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‘Blasphemy’: Increased Attacks on Freethinkers

March 26, 2017 | by Maryam Namazie | 0 Comments

On 16 March, ex-Muslim atheist H Farook, a father of two, was hacked to death in India. He was known to the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) Sri Lanka affiliate organisation and was killed for his views. Several men have been arrested for his murder. In Pakistan, Ayaz Nizami and Rana Noman were arrested by the government […] Read more

As with Brexit, Labour Finds Itself Caught in the Middle in Scotland

March 21, 2017 | by Ivor Jones | 0 Comments

If the Labour party doesn’t manage to tread a strong, alternative unionist path to the Conservatives then it faces becoming an irrelevancy on the Scottish Question as it is in danger of doing so on the Brexit Question. Read more

Fear Wins Elections, Not Facts. It’s Time We Got Wise to the Tricks of Tyrants

March 17, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Terrorism, nationalism and otherism have exploded into the global political discourse. And that's seriously good news for machiavellian politicians: they need that to be elected, writes Madelaine Hanson Read more

Radicalisation all Over the Place – The Left and Right are in this Mess Together

March 13, 2017 | by Zorana Vuk | 0 Comments

While the Left and Right fight over pronouns, statistics, racist-or-not terminology and other life-threatening issues, civil society needs to rethink itself Read more

‘It’s just porn’: Coming to terms with a sexually corrosive culture

February 27, 2017 | by Robert Jensen | 1 Comments

Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. This essay is drawn from his book The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men, published in January 2017 by Spinifex Press. He can be reached at rjensen@austin.utexas.edu or through his website, http://robertwjensen.org/. Although the most compelling critiques […] Read more