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• 20 June, by Corey Robin

  Waiting Game

  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 (…)
• 20 June, by Amir Khadir

  Israel’s War on Iran

  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 (…)
• 19 June, by Dale Kretz

  Juneteenth Is About Freedom

  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 (…)
• 11 June

  The Indonesian People’s Movement Need to Build a Political Party

  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 (…)
• 4 June, by Vinod Mubayi

  Endless Hostility, Endless Conflict

  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 (…)
• 1 June, by André Frappier and Bernard Rioux

  A Québécois Socialist Response to Canada’s Federal Election

  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 (…)
• 30 May, by Ammar Ali Jan

  Towards Disaster

  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 (…)
• 15 May, by Nehal Kumar Singh

  Rethinking Revolution, Migration, and Nationhood: A Dialogue with Dr. Baburam Bhattarai

  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, (…)
• 15 May, by Vinod Mubayi

  Jammu & Kashmir Killings: A Depressing Tale With No End In Sight

  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, (…)
• 6 May, by Nehal Kumar Singh

  Occupational Health and Safety Risks Among Essential Health Workers in Kathmandu

  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 (…)
• 24 April, by Shameer Modongal and Ashly K Ramachandran

  Steadfast and Strong: Chronicles of Palestinian Women’s Resistance

  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 (…)
• 23 April, by Nehal Singh

  Insult to Injury: The Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Nepal’s Community Development

  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 (…)
• 15 April, by Nehal Kumar Singh

  Youth-Led Responsible Celebration and Global Solidarity in Nepal

  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 (…)
• 11 April

  Urgent Appeal from the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO)

  “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 (…)
• 6 April, by Sam Gindin

  The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method

  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 (…)
• 11 March, by Arianne Brideau

  Navigating Human Rights and Sovereignty: Sri Lanka’s Message at the 58th UNHRC

  This article critiques Sri Lanka’s response to human rights issues at the 58th UNHRC session, highlighting the lack of progress on investigating war crimes and enforced disappearances. Despite (…)
• 14 February, by Victor Beaudet-Latendresse

  Nothing Left to Say?

  Since Donald Trump began intimidating Canada with border tariffs and threats of annexation, the premiers have been wavering. While François Legault and Doug Ford puff out their chests, striving to (…)
• 14 February, by Vinod Mubayi

  American “Exceptionalism” And Trump’s Fascism

  Many US Presidents, including President Obama, have celebrated America as an “exceptional” country and voiced many paeans to its exceptionalism. They meant this in a wholly positive sense of (…)
• 6 February, by Arianne Brideau

  The Situation of the Rohingya in Sri Lanka

  Since the escalation of the conflict by a military takeover in February 2021, more than 1.3 million refugees and asylum seekers from Myanmar are hosted in other countries around the world. The (…)
• 6 February, by Union of Professors and Employees of Birzeit University

  Palestine is Not for Sale, Gaza is Not a Real Estate Project

  As a union of university professors and employees in Palestine, it is incumbent upon us to educate. The most recent statements from the current head of the US empire, Donald Trump, are nothing (…)
• 2 February, by The Hague Group

  International Solidarity with Palestinians

  INAUGURAL JOINT STATEMENT We, the Representatives from the Governments of Belize, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Republic of Colombia, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Honduras, Malaysia, (…)
• 1 February, by Marie-Josée Béliveau

  COP30 At The Doorstep of Amazon Rainforest in 2025

  Ten years after the Paris Agreement and two stops in oil-producing countries, the thirtieth Conference of the Parties on Climate (COP30), taking place this year on the doorstep of the Brazilian (…)
• 30 January, by Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy

  Tapan K Bose: 1946-2025

  Tapan Kumar Bose, renowned documentary film-maker, human rights and peace activist known across South Asia, is no more. Tapan breathed his last at his home in New Delhi in the morning of Martyr’s (…)
• 28 January, by Ilan Pappe

  Palestine 2025: Where To?

