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Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Žabner argues that only a single democratic state-not partition-can deliver justice, equality and decolonization in Palestine. For decades, the two-state solution has dominated international discussions on Palestine. At the Second Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Dublin, Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Žabner dismissed the framework (…)

When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come. I always say I became a writer so I wouldn’t have to talk. But, once I started writing about my own personal experiences, I was surprised to receive invitations to speak on campuses or to women’s groups. I knew it was important to do, so I started travelling regularly with (…)

At the heart of bourgeois liberal democracy there lay a contradiction. In the political sphere, bourgeois democracy promised equality via the familiar slogan One Man/Woman One Vote. In the economic context, however, the capitalist system, under which all bourgeois democracies so far have existed, presages inequality. The societal tensions inherent in this contradiction, historically, have (…)

"My eldest aunt was swept away. So was her son, my dai Madhu, and his wife. My other aunt - gone too, they told me. Her grandson Sijan and his wife, caught in the same water. His own son and daughter-in-law, unreachable, unaccounted for. My maternal uncle had gone out that morning to cut grass for the cattle. He never came back." A Kathmandu Post journalist witnessed his childhood village (…)

"White supremacy, in this sense, has long masqueraded as American exceptionalism, forming the bedrock of U.S. patriotism and national identity." -* “At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.” — Aimé Césaire, Discourses on Colonialism, 1955:37. “To will oneself free is also to (…)

For too long, we have reduced our political plight in the Arab world to the figure of the authoritarian ruler: he falls, and dictatorship falls with him, supposedly clearing the way—automatically and effortlessly—for freedom, democracy, and justice. Yet our experiences, both past and recent, suggest that the reality is far more complex. A ruler may fall, a regime may change, enlightened (…)

Roger Huddle co-founded the group that helped defeat the fascists, while Geoff Brown was the Manchester organiser of the Anti Nazi League. Both spoke to Frankie Murden Frank Murden (FM): What was Britain like when you set up Rock Against Racism (RAR) in 1976? Roger Huddle (RH): There was a swell of racist filth following the expulsion of Asians from Malawi in east Africa. Many of them (…)

Every day, around 11,000 tonnes of waste ends up in Ghazipur, brought in by the constant flow of roughly 500 trucks. Over the years, this has created a massive garbage mountain the area is known for. Yet Ghazipur isn’t only a landfill, dairy farms still exist right beside it. On the site, they use biomining and large excavators to break down old waste and separate it into materials like (…)

The key politico-historical significance of the victory on 25 July 2026, of the mass protests led by Indian youth is that the projected invincibility of Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India, has been blown apart. Prime Minister Modi has been humiliated by the bravery, creativity, and ingenuity of the Indian youth protesters. The resignation of his education minister, (…)

It was with a heavy heart that we learnt of the passing away of MP, our dear friend and respected mentor. He was in a coma in July, but like a miracle, he came around, and on July 19, KK sent us the good news that “though he is not able to speak, he is understanding everything. Today I told him that his anthology is coming out soon… he responded with a loud ‘yes’.” We were so hopeful about his (…)

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke. We (…)

Between the Legacy of Struggle and the Challenge of Renewal The crisis of the Left today is not merely a crisis of popularity, electoral performance, or organizational decline. It is, above all, a crisis of adaptation: a growing gap between its inherited frameworks and the realities of a rapidly changing world. Yesterday’s answers are no longer sufficient to explain today’s realities, let (…)

In early 2023, Quebec’s political class erupted in indignation over comments made by Amira Elghawaby, newly appointed by Ottawa as Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia. Her offense was straightforward: she suggested that many Quebecers seemed disturbingly indifferent to the rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in the province. What followed was immediate, furious, and entirely (…)

The areas of Kashmir under Pakistani administration are supposed to have political autonomy, but that has long been a sham. The Pakistani authorities have responded to popular protests demanding real democracy with brutal repression. The Pakistan-administered territory of Jammu Kashmir (PaJK) is witnessing the most extensive confrontation between the masses and the Pakistani state in (…)

Norman G Finkelstein, OR Books, £24.99 Finkelstein’s work provides voluminous detail, fastidious cross-referencing of sources, exhaustive footnoting, and precision which is at times excruciating. It benefits from stark moral clarity: human life hangs in the balance. MORE than 20 years ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu remarked that Israel would never achieve safety through oppression: “A (…)

