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Farmers from Punjab have protested at the Khanauri and Shambhu borders since February 2024, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for crops. Agitation has intensified with Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s fast-unto-death and three farmer suicides, as the Centre maintains its wait-and-watch policy.
People around Arshinakeri (Koppal Dt, Karnataka) are concerned about government’s proposal to construct a nuclear power plant (NPP) in their vicinity. They fear for their health and safety due to nuclear contamination from the NPP proposed there.
On January 12, 350,000 people made it out to the Zocalo to see Claudia Sheinbaum address the people and celebrate 100 days as the Presidenta of Mexico. Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.
In 2007 Hugo Chávez initiated Alba Movements as a network of grassroots organizations under the auspices of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America [ALBA]. An interview with Alba Movements spokesperson Hernán Vargas about the network’s remit and its support for the Bolivarian Process.
Facing methods of torture and imprisonment that would unnerve an inmate of Guantanamo, Lilburne never surrendered to defeatism. His writing remains infused with radical purpose, a radiant call from across the centuries for collective resistance. As you steel yourself to confront the new imperialists, ask what Lilburne would do.
On January 1, 2025, the iconic statue of the late saint-poet Tiruvalluvar in Kanyakumari, which stands majestically at the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The statue has become a symbol of Tamil Nadu’s cultural identity – just as timeless as the revered text authored by Tiruvalluvar himself.
‘Rebuilding the Left Is Crucial to Stemming the Surge of Europe’s Far Right’: Europe has been lurching further to the right to the point that the far right has now become mainstream and normalized. Also: ‘European Parliament: Only the Left Can Stop the Far-Right’.
‘Housing, Not Handcuffs: The Moral Response to Homelessness’: The city of Grants Pass, Oregon, USA has outlawed resting or sleeping anywhere on public property with so much as a blanket to survive in cold weather, even when no beds in shelters were available. Also: ‘I Witnessed an Alternative to the U.S. Homelessness Crisis in Socialist Cuba’.
Nehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963. Three letters from “Letters for A Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers (1947-1963)”, edited by Madhav Khosla.
‘Who Does June 4 Belong to?’; ‘A New Dawn’: With no one party with a clear majority, it means a return to the days of more parliamentary influence on governance; ‘Results That Give Hindutva a Jolt’; ‘Voters Force Narendra Modi to Become a Labharthi of his Allies’.
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