By Vijay Prashad (Posted Apr 05, 2024) Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research  on April 4, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |  Health, Human Rights, State Repression, WarGaza, Israel, Middle East, PalestineNewswireTricontinental Newsletter, Water, Water Crisis Dear friends, Faeq Hassan (Iraq), The Water Carriers, 1957. Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. By November 2023, it was already clear…

Why a Pakistani lawyer wants a court to retry the case that led to Bhagat Singh’s execution Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that former PM ZA Bhutto was hanged without a fair trail. Now, can the Lahore Conspiracy Case be revisited? Chaman Lal Apr 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm On March 6, the Supreme Court of…

In 2024 more people than ever before will vote in national elections across the globe. Yet in what has been dubbed the ‘Year of Democracy’, that form of government – based on the principle of popular self-rule under the rule of law – stands at a crossroads. In countries such as India and the United…

Kalpana Wilson 4 April, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published at CPI(ML) Liberation. The rise of fascism in India has long been characterised as a ‘war on women’. This is not surprising. Globally and historically, patriarchal oppression and violence has been central to fascist ideologies and regimes. But how exactly does India’s Hindu supremacist fascism wage its ‘war…

BY MARIA POPOVA Just when you begin rueing that nothing original could possibly remain to be written about the cosmic spectacle of a total solar eclipse — after astronomer Maria Mitchell’s pioneering essay detailing the science and enchantment of the 1869 eclipse, after Virginia Woolf’s arresting 1927 account of total darkness in the celestial lighthouse, after Annie Dillard’s 1979 classic…