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Why 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

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The 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

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Mass 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

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15 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

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California 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

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Solidarity 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

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Indo-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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HINDUTVA AND ZIONISM: AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE–WE DEMAND A CEASEFIRE NOW AND END TO THE OCCUPATION

In the four weeks since the deadly October 7th attack, more explosive ordinance has been dropped on Gaza, an area of 365 square kilometers, than the United States dropped on Afghanistan, an area nearly 2,000 times larger, in 1 year

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Gaza. There is No Bread, No Water, No Electricity and Planes Rain Death from the Sky

The residents of the Gaza Strip are facing hell on earth, while the massacre of revenge led by the Netanyahu-Ganz government is increasing. The poet, journalist and social activist Ahmed Abu Artema was injured in the bombing that also claimed

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Israel-Palestine. Amid Normalization of Occupation and Siege, New War Erupts

The dramatic actions of warfare this weekend — with over one thousand dead so far — in Israel and the Gaza Strip has shaken the world. This could be the beginning of further instability and expanded war. Here is a

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