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India: How To Colonize Your Own Country Adivasi society is being destroyed by the classic tools of colonial development, and it is all being done in the name of its fellow Indians.
“Yet another horrific gang rape has grabbed headlines in India,” began an editorial in The New York Times on February 1, 2014. “This time, a village council (...)Marxist Theory in Japan: A Critical Overview To summarise the reception history of Marx in Japan is no small task. In fact, it is essentially impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most prolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradition. Although it remains remarkably little-known in (...)
Sri Lanka: Estate workers : Continue gulping bitter cuppa The plantation sector workers have gone yet another year without seeing their daily wages increase and their standard of living further deteriorating amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in his election campaign, pledged to increase the daily wage of a plantation sector (...)The Repression of France’s Yellow Vests Has Left Hundreds in Jail — And Crushed Freedom of Protest Two years since the start of France’s gilets jaunes movement, hundreds of arrested protesters are languishing in prison, and dozens are still coping with the loss of an eye or a limb. The Macron administration’s brutal crackdown brought a level of police violence not seen in decades — and (...)
United States: Trump continues to undermine electoral system and create chaos Two weeks after the November 3 presidential election, Donald Trump continues to tell the country and world, “I won the election”. He insists it was not even close: “I won by millions of votes.”
His cohorts, from his cabinet on down the line, declare support for their “leader”. They say the system (...)Civil liberties? – France’s Authoritarian Turn In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, France’s Macron government has announced a string of authoritarian measures which stigmatise Muslims and further undermine the country’s fragile civil liberties.
Last month, the horrific assassination of the teacher Samuel Paty by a young jihadist aroused (...)Statement: Women and young people have started a cultural revolution in Poland 1. Mass revolt after a new attack on women
The women’s “black protest” in more than 100 cities and the women’s strike on “Black Monday” 3 October 2016 forced the fundamentalist right-wing Catholic regime led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party to back down on a bill to ban abortion completely and (...)India: Women and the Class Struggle (1978) An attempt to synthesise the results of discussions held between the 3rd and 8th July, 1978
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This report was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, No. 2, June–September 1978, and is an attempt to present the discussions of two socialist feminist workshops held in Bombay (...)Pakistan: Beijing’s CPEC is the new East India Company in Balochistan In ‘Balochistan’, Francesca Marino writes that Pakistan is turning Gwadar and other coastal areas of Balochistan into a Chinese Kaliningrad.
The words ‘colonialism’ and ‘neocolonialism’ are becoming more frequently heard in discussions about Balochistan and not without a reason. ‘Before it was the (...)Sri Lanka: Learning in the times of COVID-19 In an attempt to contain COVID-19, the number of children and youth not attending schools or universities is rising. With no end to the pandemic in sight, most of the world’s population had to make a sudden shift to the online world while adapting to new ways of learning and working.
The (...)Thailand: Parliament rejects civil society’s draft constitutional amendment After parliamentary scrutiny of constitutional amendments was delayed for a month, only 2 out of 7 drafts passed the first reading: the proposal by the government coalition and one of those by the opposition to amend Section 256 allowing the establishment of a Constitution Drafting Assembly. (...)
India: Workers, Farmers, Fishermen and Hawkers: All Gear up for Strike on 26th Workers from the organised sectors or those employed by municipalities, too, will be participating in the strike from their job locations in Maharashtra.
Thousands are expected to gather at every district collectorate office in Maharashtra on the Constitution Day (November 26) following the (...)Thai teenagers tell rulers: ‘You’re dinosaurs’ Thousands of students continue to take to streets of Bangkok to demand reform of monarchy, government and education
Outside one of Bangkok’s busy shopping arcades, crowds of young protesters bounce balloons – coloured grey with patches of molten orange – above their heads.
“We will act as a (...)Poland’s creative civil society in times of Covid-19 On 8 May, two days before a presidential election was due to take place in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza, the country’s leading daily newspaper, published an interview starting with the words ‘There is no civil society in Poland’. The statement’s author argued that ‘in any other country in Western (...)
Poland’s LGBT-free zones and global anti-gender campaigns Świdnik, a town in south-east Poland, has become the country’s first ‘LGBT-free zone’. In March 2019, the county council declared its aim to protect children and families from ‘homosexual propaganda’ and moral degeneration. In a non-binding resolution, local politicians pledged to refrain from any (...)
Indonesia: Kill the Bill, or It Will Kill Us All Indonesia’s trade unions and social movements are taking to the streets against anti-worker legislation.
Because of the threat that the Omnibus Bill poses to Indonesian society, workers, students, peasants, and all elements of social movements have boldly opposed it.
On 5 October, in the (...)Learning from the past: Syria’s Labor Communist Party, a rich political history Rateb Shabo, a Syrian leftist political activist, was jailed for 16 years in the 1980s and 1990s—including three years in the government’s notorious Tadmur Military Prison—for his membership in the opposition Labor Communist Party . His recent book, The Story of the Labor Communist Party of Syria (...)
Britain – No Other Minority: Keir Starmer’s Silence on the Islamophobia Report Speaks Volumes About Labour’s Hierarchy of Racism This wouldn’t happen to any other minority” has been a rallying cry for the Labour party’s fiercest critics of its handling of the antisemitism crisis. It’s certainly true that the specific characteristics of antisemitism have sometimes resulted in the British left’s reluctance to see it in the same (...)
United States: Mutual aid will help us survive the Biden presidency Biden and Harris are not going to stop the crises we are facing — mutual aid projects are essential to survive and build the world we want to live in.
The only thing that keeps those in power in that position is the illusion of our powerlessness. A moment of freedom and connection can undo a (...)#EndSARS in Nigeria A movement against police brutality has swept across Nigeria. Mass protests have brought out tens of thousands of people in cities across the country. At the center of the fury is SARS, a notoriously brutal special unit of the police. On October 11, the Nigerian Police Force announced it was (...)
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