Article dedicated to all peoples who live under dictatorship, and to those in democratic societies who may one day find themselves confronting it again. “He was depressed when he suddenly realized that everything had finally fallen into place in the world… everything except him… he alone no longer had a place.” Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch This is not merely a (…)

There has been something almost surreal in President Donald Trump’s efforts to both whitewash US history as well as make 4 July a celebration of his own delusional greatness. There is little that can be done about the latter, but for all progressive forces, there is certainly something that must be done regarding the efforts towards the former. For the purposes of this essay, we shall (…)

The announcement of the US/Iran Memorandum of Understanding allegedly ending the war between Iran and the USA/Israeli axis has brought forth more confusion than I can remember in the aftermath of any crisis. And, how can we even use the word “aftermath” when, shortly after the “signing” of the Memorandum, Israel continued its relentless war against Lebanon, and Iran–as a result–announced (…)

Maradona, Messi, and Fifty Years of the Same Imperial Logic In June 1978, the World Cup came to Argentina. The military junta of General Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power two years earlier, overthrowing the democratically elected government of Isabel Perón in a coup the United States quietly encouraged. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had told Argentina’s foreign minister in 1976: (…)

Look carefully. The so-called ‘white nations’ of world football are no longer carried only by ‘white bodies’, white histories, white churches or white bloodlines. They are carried, again and again, by the children of Africa, the Caribbean, the Arab world, Asia, Latin America – migrant neighbourhoods, refugee homes, working-class suburbs and postcolonial memory. This is the story. What is (…)

The Declaration of Independence has been quoted by abolitionists, suffragists, socialists, civil rights activists, and the Black Panthers. Why should conservatives get to own it now? "The 4th day of July, as a national holiday, commemorates an event which ought to be very dear to American workingmen," claimed Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs. “I like the Fourth of July, it breathes a (…)

Since 7 October 2023, Cyprus has moved from the margins of Middle Eastern conflict into its operational geography. British bases on the island have supported Israeli and US military activity across the region; the Republic of Cyprus has expanded defence cooperation with the United States, Israel, France, and Greece; and Northern Cyprus has been integrated more deeply into Turkey’s military (…)

On Monday, June 8th, in Belfast, a Sudanese man Hadi Alodid, legally in the United Kingdom as a refugee claimant, viciously attacked a local man Stephen Ogilvie with a knife. The intervention of others saved the victim’s life though he lost an eye in the attack Within an hour, Tommy Robinson, a leader of the far right in the UK, shared a video of the incident on X, and his post got 6 (…)

As Iran braces to change the global landscape of war and peace, of imperial conquest and its nemesis in a people who refuse to be afraid of dying for their nation’s self-respect, for their abiding pride in a mesmeric culture of poetry, inclusion and reflection, where do its friends and foes go from here? An all but signed agreement for permanent peace with the US promises to leave Israel out (…)

When the acclaimed actor, Richard Gere, recently described Donald Trump as a "maniac" and lamented that the United States was experiencing one of its darkest moments, he added a remark that deserves particular attention: "We went to sleep. We didn’t care. We didn’t vote. We didn’t really listen." Beyond the controversy surrounding Trump himself, Gere’s words point to a broader and more (…)

I want to make three points at the outset that work as premises or presuppositions for this presentation as well as for the larger work. My first claim is that while the formal discourse of political theory keeps our gaze resolutely fixed on nation-states and Law, justice and citizenship as embodying modernity’s emancipatory promise, Gaza/Palestine direct our attention to the fact that the (…)

It has taken me a week to gather my thoughts, to get over the initial shock of your death. I cannot do you justice in this writing, but I hope it’s a start. I’m still in shock, crying, disbelief. I worked alongside you for 17 years at the Alternative Information Centre (AIC). You were my comrade and my friend. And from the first day, you did something I will never forget. You (…)

One of Africa’s top teams, Senegal has good reason to look forward to the World Cup. But the US government has put up major barriers to its fans and journalists visiting the country, in a policy of deep discrimination against Senegalese citizens. He’s frustrated, but he’s keeping in his anger. Abdoulaye — the pseudonym of a famous Senegalese journalist who spoke to Jacobin — just doesn’t (…)

