The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back. By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 16, 2024 I just got off the phone with the Canadian feminist and activist Lee Lakeman. She is in hospice. The […]
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The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back. By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 16, 2024 I just got off the phone with the Canadian feminist and activist Lee Lakeman. She is in hospice. The […]
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It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence. By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 6 In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair […]
It’s about how Democratic Party elites abandoned the working-class over the past four decades while enriching financial elites, promoting runaway inequality, and tolerating a tsunami of mass layoffs. The Democrats assumed the working class had nowhere else to go. They were wrong! By Les Leopold Nov 06, 2024 Common Dreams I feel like […]
Aircraft giant Boeing’s factory workers have called off their seven weeks-long strike on November 5. Nearly 59 per cent of the employees voted in favour of accepting the new contract that includes a 43.65% wage increase over four years—a significant improvement over the 25% increase that the aerospace giant offered in September. “Strikes work,” labor journalist Kim […]
আর.জি.কর আন্দোলনকে ঘিরে বাংলার রাজনীতিতে হিন্দুত্ববাদী আখ্যানসমূহ একধরনের বৈধতা পেল। ভারতবর্ষের নারীবাদীরা, ঐতিহাসিকভাবে, দেবী প্রতিমূর্তির সঙ্গে মেয়েদের বা মেয়েদের বিদ্রোহকে মিলিয়ে দেখার বিরোধিতা করেছেন। এই বিরোধিতা ছিল বাংলা সমাজে, সাহিত্যের ভেতরেও। লিখেছেন নন্দিনী ধর। আর.জি.কর ঘটনার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে বলিউডের জনপ্রিয় গায়িকা শ্রেয়া ঘোষাল একটি গান গয়েছেন। গানটি আমার মতে, অতীব নিম্নমানের। অবশ্য, তাতে কিছু এসে যায় না। বামপন্থী […]
Just claiming that rapes should not take place, or justice for the victim, does not even scratch the surface of the problem. Discussions, forums to look into the context of rape from the lens of power, caste hierarchy, gender hierarchy is completely missing, writes Pritha Sarkar. A couple of months ago, the whole of Bengal […]
Bonita Meyersfeld argue that international law can no longer exempt corporations from liability for human rights violations, including those arising from poverty. Under certain circumstances, corporations should have duties under international law to ensure human rights are fulfilled. He argue that this is particularly true when it comes to socio-economic rights such as the rights to […]
