 2019, India’s right-wing government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, annulled Article 370 of the Constitution, which had hitherto guaranteed the autonomous status of the province known as Jammu and Kashmir (which also included the Ladakh region), in (...)

• “Jammu Kashmir: They Make a Desolation and Call it Peace”
  1 September, by Kavya Kamal

  The abrogation on August 6 of Article 370 and 35 A, that provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir, received a mixed response. While politically the decision has been hailed by several parties, apart from the house arrest of former Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, there have been reports of prolonged curfews and clampdowns. CPI(ML) Politbureau member Kavita Krishnan visited the Valley, along with noted economist Jean Dreze, and activists Maimoona Mollah and Vimal Bai, to study the (...)