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Observations and reporting on South Asia tensions

The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.

Here, there and everywhere

In South Asia, from mass unrest to political upheaval

Lots of young people are challenging and questioning the very nature of democracy, the nature of the system which exists, where one court after the other has said this genocide must stop, yet U.S. pressure allows Netanyahu to continue.

Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent. Attacks on universities are the canary in the coalmine of fascism.

This week: News and analyses from Asian parties and movements

Big news from UK, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Nigeria

Election season is challenging the left in South Africa, India and the UK

Women rock the world