Erdogan’s regime refuses entry to two French Communist Party members who planned to observe the local elections on March 31 News Desk Turkish authorities have escalated attacks on political opponents ahead of next week’s crucial local elections, refusing entry to two French Communist Party members and deporting them on Thursday. Sylvie Jan and Michel Laurent arrived to attend the Newroz …
An obituary written at the time of Tony Benn’s passing on a life well lived By John Rees I have spent a lifetime as a political organiser and for as long as I can recall if I wanted to get something moving the first phone call I would make would be to Tony Benn. If there was a Stop the War …
News Desk The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has expressed solidarity with working women struggling for equal rights and social justice in Pakistan and around the world. In a statement issued on the International Working Women’s Day, the AWP leadership and workers resolve to revive the revolutionary and radical vision and spirit of the day, when socialist leaders like Clara Zetkin …
HOSSAM EL-HAMALAWY Counterrevolution has taken hold across much of the region, but uprisings in Sudan and elsewhere show the potential for the tide to turn, writes Egyptian journalist and socialist activist Hossam el-Hamalawy, in an article published at Al Araby. Eight years after the explosion of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions, the situation in the region looks bleak in the eyes of …
Struggles past and present show the left how we can make the connection between the fight for women’s rights and the struggle for economic and social equality. FOR YEARS, International Women’s Day on March 8 would pass by without notice in the U.S. beyond a small number of leftists. Most people who noticed on their calendar probably assumed it had …
A new book attempts to deepen the philosophical dimension of a revived left. By JEDEDIAH BRITTON-PURDY Making our choices count is, however, far from straightforward, and this is the subject of Martin Hägglund’s book This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom. Hägglund, who teaches literature at Yale, aims to give fresh philosophical and political vitality to a longstanding question. He argues that …
HAH Report The 27th Faiz Amn Mela concluded Sunday at the Open Air Theatre of Baagh-i-Jinnah, Lahore, marking 108th birthday of the great revolutionary poet of the Suth Asian Subcontinent with a call for promoting his message of resistance against repression, exploitation, and struggle for social justice, love and peace in the South Asian region in particular and the world …
A new kind of left-wing doctrine is emerging. It is not the answer to capitalism’s problems AFTER THE collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the 20th century’s ideological contest seemed over. Capitalism had won and socialism became a byword for economic failure and political oppression. It limped on in fringe meetings, failing states and the turgid liturgy of the …
BBC Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolás Maduro has called Donald Trump’s government a “gang of extremists” and blamed the US for his country’s crisis. In an interview with the BBC, Mr Maduro said he would not allow humanitarian aid into Venezuela as it was a way for the US to justify an intervention. “They are warmongering in order to take over …
Dr Ammar Ali Jan On the morning of February 9, there was a police raid at my residence. The manner in which the operation was conducted seemed to be designed for a terrorist or a dangerous criminal rather than a professor with dissenting views. My wife kept pleading with the officers to present a warrant or an FIR, or at …
