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‘For Cuban People, Surrender is Not an Option’: Once again, Cubans have reaffirmed their commitment to the revolution and their creative resistance in the face of the latest US attacks. Also: ‘The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against U.S. Imperialism’; ‘Will Cuba Survive?’; ‘5 Cuban Women Resistance Stories That Defy U.S. Blockade Brutality’.
The filmmaker explains that in Venezuela the Bolivarian revolution is not just about leaders like Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, but about popular participation through grassroots structures called “communes” and “municipalities.” These are democratic bodies where ordinary people organize, decide, and manage local projects.
Six Palestine Action activists who broke into an Israeli arms factory in the UK have been acquitted or not convicted of all charges against them.
Marx’s concept of alienation is a crucial idea that bridges his early philosophical work with his mature critique of political economy. The development of this concept emerged, for Marx, as a necessary way to think about the limitations of purely political and religious movements for freedom.
‘After the Headlines Fade: Gaza Abandoned While the Genocide Persists’; ‘What Does Israel Want from Renewed Attacks on Gaza? Analysts Explain the Political Calculus’; ‘Who Are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab’; ‘Freedom for Some, Silence for Others: What You Need to Know About Palestinian Hostages Held by Israel, and Ignored by the World’.
The American ruling class is wallowing in political, social, legal, and moral degradation. The Epstein scandal holds up a mirror to itself.
‘The Eternal Gandhi’: Amidst a Bid to Tarnish His Legacy, the Mahatma Endures. Also: ‘Now Is a Good Time to Be Concerned About the Truth and Non-Violence’; and ‘Decoding the RSS Hypocrisy of Respecting Gandhi’.
‘India’s Courts Are Echoing the Intolerance of its Ruling Party, its Affiliates, and State They Are Remaking in Their Image’: India’s criminal-justice system is inverting the presumption of innocence and Constitutional principles to align with the majoritarian ideology of the ruling BJP. Also: ‘Mohammad Deepak Kumar, Shaila Negi, and the Idea of India’.
The lecture examines the erosion of constitutional morality, the weakening of parliamentary democracy and the growing centralisation of power in India’s political system.
‘India’s Budget 2026-2027 Overlooks Poor and Jobless, Instead Has Sops for Private Sector’; ‘Union Budget 2026-27: A Road to Nowhere’; ‘Union Government Is Still Taxing Individuals More Than Corporations’; ‘Budget 2026-27: Four Key Ministries That Shape Jobs, Health and Education in India’; ‘Budget 2026-27: If India Borrows More to Spend, Why Does it Deliver Less Welfare?’.
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