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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In these Covid times, when online teaching has become rampant, we are being told that this development opens up new possibilities and realms for education. A critical examination of it, against our basic conception of education.
For women at the Shaheen Bagh-inspired protest in Mumbai, participating in a political movement felt like finding their identity.
The former prime minister, whose birth anniversary is celebrated on December 25, failed Muslims and Christians when they needed him the most.
In neoliberalism, politics is no longer based on the democratic principle: “Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us”; only greed and self interest are the guides to social action. Are we now hearing the sounds of the “death struggle” of the idea of a liberal constitutional democracy?
The Hindutva organisation’s ideology can be summarised in six words: We shall show Muslims their place.
In the Brazilian Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST), it is women who organize the day-to-day of the occupations, head up the assemblies in the territories, and participate in the negotiations for land. A discussion with two women leaders of the MTST.
The real tragedy of Corbynism was that all attempts at grassroots mobilisation, political education, community programmes, and anti-militarism were ultimately subordinated, it not completely sacrificed, to the priority of winning the election.
For the US political leadership, when it comes to selling American weaponry and thereby benefiting American military corporations, more or less anything except (so far) nuclear weapons seems to go. It doesn’t matter how they might be used or against whom.
In its latest report on Illicit Financial Flows in Africa, UNCTAD discloses that $88.6 billion from the continent go up in smoke every year. Not only must we ask questions about the size of these amounts, we must also wonder how this is at all possible.
At this juncture, between a global pandemic and the promise of a post-pandemic world, and between the administrations of Trump and Biden, we would be well-served by changing the economic paradigm from trickle down to build up.
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