  Looking towards the new year, 2025 and looking back at the time that passed since October 7, 2023, it is an appropriate time to re-evaluate the significance of that date and everything that (…)
• 28 January, by Taki Manolakos

  Whither the United States of America?

  Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on January 20th. Will he herald American neo-fascism? The answer remains unclear at this juncture. There is some (…)
• 28 January, by Vinod Mubayi

  Democracy Vs Hypocrisy & Falsehood

  While patriotism may be, as the venerable Dr Samuel Johnson once said, “the last refuge of the scoundrel”, nation states that consider themselves democracies are often accustomed to uttering fine (…)
• 28 January, by Usha Kumar

  Rise of Hindutva in the American Extreme Right

  Pause to survey the composition of Trump 2.0 cabinet, and a striking pattern emerges. Alongside the regular staple of anti-immigrant hawks, Wall Street libertarians and Christian nationalists, we (…)
• 28 January, by Roger Rashi

  People’s Social Forum 2014: Uniting Social Movements Against Neoliberalism and the Right Wing

  The 2014 Peoples’ Social Forum achieved something very rare in Canada: it brought together social movements from one end of the country to the other around a goal that was clear at the time: (…)
• 28 January, by Sophie O’Manique

  Beyond Profit: Reclaiming Housing as a Right in Quebec, Canada, and Across the Globe

  I learned that my Montreal apartment building had been purchased by an investment firm in July 2023. The building had previously been owned by a family, who did not go to great lengths to maintain (…)
• 28 January, by Mallory Knodel

  Megaphones To Platforms: 30 Years of Technology and the Information Society

  Wigs, boom boxes, kids in trailers, dogs in backpacks– a thousand people on bicycles stretching as far as the eye could see down the streets of Westminster in London. We headed to the circle drive (…)
• 20 December 2024, by Matt Broomfield

  The Balkan Scenario

  Syria’s future is uncertain following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in a rebel blitzkrieg earlier this month. While millions are rightly celebrating the dictator’s fall, larger powers – most (…)
• 3 December 2024, by Economic and Political Weekly-Editorial

  Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza

  The Israeli campaign of systematic erasure of Gaza exposes the hollowness of the “rules-based order.” More than 400 days have elapsed since the beginning of Israel’s relentless aggression (…)
• 26 November 2024, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Tunisia: Green Hydrogen for Export

  Faced with the dangers of global warming caused by fossil fuels (especially oil and gas), the world is increasingly turning to clean, renewable energies, because they are environmentally friendly, (…)
• 26 November 2024, by Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan Kadirgamar

  The Sri Lankan Left’s Long Road to Power

  The victory of the National People’s Power (NPP) candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in the Sri Lankan presidential election represented a major shift in the South Asian state’s political (…)
• 22 November 2024, by Yanis Varoufakis

  Quantity to Quality

  You are one of several theorists, along with Cédric Durand, Jodi Dean, Mariana Mazzucato and others, who have speculated that the hegemony of Big Tech – using algorithms to build data empires that (…)
• 13 November 2024, by Taki Manolakos

  Fascism in the United States

  Trump secures victory, controls both chambers of the legislature. The end of neoliberalism heralds the rise of fascism. Citizens of the United States cast their ballots on Tuesday November (…)
• 9 November 2024, by Archisha Rai

  Settler Colonialism and the Act of Selective Deafness

  The genocide of the people of Palestine is still ongoing. Despite a plethora of video evidence and testimonies from Palestine itself, the world remains deaf to the cries of Palestinians. Locating (…)
• 8 November 2024

  We support UN Human Rights Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

  As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied (…)
• 7 November 2024, by Matt Karp

  It’s Happening Again

  And until Democrats can find a way to win back some large chunk of working-class voters, Donald Trump’s successors will be favored in the next presidential election too. It is happening (…)
• 11 October 2024, by Arundhati Roy

