Nothing Left to say: a critique of the Guardian’s coverage of the 2008 Mumbai attacks

Spencer A. Leonard

However sincere its backers or belligerent its enemies, the “War on Terror” is not and cannot become anti-Islamist. This is not because, as some think, there is no Islamist or Taliban-style fascism on the receiving end of America’s War on Terror. Far from it. The reason is that the prosecutors of the war are only half committed to the selective elimination of certain religious reactionaries.

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Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left: an interview with Terry Glavin

Andony Melathopoulos, Terry Glavin

The following interview was conducted as an email exchange between Andony Melathopoulos and Terry Glavin in December 2008. Terry Glavin is a Canadian journalist, an outspoken critic of the anti-war movement's call to withdrawal foreign troops from Afghanistan and a founder of the Afghanistan Canada Solidarity Committee (afghanistan-canada-solidarity.org).

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The New School occupation and the direction of student politics: an interview with Atlee McFellin

Atlee McFellin, Pam C. Nogales C.

The occupation of the New School Graduate Faculty building on 65 5th Ave. began in the late evening on December 17, 2008 and lasted over thirty hours. In the build-up to the action, differences arose respecting the aims and potential effectiveness of an occupation.

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Workers in a time of War

Workers in a time of War:

Pakistan and the Crisis of the Labour Movement

Sunday, December 2, 2:00 PM | International House
(1414 E. 59th Street, Chicago IL)

A Discussion with

Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary
General Secretary, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation

Rubina Jamil
President, Working Women Organization

Yasir Gulzar
President, Progressive Youth Organization

Atiya Khan
Platypus, Phd candidate at the University of Chicago

A demonstration in Lahore, 2008, led by the Labour Party Pakistan.

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A bringing together three leading figures of the Pakistani labor movement to talk about workers rights, women’s rights, the struggle to organize in the shadow of the Taliban, and the impact of the ongoing war in Afghanistan on the workers of Pakistan. These topics will be explored in light of the increasingly pressing need to reconstitute an international Left.

For background reading, see The Failure of Pakistan: A Concise History of the Left.
Also checkout the event on Facebook, and the flier.

Co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Lecture Program and the Center for International Studies.
No Admission fee. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities that may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance of the program at 773-753-2274.

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Platypus NYC screening: The Handsmaid's Tale (1990)

Friday, January 23rd, 2009
6:30pm
New York University Sociology Department
Puck Building
295 Lafayette st. 4th FL
New York, NY 10012

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