A Lesson for Our Times
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage.
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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage.
Hurricane Melissa is the strongest hurricane to hit Cuba in the last 150 years. As of now, no lives were lost in Cuba, and that is due to its national unity and preparedness that was able to evacuate over 700,000 people and their belongings out of harm’s way before the storm arrived.
5 November 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Operación Carlota, Cuba’s internationalist mission in southern Africa, which was pivotal in securing Angola and Namibia’s independence and hastening the fall of apartheid South Africa.
‘Freedom Fighter Dr. G G Parikh Passes Away’; ‘Reliving with Gandhiji – Our Days with GG’; G.G. Parikh: A Short Biographical Note.
In this long interview taken last year when he turned 100, the freedom fighter spoke about his experiences during the freedom movement, his work at the Yusuf Meherally Centre and life as a Gandhian Socialist.
The authentic reaffirmation of Gandhi is to resist neo-fascism and reclaim the Constitution and the republic, before those who once pulled the trigger on him succeed in pulling the trigger on India itself.
‘Rebuilding Nepal’; ‘Nepal’s Gen-Z Movement and the Ghostly Afterlives of Revolution’; ‘Nepal: Turbulence and Disquiet’.
‘Gen Z Uprising? Protests in Paraguay Against the Peña Government’; ‘Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay Forces Peña’s Government to Back Down’; ‘Peru: The Invented Country of Dina Boluarte’; ‘Peru: Amid Mass Protests, Congress Ousts De Facto President Dina Boluarte’; ‘Authoritarianism, Austerity, Repression, and False Narratives: The Crisis in Ecuador’; ‘Congress Overturns Milei’s Vetoes: Victory for Healthcare and Education’.
Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute—and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.
‘A Fugitive’s Freedom: Assata Shakur’s Exile in Cuba’; ‘“You Whisper to Us”: Racial Justice Activists and Artists Honor Assata’s Legacy’: Assata Shakur’s passing unleashed a flowering of hope that the freedom she fought for could one day be real for us all.
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