Memo to Minister Kenney
As Israeli Apartheid Week gets underway, there is a major campaign currently underway to deny freedom of expression on campus to those in solidarity with Palestine on the basis of alleged...
View ArticleIdentity and Politics in Eastern India
For hundreds of years before the British rule, there had seldom been major social disturbances and communal conflicts in Bihar, involving the two important religious groups, namely Hindus and Muslims....
View ArticleL.K.Advani
I India’s oldest political formation, the Indian National Congress, dates back formally to 1885, a fact that the gauche Narendra Modi has recently scoffed at in his typical lumpen oratory. It would...
View ArticleSoccer Diplomacy and the Road not Taken
Truth and Mercy have met together; Peace and Justice have kissed. Psalm 85 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "The Road Not...
View ArticleUnderstanding the smearjob that was done on the Durban Review Conference
In 2001, the United Nations convened the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, to deal with a range of issues related to racism and its legacies, including the Trans-Atlantic...
View ArticleImperialism and Islamism: a View from the Left
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] t is both healthy and necessary for the Left to keep seeking new utopias and to re-imagine the outlines of a future classless...
View ArticlePolyculturalism and Self-determination
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the...
View ArticleDon’t Mourn, Balkanize!
A decade or so ago, during the European humanitarian adventure in the Balkans, Michael Nicholson, an eminent British journalist, wrote in his "Natasha’s Story" that "The ferocity of the Balkan peoples...
View ArticleThe Saudi-isation of Pakistan
The common belief in Pakistan is that Islamic radicalism is a problem only in FATA, and that madrassas are the only institutions serving as jihad factories. This is a serious misconception. Extremism...
View ArticleThe Liberhan Report
On December 6,1992, hordes of right-wing Hindutva extremists (called karsevaks) took the town of Ayodhya hostage with the full and willing connivance of the then state government of Uttar Pradesh...
View ArticleL.K.Advani and the Mythology of ‘Sadness’
Ki merE qatL kE ba’d us NE jafA sE taobA, hAE! Us zUd paSEmAn kA paSEmAn hoNA (Mirza Ghalib). (She swore she would no longer tease When she had me slain for fun; That remorse should have...
View ArticleManu Chao
Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao on June 21, 1961), is a French folk singer of Spanish origin (Basque and Galician). He sings in French, Spanish, English, Arabic, and Portuguese and...
View ArticleYou the Fascists; We the People.
I History now and again offers moments of hope that seem small and fleeting but, placed in larger contexts and taken at the tide, promise reconstructions of far-reaching magnitude. What happened in the...
View ArticleThe Fourth World War
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestina, Korea, ‘the North’ from Seattle to Genova, and the ‘War on Terror’ in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story...
View ArticleMosque-Issippi Burning
Salman Hamdani died on Sept. 11, 2001. The 23-year-old research assistant at Rockefeller University had a degree in biochemistry. He was also a trained emergency medical technician and a cadet with the...
View ArticleThe Kurdish Revolution Will Not Be Televised
A ceasefire has been declared by the Peoples Defence Forces (HPG), the armed branch of Kurdistan’s Societal Union (KCK, formerly known as the PKK), lasting until September 20th. This gives us an...
View ArticlePropagating Popular Resistance
The caravan of buses is miles long, draped with banners, painted with political slogans, filled with people from the poorest and most distant corners of Mexico—people the color of the earth, as they...
View ArticleThe Elite Strikes Back, Fetishiously
From right after the transfer of power from the British to the local English Elite (the Babus in the broadest sense), one recurrent theme in the Indian ‘National’ press, which translates as the English...
View ArticleThe Hemingway (or Pilar) Argument for Diversity
Innumerable arguments can be given in favor (favour for the non-dominant party) of diversity. That is, diversity of all kinds: cultural, ecological, linguistic etc. But in this post I present a...
View ArticleChapter 5 of Occupy Vision: InterCommunalism
Chapter 5 of Occupy Vision: InterCommunalism This is the chapter five of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming days we will post the...
View ArticleThe Death Of Multiculturalism in Quebec
Set against a royal blue background and hung under an arch of gilded gold-leafed boughs, the crucifix at the Quebec National Assembly is a focal point of the majestic room where Quebec lawmakers do...
View ArticleWhy Diversity Is Not A Luxury: An Interview with Nancy Cantor
Interview on the educational value of diversity and the social responsibility of universities
View ArticleMulticulturalism and Its Dilemmas
Can we in effect support the inevitable and desirable form of multiculturalism that is the basis of a fruitful peaceful interchange of cultural values? Or will we succumb to xenophobic ethnic...
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We Need Racial Solidarity to Restore Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the right to an abortion is an act of White supremacy. But not in the way you might think. I’ve heard many complaints from women of color about how the ruling...
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Chile’s New Constitution Finalised after Turbulent Process
On Monday, the assembly will hand over the finished draft text to President Gabriel Boric before it is made available to the public. Chileans will have two months to review the document and decide its...
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Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the pandemic, mutual aid organizers across the U.S. are convening in Indiana this July to...
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Community Schools Could Fix a Major Problem in Education
Leslie Hu remembers the very day, a Thursday in March 2020, when her school, Dr. Martin Luther King Academic Middle School in San Francisco, received word from the district office that Friday would be...
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Indigenous Women build movement to tackle ‘Terricide’ in Argentina
As the rising sun lit the Andean foothills above the town of Chicoana in northern Argentina on May 22, 2022, around 300 women circled around a ceremonial fire on the grounds of a rural school. They...
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A Group of Jews and Arabs in Israel Has a ‘Radical’ Idea — Protecting One...
JAFFA, Israel — Up a narrow, stone stairwell in this ancient port city, a group of self-confessed radicals plot an evening of interfaith rebellion. In a sea of hardening views and violent rhetoric...
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Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
“Israel’s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,” said a Turkish...
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