Iranian feminist sentenced to twenty years for protest against compulsory hijab
Submitted by BenS6 on Jul 17 2018 22:39
Shapark Shajarizadeh was one of 29 women who undertook individual protests against the wearing of the hijab in Iran in February. Last month her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who specialises in human rights and also represented other women involved in the protests, was arrested.
Protest against Tommy Robinson on 6 May
Submitted by Anonymous on Apr 18 2018 11:25
On Sunday 6 May thousands of far-right anti-Muslim bigots will be marching through central London, anti-fascists from across the country need to take to the streets to oppose them.
The shade of swords - Jean Casseur
Article on nihilism, and the loss of community and meaning. First published on the now-defunct Ritual magazine website, June 2015.
The Fruits of “Arab Spring”; Islamism, Anarchism & Feminism
A 2013 essay by Lebanese-Armenian political activist Yeghia Tashjian covering the power struggle within the Arab Spring between the Islamic political fractions and the secularist revolutionaries, including radical feminist and anarchist currents within the Arab Spring .
No whites allowed after 8pm? Behind the media circus of Birmingham’s ‘no-go’ areas
Submitted by QQ on Aug 23 2017 14:23
On 17 August, numerous national newspapers and news websites, published a story about “racist graffiti” directed towards white people in Saltley, a majority Pakistani area of inner-city Birmingham. The piece, originally published by the local Birmingham press, goes on to claim that this corroborates a broad trend of “white working class Brummies” fearing parts of the city had become “no-go areas” for them.
Manchester Arena atrocity: an initial response
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 24 2017 19:51
Our work creates the bulk of the world’s wealth which ends up in the hands of the capitalist class. They use the wealth we create to supply armies and to wage wars to defend their existence. We need to build an international movement which can create a society in which people’s needs not capitalist profits dominate, and in doing so end atrocities like the one in Manchester. No war but the class war.
1997-98: Senegalese Mothers End Female Circumcision
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 25 2017 21:17
In 1997 a group of mothers from the village of Malicounda Bambara and an Imam worked to end the practice of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in their region. Their actions and success led to other villages in Senegal and other African nations following their lead.
Califat et Barbarie - Tristan Leoni
Tristan Leoni's three-part series of articles on IS and its 'caliphate', first published on DDT21 blogs.
Brouillards de guerre - Gilles Dauvé
June 2016 article by G.D. on IS, Syria, war, the state and rhetoric, first published on the DDT21 blog.
Islamic State, A Project Of Civil Society
Beyond the clichés that portray the Islamic State as simply a barbaric and fanatical occupation force shot up with petrodollars from smuggling, we cannot grasp it in its reality without considering its full dimension as a social project...
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