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  NEW JERSEY |11-01-2014 | “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle!” (Amiri Baraka)  Amiri Baraka (former Leroi Jones), writer, revolutionary, intellectual passed away at the age of 79 on January 9th. Amiri Baraka is not just a name that came forward during the merge of the Afro-American liberation movement in the 1950-1960`s, he also gave ...

IRAN | 17-09-2013 | Sotoudeh fell foul of Iranian authorities after representing several activists in recent years and highlighting execution of juveniles. Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been temporarily released after spending more than two years in jail, according to her husband. Sotoudeh left Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on Thursday and was reunited with her husband and ...

INDIA | 16-09-2013 | GN Saibaba is a joint secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) and the convenor of several forums against Operation Greenhunt and the persecution of adivasis and tribal people in Central India. He teaches English at a DU college.  The Maharashtra police, along with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Delhi Police Special Cell, made ...

NEW DELHI | 13-09-2013 | Four men were sentenced to death on Friday for raping and murdering a woman in New Delhi last December, satisfying a public clamor for them to be hanged for a crime that forced India to confront its culture of violence against women. “These are the times when gruesome crimes against women have become rampant, and ...

BANGLADESH | 12-06-2013 |Eleven of the brands and retailers sourcing from the factories involved in the Tazreen and Rana Plaza disasters joined high-level compensation meetings, facilitated by the ILO as a neutral chair, on 11-12 September in Geneva. Many other major companies failed to attend, showing total contempt for the 1,900 workers who were injured and the families of over ...

AUSTRALIA | 18 – 08 – 2013 | 2012’s total spend on Aboriginal communities reached $25 billion yet Australia’s Aboriginal youth suicide rates remain high – cruelly disproportionate to the rest of the Australian population. This horror is played out the world over for Indigenous peoples but Australia’s Aboriginal peoples are at the top of this tragic list. In 2011 the ...

INDIA | 14 – 11 – 2010 | Recently some media persons including Rahul Pandita from OPEN Magazine sent some questions to Comrade Ganapathy, the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist). The martyrdom of Politburo member and party spokesperson Comrade Azad, the continuous losses to the Central leadership of the party, the issue of talks with the government, the deluge of ...

İRAN | 12 – 07 – 2010 | We are gathered here to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the students’ uprising in Iran on 9th July 1999, in which at least one student was killed and hundreds others were injured. During this heroic struggle, thousands of university students protesting against medieval policies of the Islamic regime, the students challenged the ...

INDIA | 12 – 07 – 2010 | It is not an encounter at all!! It is a cold blooded murder by AP Police!! Red Salutes to Martyrs com. Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar) and com. Hem Pandey (Jitender)!! Let us avenge the killings of the beloved comrades by the khaki clad fascist gangs of AP government!!

BASQUE COUNTRY | 17 – 02 – 2010 | Abertzale Left Regional Assemblies gathered this weekend have put an end to the debate “Clarifying the Political Phase and Strategy”. More than six hundred representatives of more than two hundred and seventy local Assemblies concluded the debate and defined and decided the strategy to be developed in the future ratifying the ...