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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
If the Trump Administration was genuinely serious about tackling child obesity and all its offshoot conditions, taking on Big Food, Big Ag and Big Chem in the process, it already has an example to follow—from its next door neighbour and largest trade partner, Mexico.
If end times fascism tells students there’s no future, we must teach as if the future is ours to shape. If schools are being weaponised to train youth for extinction, then education must become a form of survival—rooted in truth, care, resistance and imagination.
Tel Aviv loses another Red Sea partner: Eritrea emerges as a critical node in the rising Eurasian multipolar nexus, defying US-Israeli plans for regional control.
‘Burkina Faso’s Government of Change Confronts Imperialism’: Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s government seeks to finish off the remnants of French colonial power, build economic independence, develop infrastructure, satisfy some of the population’s basic needs, and ward off U.S. intervention. Also summary of 2 articles by Nicholas Jones on the AES Confederation.
In this interview, Montilla, a 27-year-old communard from rural Trujillo state, discusses the political formation of her generation, the role of women in sustaining the Bolivarian Process, and the recent re-centering of the commune as a cornerstone of revolutionary politics.
‘Banu Mushtaq: The Rebel Writer’: Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp brings Kannada protest literature and Muslim women’s voices to the 2025 International Booker stage. Also: ‘Banu Mushtaq Writes Women as They are: Tired, Resilient, and Rarely Thanked’.
One hundred years after his birth, 60 years after his assassination, Malcolm X is synonymous globally with revolution and all forms of militant struggle by exploited and oppressed people.
The Rights of Nature: A Redefinition of Human-Nature Relations’: The idea of granting nature its own rights (or recognising them) is not entirely new. It raises fundamental questions about the relationship between humans and nature. Also: ‘The Recognition of Rights of Nature: A Global Paradigm Change’.
‘True Gaza Death Toll May Top 100,000, New Study Reveals’; and: ‘Israel Waging a Relentless War of Starvation on Gaza, IPC Report Confirms’.
‘When War Becomes a Meme: Tagore’s Warning Against Hollow Nationalism’: The jarring contrast between virtual rage begs a question: what have we made of nationalism and what has it made of us? Also: ‘India, Pakistan and The Day After’.
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