The 11th National Election in Bangladesh was held on 30 December 2018.
The far right: a global phenomenon
10 January 2019, byIn recent years, the reactionary, authoritarian and/or fascist extreme right wing has been in the ascendant all over the world: it already governs half of the world’s countries. Among the best-known examples are: Trump (United States), Modi (India), Orbán (Hungary), Erdo?an (Turkey), Daesh (Islamic State), Salvini (Italy), Duterte (Philippines), and now Bolsonaro (Brazil). But in several other countries we have governments close to this trend, even if they do not have such an explicit definition: Russia (Putin), Israel (Netanyahu), Japan (Shinz? Abe), Austria, Poland, Burma, Colombia and so on. In fact, the distinction between these two groups is completely relative.
Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
9 January 2019, byIs the wolf of academic repression once more at the door of the University of Michigan (U-M)?
Franco Never Left
8 January 2019, bySpain’s far right is enjoying its biggest breakthrough since the 1970s. But it grows from a reactionary swamp that has festered ever since Franco’s dictatorship.
Baba Jan adjournment debate rejected
7 January 2019, byThe National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has rejected an adjournment motion moved by Ali Wazir, the lone leftist member from North Waziristan, to debate Baba Jan’s case in the lower house of Parliament. The motion was also signed by Pashtun Tahafooz Movement (PTM) leader MNA Mohsin Dawar and MNA Riaz Fatyana.
“Feminism of the 99% is an anticapitalist alternative to neoliberal feminism”
6 January 2019, byThe Italian feminist Cinzia Arruzza is an associate professor of philosophy at the New School of Social Research in New York and author of the book Dangerous Liaisons: Marriages and Divorces between Marxism and Feminism. She has just finished writing a “Manifesto for a Feminism for the 99%” along with Nancy Fraser and Tithi Bhattacharya. In this interview for ctxt - Revista Contexto Josefina L. MartÃnez asked her about the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy, gender and class, in the new wave of international feminism.
The Menace of Right "Populism"
5 January 2019, byCan it all really be Donald Trump’s fault? Do the antics of the worst, most malicious and willfully ignorant president in modern U.S. history serve to explain the spread of authoritarian regimes, racist and anti-immigrant parties, and rightwing fake-populism across much of the planet?
Morocco: Call for solidarity: Agricultural workers in the Agadir region fight against agribusiness offensive on the right to organize
4 January 2019A young trade unionist Aatika Fizazi, a member of the national bureau of the
National Union of Agricultural Workers (SNOVA) and general secretary of his local section in the Chtouka Ait Baha region (Agadir), was dismissed on 18/10/2018, with two comrades Noureddine el Bouhali and Abdelmoumen Haddaqui, by the management of DUROC.
The Albanian student struggle has reached historic dimensions
4 January 2019, byTuesday, December, 4 was a normal day in Albania. The news went out that the students of the Faculty of Architecture were boycotting school. The reason was a governmental decision to charge students approximately 30 Euros for each postponed exam. The news spread like wildfire in each faculty of the public universities of Tirana.
