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24 October 2019, by Felipe Lagos-Rojas and Francisca Gómez-Baeza
Chileans Have Launched a General Strike Against Austerity
Chile is the original home of neoliberalism, first begun after the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in 1973. If you listen closely to mass protests on the streets today, you can hear (...) -
24 October 2019, by Alternatives international
Appeal to Bollywood Actors to Support BDS Movement
We, members of the artistic community in Canada and the USA, appeal to the actors from Bollywood to withdraw their participation to the Indo Fest TLV to be held in Tel Aviv, Israel later this (...) -
23 October 2019, by Jeremy Wildeman
Justin Trudeau’s Political Setback: A Surprise to the World, but Not to Canada
From riding to power comfortably four years ago, the Canadian prime minister must now head a minority government. Canada’s federal election campaign highlighted a struggle that caught the world (...) -
7 October 2019, by Shireen Mehdi
Gun island by Amitava Ghosh
I will begin by confessing that Amitava Ghosh has been one of my favourite authors from the time I read his book ‘In An Antique Land’. That book left me mesmerized. I too am a student of (...) -
4 October 2019, by Besime Konca
21st century is the century of Women’s Revolution!
The following statement was presented by Besime Konca of the Kurdish Women’s Movement at “Defend the Sacred” Conference, 17th August 2019. Dear women, dear friends, We have come together in (...) -
2 October 2019, by Rebecca Solnit
The Loneliness of Donald Trump
On the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, (...) -
2 October 2019, by Pritam Singh
The Sangh’s Ideology Against Federalism Underlies the Centre’s Move in J&K
Excessive emphasis on the constitutionality of the move is deflecting attention away from the ideology that is the driving force behind this decision. There are two fairly distinct ways of (...) -
17 September 2019, 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 2019, 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 2019, 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, (...)