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Chitra Padmanabhan In The Black Jacobins, a classic work on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803)—the only successful slave revolt in history, which erupted in the wake of the French Revolution—C.L.R. James describes a fascinating moment in the confrontation between Napoleon’s army and the slaves of the colony: “The soldiers still thought of themselves as…
Mala Jay India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) could trigger the “largest statelessness crisis in the world and cause widespread human suffering”, a powerful group of 154 European Parliament members have warned. In a scathing denouncement of CAA, the lawmakers have drafted a formal five-page resolution to be tabled during the plenary session of…
Badri Raina It is said that the way to hell is paved with good intentions. But did you ever imagine that the way to heaven may, conversely, be paved with not-so-good intentions? However the government of the day may protest that there has been no nefarious intent behind the discriminatory provisions of the…
G.G. Parekh, Neeraj Jain The ruling Modi–Shah duo led BJP government’s attempts to make alternations in the Indian Constitution have sparked off protests across the country, protests which are unique in the sense that it is the first time since Independence that people are coming out on the streets to defend the Constitution. In…
The budget for 2020 is due. We have argued in articles published in Janata that imposition of a progressive wealth tax ranging from 2% on India’s dollar millionaires to 5% on India’s dollar billionaires would yield at least Rs 8 lakh crore in additional income for the government. Additionally, imposition of a modest…
Michael Lebowitz interviewed by editors of Hak Mücadeleleri HM: Let’s start with your ideas about rethinking Marx, capital’s logic, and the logic of the working class? And how we can relate these subjects with today’s social movements? ML: For some time, I have argued that Marx did not develop theoretically the side of…
Debasish Bhattacharjee Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC….
Subodh Varma In case you have been wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been so silent of late, not uttering a word about the CAA/NRC protests and police killings or the continuing horror in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University or the stream of numbers showing how the economy is in shambles, here is the…
Amitava Bandyopadhyay The process of preparation of the National Register of Citizens or NRC may declare a true citizen an illegal immigrant or fail to detect a non-citizen. Erroneously classifying a bona fide citizen as illegal immigrant is called ‘false positive’ and failure to identify a non-citizen is called ‘false negative’. While false negatives…
Abdul Alim Jafri, Chandni Doulatramani and Ruchika Goswamy Shaheen Bagh in Allahabad via Kanpur Inspired by the resilient women of New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, whose month-long resistance against the CAA and NRC is making waves, large groups of women began a sit-in protest at Mansoor Ali Park of Roshan Bagh in Uttar Pradesh’s…
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