  No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine

  ’I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’ Writer and activist Arundhati (…)
• 6 October 2024, by Mustafa Barghouti

  First Anniversary of the Israeli War on Gaza

  Tomorrow the 7th of October marks the end of a whole year of the Israeli war on Gaza that Israel expanded to include Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran. This regional war could have been easily (…)
• 5 October 2024, by Tariq Ali

  Consequences of Nasrallah

  To kill Hassan Nasrallah, one of the most popular leaders of the resistance (and not just among Shias), the IDF had to destroy several buildings, launch terrorist attacks via messaging devices and (…)
• 2 October 2024, by Mostafa Barghouti

  The Right to Be a People Like Any Other

  Israel’s war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has no parallel in modern history. For the past year, Tel Aviv has been committing three war crimes in parallel: genocide, collective (…)
• 2 October 2024, by Chris Webb

  To Build Solidarity with Palestine, Labour Movement Must Look to the Past

  The South African anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 80s serves as a significant source of inspiration for Palestine solidarity activists today. The reasons for this are hardly surprising; (…)
• 12 September 2024, by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

  A Fighter and a Thinker, Sitaram Yechury Leaves Behind a Towering Legacy

  He was a cementing force in Indian polity when communal and profit-greedy forces registered their presence like never before. Sometime in August 2003, Sitaram Yechury, then a senior leader of (…)
• 7 September 2024, by Achin Vanaik

  Israel’s Genocidal Campaign: The Struggle Continues

  The assassination of Ismael Haniyeh only confirms that Israel has no interest in ending its genocidal and terrorist campaign on Gazans, in particular, and Palestinians, more generally. Over 500 (…)
• 23 August 2024, by Ahmede Hussain

  India’s ‘Sheikh Hasina Problem’ is Not Going Away Easily

  For one and a half decades, India unabashedly supported Sheikh Hasina’s brutal and dictatorial regime. The 20-day-long violent uprising that forced her to flee to India in a military cargo plane, (…)
• 16 August 2024, by Richard Seymour

  Dreaming of Downfall

  What just happened? For almost a week, towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland were in the grip of pogromist reaction. In Hull, Sunderland, Rotherham, Liverpool, Aldershot, Leeds, (…)
• 9 August 2024, by Ussama Makdisi

  Overwriting Palestine

  The most intense bombardment of a concentrated urban space in recent memory, the fastest deliberate starvation of any population in recorded history, the greatest number of journalists killed in (…)
• 7 August 2024, by Liemia Eljaili Abubakr

  Sudanese Female Activists Provide Beacon in Fog of War

  In Sudan, after a whole year of war, women human rights defenders in Sudan continue to try and help those who are suffering. Women human rights defenders with the Support Sudan Campaign lost (…)
• 5 August 2024, by Harish Khare

  Lessons of Political Arrogance in Dhaka Need to be Heeded in New Delhi

  It could just be a coincidence. Barely twenty-four hours before Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was made to flee from Dacca, India’s Home Minister was making a statement of Prime Minister (…)
• 26 July 2024, by Vinod Mubayi

  The Crisis of Electoral Democracy

  The crisis that afflicts what earlier generations on the left used to call bourgeois democracy is palpable. Despite the claims of ideologues like Francis Fukuyama who proclaimed the end of history (…)
• 26 July 2024, by Elizabeth Schmidt

  Evil Empires?

  China’s growing presence in Africa has captured global attention. As its trade deals and investments have eclipsed those of the West, politicians from the US and EU have raised the alarm: Beijing, (…)
• 16 July 2024, by Achin Vanaik

  The Menace of Hindutva

  Renowned political scientist, academic, and writer, Achin Vanaik (b.1947) is a well-known scholar and commentator on global politics and international relations. He graduated in economics and (…)
• 10 July 2024, by Celine Li

  Philippine Mall Culture: A Capitalist Reimagining of Public Spaces

  What struck me most when I first set foot in the Philippines was the abundance of shopping malls. On the way from the airport to our residence, I counted nearly a dozen shopping malls, passing one (…)
• 22 June 2024, by Ilan Pappé

