Radical Socialist condemns the targeted attacks on human rights activists and their arrests in a simultaneous operation across the country by the Maharashtra police. In one of the grossest violation of human rights, the Pune police conducted raids on the houses of activists across the country and arrested them, confiscating their of mobile phones, computer and other electronic devices, books, periodicals. The police claim that these raids and arrests are in connection to the Bhima Koregaon incident.
IV523 August 2018 PDF magazine
30 August 2018, byIV523 August 2018 PDF magazine available to download
IV523 August 2018 PDF magazine available to download here
The White World and Black Reality
30 August 2018, byResistance to white supremacists is on the rise. African Americans are the loudest voices, logically, given that it’s common for Blacks to be stopped by cops or harassed by “citizen whites” for walking, eating, driving — merely existing.
On the National Register of Citizens
29 August 2018, byThe publication of the draft National Register of Citizens in Assam has been a major political gain for the BJP and its agenda of politically dividing the oppressed and exploited on the basis of religious identities, in this case by harnessing it to linguistic ethnic identity strife.
Chronicle of a green day in Buenos Aires
29 August 2018, by ,What happened on August 8th? [1] Still our bodies feel the onslaught of so many arduous days, the swirling sensations and emotions that we experienced during these final hours of waiting, anxiety and organization. Our historic demand crossed borders, entered every house, in every work place, overflowed the streets, permeated all the spaces but could not overcome the stultifying conservatism of the Senate.
Defending "Our Democracy"
28 August 2018, byAmidst the swirling chaos of the Trump White House, with scandals and coverup and threats of firing the investigators, and Cruise missile launches to gratify the big twit’s ego, let’s not lose sight of the underlying fact that what’s called “American democracy” really is under attack — and not from the outside.
The rising tide: Kerala 2018 flood
27 August 2018, byIt will not be enough for us to rue the past, writes Arundhati Roy.
Welcome to the Next Deadly AIDS Pandemic
26 August 2018, byAs The world’s experts on HIV/AIDS gathered in Amsterdam for the 22nd International AIDS Conference a collective anxiousness has set in.
Yemen’s turn
25 August 2018, bySome general characteristics of the imperialist recolonization of the Arab world, which began with that brutal dress-rehearsal, the First Gulf War of 1991, are now clearly visible. Too many people supposed that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US eagle would discard its talons; because they wanted it to be so, they thought it was.
Building the movement of the working class and the dispossessed
24 August 2018, bySouth Africa is becoming more impoverished day by day. Stats SA’s latest figures show unemployment increasing by 0.5 to 37.2. (We don’t bother with the smaller figure of 27.2 that gets all the publicity. Would you say to the face of one of the 2,864,000 “discouraged work seekers” that they are not unemployed because they have given up looking for work?) at 37.2 is one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world!
Footnotes
[1] On August 8, 2018, the Argentine Senate voted down a proposal for the decriminalisation of abortion.