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Kashmir – is the worst yet to come?

By B Prasant As one walks along the Hazratbal Road in Srinagar on a bright and shiny early winter morning, across the deserted shopping mohalla (neighbourhood) of the Kozirabal enclave and past the housing estates of Mirzabagh that show no [...]

50 years after the October Crisis

Labour, democratic, civil and equality rights in the crosshairs October marks 50 years since the October crisis of 1970, during which PM Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspended civil and democratic rights across Canada and sent [...]

Clarity Act at 20: a frontal attack on national rights

An interview with Adrien Welsh of the Parti communiste du Québec Canada is a multinational capitalist state and national oppression and inequality are a big part of how that state developed. In addition to many Indigenous nations – which are the [...]

The struggle for French language rights in Canada is a progressive one

LJC du Québec On the occasion of the International Day of the Francophonie, celebrated on March 20 since 1988, the Ligue de la jeunesse communiste du Québec salutes all those who struggle to keep this “language of France with American accents” [...]

Divide et impera or free and equal? Soviet nationalities policy in perspective

If you have ever looked at a map of Central Asia and the Caucasus, you have more than likely wondered why the borders of many former Soviet states are so confusing and seemingly irrational. The strategic and fertile Ferghana Valley, for instance, [...]