Protests Against Hike in Food and Fuel Prices Across Middle East and North Africa
The surging cost of living and the unavailability of basic goods are triggering mass protests around the world, including the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Great Teal Tsunami: Arise Australia’s Independents
Rarely in Australian history has a governing party suffered such loss. It was part of a “teal” electoral tsunami, with several non-career parliamentarians entering parliament.
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‘Our Bones Buried Under the Constitutional Court’
Meet some of the people of South Africa who have held the steps of the apex court of the country for more than three weeks, sleeping out in the cold to demand reparations for apartheid crimes.
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Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India
This article explores the relationship between caste and gender, focusing on what is possibly the central factor for the subordination of the upper caste woman: the need for effective sexual control over such women to maintain not only patrilineal succession but also caste purity.
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The Personal Is Still Political, And It’s Planetary, Too
As we await with horror a possible Supreme Court-ordered end to the Roe v. Wade era, Rebecca Gordon reposted this piece in which, almost half a century later, she movingly comes to grips with her own abortion experience.
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The Kala Pani Migration: An Indian Story That’s Hardly Discussed in India
When used in the diaspora, ‘Kala Pani’ refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.
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World Condemns Shireen Abu Akleh’s Murder by Israeli Security Forces
Over 20 progressive news outlets, including TeleSUR TV and Pan African TV, have signed a statement condemning the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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It’s Not Enough to Resist—We Have to Build, Too
In India, the farmers organised the world’s largest strike in history; at Amazon, the workers are fiercely resisting its exploitation; in Latin America, the people are rallying to support progressive political leaders. But it’s not enough to just resist. We have to build a new world brimming with life, and powered by popular sovereignty.
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Why Ukraine War Has No Winners
Russia is practising a warfare that the West is not used to — where wars aren’t won anymore. It is highly unlikely that there will be a ceremonial occasion bringing the Ukraine war to an end.
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An SOS for India’s Democracy and Media
As we face the very real danger of losing our democracy, it is important for us to believe that we can and will pull ourselves back from calamity.
