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By cancelling the winter session of the Parliament, the Modi government has yet again undercut the legislature and the deliberative process of law-making.
The author writes: This article is not about any religion, organisation, political party or government as they are all ephemeral. It is about our people who are enduring. I lament that the venom of hatred has become the lifeblood coursing through the veins of our body politic.
Is there something inevitable in the form in which we have conceived of liberal democracy that it will, more and more, construe the dissenter as a figure of criminality?
As long as the US and UK continue their political and military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, there will be no solution to the country’s humanitarian or political situation. Also: Not just to Yemen, the US controls half the arms market in the Middle East.
The EU-China investment deal is as much rooted in China’s own urge to expand as in the EU’s own growing search for its own place, independent of the USA.
In 2020 the U.S. experienced a record-smashing 22 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that killed at least 262 people and injured scores more.
Examining both continental geopolitics and the dynamic of regional social movements, Teruggi – a prominent journalist – offers a rich interpretation of Venezuela’s recent electoral process.
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
Sugathakumari not only produced some of the most iconic works of Malayalam poetry during her illustrious poetic career spanning almost six decades, she was also a leading social activist.
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
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