At an event sponsored by the SEARCH Foundation, Bhaskar Sunkara delivered the inaugural Eric Aarons Memorial Lecture on May 26, 2026, at the New South Wales Teachers Federation in Sydney, Australia. Aarons was one of the leading figures of the Australian communist movement and later an important advocate for a democratic socialism. Below is a transcript of Sunkara’s remarks. Eric Aarons (…)

Analysts of the US-Israeli unprovoked and blatantly illegal attack on Iran on Feb 28, while US-Iranian negotiations brokered by Oman were ongoing, have concluded that the assault has failed to achieve any of its objectives. Iran, despite suffering significant losses, is now acknowledged to be in a stronger position compared to the assailants as its closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to (…)

Robert A. Heinlein, an American novelist and political thinker, argues that political labels such as democrat, communist, fascist, liberal, or conservative are not fundamental criteria for distinguishing citizens politically; rather, humanity is divided between those who seek to dominate others and those who do not. This reduction of political life to a fundamental asymmetry of domination (…)

An edited transcript of the online speech delivered on 17 April 2026 at the seminar on Brahmanization at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Long ago, while speaking about the annihilation of caste to the audience like you, I put forth my view in the form of a paradox: Annihilation of Caste is not possible without a revolution. And revolution is not possible without the Annihilation of (…)

War, in its official presentation, is a collective sacrifice—an inevitable but necessary cost imposed on the present to secure the future. In practice, the American experience since 1950 suggests something closer to a permanent fiscal regime, in which costs are socialised, profits are privatised, and accountability is systematically displaced. The question is no longer whether the United (…)

A population that has been displaced, which has had its homes and sources of livelihood destroyed, becomes more vulnerable to ethnic cleansing at the ’right’ time. To put it succinctly, by every possible measure but one (and a tiny bit more) – the Zionist victory over the Palestinians is total. Political, military and economic power is entirely in our hands. So too is the control over (…)

The illegal Israel-US war on Iran now grinds on to a second month of conflict with no clear end in sight. Trump’s dream of doing a Venezuela-type operation has proved to be an illusion as Iran has shown itself to be a more formidable opponent. As this editorial is being written (April 5, 2026), Trump has issued an obscenity laced post on his Truth Social account threatening to commit bigger (…)

In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people specifically, has been limited. To my knowledge, no one has done any study on this, so we are forced to rely on a combination of anecdotal information and historical analysis and patterns. What (…)

How UK teachers are resisting the repression of Palestine solidarity in classrooms. Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza just over two years ago, the repression of any support for Palestine has been rampant across UK institutions including workplaces and universities. Schools are no exception. In 2023, CAGE International handled 118 cases of Palestine-based repression in schools (…)

The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations or tragic mistakes; they belong to a longer and darker history that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) once named with chilling precision. In earlier periods of (…)

According to sociologists, dehumanisation rarely begins with physical violence. It often emerges gradually through political and cultural narratives that redefine difference as a threat and exclude certain groups from the “moral community”. As contemporary populist rhetoric increasingly frames political disagreement in existential terms, the boundary between legitimate democratic contestation (…)

Across much of the Arab world, the absence of genuine democracy is no longer a hidden flaw but a defining political reality. The Arab region does not merely confront isolated crises; it is caught in a profound structural collapse, the culmination of decades of cultural insularity, unchecked authority, hesitant elites, and obsolete ideologies drained of relevance. Societies are ensnared (…)

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently warned at the World at the Economic Forum in Davos that “middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” many saw this as a defence of international law and the multilateral order. That earned him global accolades. At the time, Canada and Denmark were under pressure from the Donald Trump administration (…)

Environmental degradation is one of the most immediately visible consequences of rapid economic growth in Southeast Asia. Visitors from more developed countries will quickly notice that trash and pollution are not peripheral issues in the region but rather they are simply a major part of the everyday urban landscape. Pollution and waste management challenges are woven into daily life in many (…)

The reported killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in coordinated strikes on Iran marks a historic rupture. But history did not begin this week, and it will not end with the death of one man. What we are witnessing is the culmination of decades of militarism, sanctions, proxy wars, and Western impunity masquerading as moral clarity. The Iranian people have endured repression under the Islamic (…)

