Assam & Mizoram CMs Clashed, But it’s Minorities Who Suffer in the Northeast
It’s the minorities who are used as a shield to advance the majority and the state’s interests and sovereignty.
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Indian Women’s Hockey’s Fairytale Story Ridden with Personal Sacrifices
Every member in the Women’s Hockey Olympic Squad in Tokyo has been through personal struggles that can’t be measured in words.
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In Chokhamela’s Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present
Chokhamela’s 13th to 14th-century abhangas, and the songs of other Maharashtrian dalit-bahujan saint-poets from the Bhakti movement, offer a complex and crucial narrative to understand the inception and growth of resistance in future Dalit traditions and movements.
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Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The real reason why the US dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to prevent the Soviets from making a contribution to the victory against Japan, which would have forced Washington to allow Moscow to participate in the postwar occupation and reconstruction of the country.
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Nicaragua’s Sandinistas Battle ‘Diabolical’ U.S. Empire and Poverty on 42nd Anniversary of Revolution
Report from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life. President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries”.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | People's movements | Socialism | World Economy | World Politics
What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.
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News from ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers Launch ‘Mission UP’
Amidst Rain, Kisan Sansad Takes on Contract Farming; Women Farmers Hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers to Campaign Against BJP in Upcoming Polls.
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Two Dharnas
For months on end, Indian peasants have tenaciously sustained mass protests at two very different sites – one at the borders of Delhi, the other at Silger, Chhattisgarh. While their issues look very different, at another level, the protests are linked. Also: ‘Chhattisgarh: Silger Protests Continue, Increase in Violence Hinder Access to Justice’.
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Extractivism and Extremism: the Tangled Resource Politics of Northeast India
Extremism laced with the history of resistance in the indigenous communities against the Indian state and private oil firms continues to make resource politics in the region highly complex.
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Caste | Culture | Fascism | Gender Issues | Indian Politics | Online Blog
Whose History Is it Anyway?
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
