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            • Bernard Rioux
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            • Pierre Beaudet
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          • Marta Harnecker
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          • Che Guevara
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          • Fidel Castro
        • LGBT+ (Cuba)
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      • El Salvador
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      • Guiana (French)
      • Haiti
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        • Haiti: History
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      • Honduras
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        • Berta Cáceres
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        • Honduras: LGBT+
        • Juan López (Honduras)
      • Jamaica
      • Mexico
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        • Disasters (Mexico)
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Mexico)
        • History of people struggles (Mexico)
          • Rosario Ibarra
        • The Left (Mexico)
          • Adolfo Gilly
      • Nicaragua
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          • Fernando Cardenal
        • Nicaragua: Nicaraguan Revolution
      • Paraguay
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      • Peru
        • Hugo Blanco
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      • USA
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        • On the Left (USA)
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          • The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
          • Biographies, History (Left, USA)
            • Frederic Jameson
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            • Angela Davis
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            • C.L.R. James
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        • Secularity, religion & politics
        • Social Struggles, labor (USA)
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        • Agriculture (USA)
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      • Venezuela
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        • Tajikistan
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      • Asia (East & North-East)
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        • Ecology (South Asia)
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        • Economy, debt (South Asia)
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        • LGBT+ (South Asia)
        • Religious fundamentalism
        • Women (South Asia)
      • Asia (Southeast, ASEAN)
        • Health (South East Asia, ASEAN)
          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))
      • Asia economy & social
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Asia)
      • Economy & Labour (Asia)
      • On the Left (Asia)
      • Afghanistan
        • Women, patriarchy, sharia (Afghanistan)
        • History, society (Afghanistan)
        • On the Left (Afghanistan)
      • Bangladesh
        • Health (Bangladesh)
          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Bangladesh)
        • Ecological Disasters, climate (Bangladesh)
        • Fundamentalism & secularism (Bangladesh)
        • The Left (Bangladesh)
        • Women (Bangladesh)
        • Economy (Bangladesh)
        • History (Bangladesh)
        • Human Rights (Bangladesh)
        • Indigenous People (Bangladesh)
        • Labour (Bangladesh)
          • Industrial Disasters (Bangladesh)
        • LGBT+ (Bangladesh)
        • Nuclear (Bangladesh)
        • Rohingya (refugee, Bangladesh)
        • Rural & Fisherfolk (Bangladesh)
      • Bhutan
        • LGT+ (Bhutan)
        • Women (Bhutan)
      • Brunei
        • Women, LGBT+, Sharia, (Brunei)
      • Burma / Myanmar
        • Arakan / Rakine (Burma)
          • Rohingyas (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Buddhism / Sanga
        • CSOs (Burma / Mynamar)
        • Economy (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Health (Burma / Myanmar)
          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Burma/Myanmar)
        • History (Burma/Myanmar)
          • History of struggles (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Labor (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Migrants (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Natural Disasters (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Women (Burma/Myanmar)
      • Cambodia
        • Women (Cambodia)
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Cambodia)
        • History (Cambodia)
          • The Khmers rouges (Cambodia)
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      • China (PRC)
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          • China § Asia-Pacific
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        • On the Left (China)
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        • China § Xinjiang/East Turkestan
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      • China: Hong Kong SAR
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      • China: Macao SAR
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      • India
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        • North-East (India)
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          • MN Roy
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          • Trupti Shah (obituary) (India)
        • Women (India)
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        • Digital Rights (India)
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        • Economy & Globalisation (India)
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        • History (up to 1947) (India)
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        • History after 1947 (India)
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      • Indonesia & West Papua
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        • Papua (Indonesia)
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        • The Left (Indonesia)
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        • Fundamentalism, sharia, religion (Indonesia)
        • History before 1965 (Indonesia)
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          • Tan Malaka
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        • Indonesia / East Timor News Digests DISCONTINUED
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        • Labor, urban poor (Indonesia)
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      • Japan
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          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Japan)
        • Okinawa (Japan)
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          • JCP (the Left, Japan)
          • JRCL (the Left, Japan)
            • Yoshichi Sakai
        • Racism (Japan)
        • Tokyo Olympics
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      • Kashmir (India, Pakistan)
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  • Women (India)
    India: left government in Kerala failing to respond to #MeToo sexual assault cases