Framed as a strike on “evil,” Washington and Tel Aviv’s attacks leave Iran with few off-ramps. Tehran’s incentives now point toward escalation as a matter of survival. Hours after Tehran had agreed to the unprecedented concession of eliminating its nuclear stockpile, Donald Trump announced the launch of a “massive and ongoing” US and Israeli air war to topple the Islamic Republic. Trump (…)

Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, lies and reflexes in which the war is enmeshed. I have never lived through a ‘full-scale war’, nor served as a soldier in any war, big or small, so perhaps it was always thus. The Nazis much admired British propaganda in WW1 and Goebbels used it as a model. The great sin (…)

I did not grow up in a house that had books – not one novel or shelf of stories was read for pleasure or kept by our beds. The only books I knew were school textbooks and competitive exam guides – to pass exams, to move to the next class and later to try for a government job, which I did not get. I was born into a Dalit household in north India. None of my forefathers attended school. My (…)

Sudan’s war is far from a binary struggle; it is a conflict where a web of local, regional, and global interests and tensions have converged into a single, devastating catastrophe. What observers initially framed as a ‘war between two generals’ or a domestic struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has proven to be merely the surface (…)

The ceasefire deal agreed between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last week – hailed by the US as a ‘historic milestone in Syria’s journey toward national reconciliation’ – represents a major victory for Damascus. It also spells the end of Rojava as a Kurdish-run autonomous enclave in the country’s northeast. Talks between the al-Sharaa government and (…)

The election is not the finish line; it is merely the entrance—a gateway to a broader transition. After fifteen years of autocratic rule, Bangladesh is re-entering an electoral phase. This election is significant for two primary reasons: first, it reactivates a stagnant electoral process and initiates a transition toward a competitive system; and second, it seeks to establish a sustainable (…)

Last week, our play “The Last Play in Gaza” was supposed to take the stage in Kerala at the ITFOK festival. Two performances. The play is about the erasure of Gaza - and the desperate attempt to recreate what has been destroyed through theater. It was an opportunity we had been waiting for a long time. After a year in which the play was incomplete — you can’t complete a play when the murders (…)

Tunisia’s brief democratic journey shows that gaining freedom is not enough. The revolution may have toppled an authoritarian regime, but democracy could not take root without public engagement, shared values, and a culture of accountability. Decades of top-down modernization, elite-driven politics, and a weak civil society left institutions fragile and public trust easily eroded. Building a (…)

A liberated Palestine will mark the dawn of a new age; otherwise, the Age of Extremes and Catastrophe will linger on, bringing with it economic, ecological, and nuclear holocausts. This piece is written on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. My parents, German Jews, lost members of their families in that terrible chapter of Nazi genocide. From that position, I found Tony Blair’s (…)

Radical Socialist stands in solidarity with the mass uprising in Iran against brutal state repression, and deteriorating national economic conditions triggered by the collapse of Iran’s official currency and skyrocketing inflation. The ongoing wave of protests began on 28th December 2025 in the Grand Bazaar within Tehran, and soon spread outside the national capital to all the total 31 (…)

I find it absurd that this even needs to be said, but the moment demands clarity: the Islamic Republic of Iran—despite being in the crosshairs of the criminal agendas of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump—is not, and has never been, an ally of the left. I can oppose U.S. and Israeli imperial aggression without suspending my judgment about the nature of the Iranian state. Yet too often, (…)

Home to 22 million people, the island nation of Sri Lanka is uniquely vulnerable to economic disruption and the threats posed by anthropogenic climate change. The country’s economic growth and the resilience of its critical infrastructure is hampered by its reliance on expensive fossil fuel imports for electricity and fuel, a power grid stretched to the breaking point, and frequent (…)

India’s capital New Delhi has long “enjoyed” a dubious top-ranking; it is the world’s most polluted capital city in terms of air quality. Air pollution is usually measured in terms of the ambient air concentration of small particulate matter known as PM2.5, i.e., particulate matter with a mean aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 microns (micrometers) or less that is readily inhaled and enters the (…)

"No phenomenon we know in life matches the revolution in its ability to summon hope, inspire it, and also betray it!" Asaf Bayet, prominent sociologist and scholar The Lesson of Zoshchenko’s Apartment In 1920, Lenin declared that ” Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification,” promising to bring electricity to every corner of the vast country. The Russian satirical writer Mikhail (…)

