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17 September, by Mary Louise Malig and Pablo Solón
The Pioneering World Social Forum: A Groundbreaking Life Deserves a Dignified Death

In life, everything has a cycle. A beginning, a middle, and an end. And what a beginning it was for the World Social Forum (WSF). The year was 2001, the emblematic success of the 1999 Seattle (...)
17 September, by Gustave Massiah
Initiating a New Phase of Alterglobalization

Looking Back The alterglobalization movement is a historical emancipation movement that extends and renews previous historical movements; the workers’ movement, the peasants’ movement, the (...)
10 September, by Donald Cuccioletta
Immanuel Wallerstein Has Departed

Immanuel Wallerstein passed away on August 31st, 2019. This is a very sad occasion for all organic intellectuals, activists, observers of the left on international relations and all those who, (...)
5 September, by Hala Al-Karib
Sudan’s Youth Showed Us How to Counter Sexual Violence

"We need to understand that sexual violence is not an unintended result of the actions of political regimes, but rather a key instrument of their power." In Sudan, sexual violence is a (...)
3 September, by Sumanta Banerjee
Kashmir - Need for International Mediation

“The principle of non-interference with domestic jurisdiction state cannot be regarded as a protective barrier behind which human rights could be massively or systematically violated with (...)
1 September, by Messaoud Romdhani
Gender Equality in Tunisia: Still A Long Way to Go

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

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 (...)
1 September, by Justin Podur
Imagine a Free Palestine

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

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, (...)
1 September, by Achin Vanaik
Hindutva on the March

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 (...)