Alternatives International Journal

Articles

• 1 July 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Tunisia: Old Cultural Reflexes and Nascent Democracy

  After January 14th, 2011, the most uncommon dreams of a beleaguered small country were permitted, and some of them have already come true: for the first time there have been the formation of (...)
• 1 July 2015, by Sukumar Muralidharan

  Globalisation of Misery

  One in every 122 people on the planet today is displaced, a result of the iniquities of development the world over World Refugee Day on June 20 may have been just one of those rituals conjured (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Sophia Reuss

  Lampedusa: European Border Delocalization in the Mediterranean

  Lampedusa, a rocky, 20-square kilometre Italian island in the Mediterranean, lies 113 kilometres east of Tunisia and 300 kilometers north of Libya. In the past two decades, Lampedusa, an (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Sophie Smith and Jennifer Geleff

  Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing: Rohingya Adrift in Southeast Asia

  The Rohingya people are an oppressed Muslim minority group in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that have faced an enduring history of ethnic discrimination and systemic poverty. In Myanmar, the Rohingya (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Kyle Jacques

  Mediterranean Militarization: A New Obstacle for Europe’s Migrants

  Last April over 800 people drowned to death in the Mediterranean Sea after a ship packed full of migrants capsized on its way from Libya to Italy. The victims of this tragedy were much like the (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Interview

  The Roots of Inequality for Ethiopian Israelis

  Jessica Desvarieux, Producer, TRNN interviews Lia Tarachansky Jessica Desvarieux: So Lia, when the protests and the destruction of property took place in Baltimore last week, we covered it and (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Frans Jansson

  A Kurdish Perspective on the Turkish Elections

  ISTANBUL – Hopes and fears are plentiful in Kurdish and left-wing politics in Turkey ahead of the elections on Sunday. The Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), the left-wing party focused on the (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Saving What’s Left of the Arab Spring

  When Tunisia succeeded in holding its second legislative and presidential elections by the end of 2014, the “Washington Post” wrote: “Remember the Arab Spring? Here’s what’s left,” (November 23, (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Dylan Boyko

  Uncovering Something Less Ignorant

  I first heard of the vague concept of the Armenian Genocide when I was 13 reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel called Bluebeard. The book was first published in 1987, and only the narrator’s distant (...)
• 1 June 2015, by Alternatives

  Fighting Austerity

  You are kindly invited to join us at this third edition of The Festival of Solidarity to be held in Montreal, on June 13th, at Salle Agora- Coeur des sciences de l’UQAM, from 9:30am to 5:30pm. (...)
• 4 May 2015, by Sophia Reuss

  Colonialism and Austerity: The Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada

  The situation of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada, Harper’s failure to respond to demands for a national inquiry into the issue, and intensifying federal and provincial austerity (...)
• 4 May 2015, by James Patrick Cannon

  Austerity on Trial? Much at stake for Spain in Electoral Year

  2015 is a critical year for Spain’s progressive forces. The country is set to hold municipal and regional elections in May, and national elections by the end of the year, democratic exercises (...)
• 4 May 2015, by Dylan Boyko

  The Grexit Looms

  The unfortunately named grexit looms unenviably. Caught between the hardline dictates of the IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the uncertain plans of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and (...)
• 4 May 2015, by Kyle Jacques

  Case of Bolivia Offers Alternative Perspective on the Supposed Necessity of Fiscal Austerity

  The Quebec Liberals and their supporters in the news media are relying on familiar and simplistic arguments regarding the need for fiscal austerity in the province. While budget cuts will harm (...)
• 4 May 2015, by Noah Sutton and Sophia Reuss

  Austerity and Environment: Interview

  Roger Rashi is a long-time social and political activist from Montreal. He now works as Campaigns Coordinator for Alternatives. Since the fall of 2011, Roger was involved in organizing the (...)

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