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Women end up in prison due to the traps of this patriarchal system that forces them to commit those crimes. They remain in prison because society and their families also considers them disposable
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India: Women’s Journey from One Jail to Another: In Conversation with Seema Azad The Fourth International held its 2021 International Committee online After having had to cancel the 2020 meeting due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the Fourth International successfully managed to organize it as an online meeting in 2021. The International Committee is the central political body of the FI, and over the last period has held its (...)
Why can’t Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill? Nothing, it seems, can be allowed to tarnish the national myth – as I found when hosting a Cambridge debate about his murkier side
A baleful silence attends one of the most talked-about figures in British history. You may enthuse endlessly about Winston Churchill “single-handedly” defeating (...)(Post)pandemic struggles in social reproduction: Women’s labour before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria The coronavirus pandemic brought pressure on working people all over the world, and especially the more vulnerable – people with disabilities, mothers of young children, low-wage and cash-in-hand workers. Women, too, belong to this more vulnerable category. Female workers and public servants had (...)
KIA Ambushes Myanmar Military Convoy in Kachin State The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked a military convoy in Mogaung Township, Kachin State, on Thursday evening.
The Kachin armed group said the attack was targeting reinforcements in the township.
KIA information officer Naw Bu told The Irrawaddy that the group used mines against two (...)Myanmar: Despite public fury, businesses split over response to regime While boycotts targeting regime-compliant businesses gain momentum, some Myanmar tycoons and foreign investors are reluctant to burn bridges with the military.
Tycoons and business groups regarded as siding with the military government or keeping silent about its abuses have been facing the (...)Myanmar – ‘I will never forgive’: How one Yangon township defied dictatorship For two weeks, security forces waged a bloody war on South Dagon Township, where martial law and an uneasy standstill prevails. Frontier spoke to residents who have risked everything to resist military rule.
When the shooting began, Ma Lin Lin Myat turned off the lights and lay atop her (...)1995-2021: The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism I still remember attending the first ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 1996, a year after its founding. I did not know why known opponents of globalization like me had been invited; I suppose it was to inflict on us the lesson that it was futile to resist. An (...)
Chinese Troops Gather on Myanmar’s Border to ‘Protect Pipelines’ Chinese Troops Gather on Myanmar’s Border to ‘Protect Pipelines’
Several sources on the Chinese border reported that troops were gathering in Jiegao, opposite the Shan State border town of Muse.
Many Chinese soldiers and military trucks have arrived at the border in previous days.
Sources from (...)South Africa: Anti-Apartheid International Solidarity: Lessons for Renewing Internationalism Today The anti-apartheid international solidarity was forged on the global terrain of the capitalist world system that was shaped by the conditions, social and political forces that emerged in the (post-World War II) postwar period, up to 1994. Let’s try and reread this history, with the benefit of (...)
Sri Lanka: Why union-busting must go out of fashion at Next Update: On 30 March 2021, Next replied to War on Want and Labour Behind the Label by letter, stating that Next will recognise the rights of the FTZ & GSEU union as representative of its workers in the NML [Next Management Limited] Katunayake Plant in Sri Lanka – and that Next will begin (...)
HDP: Turkey Bans Largest Left-Wing Party Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the Turkish State’s latest anti-democratic action.
Turkey’s leading left-wing formation, the Kurdish-led People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest party in parliament, was shut down on March 17 by the Turkish Constitutional Court, doubtless under (...)Britain: Pimlico Academy Students Destroy Tory Myths on Racism Boris Johnson owes his position as Prime Minister to institutional racism writes Andy Stowe.
Johnson was the public face of the Brexit campaign which galvanised racists with its slogan about 76 million Turkish citizens entering Britain if the country remained in the European Union.
This (...)China : Worker activist Chen Guojiang detained while the official trade union sits on its hands China’s best-known food delivery worker activist, Chen Guojiang, was detained on 25 February and has been held at Beijing’s Chaoyang district detention centre since.
In mid-March, his family was formally notified that Chen is accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (寻衅滋事), the (...)RSD Statement: New escalation in the Donbass and the position offered the socialists These days, a renewed war in the Donbass could become a frightening reality.
Since the beginning of March, clashes have increased, and information about the concentration of Russian troops on the border has already been indirectly confirmed by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The (...)Myanmar’s brutal military was once a force for freedom – but it’s been waging civil war for decades Every March 27, the Myanmar military celebrates its anniversary with a parade. The day of the 2021 parade, soldiers killed at least 90 pro-democracy protesters.
With great fanfare – but few guests – Myanmar’s armed forces recently celebrated their 76th anniversary in the nation’s capital of (...)Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India Restore Democracy in Myanmar, Support the Citizen’s Civil Disobedience Movement Against the Military (Tatmadaw)
Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India
Time for India to Sign 1951 Refugee Convention Now!
8th April, 2021: It’s more than two months (...)Philippine gov’t can be part of solution in Myanmar Every day since the military coup of Feb. 1, the people have been taking to the streets in protest in all parts of Myanmar. Over 400 people have been killed by police and soldiers firing indiscriminately on crowds of protestors, or murdered randomly in dragnets carried out by day or under cover (...)
Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies
“When capitalism and fundamentalism come together, we have a really highly lethal combination.”
Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector (...)The Life and Struggles of Victim-Survivors of Prostitution in the Philippines Capire spoke with Myles Sanchez and Jean Enriquez of CATW-AP about sexual violence, war on drugs, and other struggles faced by philippines
In Bulacan, a province in the Central Luzón area in the Philippines, Myles Sanchez and other survivors have started a community-based programme, with the (...)
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