Five decades ago, a brilliant young African-American professor of philosophy and Communist, Angela Davis was the United States’ most prominent political prisoner, on trial for her life in a notorious frameup murder trial as a supporter of the Black Panther Party. She won that case with brilliant legal defense, and the help of a mass outcry of international and Black community support.
Angela Davis: Relevant as Ever After Thirty Years
8 March 2019, byAngela Davis deserves a shoutout this Women’s History Month, and every month. Active and influential in international freedom struggles for nearly six decades, her speeches and writings have valuable lessons to teach us about the major injustices that we face in this era of heightened racism, xenophobia, and reactionary violence.
Iran: What happened after March 8 1979
7 March 2019An interview by Shirin Shalkooi.
The feminist strike extends across Europe
6 March 2019, byIn 2016 Polish feminists went on a feminist strike to defend the decriminalization of abortion and in defense of reproductive rights; months later the Argentines stopped the country in protest against femicides and went on to call months later for the first international women’s strike. The contagion is spreading. Already in 2018, the feminist strike in the Spanish State was the great surprise of the day and this year the strike has broken through into Europe.
Britain Slammed in UN Court Judgment over Illegal Occupation of Chagos and Diego Garcia
6 March 2019, byOn 25 February 2019, the International Court of Justice at The Hague found that Britain had acted unlawfully in its decolonization of Mauritius.
It found that the excision of part of Mauritius, the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia which the UK then sub-let to the US military, was unlawful.
Whose "Security" — and for What?
5 March 2019, by“Security” becomes the catchword of the moment. Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” will, or won’t, enhance border protections from drugs, trafficking, and all manner of brown people with or without prayer rugs. The threat of repeated government shutdowns might end when the two houses of Congress figured out a deal for “securing the border” that Rush Limbaugh would give Trump permission to sign. Or not.
Merchants of devastation – Pulwama and the danger of war in South Asia
4 March 2019, byEver since the bloody partition of the South Asian sub-continent in 1947, the endless history of hostility between India and Pakistan has been a curse for the oppressed masses. Periodically, either one of the two regimes turns this mutual hostility into episodes of acute confrontation — mainly in the interests of continuing domestic politics by other means. The latest incursion into mainland Pakistan and the bombing at Balakot by IAF fighter bombers after the Pulwama terrorist attack, and the subsequent shooting down of two Indian jetfighters by the Pakistan Air force, have heightened the danger of a full-scale war between the subcontinent’s two nuclear-armed states. This military escalation has exacerbated a mad rush by the belligerent media on both sides of the Radcliff Line to bring about a scenario described by some as ‘MAD’ – the “Mutually Assured Destruction” syndrome. However there is some method in this madness.
Pulwama “End the pernicious cycle”! No to war
3 March 2019Joint statement by
1- Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party
2- Radical Socialist (India)
3- Pakistan Trade Unions Defense
Campaign
4- Haqooq Khalq Movement Pakistan (Peoples Rights Movement)
Message to the working class of the sub-continent
3 March 2019, byDear people and oppressed nationalities and working class of the Subcontinent, We are facing terrible times here in Kashmir. The line of Control (LoC) once again converted into a living hell by both states, India and Pakistan. After Pulwama attack, India advanced its military in the Jammu Kashmir and now both sides beating the drums for war. We clearly now that this is one more episode of the war drama which can never be fought instead of cross firing across LoC. So far, in the recent episode, approximately 25 people have been killed across LoC while property worth millions have been destroyed.
Turkey in 2019: an assessment
2 March 2019, byIn a snap election on June 24, 2018, Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdo?an received more than 52% of the vote for president. The rightwing “People’s Alliance” that brought together Erdo?an’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) obtained over 53% of the vote, giving the coalition a solid majority in parliament.