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The most prominent independent elected socialist in the U.S., Kshama Sawant, recently announced, that she and other members Socialist Alternative would be joining the Democratic Socialists of America. This is the important backdrop to this interview.
A new alliance called the ‘Groups of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations’ has formed in a clear act of resistance to the unilateral and aggressive policies of the United States and its junior partners.
Pakistan rights campaigners have taken exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks on the causes of sexual violence and rape, terming them factually incorrect, insensitive and dangerous.
The Egyptian feminist writer and activist (who was also a physician and psychiatrist) died on March 21 at the age of 89.
Eliot`s avant-garde leitmotif and “impersonality” theory structured the Waste Land; Nazrul`s Bidrohi is evidently more effusive and boisterous, suffused with the overabundant “I” that sustains the emotive poignance and rebellious self-assertion of the poem.
The novel was very effective in drawing attention to the injustices faced by displaced farmers in the wake of the great depression and the dust bowl phenomenon. We in India are all too familiar with this overwhelming reality of our times, and this is all the more reason for remembering this story.
Nations like individuals can only be made through the agony of the cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself – said Gandhi.
Sanctions – where the health and lives of people of some countries are treated as dispensable by the imperialist countries – are murder. They are an assault on the very foundations of any world where we seek to live, care, and love together. End the sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and other countries now.
Engels observed that because of the environmental and epidemiological conditions in the working class districts, disease and mortality rates are high there. He called it social murder. The current COVID-19 pandemic is related to social murder in several ways.
The Delhi government Bill and other legislative measures adopted by the Narendra Modi government and State governments headed by the BJP fit in well with the Sangh Parivar’s long-term project of dismantling the symbols and institutions considered anathema to the ‘Hindu ethos’.
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