Interview with Himanshu Kumar, a Gandhian activist who worked to try to get villagers back to their homes, get people falsely accused out of jail, and win justice for victims

Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj, a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee)

Another interview in the Z Net interview series

A review of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege

Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint press conference

Afghanistan's history, including its suppressed parts, is full of people who were trying to make change

The US is drawing down here, promising withdrawal by 2014, though they will stay for “training and counterterrorism”

I have thought of Chavez's legacy in terms of avoided losses: thousands of people *not* massacred, millions *not* displaced, thousands *not* dying from preventable diseases...

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

Are men in the streets, markets, subways, buses, and campuses going to treat women as equals, or try to use violence to drive them out?

A conference at York University about capitalizing power

Ultimately, Bland's book is less of a prescient warning of an indigenous uprising and more of a non-indigenous take on Canada's “native problem”.

When the institutions that govern Haiti today are examined, it is clear that the label ‘dictatorship’ applies

Those who talk about partition of the Congo as a solution are offering a prescription for expanded and continued violence

Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, the main city of South Kivu, and from there, they say, across the massive co...

The author of Haiti's New Dictatorship discusses Haiti

If an end to shooting can be achieved, the struggle for justice will have advanced

I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society.

Paraguay has one of the most unequal distributions of land in Latin America, with 85% of the land in the hands of 2.5% of landowners

Interview with Tim Schwartz on the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operate in Haiti

Why are elites and authorities able to rest so comfortably in the knowledge that in the final analysis, thousands of armed men will do what they are told?

The same system whose integrity is affirmed by the petition, offers a brick wall to countless Iranian dissidents to whom entrance into Canada will be denied

The 99% have a great deal to do, including developing new ways of waging anti-racism and new ideas of integrated struggle

The Occupy Wall Street movement's arrival in Canada could help discredit the austerity that the Conservative government will be putting forward in their next budget