  The Collapse of Zionism

  Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its very foundations. More than (…)
• 3 June 2024, by Jorge Elbaum

  Claudia Sheinbaum vs The Global Right-Wing

  On June 2, elections were held in Mexico, the second most populous State in Latin America and the Caribbean, with around 130 million inhabitants. Another 11 million Mexicans live in the United (…)
• 2 June 2024, by Prabhat Patnaik

  How BJP Masked its Class Agenda With False Religious Narrative

  In attacking the wealth tax proposal, the PM whipped up hatred against Muslims, trashed Congress, thereby protecting his super-rich patrons. An object lesson in how fascistic outfits operate (…)
• 1 June 2024, by Vinod Mubayi

  How Lying, Autocratic Behavior, Stupidity & Official Malfeasance Are Tending to Destroy India’s Democracy

  Whichever result the Indian election delivers on June 4th, the conduct of the entire campaign by the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi has seriously shamed the country and (…)
• 13 May 2024

  Johannesburg Declaration on Israel’s Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide

  Towards Building a Global Anti-Apartheid movement We, delegates from more than two dozen countries around the world, expressing the views of millions of people from all walks of life, of all (…)
• 8 May 2024, by Five Nation Longhouse Confederacy

  First Nation in Solidarity with McGill Students

  Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine The past two weeks [in October 2023] of horrific violence in Gaza resulted from 75 years of Israeli settler colonial dispossession, 56 years of military (…)
• 26 April 2024, by Christophe Jaffrelot

  Narendra Modi, The Man Who Manages to Be Exactly What Everyone Wants To See In Him

  As India prepares to re-elect its parliament, Christophe Jaffrelot, Director of Research at the CNRS and a leading expert on India, answers our questions about the elections that are taking place (…)
• 17 April 2024, by Editorial, Amandla!

  2024: Wake Up Call For The Left

  The coming 2024 national and provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting. By (…)
• 22 March 2024, by Alberto Toscano

  Undoing Oslo

  Five months into Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people – a compendium of colonial violence, from the bombing of maternity wards to what Raphael Lemkin once called ‘racial (…)
• 19 March 2024, by Lok Bhattarai

  WSF 2024 Reveals True Face of Nepal’s Communist Rulers

  Nepal’s socio-political landscape, dominated by international aid-driven initiatives and limited grassroots activism, stands in contrast to the WSF’s ethos of grassroots mobilization and (…)
• 23 February 2024, by John Sidel

  Line of Succession

  This year, elections across the world are offering a stark reminder that voters can expect very little from liberal democracy, even under conditions of ‘free and fair’ competition. It’s easy to (…)
• 23 February 2024, by Indians for Palestine

  International Court and Justice for Gaza: A Public Meeting On The ICJ Ruling

  By January 11, 2024, the daily death rate in Gaza was higher than in any other major 21st-century conflict. The death toll in Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has now crossed 29,000, most of whom (…)
• 16 February 2024, by Ilan Pappé

  It Is Dark Before the Dawn, But Israeli Settler Colonialism Is At an End

  Professor Ilan Pappé spoke at Islamic Human Rights Commission’s (IHRC) annual Genocide Memorial Day in London, UK, on 21st January 2024, on the need to understand that the genocide of Palestinians (…)
• 5 February 2024, by Michelle Weinroth

  Trudeau, Restore UNWRA Funding Now: An Open Letter

  Dear PM Trudeau and Minister Hussen, I am still reeling over your decision to cut aid to UNRWA. What a disgrace! And, this, at a time when the people of Gaza (and elsewhere in the Middle East) (…)
• 3 February 2024, by Vinod Mubayi

  Ram Mandir: The Unholy Union of God And Greed

  Caught up in the incessant drumbeat of publicity created by the godi (lapdog) media that masquerades as Hindu religiosity, the goal of the consecration (pran pratishthan) ceremony on January 22 at (…)
• 17 January 2024, by Socialist Project

  Canada and the South African Genocide Charges Against Israel at the ICJ

  The merciless bombardment by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza has been challenged for all the world to see. South Africa – the historical victim of and ultimate victor over a racist (…)
• 14 January 2024, by Gideon Levy

  If It Isn’t a Genocide in Gaza, Then What Is It?

