Category: International
Ceasefire in Gaza: The struggle against Genocide and Occupation isn’t over
“This is a day of happiness, and sadness, a shock and joy, but certainly it is a day we all must cry and cry long because of what we all lost. We did not lose friends, relatives, and homes only,
Read MoreUS election signals further destabilization of international order
If 20th century fascism can be imagined as a Formula One car racing towards a brick wall, the far-right populist projects envisioned by Prime Minister Modi and President elect Donald Trump are like an ice cream truck strolling into that
Read MoreStop the Genocide in Gaza and the spiraling bloodshed in the Middle East
For more than a year, the world has been watching in horror in real-time as the Gaza Strip has been enduring one of the most destructive and merciless bombing campaigns in history—an unrelenting assault of genocidal proportions. Yet the machinery
Read MoreWhy We Are Disaffiliating From International Socialist Alternative
On Saturday, 24 August 2024, the sympathizer organization known as ISA India officially voted unanimously to disaffiliate from International Socialist Alternative. It is with great disappointment and dissatisfaction that we have reached the point of having to sever ties with
Read MoreThe Unfinished Tasks of Bangladesh’s Uprising
The lava of the volcanic popular uprising that toppled autocratic ruler Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh on August 5 is still searing. High point of a heroic and fearless student-led revolt, Hasina’s departure has liberated revolutionary energies and raised huge aspirations
Read MoreMass uprising forces Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee Bangladesh
Bangladesh is experiencing a spectacular acceleration of history. On Monday, August 5, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the capital Dhaka in a military helicopter to the Hindon airbase in Delhi, India, as millions of people flocked into the
Read More15 years ago: Sri Lanka’s civil war ends with massacre of Tamils
Fifteen years ago in late May 2009, Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in a particularly bloody episode. The Sinhalese army from the south wreaked carnage among the Tamil-speaking minority in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. No war crime more or
Read MoreCalifornia Governor Sides with Casteism in “Land of The Free”
In a stinging blow to caste-oppressed people in the USA, California governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 403, a widely-supported bill that would guarantee protection from caste-based discrimination in a state that is home to nearly a million people of
Read MoreSolidarity with garment workers in Bangladesh!
In the past few weeks, Bangladesh has found itself in the throes of one of the most significant labor revolts in a decade. Tens of thousands of primarily women workers from the country’s weighty Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector, driven to
Read MoreIndo-Canadian Diplomatic Row: How Did We Get Here?
The assassination of Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar once again ripped open the festering wound of India’s long-admired yet paradoxically underserved Sikh community, and brought the issues of this community, in particular of the Sikh diaspora in Canada, to the
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