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The institutional murder of 84-year-old Jesuit priest Fr Stan Swamy has shaken the very foundations of democracy in India. The urgency to defend democracy and all that is precious in the Constitution of India against repressive and anti-people laws, is perhaps felt today, as never before.
The recent death of Mangboilal Lhouvum, a daily wager, in Manipur, has yet again raised outcry against the AFSPA. It is therefore pertinent to re-visit the circumstances under which AFSPA is invoked and used, and the role and responsibility of state and central govts and the Armed Forces.
Success of the U.S. in its hybrid war against Cuba would be a huge step forward for the U.S. in its fight against national independence in Latin America and the world, and in the new cold war against China. And hence the situation in Cuba is the key to the situation in Latin America today.
A flagship commune in Venezuela responds to the US blockade by diversifying its production.
During the gloom of the early nineteenth century, Shelley’s rage against injustice and revolutionary ardour burned with an intensity perhaps unmatched in the history of art.
Was Gandhi a Mahatma or a mass leader who was a political strategist par excellence? Or is it wrong to even think in terms of such a dichotomy? Reflections on understanding a remarkable personality.
Writers, activists, former high court judges, educationists, former civil servants and other eminent citizens have written a stern note of opposition to the Union government’s Rs 1,200-crore plan to refurbish the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad into a “world class” memorial.
A party manifesto published by Scheduled Caste Federation (SCF) in 1951, authored by Ambedkar himself, is another testimony of his categorical cynicism against the RSS. It clearly argued, “The SCF will not have any alliance with any reactionary party such as Hindu Mahasabha or the RSS”.
Chokhamela’s 13th to 14th-century abhangas, and the songs of other Maharashtrian dalit-bahujan saint-poets from the Bhakti movement, offer a complex and crucial narrative to understand the inception and growth of resistance in future Dalit traditions and movements.
Report from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life. President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries”.
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