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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Today when we say “Black Lives Matter!” we are echoing the calls of countless warriors before us – starting from the uprising led by Nat Turner – and claiming that tradition as our present and future.
This week’s work stoppage in professional sports is the most significant moment of athlete activism in a half century not because it “raised awareness”, but because it exercised labor’s most elemental form of political power: the strike.
Capping a week of protests, thousands of protestors gathered in Washington D.C., on 28 August to protest yet another police shooting of a black man in Kenosha – the day also marked the 1963 March on Washington.
Lawrence Britt has identified fourteen signs of fascism by analyzing the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Suharto and Pinochet. Do the speeches and actions of PM Modi not remind us of Britt’s characterisation of fascism?
Protest has been contained simply because the state has become a large jail. Locking up everyone can be a strategy to fight crime, but with everyone in, on whose behalf are you fighting crime, anyway?
Hate is very much alive in India. This is what we need to remember, on August 25, the day of remembrance of the anti-Christian pogrom in Kandhamal.
The week-long Janta Parliament concluded on August 26 with a three hour working session between the Janata Parliament and representatives of political parties.
The Delhi police’s prosecutions of the anti-CAA protestors reminds of the British days; and, an Amnesty International report on the riots accuses Delhi police of violence, serious rights violations.
Centre refuses to transfer GST dues to states. Seven chief ministers express concern about the assault on federal structure, misuse of central agencies, financial injustice, etc.
Thousands of Cuban medics have gone to several countries at great risk to their lives to save the lives of Covid patients there. What better way to recognise the heroism of Cuban doctors than awarding them the Nobel Prize?
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