The Right-wing populist’s professed aversion to “anarchism” never applies to actual Right-wing anarchism. Kapil Mishra is Delhi’s Minister of Law and Justice. 2024 protests on Columbia University campus over Palestinians in Gaza (Photo: Reuters) Academic freedom in the West has come a long way since astronomer Galileo was declared a heretic and imprisoned for challenging the Church’s view that the universe revolves around the Earth. Or has it? Columbia University caving to pr

A new law pushed through parliament bans pride events, the latest in a series of steps that removes rights for LGBTQ+ people. Opposition lawmakers set off smoke bombs in the chamber in protest. Opposition lawmakers ignited smoke bombs in the chamber to protest the passage of the law Image: Boglarka Bodnar/MTI/AP Photo/picture alliance Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday banning LGBTQ+ pride events, including the famous Budapest Pride  march that attracts thousands of

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, March 18 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, in an onslaught that ended weeks of relative calm after talks to secure a permanent ceasefire stalled. Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas each accused the other of breaching the truce, which had broadly held since January, offering respite from war  for the 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza, where most buildings have be

Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS/File photo March 18 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has likely exceeded its authority in

Calls from far-right figures to 'cleanse' Europe of Muslims and commit a 'Srebrenica 2.0' are now symbolically reinforced by the backdrop of Israel's war on Gaza Participants onstage applaud as the Patriots for Europe, the European Parliament’s largest far-right bloc, concludes its meeting under the slogan “Make Europe Great Again” at a hotel in Madrid on 8 February 2025 (Thomas Coex/AFP) In the 1990s, Europe's post-fascist and post-Nazi political parties were clear in reject

Grieving Alawite families retrieve the bodies of their loved ones under the watchful eye of security forces Syrian attend the funeral of a relative, killed in the days of clashes between security forces and Assad loyalists in the town of Jableh in the coastal province of Latakia on 10 March 2025 (AFP) At the National Hospital in Latakia, a coastal city in the heartland of the Alawite minority, the watchful presence of Syria ’s new authorities is constant. Visibly shaken, Alaw

More than 260 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, a huge escalation from previous years, according to an Israeli rights group. Once rare, Israel 's use of airstrikes in the occupied West Bank has soared since Oct. 7, 2023, stoking fears that it is deploying the military tactics there that it used in the Gaza Strip , some 60 miles away. “There wasn’t a time in the history of the occupation, not even during the  Second Int

Rep. Ford Carr, D-Wichita, walks through the House chamber on Feb. 25, 2025. [Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector] Kansas Republicans sent an unmistakable message to Democratic Rep. Ford Carr this week: Mess with us, and we’ll destroy you. The Wichita-based representative, who is Black, filed a complaint in February against Republican Rep. Nick Hoheisel, who is white. This week a disciplinary panel deadlocked along party lines when considering Carr’s complaint. But members had a n

Israel's militarised violence in Gaza and the climate crisis both serve the interests of one perpetrator: fossil fuel imperialists, writes Mohammad Usrof. Military violence mustn’t remain business as usual, climate justice mustn’t remain business as usual, writes Mohammad Usrof [photo credit: Getty Images] Although the fragile ceasefire in Gaza hangs by a thread, we can begin to reflect on the horror of the past 15 months. Israel's genocide in Gaza has claimed over 62,000 liv

The seeds for today's dawning tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago, reveals Peter Jukes in this piece from the Byline Times...