resistance

Articles

• India Put on Sale by the ruling regime at the Centre
  28 September 2021, by siawi3

  The Joint platform of CTUs thus decided the following roadmap of heightening decisive struggle of resistance against the anti-national destructive projects of the ruling regime at the centre.

• Iran-UK: Women stage global fast to pressure UK to bring Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe home.
  25 December 2021, by siawi3

  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British-Iranian woman taken hostage by the Islamic regime of Iran for over five years now. Women – keep registering to fast for a day and send a message to Boris Johnson and Iranian regime to #FreeNazaninNow. Maryam Namazie says: “Hostage-taking is a human rights issue and not merely an issue of debts due Iran from the British government. Many governments have debts; only the Iranian regime takes innocents hostage for political gain.”

• Iran: Sepideh Farsi, cinéaste iranienne : « Un régime qui tue ses enfants, viole sa jeunesse, massacre ses minorités, n’a plus de base et plus aucune légitimité »
  7 January, by siawi3

  Pour mater la révolte, le régime iranien a entamé une nouvelle spirale de violences. En plus des exécutions et des arrestations massives, il utilise même des enlèvements et des viols de manifestantes. Un régime qui tue ses enfants, qui viole sa jeunesse, qui opprime ses ouvriers, massacre ses minorités n’a plus de base et plus aucune légitimité. Le régime iranien a franchi un point de non-retour et son départ est inéluctable. Soyez du bon côté de l’histoire.

• ’A blessed initiative’: secular Israel rejoices over Sabbath buses
  4 January 2020, by siawi3

  The minibuses were an instant hit, filling quickly on their first run. Now local authorities intend to use full-size buses, and more largely secular municipalities are expected to implement the scheme.
  A recent survey found 60% of Israelis were in favour of public transport services on Shabbat, as long as their routes avoid areas where there is a religious or ultra-Orthodox majority. Some 97% of ultra-Orthodox respondents were opposed.

• Apartheid Israel
  5 February 2020, by siawi3

  Eleven scholars of South Africa reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel. And no, the comparison is not antisemitic.

• The forgotten futures of anti-colonial internationalism
  21 April 2020, by siawi3

  If despair today tells us that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, in 1900 it was almost impossible to conceptualize the world after Empire. And yet, it happened.

• Pakistan: Ending stigma - ‘Honour’ crimes are not crimes of passion.
  6 June 2020, by siawi3

  While Muslim cultures are not exclusive sites of honour killings, it has been observed that these crimes are widespread in Middle Eastern and South Asian contexts, and the Qisas and Diyat laws and community male gatekeeping are seen to extend legal and moral impunity to perpetrators. Two baseline factors that define honour killing practices are the legal histories of these societies and a preoccupation with female sexual modesty.

• Women, Life, Freedom: A Statement of Solidarity with Women in Iran
  25 October 2022, by siawi3

  Protests spread to all 31 provinces, and reached at least 83 cities. More than 150 people have been killed, and thousands have been arrested. The slogan “Jin Jîyan Azadî,” or “Women, Life, Freedom,” is a famous Kurdish women’s movement slogan. It shows that the uprising is against authoritarianism and has challenged any political, social, and cultural tyranny with a liberating approach.

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  13 juillet 2020, par siawi3
• Pakistan : The Sindhiyani Tehreek: Revolutionary Feminism in Sindh?
  15 December 2020, by siawi3

  In a largely male-dominated, patriarchal and feudal society – where honor killings are rampant, female literacy in rural areas barely touches 25% and domestic violence mostly goes unreported – how could these rural women lead a resistance against Pakistan’s most notorious dictatorial regimes?

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