The carnage in Libya caused by a Mediterranean hurricane, known as “Daniel” or “medicane”, will take weeks to be quantified in terms of the number of dead and missing, probably in the tens of thousands, to which a million people have already been displaced.
Three deaths at work per day on average
19 September 2023, by“Although fragmented and heterogeneous, a few dissenting voices are standing up to this wave of injustice and contempt”
Auto Workers Strike All of the Big Three Companies for the First Time
18 September 2023, by“ I know that we’re on the right side in this battle, because it’s a battle of the working class against the rich, the halves versus the have nots, the billionaire class against everybody else.”
Did India really win its independence through non-violence?
17 September 2023, by ,Two years ago, Burma (Myanmar) saw a huge non-violent movement of civic disobedience in response to a military putsch. However, it was ultimately forced to engage in armed self-defense in the face of merciless repression. Was it any different in India? Was independence, the liberation from British colonial rule in 1947, effectively won through the civil disobedience movement embodied by Gandhi? We put this question to Sushovan Dhar.
Mindanao: Desperate situation of non-Moro indigenous peoples
16 September 2023, byOpen statement of the Timuay Justice and Governnance (TJG) on the alarming situation of the hopeless Tëduray and Lamanagian Non-Moro Indigenous People (NMIPS) in some villages or sitios of Barangay Biaron, South UPI Maguindanao del Sur, who are affected by the feud of the Moro clan who settled in the area.
Imperialism(s) and the New Cold War
15 September 2023, byThe article by Gilbert Achcar argues that the world is currently in a new Cold War, characterised by increased rivalry between the United States, Russia, and China. Achcar traces the origins of the New Cold War to the end of the Cold War in 1991, when the United States emerged as the sole superpower. The United States used its newfound power to expand its military presence around the world and to intervene militarily in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. This expansionist policy led to a backlash from Russia and China, which began to assert their own interests more forcefully.
The Inherited “Results” of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Experiments on Human Beings
14 September 2023, by“The excessive reliance on human experimentation that remains in Japan’’’’’’’’’’’’s medical societies today should be subjected to historical and fundamental criticism.”
The end of a dynasty
13 September 2023, byBy putting an end to Bongo’s power, the army is trying to perpetuate the system, but it is not counting on the popular will for real change in the country.
State of Georgia Indicts 61 Activists as Part of an Anarchist Criminal Conspiracy
12 September 2023, by“The struggle goes on in the streets, in the forest, and now in the courts.”