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• 10 September, by Sumanta Banerjee

  Heil Xi Jinping!: Celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of the Communist Party of China

  My using the term `Heil’ to greet Xi , recalling Hitler, may sound offensive to those who believe that China is a Communist state. But judging by the ominous signs emanating from that country, I (...)
• 3 September, by Michael Skinner

  Twenty Years of the Afghanistan Occupation Ends: A New Phase of Struggle Begins

  In 2007, I travelled throughout Afghanistan with an Afghan-Canadian research partner,(1) and we asked more than one hundred Afghans: What do you think about the international intervention in (...)
• 1 September, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

  Colonialism and the Epistemology of Ignorance: A Lesson from Afghanistan

  The abrupt and chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid-August filled the news around the world. With more or less variations, these were the main topics: humiliation for the U.S. and its (...)
• 30 August, by Donald Cuccioletta

  Afghan People Abandoned by President Joe Biden

  After twenty years of war, led by a NATO coalition headed by the United States, the abandoned Afghans are looking to the international community for help, while apprehending what the future will (...)
• 17 August, by Tariq Ali

  Debacle in Afghanistan

  The fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021 is a major political and ideological defeat for the American Empire. The crowded helicopters carrying US Embassy staff to Kabul airport were (...)
• 12 August, by Stefan Christoff

  Canada’s Colonialism Extends Through Its Foreign Policy

  Bilateral free trade agreements are not often at the heart of public focus around political firestorms today, however trade accords can speak profoundly to both the inherent priorities and long (...)
• 12 August, by Navsharan Singh

  Agrarian Crisis and the Longest Farmers’ Protest in Indian History

  “The farmers not only know how to farm, but they also know how to protect their fields,” said a farm leader from Punjab at the protest site on the outskirts of Delhi, where protesting farmers have (...)
• 12 August, by Fidaa Zaanin

  Feminist Protests in Palestine

  Palestine looks back on a long history of women organizing dating back to as early as 1917, as well as a vibrant history of women’s social and political participation in the country. Nevertheless, (...)
• 12 August, by Suleiman Mourad

  After the Blast

  It has been just over a year since the devastating explosion at Beirut’s port on 4 August 2020, which destroyed several neighbourhoods and shattered the national psyche. The blast was all too (...)
• 12 August, by Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme collective

  Genocide and Colonialism: Challenging the Canadian State

  Public opinion has been shaken by the “discovery” of unmarked graves of children who died in residential schools. The word “discovery” has to be placed in quotation marks because Indigenous (...)