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23 December 2019, by Alternatives international
Statement by Montreal Academic Community Against Police Brutality in India, CAA, NRC
We, the members of the Montreal academic community, stand in solidarity with students exercising their fundamental right to dissent and protest across India. We condemn the brutality unleashed (...) -
21 December 2019, by India Civil Watch and CERAS
Statement by Montreal Residents Against Police Brutality in India, CAA, NRC
We, the residents and citizens of Tiohtiá:ke (e.g. unceded Indigenous territory otherwise known as Montreal), stand in solidarity with students and citizens exercising their fundamental democratic (...) -
18 December 2019, by PADS
PADS Denounces Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens
People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) strongly condemns the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the Parliament on Dec 11,2019. Modi government used its brute majority to (...) -
12 December 2019, by Cole Stangler
In Marseille, the French Left is Finally Uniting
For years, divisions on France’s left have helped Emmanuel Macron and Marine le Pen dominate the political terrain. But in the country’s second city, grassroots pressure has forced them to put (...) -
12 December 2019, by Alex MacDonald
Iraq’s Communists Given New Life by Protests
Compared to the ostentatiously huge buildings afforded to some of the parties in Baghdad, the headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) are relatively humble. The building comprises a shop, (...) -
11 December 2019, by Ania Loomba and Partha P. Chakrabartty
Debate: Fascism Is Not Simply Imposed From Above
It is time to call this regime by its name. What we are seeing is not procedural or substantive fascism; this is fascism. We woke up today to professor Arjun Appadurai’s insightful piece in The (...) -
11 December 2019, by Rahul Varma
35th Anniversary of Bhopal Disaster – Problem is Systemic
“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money, and fairy tales of eternal economic (...) -
9 December 2019, by Vijay Kolinjivadi
Why a ’Green New Deal’ Must be Decolonial
The Green New Deal will not work unless it dismantles neocolonial structures exploiting nature and people. Discussions of a Green New Deal (GND) have been all the rage these days, as hundreds (...) -
2 December 2019, by Donald Cuccioletta
The Struggle Against Climate Change and the Need for Ecology
The position paper by Donald Cuccioletta titled “The Capitalist Crisis and The Case for Eco Socialism” will consist of four articles, which will touch the different crises that are weakening and (...) -
29 November 2019, by Robert Cavooris
Origins of the Crisis: On the Coup in Bolivia
Regarding recent events in Bolivia, some things are simple: Was it a coup? Yes. On Sunday, November 10, the commander-in-chief of Bolivia’s armed forces, General Williams Kaliman, publicly told (...)