Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance
Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
‘Safe City’ Project of the Uttar Pradesh Government: Rhetoric of Protectionism
A critique of the Uttar Pradesh government’s Safe City project for restricting the rights and mobility of women and perpetuating a form of ‘Hindutva Urbanism’.
Think #MeToo Didn’t Make a Real Difference? Think Again
With #MeToo, the impacts have been even more varied and expansive than Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter movements, making it an important case study into how mass mobilization can seed change in many different arenas of society.
Two Years On, Human Rights Defender Khurram Parvez Waiting for His Human Rights to Be Defended
November 22 marks the second anniversary of the incarceration without trial of Khurram Parvez. He is the most prominent human rights defender of his generation from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). His arrest is seen as part of the larger crackdown on human rights defenders and journalists in J&K.
The Revolutionary Dream of Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is back. Considered in isolation, it risks becoming an empty signifier. But alongside Marxism, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for liberation that African and Afrodiasporic people have at their disposal.
Germany: Split on the Left
After months, in fact years of inner-party squabbling in Germany’s LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other Bundestag deputies, has quit the party and announced their decision to found a new party in January.
Campesinos as Scientists
On PROINPA, a grassroots campesino organization in Venezuela promoting food sovereignty, endogenous seed production, and an agroecological transition.
‘We Love Life If We Find a Way to It’: Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Enduring Absences
The path to enduring peace is through remembering the humanity of others, especially those who may be on the other end of our political beliefs.
Headscarf Issue Should be Evaluated in Context of Basic Human Rights and Not Justified from Theological Perspective
Seyma Akin, who teaches at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the Necmettin Erbakan University in Konya, Türkiye, speaks on the history and politics of women’s clothing in Türkiye.
Growing Pro-Palestine Protests Across the World; Jews Also Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza – 4 Articles
‘People Across the Globe Disrupt “Business as Usual” for Palestine’; ‘The Growing Pro-Palestine Protests Are Becoming a Mass Movement’; ‘Latin America’s Solidarity with Gaza Defies US Imperialism’; ‘Why So Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza’.