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Znet Article Akhtar: The metropolitan left and the Muslim world

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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In much of the western world, progressive political and social forces have rallied to the defence of Muslim immigrant communities that face systematic discrimination following the launching of the ‘war on terror’. In the anti-war m...

Znet Article Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Badri Raina
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India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk.  The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...

Znet Article Fisk: American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity

Znet Article, September, 04 2006 Robert Fisk
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A guy with brown eyes and dark skin and a thick American accent walks up to talk to me. I guess he's an Iranian, possibly a Pakistani. Where're you from, I ask? "Austin, Texas," he replies. Fisk foiled again. But where do you originally come from ...

Zmag Article Parsons: A New Generation of Youth Labor Activists

Zmag Article, September, 01 2006 Rachel Parsons
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I attended the 13th Annual Labor Notes Conference, “Building Solidarity from Below,” with 900 other labor activists this past May in Dearborn, Michigan and talked with many of the young...

Znet Article Swamy: The case against collaboration between India and Israel

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Raja Swamy
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After thirty-four days of relentless aerial bombardment and a ground invasion, Israel's brutal assault on Lebanon's civilian population has come to a halt, at least temporarily. As the dust from the rubble of Lebanon's ruined cities, villages, and...

Znet Article Raina: Vande Mataram

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Badri Raina
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Some two decades into acclaimed and dedicated service to King and country, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England, was finally confronted with his patriot test by Henry the VIIIth.  He was ordered to intervene with the Pope in Rome for his co...

Znet Article Raina: Indian Muslims

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Badri Raina
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My chief concern here is to understand the situation of muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of muslims world-wide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition even...

Znet Article Raina: Gujarat 2006— Same But Not the Same

Znet Article, August, 02 2006 Badri Raina
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It would be a grave miscalculation for the Indian State as well aswell-meaning secular and peace-loving Indians to be taken in by Narendra Modi’s seemingly conciliatory visit to the scene of the last round of violence  in Vadodra (in the m...

Znet Article Sagar: Review of Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence"

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Satya Sagar
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‘Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny’Amartya Sen, Allen Lane, 2006, 215 pg. ‘Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist’ said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That...

Znet Article Raina: India and Nepal

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI,  King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal  has finally been denuded of all his powers.  It hardly matters now what royal robes  he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...

Znet Article Podur: Race, Culture, and Leftists

Znet Article, May, 21 2006 Justin Podur
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My presentation is motivated by what I believe is a weakness across the political spectrum: handling the interaction of different cultures and identities in accordance with principles of equality, solidarity, and liberty. My optimistic belief is t...

Znet Article Peters: Kinship Vision

Znet Article, May, 19 2006 Cynthia Peters
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This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held...

Znet Article Smith: An Opposition Party, Minus The Opposition

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 Michael george Smith
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Last night, in a live address to the nation on the immigration debate, George W. Bush did what he does best – scapegoat people of color and invoke the War on Terror to get what he wants.  It is a familiar theme, played out in Afghanistan, ...

Znet Article Spannos: World Without War

Znet Article, May, 10 2006 Chris Spannos
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We cannot say much about human affairs with any confidence, but sometimes it is possible. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world -- at least, a world inhabited by creature...

Zmag Article Zinn: A World Without Borders

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, is perhaps this country's premier radical historian. He was an active figure in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. Today, he speaks all over the country to large and ...

Znet Article Loeb: Out Of The Shadows

Znet Article, April, 13 2006 Paul rogat Loeb
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People marched in Seattle for immigrant rights, like the two million people elsewhere, because families and futures were at stake. We didn't have a half million like Los Angeles or Dallas, or 300,000 like Chicago, but 25,000 marched for fifteen bl...

Znet Article Ali: Islam and the Left

Znet Article, April, 02 2006 Tariq Ali
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The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...

Znet Article Street: The Pessimism of the Do-Nothing Liberal-Left Intelligentsia

Znet Article, March, 25 2006 Paul Street
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Who will save us from the pessimistic, do-nothing "realism" of the privileged and elitist "liberal left"?  "RACISM WILL NOT BE SOLVED" Did you know that the problem of racism in America "is not going to be solved?"  Efforts to address racial di...

Znet Article Marcos: The First Other Winds, Part 2

Znet Article, March, 11 2006 Subcomandante Marcos
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First Part/II and Last YUCATÁN /Above, a hacienda as political program.  Below, Mayan dignity awakening the other./ On one side, that of above:  the resistance of the powerful to losing privileges won through blood and fire since the times of the...

Znet Article Marcos: The First Other Winds [Primera, 1/2]

Znet Article, March, 10 2006 Subcomandante Marcos
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Translated by irlandesa Zapatista Army of National Liberation Mexico February 18-19, 2006 In the name of the Zapatista System of Intergalactic Television, "the only television which is read," we would like to express our gratitude to this sp...

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