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Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article dissects various aspects of this campaign.
Heatwaves in the waters are reducing monsoonal rains over central India, while the rapid warming of the ocean’s northern portions is intensifying cyclones.
We need a socialist planned economy that can implement a long term plan to make the transformations that are needed for our very survival: a rapid transition off fossil fuels and a restoration of ecosystems to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, restore the water cycle and cool the climate.
The Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others that sprung up in response to Hugo Chávez’s call to build communes as “the basic cells of socialism.”
Like the subversiveness of the epic, Devy’s Mahabharata is responding to our contemporary crisis in a schizophrenic India that continues to be fed by Hindutva pride: to offer a corrective text in the times of mass euphoria as to what Bharat has to be.
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalized German revolutionary socialist; Manuela Sáenz fought by the side of Simón Bolívar to unify South America; Harriet Tubman fought during the US Civil War as a leader of Black and white troops fighting for freedom.
While Putin’s actions are a reaction to the events of the past three decades, they do not justify the invasion of Ukraine. Neither is the resurrection of the institutions of global militarism (such as NATO) justified, that have contributed so much to the creation of the problem. The popular movement for peace needs to be rekindled.
India is actually known as the disease capital of the world. It probably accounted for a quarter of the total corona pandemic deaths. The reason for India’s health crisis—which became so evident to everyone during the second covid wave—is the dismal state of our public health system.
The burning train on February 27, 2002 – and the lies and false narratives built around it – kept Narendra Modi in power in Gujarat, and started him on the road to becoming the prime minister of India.
Finally, the Nepali parliament has ratified the USD 500 million grant deal with US agency Millennium Challenge Corporation. This was preceded by massive protests by political parties that are opposing the government’s deal, viewing it as a threat to Nepal’s sovereignty.
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