On September 16th, 2025, the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education announced that 32 billion rupees will be allocated to a national school meal program. Despite the increase in budget, it might not be enough to sufficiently address Sri Lanka’s ongoing food crisis. How the Cost-of-Living Crisis Fuels Food Insecurity COVID-19 and the overwhelming economic crisis (…)

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan has displaced 13 million, left over 30 million people in need of assistance, with nearly 25 million experiencing acute hunger. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described the situation as a catastrophe of "staggering scale and brutality." Amid this turmoil, Sudanese media have suffered significantly. As of May 2025, at least nine journalists have (…)

In late November 2025, Cyclone Ditwah hit Sri Lanka, killing at least 500 people and leaving hundreds more missing. Landslides and heavy flooding accounted for most of the deaths and damage, with places like Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, and Badulla in the inland hill country being hit hardest. Tens of thousands were displaced due to rising waters or the loss of their homes, and over a million people (…)

The civil war today tearing apart Sudan is not just a conflict between rival generals. Rather, it is the direct and tragic consequence of the plundering of the resources under the country’s soil for the benefit of foreign powers. Only an end to outside interference and the mobilisation of the Sudanese people to force the creation of a civilian government without military involvement can put an (…)

At 56, Tchang, as he is affectionately known in Niger, arrested at his home a year ago, has been involved in every struggle. His friends remember the activist he was even in high school and later as a philosophy student in the early 1990s, caught up in the wave of the student movement that would overthrow, not without the loss of life, the heirs of General Seyni Kountché and his regime of (…)

With nearly 9% of the world’s forests (1) and a commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, (2) federal policy makers often praise Canada for its ‘rapid’ transition towards a more sustainable economy (3). Yet, beneath the façade of pristine blue oceans and towering pine trees lies a much darker reality: the unsustainable extraction of natural resources. In Canada, the (…)

In Sri Lanka, the issue of mangrove deforestation has received widespread attention. As a result, several organizations and coastal communities have started mangrove conservation efforts. However, several aspects of the tourism industry have impeded those efforts. The Necessity of Mangroves Mangroves are a vital part of tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems, including those in Sri Lanka. (…)

Rights advocacy groups, community and international solidarity organizations, unions, and other citizens are calling on the public to stand together and denounce the policies of the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government that are dismantling our public services and our social and political rights. Different bills are being presented, one after the another, reinforcing previous measures (…)

For the world’s 600 million fisher peoples, the climate crisis presents not just a future threat but an immediate, daily violation of their most basic human rights. Rising tides, warming and acidifying waters, and extreme weather destroy the ecosystems that fisher peoples and indigenous coastal communities rely upon for food, livelihood, identity, and self-determination. A new joint report (…)

In one of its most important facets, Sudan’s war is a war against the revolution that began in December 2018 and endures in the daily work of neighborhood committees, unions, women’s groups, emergency response rooms, political parties, and issue-based civil society groups. The war’s foreign sponsors are not neutral brokers; they are primary parties to the conflict aligned against the (…)

The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike (…)

The spectre of a nuclear Armageddon has become a constant companion of humanity since the huge criminal massacre in the closing days of WWII in August 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After a relative pause with the end of the Cold War, this has again started looking more and more real and immediate. The Doomsday Clock — meant to indicate the immediacy of the final cataclysm — is now set at 89 (…)

When the Soviet Union collapsed, one of the premier intellectuals of the neoliberal order, Francis Fukuyama, proclaimed the ‘end of history.’ By this he meant that, contrary to the claims of Marxian analysts, there existed no alternative any more to liberal democracy as the only future socio-political order and capitalism as the only economic system. However, this prediction of the future (…)

Pioneering a pathway of civic participation, democratisation and human rights amid the turbulence of war torn Palestine. The Irish playwright Seán O’Casey, penned the line in one of his plays, “the whole world’s in a terrible state o’ chassis” (“chassis” meaning chaos in local Dublin dialect). This was written in 1924 , shortly after the Irish Civil War, but I am starkly reminded of the (…)

Israel is one of the most militarized countries in the world. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and, more broadly, the Israeli security forces form the core around which the country’s institutions, financial structures, and economy have developed since David Ben-Gurion ordered the creation of the IDF on May 26, 1948. In the decades since, the country’s political economy has developed around this (…)

