How Not to Unite a Class: a Response to DSA’s Class Unity Caucus
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
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Annabhau Sathe: Revolutionary Poet, Novelist, Playwright and Social Reformer
Annabhau’s writings are about the struggles and qualities of the marginalized sections of society. He wanted to fuse Ambedkarism and Marxism. It is regrettable that Hindi translations of his works are not available even 50 years after his death.
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In Conversation with K. Veeramani
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.
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Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, Theorist, and Educator
Cabral, the leader of Guinea Bissau’s freedom struggle, was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins on January 20, 1973. He had become a widely influential theorist of decolonization and non-deterministic, creatively applied re-Africanization.
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Pilgrimage to India: When Martin Luther King Jr followed in Gandhi’s footsteps
After a month-long visit to India in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.
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Gandhi’s Ideas Against Use of Violence to Achieve Political Objectives Ring True Today
Violence stamps the body politic with its cloven hoof; it reduces isolated acts of resistance to spectacle and diminishes the political public to an audience.
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Why Are Adivasis Opposed to Vedanta’s Zinc Smelter Plant in South Gujarat?
The industrial unit, into which Vedanta will pump in an estimated Rs 10,000 crore in phases, is being set up despite opposition from local residents and members of the civil society over its environmental impacts; there are also problems in the way land for the project was allotted.
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The US Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic
Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages.
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The song of a caged bird: A tribute to Fr Stan Swamy
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system.
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Stan Swamy, the Guardian Angel of Social Movements in Jharkhand
One can find hundreds of committed and fearless activists, scholars and lawyers in the state who drew their inspiration from him.
