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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
As part of the Vietnam War, US military sprayed more than 20 million gallons of herbicide on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia – the campaign destroyed five millions acres of forest and untold millions of acres of crops (including rice). It continues to impact these countries till today.
It has become fashionable to dismiss peaceful forms of resistance to injustice – but the evidence suggests they should be taken seriously. A response to some of the myths often repeated on the Left about non-violent struggle.
Cuba remains under intense attack by the Empire precisely because no other country in the world has contributed so much and in so many ways to the struggle against white supremacy and what it represents.
Not many Indian rulers have faced the wrath of historians as badly as the Mysore Tiger. He ranks way above the usually celebrated and worshipped personalities of ancient and medieval India in innovation, technological proclivity, secular outlook, social commitment and above all, patriotism.
Had he lived longer, Sukanta Bhattacharya could obviously have given us much more, but we should be grateful for what he left behind.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke on Nov. 8 at a rally of 100,000 in Glasgow: “The question we must now ask ourselves is: What is it that we are fighting for? Are we fighting to save ourselves and the living planet, or are we fighting to maintain business as usual?”
On 7 November, during the COP26 Coalition People’s Summit, the jury of ‘The People’s Tribunal: People and Nature vs the UNFCCC’ delivered this verdict on its failure to address a range of issues.
The Struggle now is not only to save the rights and livelihoods of people but also save the country’s economy and the entire democratic system and society from the destruction being engineered by the governing authoritarian forces with the active support of domestic and foreign private corporates.
In this interview, economist Dipa Sinha, who is actively involved with the Right to Food Campaign, explains why hunger is not an isolated concern but the result of a confluence of missteps.
The past week has seen two stalwarts of the Narendra Modi regime – National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat – make up new theories on the hoof to justify violations of the rule of law in the name of the greater good of the nation.
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