Tag: justice

‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial

Exclusive: Activist tells of his life as one of India’s most prominent political prisoners and his opposition to the government of Narendra Modi Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi Prison is hardest at sunset. As the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in Delhi’s most infamous jail are cast out of their cells and forced into the dank yard until… Read More ‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial

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Lalitpur Killing Shows Caste Violence Is Sustained Through Everyday Humiliation

SHARMISTHA SHIVHARE – Published: 26 Jun 2026 On 14 June 2026, a Dalit man was killed, allegedly for refusing to massage a coworker’s feet, in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. The setting of the crime scene was an informal get-together of four coworkers at one of the coworker’s residences in Civil lines. On refusing to massage his coworkers… Read More Lalitpur Killing Shows Caste Violence Is Sustained Through Everyday Humiliation

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The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs Nikhil Pal Singh Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the town capitalist and plantation patriarch. Glittering generalities of… Read More The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

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‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity

Israeli army has killed 235 children in West Bank since 7 October 2023 without a single indictment in what rights groups call a ‘licence to kill’… More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed (21,000 of them children) since October 2023. In the West Bank, military rules of engagements have been loosened and impunity is the norm.… Read More ‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity

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Manipur: Peace at Gunpoint

The Reporters’ Collective Under the BJP, Manipur has entered the 4th year of conflict. This time, the Kuki-Zo people have been pitted against the Naga people. People have been kidnapped, killed, bodies mutilated and villages burnt. Each day, the violence, the fear and the anger escalate.  Over the course of a month, my colleagues Angana Chakrabarti… Read More Manipur: Peace at Gunpoint

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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy?

George Monbiot “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, asked last week, “how else can you describe them? That is racist thuggery.” It is. But there is another way of describing the actions of the rioters burning people out of their homes in… Read More The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy?

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Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire

Siyavash Shahabi Europe’s migration policy produces deniability through distance. A document leaked to Statewatch this month confirms what many have warned about for years. The European Union’s naval mission, Operation Irini, has signed a technical agreement to train and equip coastal forces in eastern Libya. The mission is also to establish a migration coordination centre… Read More Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire

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