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Thousands of Women March in Delhi to Protest Modi Government’s Anti-Women, Anti-Poor Policies

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Thousands of women from across India gathered in the capital of Delhi on October 5 to protest worsening socio-economic conditions under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Organized by the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), the action was held under the banner, “BJP-RSS Hatao, Mahila Bachao, Desh Bachao!” or, “Remove BJP-RSS, Save women, Save the country!” The BJP is Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and RSS its far-right ideological parent organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.  The protest brought together 10,000 women from over 25 states across India. According to…

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IMF Pushes World’s Poorest Countries Into “Starvation Diet” as Debt Burdens Spiral

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank began their annual meetings in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on October 9. Finance ministers and central bank governors from 190 countries are in attendance, with the meetings likely to address the prevailing economic crisis. The meetings will wrap up on October 15. Since 2020, successive economic shocks have led to the loss of $3.6 trillion of the global output, stated IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva in a speech on October 5, meant to kick off the series of meetings. Georgieva’s speech…

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Long live the Palestinian Insurrection, long live the Third Intifada! Down with the state of Israel!

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10/10/2023 La Marx International On October 7, 2023, Palestinian fighters, armed youth and self-organized militias, began an offensive operation against Israel’s occupation, penetrating the Beit Hanoun border crossing, the Zikim base and the headquarters in Reim . This action is part of the 3rd Palestinian Intifada that began on May 6, 2021, which now took a leap when militants from various Palestinian organizations and Hamas decided to begin recovering the territories occupied by Israel by adopting the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare. Groups of fighters began tearing down the walls and barbed wire fences surrounding Gaza with bulldozers, cutting holes in the cables,…

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Stand for Peace and Freedom – SFI

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Students Federation of India Press Release_10/10/2023 Stand for Peace and Freedom *Oppose the Apartheid Regime, Illegal Occupation of Palestine land and Sabotage of UNSC Resolution for Two-Nation Solution* The Israeli invasion of Palestine is one of the longest and bloodiest wars on humanity. The recent human calamities affecting both Israel and Palestine are the unfortunate outcome of decades of illegal occupation and siege. The lives of every individual on both sides should be protected, and the universal right of humanity to live in peace must be upheld. The first step…

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No one should revel in suffering, but the oppressors must take responsibility

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Ronnie Kasrils | No one should revel in suffering, but the oppressors must take responsibility South Africa’s apartheid regime was made to pay the price for its supremacist arrogance. It seems this is exactly what Hamas’ Operation, Al Aqsa Flood, has achieved, writes Ronnie Kasrils As astonishing as the breakout of the Gaza concentration camp has been, and the ensuing attacks within Israel’s southern settler towns, seized from indigenous Palestinians in past ethnic cleansing, the reasons for the actions are clear for all with open minds and a sense of…

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Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story 

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Al Jazeera World Documentary 2 févr. 2022 _ Palestine_ Documentary – History “A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater…

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SRI LANKA: If Tocqueville was to read our proposed Anti-Terrorism Act

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FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-013-2023October 06, 2023 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: If Tocqueville was to read our proposed Anti-Terrorism Act By Basil Fernando Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville is the famous author of the book Democracy in America. It is one of the world’s best known writings which have been appreciated by many philosophers, writers, thinkers and also people in many countries. It has also been translated into many languages.  Tocqueville was a French magistrate, a young man of 30, who, with another friend,…

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SA BDS Coalition: South African Day of Action in Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance to Apartheid and Colonialism: Wednesday 11th October

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8 October 2023 The SA BDS Coalition along with South African activists, trade unions and civil society will be taking actions on Wednesday to demonstrate our support for the Palestine people in their struggle for justice, equality, the right to resist and achieve liberation from Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid and the right of all Palestinians to return to their land. Wednesday 11th October Johannesburg 16h30 Picket outside US Consulate, 1 Sandton Drive, Sandringham, Sandton Cape Town: 15h00 Picket outside Israel Centre 87 Hatfield Street, Cape Town Hendrik Verwoerd, the…

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Heroic Palestinian Resistance Fights Israeli Apartheid Terror

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For more than 75 years, Palestinians have suffered. Israel today epitomises an illegal occupation, illegal colonial practices and illegal apartheid practices. Under these conditions, international law gives the occupied people the right to resist that occupation. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign thus recognises the operation today by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza as a legitimate expression of their right to resist. We support all efforts of oppressed people to liberate themselves from their oppressors in the same way we did in our liberation struggle. Over the past seven decades, Israel has…

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