    15 September 2018, by RAMACHANDRAN Rajeev

    The Left Democratic Front government has found itself cornered over an issue it prominently raised in its election manifesto – women’s safety.
    The LDF government in Kerala has found itself cornered over its failed promises on women’s safety. Credit: Reuters
    Kochi: Just a couple of weeks (…)

  • Women (India)
    Indian sex workers vent fury over law they fear will promote harassment

    10 August 2018, by DHILLON Amrit

    Legislation designed to protect trafficking victims ignores workers who enter sex trade voluntarily, critics warn
    Sex workers in New Delhi’s red light district have reacted with fury to new anti-trafficking legislation that they believe will penalise them.
    The Trafficking of Persons (…)

  • Women (India)
    Delhi’s women shelters to be inspected after abuse allegations

    7 August 2018, by SAFI Michael

    Indian minister for women admits ‘no attention’ was paid to alleged abuse in shelters
    Every shelter for vulnerable women and girls across Delhi will be inspected after accusations of sexual abuse at several Indian care homes and admission from the country’s minister for women that “many more” (…)

  • Women (India)
    After a hard-fought 8-year battle, Kerala women workers win ‘right to sit’

    22 July 2018, by MANUEL Thomas, T. Venkat, TADEPALLI Srividya

    Led by the Asanghadita Mekhala Tozhilali Union (AMTU), women workers from Kerala have won the right to take a seat at work. The Better India reports that the shop owners had extremely harsh rules for their employees to follow, including forbidding their employees from sitting or leaning against (…)

  • Women (India)
    Indian state to employ trans women as guards at care homes after spate of sexual assaults

    19 July 2018, by SAFI Michael

    Audit of more than 100 safe houses in Bihar state accused operators of systematically abusing girls being housed there
    A state government in eastern India says it will start employing transgender people and eunuchs as security guards in girls’ and women’s care homes after a spate of widely (…)

  • Women (India)
    Befriending Menstruation: A Feminist Revolution in Rural Gujarat

    31 March 2018, by GANGOPADHYAY Tanushree

    A minor feminist revolution broke out in rural Gujarat’s Vadgam, a Dalit constituency, on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8. Hundreds of women from this constituency took charge of their menstrual health that day and this topic of social taboo was discussed in an open forum. (…)

  • Women (India)
    Love in the Time of Parental Rage

    14 March 2018, by SALELKAR Amba

    The Tamil Nadu government is attempting to take the rights of young lovers back by decades. Choosing your own spouse could become more difficult. The reactionary proposal follows a social panic against inter-caste and inter-faith marriages.
    Media reports that the Tamil Nadu government has (…)

  • Women (India)
    India: International Working Women’s Day 2018

    11 March 2018, by MANUEL Thomas, T. Venkat, TADEPALLI Srividya

    A round-up of women’s labour struggles in India
    On March 5, Penn Thozhilalar Sangam organised a demonstration in Tiruvallur near Chennai. While recognising the value of women’s labour, the participants also highlighted the apathy of the central and state governments towards workers in general (…)

  • Women (India)
    India: Rajasthan College Girls Protest Imposition Of ’Dress Code’

    11 March 2018, by JAIN Shruti

    Authorities claim students themselves had demanded a ‘uniform’ at an interaction with higher education minister, but students deny this.
    Jaipur: As an outcome of the ‘guru-disciple’ dialogue ostensibly started by the Rajasthan higher education department to provide a ‘great platform for youth (…)

  • Women (India)
    India 2018: The International Working Women’s Day in Kolkata

    10 March 2018, by CHATTOPADHYAY Kunal

    Facing an extremely grim reality, many organisations and activists in India had been feeling that the time had long come to shed the ritualistic, and top-down “celebrations” of International Women’s Day, and to return its militant traditions.
    Hawkers in rally
    The International Women’s Strike (…)

