Saffron terror
Praful BidwaiSadhvi Pragya Thakur’s arrest and the questioning of Hindutva extremists for the Malegaon blasts point to the need for action against majoritarian extremism.WHEN this column (Frontline,...
View ArticleObama's skin color and other myths
Boris KagarlitskyMost public opinion surveys indicate that the Obamamania that swept Western Europe has also seized Russia. However Russians are more afraid of change, and there is nothing in the air...
View ArticleLocal politics and the sustainability of rural life
TNI UNAC Rural Democratisation Research Team To be a strong peasant movement in a place like Chokwe, Mozambique requires going beyond ambiguous compromises to develop collective political thinking and...
View ArticleRural democratisation in Mexico’s deep south
TNI Jonathan Fox, Carlos García Jiménez and Libby Haight Has political regime change led to changes in state-society relations? This study begins to address this question by analysing rural movement...
View ArticleRural social movements and their historical contribution for building...
TNI Sérgio Sauer Brazil has not experienced any sort of major agrarian reform since then, but dozens of rural movements have been organised and hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have acquired...
View ArticleEurope's big brothers
Ben Hayes Thomas Hammarberg and Ben Hayes If the human right to privacy is to survive a generation, never mind another 60 years, then European societies must have a serious discussion about...
View ArticleBolivia’s New Constitution
Nick BuxtonAgainst a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its...
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Transnational agrarian movements: struggling for land and citizenship rights
Jennifer FrancoJun BorrasTNILa Vía Campesina’s transnational campaign in protest against neoliberal land policies has helped to generate new meanings of global citizenship. read more
View ArticleObama’s overture to Islamic world
Praful BidwaiPresident Barack Hussein Obama’s address from Cairo on the relationship between the US and the Islamic world lays the foundation for a radical change in western attitudes towards Muslims,...
View ArticlePro-Poor Policy Reforms and Governance in State/Public Lands:
Jennifer FrancoThis paper attempts to specify the key criteria of a ‘pro-poor land policy’ and ‘truly democratic land governance’ concerning state/public lands, using the lessons from activist...
View ArticleCross of Charter impasse, unfolding economy
Walden BelloWith its representative institutions severely weakened by unscrupulous political machinations, the fate of our constitutional democracy will once again depend on the direct democracy of the...
View ArticleLand, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia
TNI Dianto Bachriadi Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and...
View Article"We are preparing a massive reception for Zelaya"
TNIHonduras, 30th June 2009.- Exclusive interview with Rafael Alegría, leader of the National Field Worker's Center (CNTC by its Spanish initials), founder member of the Democratic Union and the...
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Burma: Neither War Nor Peace
The Future Of The Cease-Fire Agreements In Burma Whilst a twenty year ceasefire still holds, there is unlikely to be peace and democracy in Burma without a political settlement that addresses ethnic...
View ArticleThe great capitulation
Praful BidwaiIndians and Pakistanis have to develop a common, rational understanding of the partition story that is free of nationalist prejudice -- although Jaswant Singh makes little contribution to...
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