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It cannot be overemphasised that by not criminalising marital rape, the State effectively endorses the view that forced conjugal relations are acceptable. It also implies that women lose their bodily autonomy when they enter into a marriage.
For Stan’s thousands of admirers, the challenge is clearly to join the Adivasi people in their fight to be treated as equal human beings and also upholding their traditions, far superior to those of the ‘civilised’.
The hate-filled and menacing messages on some WhatsApp groups are frightening in their implications.
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.
After a month-long visit to India in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.
The industrial unit, into which Vedanta will pump in an estimated Rs 10,000 crore in phases, is being set up despite opposition from local residents and members of the civil society over its environmental impacts; there are also problems in the way land for the project was allotted.
Until we pressure lawmakers to repeal that 2001 AUMF and end the forever conflicts that have gone with it, America’s wars will ensure that our democracy and the rule of law as we know it will make any promises of peace, self-defense, and justice ring hollow.
For members of ‘nou pap Dòmi’, a collective within Haiti’s petroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.
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