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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘Africa Will Be Free When the IMF Stops Colluding to Steal its Wealth’: Freedom for Africa can only come when the people of Africa assert sovereign control over their own resources and emancipate themselves from the indignities of capitalism and imperialism. Also: ‘No African Development from Western Trade Policies’.
The fight for farmers’ rights and farmers’ seeds is clearly a fight for power. That power needs to be built at the grassroots community level. It will not come from laws and state apparatuses that farmers may never control.
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.
The second part of a lecture on the Great Terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. This part focusses on the terror in the Comintern, which was initially built as a revolutionary world party.
‘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.
‘Cuba: How a Tiny Island Defies U.S. Sanctions to Lead in Healthcare’; ‘New Cuban Report Confirms U.S. Blockade is War’: Cuba’s annual report on adverse effects of the lengthy U.S. economic blockade of Cuba.
Afro-Venezuelans discuss syncretism, anti-colonial resistance, and community organization on the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. The second and final instalment of a two-instalment article.
Last year in France, Gisèle Pelicot decided that the trial of the 51 men who raped her would take place in open court, rather than in closed session. The horrific evidence prodded French lawmakers to finally move to change the definition of rape after years of unsuccessful struggle by activists.
Mahatma Gandhi saw justice and equity as indivisible from non-violence, linking mass politics with social reconstruction. Though often dismissed, his focus on khadi highlights democracy’s deeper task—building a non-violent social order by addressing enduring inequities through steady work.
Israel’s war minister, Israel Katz, declared: “Gaza is burning.” His words were not a battlefield report. They were a boast—almost celebratory—as though the incineration of a city, a gas chamber for a million human beings, were what defined Israel’s notion of military achievement.
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