  Let us assume that Israel’s position at The Hague is right and just and Israel committed no genocide or anything close to it. So what is this? What do you call the mass killing, which continues (…)
• 13 January 2024, by Achin Vanaik

  The Tragedy of India’s Authoritarian Descent

  Despite all the talk about India being the world’s largest democracy the existing reality is very different indeed. For persistent dissidents and opponents of the current Hindu nationalist regime (…)
• 25 December 2023, by Sushant Singh

  Neither Cricket nor Humanity

  “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” That immortal sentence from CLR James should be the guiding motto of the International Cricket Council, but it seems farthest from their (…)
• 25 December 2023, by Messaoud Romdhani

  A Deceptive Definition: Criticism and Accountability

  “It’s easy to criticise and condemn the crimes of others. It’s a little harder to look in the mirror and ask what we’re doing because it’s usually not very pretty, and if we’re minimally decent (…)
• 22 December 2023, by Wolfgang Streeck

  Master and Servant

  The Israeli massacre in Gaza is a catastrophe, and not just for the city’s tortured inmates, languishing for decades under a merciless occupation. The United States in particular, but also (…)
• 11 December 2023, by Gustave Massiah

  The United Nations and the Radical Reform of the International System

  The United Nations (UN) was created at a unique moment, following the end of the Second World War. Inspired by the experience of the League of Nations (LON), it was built upon that institution’s (…)
• 28 November 2023, by Alternatives international

  Statement of Solidarity with Palestine and Condemnation of Attacks on Academic Freedom Related to Palestine

  As academics and other concerned persons, we, the undersigned, are outraged at the manner in which discussions on the ongoing war against Palestine are being silenced on Indian campuses, and in (…)
• 23 November 2023, by Stefan Christoff

  Voices For Palestine

  Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023 1-7pm, Palestine time Live on Radio AlHara https://www.radioalhara.net A global broadcast of solidarity aiming to highlight voices from around the world expressing (…)
• 14 November 2023, by World Federation of Trade Unions

  No to Export of Indian Workers to Israel to Replace Palestinian Workers

  Issued on 9th November 2023 The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Federations/Associations oppose any move to: EXPORT INDIAN WORKERS TO ISRAEL TO REPLACE PALESTINIAN (…)
• 3 November 2023, by Vinod Mubayi

  RSS, Hindutva and the Ongoing Nakba

  As the horrific, genocidal slaughter of the civilian population continues in Gaza, with almost 10,000 killed including thousands of small children at the time of writing, public demonstrations by (…)
• 30 October 2023, by Deepanshu Mohan

  India’s Abstention in UN Gaza Truce Vote Reflects Amoral, Apathetic Exceptionalism

  India abstained in the UN General Assembly vote on a Jordanian-led resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict. More recently, the UN Security Council (…)
• 22 October 2023, by Mustafa Barghouti

  Urgent Message from Palestine

  Israel is committing three war crimes in the Gaza Strip: The crime of collective punishment and the prevention of access to water, food, medicine, electricity, and communications to the Gaza (…)
• 19 October 2023, by Catherine Pappas

  A Letter to My Friend Najwa in Gaza

  Dear Najwa, I woke up to the news Monday morning. I was told you were safe, but that you lost your sister and her children in the bombing. Only one of her daughters survived; she’s in the (…)
• 19 October 2023, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Western Media and the Danger of Dehumanizing Language in Palestine