Donald Trump wants to sell the world a “peace plan” for Gaza. Twenty points that would end a thousand-year-old conflict, he says. In reality, only the first two are on the table: a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange. Admittedly, for the people of Gaza, exhausted by months of bombing, these measures represent a vital respite. The bombs have stopped, children can sleep, and hospitals can breathe (…)

When thousands of Nepalis in their teens and twenties descended on Kathmandu’s government district on 8 September, it was, for most, their first political experience. The immediate trigger for the protests, which had been gathering steam for several days, was a government ban on more than two dozen social-media platforms. But the ‘Gen Z’ demonstrators, as they came to be known, had larger (…)

What I normally write sinks without a trace or, to be precise, is quickly trashed and forgotten. But a recent essay on the existential threat to the nation posed by Mohan Bhagwat and his burgeoning army of bigots did do the rounds— an assumption I make on the basis that it figured briefly in The Wire’s ‘most read’ section and provoked a flurry of comments from friends and foes alike. If (…)

Behind the temple’s elaborate stonework lies a hidden history of caste-based exploitation. The Dalit Solidarity Forum, Ambedkar King Study Circle (AKSC), Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), Sikh Coalition, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), and India Civil Watch International (ICWI) together express deep concern over reports that the (…)

Canada and Canadians have long considered themselves defenders of human rights, democracy, justice and the rule of law. Canada played a significant role in the development of what’s known as the liberal international order, including multilateral institutions like the United Nations, and international law. Canada was once highly respected for the role it played developing the framework for (…)

Zionists often insist that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israeli actions in Gaza cheapens other past crimes. Yet in both scale and in intent, Israel’s destruction of Gaza conforms closely to historic genocides. From the beginning of the Israeli response to Operation al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, it was clear that the Zionist state had launched a war deadlier and more (…)

Interview with Gus Massiah by Catherine Tricot was published in Revue Regards on February 6, 2025 Catherine Tricot: How do you understand these tumultuous times? Gustave Massiah: We are in a moment of structural crisis in the capitalist mode of production, a change in historical period that goes far beyond the election of Donald Trump. Even if Trump’s election dramatically changes the (…)

“WHILE most of our leaders have, in terms of national objectives, wandered aimlessly, knowing not where they were or where they would go, the nation has virtually been marking time, paying in sweat and blood the price of strenuous endeavour but making little advance towards the goal.” Reflecting on just eight years of independence, that’s how The Pakistan Times summed up the nation’s (…)

An Indian national’s targeting of Mamdani in New York’s mayoral race marks a new phase for the US Hindutva movement. For nearly 90 minutes, the woman in a sari spoke uninterrupted, her voice echoing over the microphone into a cavernous room at the main temple hall of the Umiya Dham Mandir in Edison, New Jersey. “So long as the last enemy is on Earth, peace is impossible!” she shouted. “So (…)

In the current most depraved phase of the US-Israeli livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, what Jewish Voice for Peace calls Israel’s “final solution,” we are marking the BDS movement’s 20th anniversary to affirm our collective power in isolating Israel’s 77-year-old regime of settler colonial apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians like never before. Twenty (…)

The destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza has reached such a level that denial of its extent or brutality or evasion of its proper name has become well-nigh impossible – even inside Israel. One of the consciences of Israeli journalism, Gideon Levy, wrote the following in the July 30 edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: “The time has come. It is no longer possible to beat around the (…)

Solidarity with the people of Gaza is being defused even as their agony intensifies A recent poll conducted in 24 countries by the Pew Research Center reveals that Israel is very unpopular in most of these countries. The main exception is India, where just 29% of the respondents had an “unfavourable” view of Israel. A slightly higher proportion (34%) had a favourable view, and the rest had (…)

Sino-Indian relations have long been dominated by conflict, mainly due to border disputes. These even led to war (or served as a pretext for it) in 1962, after which new border disputes arose, as China conquered territories claimed by India, including Aksai Chin (in the north of present-day Indian Ladakh). When dialogue between the two countries resumed – briefly in the 1970s and then on a (…)

Late capitalism is an ambiguous term. Lateness may imply death or an ending, as when we speak of my late grandfather or the late afternoon. When the German social theorist Werner Sombart first used the term in the early twentieth century, late capitalism did mean the end of capitalism. Yet ‘late’ in the superlative also suggests up-to-date or state-of-the-art, pointing not to the demise of (…)

