September 2011

Articles

• 7 September 2011, by Manuel Larrabure and Carlos Torchia

  The Chilean Student Movement Against Neoliberalism

  Perhaps the greatest challenge for the radical left today is to articulate a politics that decisively breaks with the disastrous experiences of many 20th century socialisms. This is a difficult (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Melissa Wils-Owens

  Alternatives’ Days Report and Alternatives’ 2011 Declaration

  Last month, Alternatives held its seventeenth annual Alternatives’ Days held in Camp Papillon de St-Alphonse de Rodriguez in the Laurentiens. The weekend was attended by over 300 people, in (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Isabelle Reford, Melissa Wils-Owens

  Alternatives International Project Briefing – September 2011

  Each of the nine member organizations of the Alternatives International federation is constantly at work on a variety of projects to improve social, economic and environmental justice in their (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Liza Ponomarenko

  Taking away the abstraction from beheadings in Saudi Arabia

  The condemned, regardless of gender, is given a tranquilizer and taken into what is usually a public square after a daily midday prayer. The prisoner cannot see anything, only imagine the (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Kevin Kaczmara

  The Uncertainty of China’s Political and Economic Future

  At first glance, the Chinese developmental model appears to be moving forward, with China recently surpassing Japan for the title of the world’s second largest economy. Chinese business certainly (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Nitasha Moothoo-Padayachie

  Displacement and inequality in the name of ‘development’ – the case of Brazil

  “Between now and the 2014 World Cup, 1.5 million families will be removed from their homes across the whole of Brazil” (Zirin, 2011)1. The 2014 World Cup represents a joyous occasion celebrated (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours

  Canada Clamps Down on Criticism of Israel 

  Nearly two years after the first hearings were held in Ottawa, the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) released a detailed report on July 7 that found that (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Michael Bramadat-Willcock

  Past, Present and Future: An Overview of South Sudan

  The Republic of South Sudan has endured a difficult coming of age. Its future remains uncertain as this young nation in Africa takes its first steps towards adulthood. Optimism towards its new (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  What next: A Sunni bomb?

  The Islamic Republic of Iran stands at the threshold to the bomb. In 2010 it had more than enough low-enriched uranium (some 2,152 kilograms) to make its first bomb’s worth of weapons-grade (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Patrick Bond

  Climate Justice and Canada

  The Climate Justice Movement gives me more hope than anything I’ve seen since the end of Apartheid and struggle for free access to AIDS medicines. Even when things looked bad for these struggles (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  REDD: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  Forest governance, land ownership and management are critical issues for millions of indigenous peoples and forest dweller all around the world whose subsistence and cultural identity is rooted (...)
• 1 September 2011, by Katie McQuaid

  Refugees as human rights defenders: Can they protect or do they need protecting?

  A panel discussion at the recently held International Association for the Study of Forced Migration conference tackled the often precarious position of refugee human rights defenders. Katie (...)
• 31 August 2011, by Marion Bauer

  The Hosni Mubarak Trial

  After the uprising earlier this year in Egypt, former President Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down. He now faces justice in the Egyptian court with charges of corruption and ordering the (...)
• 29 August 2011, by Arundhati Roy

  I’d rather not be Anna

  If what we’re watching on TV is indeed a revolution, then it has to be one of the more embarrassing and unintelligible ones of recent times. For now, whatever questions you may have about the Jan (...)
• 29 August 2011, by Aijaz Ahmad

  The Political War

  The economic warfare waged by the advanced nations is also the other face of of the globalized militarism that reserves to itself the right to unilateral military invasion and intervention. (...)