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SIR: PUCL Condemns Mass Disenfranchisement; A Long Road to Exile; Assault on India’s Democracy – 3 Articles
‛Legitimising Mass Disenfranchisement: PUCL Condemns the Supreme Court’s SIR Verdict’; ‛The SIR, A Long Road to Exile?’; ‛Why the SIR Is Narendra Modi’s Chosen Weapon to Crush Democracy’.
‘Pushback’ at Gunpoint – the Hindutva-BJP Project of Manufacturing Statelessness
The BJP’s win in West Bengal opens up a huge section of the border with Bangladesh to expand these extra-judicial operations targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims.
If Assam, J&K-Style Delimitation Becomes the Norm, You Can Say Goodbye to Electoral Democracy
From the North–South divide and linguistic identity to electoral boundary manipulation and federal balance, Yogendra Yadav explores the challenges confronting Indian democracy. He says that the opposition’s fear is absolutely justified.
Who Are the Parasites in India?
The Cockroach Janta Party is now the voice of the resentment felt by Indian youth not only toward the incompetence, and even corruption, of those in power (which manifests itself in repeated exam leak scandals), but also and above all toward unemployment. Also, extract from: ‛We Are Cockroaches, We Outlived Dinosaurs’.
India’s Exam Leak Crisis – 2 Articles
‛The Real NEET Crisis Lies Inside the System’: The cancellation and re-exam have exposed something larger than exam fraud: an education system growing more centralised, unequal, and hostile to students without coaching money, digital access, or second chances. Also: ‛India’s Exam Fraud Bubble: 148 Cases, One Conviction in 11 Years’.
Choked Health Budgets, Privatised Healthcare – 2 Articles
‛The Continued Asphyxiation of India’s Public Health Budgets’: 50% of India’s citizens remain at the mercy of markets when it comes to healthcare, even as the Indian government remains far behind its goal to commit 2.5% of GDP to public health by 2025. Also: ‛Crushed by Cost’.
The Earth Is Not for Sale: Sijimali and Hasdeo Resist Corporate Mining – 2 Articles
‛Sijimali: The Earth Is Not for Sale’: Our struggle is not only for our lives and livelihood. Our struggle is for the protection of mother earth, for the entire planet. Our fight is for the protection of all life species, fish and birds, sheep and goats, forests and streams. Also: ‛The Unmaking of Hasdeo: How Coal Is Reshaping a Forest and Its People’.
Duty-Free Cotton Imports Will Ruin India’s Cotton Farmers – 2 Articles
‛The Ruin of Cotton Farmers: Who Stands to Gain?’; ‛India’s Cotton Tariff Removal Reflects the Hollowness of Modi’s Austerity Push’: The textile ministry’s removal of the 11% cotton import tariff, amid US diplomatic pressures and Marco Rubio’s visit, risks domestic farm prices while making the industry dependent on foreign imports.
The Indus Waters Treaty: The Next India-Pakistan Flashpoint – 2 Articles
‛The Indus Waters Treaty and the Political Ethics of Survival’: A region that turns water into a weapon may ultimately discover that no border can contain the consequences of thirst. Also: ‛Water Is Becoming the Next India-Pakistan Flashpoint’.
Courting Hindutva: The Unmaking of Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia was once built “stone by stone and sacrifice by sacrifice” during the anti-colonial struggle for freedom. It is now being dismantled quietly from within.
The Journalist Who Asked Modi a Question
I met Helle Lyng Svendsen in Oslo. She was clear about what journalists ought to do. I was also struck by how open and accountable she had been, responding to even hostile questions thrown at her.
The Social Cost of AI / Data Centres – 2 Articles
‛Mad Rush for AI/ Data Centres in India: At What Social Cost?’: Data centres are known to be big guzzlers of water and electricity. 200 GW of data center capacity will annually consume 1,200 Twh of electricity and more than 1000 million cubic meters of water. Also: ‛The Hidden Water Cost of AI in a Thirsty India’.
