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4 April 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan
Free Speech, Fearless Listening and Fair Trial
How India’s Daughter has led to a bonfire of free speech Free speech is not about raging at the walls of an empty room. It also involves the right to be heard. And this freedom could (…) -
4 April 2015, by Immanuel Wallerstein
Antisystemic Movements and the Future of Capitalism
Unrevised version of talk at 39th Annual Meeting of the Political Economy of the World-System Conference, Berlin, Mar. 2015. The antisystemic movements now find themselves in the midst of a (…) -
4 April 2015, by SACW
Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Dr. Daya Varma, life-long communist, scientist, activist, dreamer, pharmacologist, professor emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, passed away on 22 March 2015 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, (…) -
1 March 2015, by Praful Bidwai
India: From a Politics of Hatred to a Politics of Hope
The Aam Aadmi Party has accomplished a stupendous political feat in India’s capital. Not only has it won more than half the total vote and 95 percent of all seats, which even the luckiest of (…) -
1 March 2015, by Stefan Christoff
A Surveillance Society And Criminalize Dissent
New ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation proposed by the Conservative government, Bill C-51, is a clear assault on free expression, creating an extensive legal framework for state authorities to (…) -
1 March 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Terrorism on Both Sides of the Mediterranean
On 6 February 2013, the Tunisian leftist leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead. Belaid had been very critical of the Islamist-led troika government and of violence perpetrated by radical Islamists. (…) -
1 March 2015, by Prashant Bhushan
Terrorizing Teesta Setalvad
The case of Teesta Setalvad is a chilling example of what can still happen to even highly acclaimed and well connected persons in this country if they take on those in authority The case of (…) -
1 March 2015, by Palestinian BDS National Committee
Disinformation and Repression Against BDS
Palestinian Civil Society Condemns Canadian Government Disinformation and Repression Against Boycott Movement The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian (…) -
1 March 2015, by Uri Avnery
The Casino Republic
Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Biyamin Netayahu, of course. WRONG. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s (…) -
1 March 2015, by Grist staff
Why Low Oil Prices Could be a Great Thing
May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, recently interviewed Naomi Klein, activist and author of the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (and a 350 board member), as part of (…) -
1 March 2015, by Costas Douzinas
Syriza: The Greek Spring
The 2015 Greek elections mark the beginning of the end of a cycle that started in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are now witnessing the end of the "end of history" metanarrative. (…) -
1 March 2015, by Bernard Dreano
Letter from Paris
My friends and I, either in the past or more recently, all had some kind of personal and/or activist link with people among the victims... Dear Friends, As you know the terrorists killed 17 (…) -
1 February 2015, by Stathis Kouvelakis
After Syriza’s Victory, Confrontation or Capitulation
Syriza’s Stathis Kouvelakis on why his party fell short of an absolute majority and the choices that lie ahead. Syriza’s electoral triumph has brought hope to the European radical left and (…) -
1 February 2015, by Glenn Greenwald
Free Speech for Western Apologists Only
France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free (…) -
1 February 2015, by Praful Bidwai
Did Obama Legitimize Extremist Violence With His Visit to India?
The president roped once-non-aligned India into a strategic alliance, but only by bolstering the Modi government, with its religious intolerance and pro-corporate policies. The combination (…) -
1 February 2015, by Mustafa Caglayan
Norman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo is Sadism, not Satire
World renowned political science professor says he has ’no sympathy’ for staff at Charlie Hebdo In Nazi Germany, there was an anti-Semitic weekly newspaper called Der Stürmer. Run by Julius (…) -
1 February 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan
Hand in Hand?
India inhabits a complex part of the geopolitical map, where the simple binaries of us and them break down, especially for the US The sole Indian journalist called on to address a question to (…) -
1 February 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Women’s Empowerment: The Text and the Practice
Tunisia could pride itself on drafting the most advanced code of personal status in the region, forbidding polygamy, legalizing divorce, establishing equality between partners in the choice of the (…) -
1 February 2015, by Medea Benjamin
Flogging for Blogging?
The U.S. government continues to turn a blind eye to the medieval forms of torture meted out by its Saudi allies. On January 9, two days after the massive Paris march condemning the brutal (…) -
1 February 2015, by Harsh Kapoor
Long Live Charlie Hebdo!
A letter to the left leaning in wake of Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 2015 The January 2015 terror attack on the Paris satirical weekly and its gross misinterpretation by people of Left (…) -
1 February 2015, by Leo Panitch
The Greek Election
As we enter the eighth year of the long-lingering global economic crisis, it is sobering indeed that it is only in Greece that a political party putting forward a clear, radical democratic (…) -
1 January 2015, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
It Wasn’t The Final Atrocity
THE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event (…) -
1 January 2015, by Ajmal Kamal
Litfests and Bookfairs – Two Worlds?
If you have attended this year the two events that mark the pinnacle of Karachi’s book culture – the Karachi Literature Festival and the Karachi International Book Fair – you may have noticed that (…) -
1 January 2015, by Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly
Staring Down a Precipice
Lima ignored the urgent need to address climate change. They came, they talked, and they almost failed. That seems to be the trajectory of most of the conferences on climate change held under (…) -
1 January 2015, by John Feffer
Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea
As one cold war thaws, another refreezes. Cuba and North Korea share a great deal in common. They are both led by dynastic rulers. They retain their nominal affiliation to revolutionary (…) -
1 January 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani
Tunisia: The Third Option For The Region
Despite hardships and breaches that marred the electoral campaign depriving scores of citizens, mainly outside the country, from their right to vote, the electoral process was rather successful. (…)