View from the Margins: Why Mumbai’s Indigenous Kolis are Angry with Unchecked Coastal ‘Development’
Maharashtra’s fishing community is angry with the BJP for prioritising development at the cost of destruction of the Konkan coast.
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What Is the Sixth Schedule? Why Is Ladakh Demanding to be Brought Under It?
The Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution aims to protect tribal populations and their interests through autonomous governance. It establishes autonomous institutional mechanisms which have legislative, judicial and executive powers for governance.
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Half-Hearted Constitutionalism: The Supreme Court’s Self-Created Conundrums
Even though the Chief Justice of India’s past record gave the nation hope for transformative judicial reform to uphold constitutional morality and fortify fundamental rights under attack from the executive, his tenure has thus far been marked by one letdown after another.
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The EAC-PM’s Paper on ‘Muslim Population’ Is a Travesty of Research Practices
An EAC-PM paper claims that the Hindu share of India’s population has fallen between 1950 and 2015 by 7.8%, while that of Muslims has increased by 43% over the same period. The authors question the methodology followed in the paper and hence its findings. Also, extract from: Banjot Kaur, ‘Fact Check: Old Data, New Spin in PM-EAC Report on India’s Population’.
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‘Devastating Impact’: Why the Road to the Amarnath Shrine has Triggered Outrage
The construction of a road to the Amarnath cave shrine in the Himalayas has triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir with the opposition parties and some Kashmiri Pandits terming the move as a “catastrophe in the making”.
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US: Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Grow; History Repeating Itself – 2 Articles
A massive anti-imperialist movement has returned to US campuses, after decades of absence. In just 2 weeks, thousands of students from at least 140 colleges and universities joined in solidarity with the pro-Palestinian encampments, in the biggest anti-war student movement since Vietnam.
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Imperialism | Online Blog | Palestine | USA
The Council on Foreign Relations, the Israel Lobby, and the War on Gaza
On the role of the Council on Foreign Relations, the think tank of monopoly-finance capital, in the continuing US military, financial, and diplomatic support for Zionist Israel.
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For the Defense of the Alliance of Sahel States
The Alliance of Sahel States is presently at the forefront of Africa’s struggle against imperialism. What began as a national liberation struggle in each member state has rapidly consolidated into a Pan-African union for the complete emancipation of Africa.
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Africa | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
The CIA Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism in West Africa Today
In West Africa, several new governments have formed on the basis of political and economic sovereignty, rejecting the neo-colonial domination that has reigned on the continent since the mid-20th century. A lookback to the case of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, to understand some of the ways U.S. imperialism may potentially respond to these developments.
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The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
A new report says that agricultural land is increasingly being turned into a financial asset at the expense of small- and medium-scale farming. Agribusiness and investors are seeking to secure land for export commodity production and urging governments to deregulate land markets and adopt pro-investor policies.