Israel’s Continuing War to Destroy Gaza Behind the Façade of a Ceasefire – 2 Articles
‛Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival’: The images from Gaza reveal a desolate landscape beyond comprehension: an endless, treeless expanse buried beneath millions of tons of concrete and rebar, whose suffocating scale overwhelms the conscience. Also: ‛Israeli Soldiers Describe Continued Targeted Killings of Palestinians in Gaza’.
The Chess Game of Justice
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Moving the resolution was a strategic masterstroke that forced the Global North to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth, exposing in the process a profound phase of moral fragmentation within the West.
The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Cost of the American Empire
Across the United States, politicians routinely claim there is no money for universal healthcare, affordable housing, modern infrastructure, debt-free education or social welfare programmes needed to address poverty, unemployment and growing insecurity. Yet, when it comes to war, resources seem virtually unlimited.
The Shield of the Americas Exposed: Fascism’s New Face in the Americas
A counter revolution is consolidating itself in the Americas—firing drones and missiles at farmers and fishermen, plotting internal destabilization campaigns against insubordinate governments, and manufacturing lies and fever dreams about some bullshit they’re calling narcoterrorism.
What Claudia Sheinbaum Has Achieved for Mexico
In less than two years, Mexico’s first woman president has instituted numerous social welfare improvements, while her rhetoric on foreign policy consistently supports Global South nations such as Cuba and Venezuela, as they face barbaric assault from the world’s hegemon, the USA.
A Great Leap into Reality: Venezuela Today
Nobody, inside Venezuela or abroad, possesses a definitive answer to the central question looming over all of us: How can the anti-imperialist—and ultimately socialist—project initiated in 1999 in Venezuela continue advancing under conditions of U.S. imperialism’s expanded military capacity and its new willingness to cross former red lines in the region?
Ebola: People of Congo Paying the Price of Imperialist Loot – 2 Articles
‛Congo’s Cobalt Feeds Big Tech. Its People Face Ebola’: The people of Congo and Uganda are paying the price for what was done to their countries. Not by nature—but by imperialist powers, banks, mining monopolies, drug companies and the capitalist governments that serve them. Also: ‛Ebola and Imperialism’.
Asim Munir’s Madness Is Destroying Kashmir
The latest crackdown in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir has stripped away any pretence that the inhabitants of “Azad” Kashmir possess any autonomy or agency. With one brutal stroke, the Pakistani military has demonstrated that the region is no different from the rest of Pakistan, where dissent is met with bullets, brutality, and no dialogue.
What Happened to Afghanistan’s Female Academics?
Despite the challenges, the women that researchers spoke to had not given up. Some are finding quiet ways to keep teaching.
Over a Billion People in the World Live with Disabilities
People with disabilities are neither a minority nor an exception. They are a vast constellation of human experience – one-sixth of humanity (1.3 billion people). And yet, they are too often spoken of as if they exist at the margins of history. In truth, they stand at its centre.
Nuclear Power and Other People’s Money
Nuclear power would never have existed without government handouts and ratepayer subsidies.
People Organising Against Data Centres Across the US – 2 Articles
‛Everybody Hates Data Centers’: Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight. Also: ‛More Cities Are Pressing Pause on Data Centers as Local Backlash Grows’.
The Future of Forests
While human communities have benefitted immensely from trees, tree communities (i.e. forests) haven’t always fared so well in the bargain. This article traces the ups and downs of this relationship and inquires why it has grown more one-sidedly abusive in recent decades.
What Needs to Be Done: A Socialist View
The article outlines an anti-capitalist framework for a humane society. It argues that because inequality and ecological destruction are inherent to capitalism, society must dismantle capitalist institutions and replace them with systems designed for human need and ecological sustainability.
What Qawwalis Teach Us About Love, Faith, and God
The qawwali is an ocean of ecstasy that invites endless exploration. On the face of it, it is a qawwali of romantic love between mortal beings. In truth, however, it is simultaneously a kalaam of the highest form of love – between the soul and the divine – both of which are immortal.
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