In the face of Israel’s latest breach of international law, Ottawa’s silence is complicity Since June 12, Israel has been carrying out a coordinated military assault against several civilian infrastructures in Tehran and other Iranian cities. This marks the second direct offensive in just 14 months. Once again, the Israeli state is acting in blatant violation of international law—without a (…)

Today, as we celebrate Juneteenth, we should remember not only the struggle against chattel slavery but the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction — snuffed out by the reactionary forces of property and white supremacy. It’s a funny thing how folks always want to know about the War,” mused Felix Haywood about that central fixation of American memory. Haywood had been born in (…)

Twenty-seven years after the fall of Suharto (1921 – 2008), the Indonesian Poor People’s Union (https://www.bacaanspri.org/) (SPRI) argues that democratic promises have been hijacked by oligarchs and capital owners who continue to dominate through co-opted political parties and state institutions. In this translated manifesto from a May 2025 public discussion, SPRI activists make an urgent (…)

It is useful to recall what some supporters of the Partition of British India on the eve of its occurrence said about its essentially benign nature. The separation or division based on the religious identity of the vast majority of its inhabitants, viz. Hindus and Muslims who became the two nations in this discourse, was likened to a family quarrel in which two brothers and their families who (…)

Building a pan-Canadian left movement is becoming an unavoidable necessity Although opinion polls in 2024 had predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, the recent federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth consecutive mandate. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump’s threats of annexation of (…)

Now that the dust has settled after the battle between India and Pakistan – the most significant aerial conflict between the two countries to date – it is worth reflecting on its wider significance. What were its origins and how will it affect the politics of the region? The immediate trigger was the terror attack in Pahalgam carried out by Kashmiri militants in late April, in which 26 (…)

In an era of rising uncertainty and political fragmentation, few voices in South Asia carry the weight of experience and vision like that of Dr. Baburam Bhattarai. Former Prime Minister of Nepal, architect of the federal republican constitution, and a long time revolutionary, Dr. Bhattarai has lived the contradictions of power, transformation, and reform. In a wide-ranging conversation, he (…)

The dastardly killing of 26 innocent men, 24 tourists from India (one Christian and the rest Hindus), 1 from Nepal (also Hindu) and 1 Kashmiri Muslim pony owner who worked in the tourist industry, by a group of terrorists on April 22 near the town of Pahalgam in the Kashmir Valley has been met with universal condemnation. The killings took place in the picturesque meadow of Baisaran a few (…)

Nepal’s formal occupational health and safety (OH&S) policies are well-articulated at the national level, but their implementation on the ground, especially Kathmandu, remains critically flawed. Health workers face a complex web of biological, chemical, and ergonomic hazards daily, yet these risks are often unrecognized by institutions and underreported by staff. Marasini et al. (2023) (…)

Throughout world history, women have been subjected to various forms of violence during conflicts and wars. Besides enduring rape and violence during these times, displaced women and refugees often face greater hardships than men. Palestinian women have been experiencing this physical and psychological abuse for over seven decades. However, the history of Palestine over the past century is not (…)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sudden funding disruption has severely impacted Nepal’s community development efforts at a pivotal time in the country’s growth trajectory. The termination of 34 projects worth an estimated $329 million has disrupted healthcare, education, energy, and infrastructure development efforts, affecting over 400 organizations and placing (…)

Holi, the festival of colours, is one of South Asia’s most joyful and vibrant traditions. The festival is celebrated across the region to welcome spring on the full moon night; it symbolizes renewal, unity, and the triumph of good over evil. Communities come together to throw coloured powders, sing, dance, and share festive meals. Yet, in recent years, concerns have emerged around water (…)

“Stop the famine… Stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip” In light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip - including bombings, massacres, and the prevention of humanitarian aid from entering since March 2, 2025 - and the near-total depletion of food, medical supplies, fuel, and hygiene materials, the shutdown of bakeries and many community (…)

Headwinds have emerged in Donald Trump’s rush to derail and transform the state and place the US Empire on a radically new – but no less oppressive – footing. This time, however, Trump came with a more primed agenda, while the social forces to counter his trajectory remain a remote wish. This facilitates Trump’s stubborn soldiering on. We do not know how far Trump will go. No concern is to (…)