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Pakistan’s neo-colonial rule in Balochistan

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is urging the complete demilitarisation of occupied Balochistan, as a precondition for a negotiated political settlement to end six decades of economic neglect, ethnic persecution and military repression by Islamabad. Echoing the criticisms of Baloch national leaders, the HRCP says the Pakistan government’s current peace and reconciliation package is…

ByPeter Tatchell

Poem – Untitled

he liked me in the way toyota-buyers do, carefully with no surprises everything he said and did was just as his face- manual advertised the kind of pamphlet, you don't need to open detailing love for mother and dog and country, a savings account and friday night movie with hand holding expecting the expected the…

Socialized Media?

Social networks and online media have become such an integrated part of our existence it is difficult to imagine what the political landscape would look like today in their absence. The culmination of an extraordinary leap in communicative technology, their role in faciliating dialogue between ideas, opinions, causes and fundamental beliefs has reconstructed the way we conduct…

Interview of a Greek Rebel II

Are you an anarchist? No. Don’t be addicted to words; some people have an addiction to words because they need to belong somewhere. Some people see being an anarchist as a “profession” because they are defined by that and they adhere to it for their personal reasons, just like their counterparts do (no need to…

Palestine in the struggle against Imperialism: An interview with Lisa Taraki

Lisa Taraki interviewed by Sunaina Maira. Lisa Taraki is a sociologist at Birzeit University in Palestine. In addition to her academic work on aspects of Palestinian society, politics and urban social history, she has been an activist in the struggle for the right to education in Palestine since the late 1970s. She is one of…

Javier Sicilia’s Open Letter to Mexico’s Politicians and Criminals

Translated from Proceso by Narco News April 4, 2011 The brutal assassination of my son, Juan Francisco, of Julio César Romero Jaime, of Luis Antonio Romero Jaime, and of Gabriel Anejo Escalera, is added to so many other boys and girls who have been assassinated just the same throughout the country, not only because…

ByJavier Sicilia

Interview of a Greek Rebel

Anonymous: Philosophy Student, Male, 32 Are you an anarchist? I am not an anarchist, but I am an educated person who won’t take it anymore. The anarchists, for their own good are taking advantage of the rage of the people; though some are just doing this to smash things, I respect that as a militant…

The Oppressed Have No Obligation to Follow the Rules of the Game

“The Oppressed Have No Obligation to Follow the Rules of the Game…” Interview with Ashis Nandy. Prof Ashis Nandy is a well known social thinker and social psychologist based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He has been an outspoken critic of science, modernity and secularism. His writings since the…

The Naked Punch Blog

(the url is: http://thecriticalattitude.wordpress.com/) Titled after Bertolt Brecht's poem: The Critical Attitude. Bertolt Brecht On the Critical Attitude The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms And…