Over 60% OBC, SC Positions Vacant in IIMs
More than half of the faculty positions reserved for OBCs in central institutions of higher education are vacant, while about 40% of those reserved for Scheduled Castes and Tribes also remain unfilled.
WHO Finds Violence Against Women Affects 1 in 3 Worldwide
In the wake of International Women’s Day, the United Nations released a report that reveals one in three females worldwide, or around 736 million women, have been subjected to physical or sexual violence, mostly by intimate partners.
The Business of COVID-19 Vaccines: The Most Heartless Example of Capitalism
The TRIPS agreement awards pharmaceutical corporations the power to decide who lives and who dies, as well as what we will live on and what we will die from. Capitalism has made a business out of life and death.
March 26: Biggest Bharat Bandh in Independent India; March 23: Farmers, Jawans, Youth Celebrate Shahid Diwas
News from across the country about Bharat Bandh on March 26; Mahapanchayat at Kanyakumari on March 27; Police barge in to stop farmers’ Press Conference in Ahmedabad; 5-day padyatra from Haryana concludes at Delhi border; Farmers, jawans and youth together celebrate Shahid Diwas.
The Myanmarese Revolution Continues: Two Articles
The Myanmarese people are on a general strike. It has paralysed large parts of the economy, including banks, shipyards, transport, railways, major factories, large-scale farms, oil refineries, mines, hospitals, schools, marketplaces, and importantly, all spheres of energy extraction.
Despite U.S. Dirty Tricks, Bolivia Is Finding a Way to Stay Independent
The US under Biden is attempting to strangulate the newly elected MAS government in Bolivia. The Bolivian government is not only taking action against the coup leaders, it has also formed a new group of 17 countries to address the way in which the US has undermined the UN Charter.
Whose Feminism? Palestine’s Feminism
Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
Celebrating the Paris Commune of 1871
Socialist historian Sandra Bloodworth commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Commune, retelling the breathtaking events as well as providing an assessment of their political significance.
A Time For Commitment to Ideals and Aims of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades
On Shahid Diwas, we need to ponder over the extent to which the ruling regime and society have moved away from Bhagat Singh’s ideals of equality and justice, communal harmony, respecting and advancing the rights of workers and farmers, resisting imperialism at all levels.
When Universities Become Objects of Counterinsurgency
Academics and students in India have been facing an immediate, sharp and existential threat since 2014.