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Alternatives
International Journal: April 2024
The
coming 2024 national and provincial
elections are the most significant since
the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once
again there is no credible left-wing or
anti-capitalist force contesting. By all
accounts, the ANC is not likely to win
an (…)
Five
months into Israel’s genocidal campaign
against the Palestinian people – a
compendium of colonial violence, from the
bombing of maternity wards to what Raphael
Lemkin once called ‘racial discrimination
in feeding’ – there has been no (…)
Nepal’s
socio-political landscape, dominated by
international aid-driven initiatives and
limited grassroots activism, stands in
contrast to the WSF’s ethos of grassroots
mobilization and autonomous social
movements. The dilemma in Nepal lies (…)
This
year, elections across the world are
offering a stark reminder that voters can
expect very little from liberal democracy,
even under conditions of ‘free and fair’
competition. It’s easy to bemoan the
rigged results in Bangladesh, Pakistan (…)
By
January 11, 2024, the daily death rate in
Gaza was higher than in any other major
21st-century conflict. The death toll in
Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has now
crossed 29,000, most of whom are women and
children, with over 70,000 Gazans (…)
Let
us assume that Israel’s position at The
Hague is right and just and Israel
committed no genocide or anything close to
it. So what is this? What do you call the
mass killing, which continues even as
these lines are being written, without (…)
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