Stanley L. Cohen For days now, the Israeli rewrite has been well underway, working overtime, to convince the world that seven weeks of carnage in Palestine, more particularly Gaza, did not happen. Or, if it did, Israel’s response to the Great Return March was a measured, proportionate answer to the menace posed by some burning…

Nicolas Maduro Wins Venezuelan Presidential Elections In a big win for the global socialist movement, the heroic people of Venezuela overwhelmingly voted President Nicolas Maduro to power for a second term as Venezuela’s president in the presidential elections held on May 20, 2018, Sunday. The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela announced the result on…

On May 22, 2018, the Tamil Nadu police opened fire in Thoothukudi on a protest march in which thousands of people were participating, demanding the closure of the Sterlite Copper Plant in their area. At least 13 people  have died in the firing, and hundreds injured. The police even gave hot pursuit and shot at…

Mrinal Kumsar Biswas   The icy hand of death has been laid on Sudhakar Prabhudesai. It was a cruel joke that he could not leave this world peacefully. I was told excruciating sufferings awaited him before he breathed his last. Sudhakar did not deserve that. I knew him for decades, he never caused pain to…

As protests raged over the rape of minors and violence against marginalized communities, dalits, students, the climate for free speech reflected both a menacing intolerance for dissenting viewpoints and a crackdown on civil rights. Apart from the dangerous attacks on journalists, others were harassed and their personal details shared online, they were threatened and became…

[Sign Citizens’ Appeal on 20 Years of Nuclear Tests] We, the citizens of South Asia and beyond, urge India and Pakistan in the 20th year of the 1998 nuclear tests to put an immediate end to the arms race and competitive belligerence, and negotiate nuclear disarmament at the earliest. Far from providing any security, these…

Pannalal Surana At the press conference on 13th April 2018, Meenakshi Lakhi, national spokesperson of BJP, said, “One Zakir Hussain aged 19, and two boys of 13 had gang-raped a minor girl in Nagaon in Assam, but none of the secularist parties or any of the candle-march experts had uttered a word of protest about…

Justice Rajindar Sachar, April 15, 2017 The results of the UP State Assembly elections have come as a shock to all parties including the pollsters. The appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of UP is the worst outcome. I feel that it requires all political parties, the secular parties and the Leftists (I…