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November 18, 2016
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.
‘’We will resist and resist until we win!“ chants Sebahat...
November 17, 2016
The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it.
Image: PA/Roman Pilipey
The centre right is doing the same today. Brexit, Trump and the far right ascendant across Europe indicate that talk of a right-wing revolutionary moment is not exaggerated. And...
November 16, 2016
Lawmakers said the president-elect's selection of his campaign chairman as his chief strategist ’sends the wrong message’ to harassers of minority communities.
United States president-elect Donald Trump has been urged to rescind the appointment of far-right, controversial media figure Stephen K Bannon as his chief adviser and strategist at the White House. “If...
November 15, 2016
Tens of millions of people around the world remember to this date, where they were and what they were doing when the twin towers fell. As they do when Mr. Barack Obama, a black man, became the most powerful man in the world. Strangers rejoiced on the streets of little towns around the world. Not because they thought that their lives would be suddenly better, or that the complex political and...
November 14, 2016
The Jumm’ah (Friday prayer) gathering on November 11th was unusually quiet and everyone seemed to be deeply reflective. Unusually so. Even those who are usually chatty seemed quieter than normal. Given that we don’t have a mosque in the area where I live, we meet in a hotel room to pray, every Friday. The Imam there pointed out, like others throughout the country have, that there is...
November 14, 2016
A year after the deadly 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, and France is still grappling with its relationship with its minorities.
Fraternity is often forgotten. Didier Jansen/flickr, CC BY-NC
After it emerged that some of those who carried out the attacks were French nationals, many renewed longstanding criticisms that the outdated French “republican model” of...
November 12, 2016
The right has destroyed the left and stolen its language, using it as a decoy with which to push through policies that hurt the poorest. The left must reclaim its ideology, not allow it to be co-opted by the right
Donald Trump, by Gage Skidmore
Trump’s election was a tragedy. But the outrage is its reframing – by the mainstream media and even sections of the left – as a...
November 12, 2016
अगले वर्ष रूस में हुई क्रांति के 100 वर्ष पूरे हो जाएंगे। वह एक ऐसी क्रांति थी जिससे दुनिया की तस्वीर पूरी तरह से बदलने की संभावना उभरी थी। इसे सोवियत क्रांति के नाम से जाना जाता है। इस क्रांति की प्रेरणा में कार्ल मार्क्स की विचारधारा थी, जिसने एक ऐसी दुनिया की कल्पना की थी जिसमें व्यक्तिगत पूंजी पूरी तरह से समाप्त हो जाएगी और जिसमें इंसान द्वारा इंसान का शोषण सदा के लिए समाप्त हो जाएगा। इस...
November 12, 2016
Last week Iranian-born secularist and human rights activist, commentator, broadcaster and spokesperson for Iran Solidarity, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Maryam Namazie received the prestigious Prix International de la Laïcité 2016 award in Paris from French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. We reproduce below the transcript of her acceptance speech....
November 12, 2016
“We are the people who were beaten and whose houses were burnt to ashes after being looted to the last valuables. We were shot and wounded critically. And now they have handcuffed my ailing husband and tied a rope around his waist – what kind of justice is this?”
Charan Soren, one of the victims in November 6 attack on his village in Gaibandha, was spotted lying in a...