  Do you remember the famous phrase used by George Orwell in his phenomenal novel Animal Farm, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other”? That quote has become famous as (…)
• 17 October 2023, by Ijeoma Oluo

  A Letter to the Friendships I Have Lost and Will Lose

  This letter is not to those who I do not know, and yet claim to know me. The people who have followed me on social media just to say that they are unfollowing. The people I’ve never met or (…)
• 12 October 2023, by Tariq Ali

  Uprising in Palestine

  In December 1987, a new intifada erupted in Palestine, shaking Israel as well as the elites of the Arab world. A few weeks later, the grand old Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani wrote ‘The Trilogy of the (…)
• 12 October 2023, by Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees, Occupied Palestine

  We Are All Palestinians

  2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism and screamed in defense of their homes, humanity and life. Palestinians as a people (…)
• 10 October 2023, by Amira Hess

  The Israeli and Palestinian Avenger Circle

  In one day Israeli citizens went through what Palestinians have experienced and have experienced for decades as a resident: Military invasion, death, cruelty, children killed, bodies laying on (…)
• 2 October 2023, by Lauchlan T. Munro

  The New National Planning: An Analysis Inspired by The Thought and Work of Pierre Beaudet

  Introduction We live in the era of the “great return to (national) planning”(1). In the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, most governments stopped trying to plan their economies and wrapped up their (…)
• 8 September 2023

  Canadians on the Streets for Human Rights, Equality, Dignity in India and Pakistan

  Demonstrators call out growing fascism in India and protest the rise of Hindu Supremacist, groups in Canada Ottawa, ON, August 20, 2023. Over hundred protestors from several cities, including (…)
• 25 August 2023, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Racism and Complicity on Both Shores of the Mediterranean

  Remember the Tunisian revolution that ignited protests all over the Arab World in 2011? Well, one of its achievements was a law that penalizes racial discrimination and allows victims of racism to (…)
• 17 August 2023, by Daneesh Majid

  How the Son of a Wealthy Indian family Decided to Become a Pakistani Communist

  For Hassan Nasir, a Pakistan without Islamic egalitarianism or leftist ideals would make the new nation nothing but a bulwark for imperialists against the Soviets “I went to India, but after (…)
• 6 August 2023, by Vinod Mubayi

  Hypocrisy, Deceit, And Divisiveness: Hallmarks of The Regime Ruling India Today

  It is a measure of the insanity of our time that Narendra D. Modi is hailed as a vishwaguru (world-guru) and embraced unconditionally and unabashedly by the leaders of the United States and France (…)
• 1 August 2023, by Jooneed Khan

  A Decolonial Foreign Policy for Canada

  AS Canada kicked out Brian Mulroney’s Tories and brought back the Liberals under Jean Chrétien in November 1993, the new Foreign Minister, André Ouellet, assembled a national brainstorming event (…)
• 24 June 2023, by Ahmad Jaradat

  Human Rights Violations in Jerusalem

  Introduction Violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli occupation authorities have become an almost daily prominent feature. These violations affect all (…)
• 21 June 2023, by Motasem A. Dalloul

  Will Israel’s Offensive Against Jenin End Palestinian Resistance?

  Israeli occupation forces and border police carried out a broad offensive on Monday morning against the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Israeli troops killed at least (…)
• 9 June 2023, by Gustave Massiah

  Migration, a Revolution in the Making

  We are experiencing a turning point in the long history of migration. The history of migration merges with the history of mankind; it is part of the long, shaping history of the human race. This (…)
• 9 June 2023, by Christophe Jaffrelot

  Bajrang Dal and Making of the Deeper State

  During the Karnataka election campaign, the Congress committed itself to banning organisations such as the Bajrang Dal if they indulged in illegal activities. This promise is very important given (…)
• 9 June 2023, by Christophe Jaffrelot

  ’Betting on India is a Shortsighted Strategy for France’

  The French government has just announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the guest of honor at the Bastille Day Parade. This comes at a time when India is moving towards a form of (…)