  • Women (India)
    Forget the Binary of ‘Good Girl’ or ‘Bad Girl’, India’s New Women Against Sexual Violence Are Here

    4 March 2018, by HUTCHISON Tabitha, SINGH Sehjo

    Even though silence in the face of violence is expected of women and girls, today we celebrate women who fight, and support them as they use methods that may have caused them to be labelled ‘bad girls’ in the past.
    Uttar Pradesh’s infamous Gulabi Gang poses with lathis (sticks) in 2014. (…)

  • Women (India)
    India: Happy Holi? Today’s Festival Is No Excuse to Violate Women’s Consent

    1 March 2018, by CHATTERJEE Rituparna

    There is no getting away from it – Holi perpetuates rape culture like no other festival.
    My earliest recollections of Holi are from 1987, at the age of seven, a blurry, monochrome memory of my arms being pinned to my sides while an older boy and his father rubbed aabir on my face. I was (…)

  • Women (India)
    Kerala magazine challenges India’s breastfeeding taboo

    1 March 2018, by SAFI Michael

    Hostility towards women nursing babies in public has been highlighted by the Kerala magazine Grihalakshmi magazine. Even in this progressive state, breastfeeding is taboo in public places (including hospitals)s

    A south Indian magazine has drawn both outrage and praise for the cover of its latest edition, which shows a woman breastfeeding her baby.

    The March issue of Grihalakshmi, which is published in the state of Kerala, shows the poet (...)

  • Women (India)
    India: victory for female student strike against curfews in residences

    28 February 2018, by NARWAL Natasha

    What started as a simple desire to take part in an in-campus theatre festival, exploded into anger against years of timing restrictions and moral policing.
    As one enters Maharshi Dayanand University’s campus in Rohtak, Haryana, everything looks normal on the surface, but there is a palpable (…)

  • Women (India)
    Are Women in India Hampered by ‘Hindu Rate’ of Gender Discrimination?

    19 February 2018, by SADANANDAN Anoop

    The plight of women in the country has its roots in Hindu traditions, and a Reformation may be needed to fix it.
    Nature ensures that roughly an equal number of boys and girls are born. This parity holds true for almost all countries. India, however, stands at odds with this natural order. (…)

  • Women (India)
    #MeToo Campaign Brings the Rise of ‘Fourth-Wave’ Feminism in India

    2 February 2018, by KURIAN Alka

    Millennial Indian women have been leading a new kind of feminism since the early 2000s, long before the present day feminist resurgence in the US.
    Reading other women’s #MeToo stories (underwear) movement against moral policing and the 2011 SlutWalk protest against victim-blaming – were (…)

  • Women (India)
    India: A Handy Guide to Decide How Safe That Safety App Will Really Keep You

    1 February 2018, by RANGANATHAN Nayantara

    Imagine a world where an army of women’s safety apps scoops you away from danger, and delivers you to safety? That’s the promise made by these apps. How well do they measure up against their own claims? Let’s look at a cackle of apps that act as surveillance assistants, leak your data and look (…)

  • Women (India)
    India: Caution! Women at Work: Surveillance in Garments Factories

    1 February 2018, by RANGANATHAN Nayantara

    Garment factory workers, predominantly women, work in stressful conditions in an exploitative industry where the pay is low. Read on to find out what CCTV cameras have done to the dramatic imbalance of power between workers and the factory management, and what role they can play in workers’ (…)

  • Women (India)
    Instant Triple Talaq Bill: Hasty, Biased, Unjust

    3 January 2018, by CPI (India)

    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill criminalising instant triple talaq is flawed, contradictory, and has been passed by the Lok Sabha without any consultation with the very women the Bill claims to protect. The Supreme Court judgement that held instant triple talaq to be (…)

  • Women (India)
    In 2017, Indian Women Named Their Trauma. What’s Next?

    30 December 2017, by KAUR Nehmat

    The last year was cathartic, but also traumatic, with plenty to offer for both hope and dejection. In 2017, sexual violence – in the fields, on movie sets, in marital bedrooms, in classrooms, in cult-like deras – was an inescapable part of the news cycle. Women spoke up, and for the most part (…)

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