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Leonard C. Goodman The most important stories of the year for those who care about a free press involve the arrest of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy at the request of the US government, and the rearrest of the whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, a website that publishes…
Katrina Kozarek Another issue that the commune must take on is a commerce which is different from capitalist trade, a popular, fair, solidary commercial activity, one that doesn’t rob our neighbours, or the people. Because capitalism is a savage commerce, which inflates everything. No. You have to set a fair, solidarity prices… a new…
Roger Harris A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against…
Chandrasekhar Azad Ravan “Jai Bhim! This is a bigger fight. CAA and NRC will break this country and we are standing with this nation. This fight is not just of the Muslims, this is a fight for everyone, and we will not let it weaken. I’m surrendering to the government, but I say this,…
Based on articles by Prabir Purkayastha, Sushovan Sircar and Yogesh S. On December 22, PM Narendra Modi, addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election rally in Delhi, stated that there has been no discussion around the word NRC ever since the formation of his government in 2014. As per records, this again isn’t true….
Bharat Dogra The week December 16–22 has a very special significance in the history of the freedom movement in India. During this week in 1927, four extremely brave and exceptionally talented revolutionary freedom fighters were executed by the colonial government. Ramprasad Bismil was hanged in Gorakhpur, Ashfaqullah Khan in Faizabad, Rajindernath Lahiri in…
Apoorvanand ‘The protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University have given the Bharatiya Janata Party something it always wanted. Now it has become easier for them to term the opposition to the Act as sectarian, communal and essentially Muslim.’ This is the lament of many well-wishers of…
Courtesy: Indian Cultural Forum On Monday, 9th December, around midnight, the Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, and two days later, the Rajya Sabha too gave its approval, setting into action the Sangh Parivar vision of apartheid. This bill fundamentally changes the Citizenship Act 1955 to expedite the process of naturalisation for…
Sidharth Bhatia Over the last few years, the brutal years of Hitler’s reign have often been invoked to compare the situation in India now with Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ‘40s. Memes showing Narendra Modi as Hitler and the RSS as modern day Nazis are popular and were seen on many placards during…
Gawain Little Last night, Labour suffered a stunning election defeat, losing seats in its traditional heartlands and handing a substantial majority to a hard-right Tory government. Cue the multitude of voices clamouring for Jeremy Corbyn to resign, holding him solely responsible for the result, calling for a shift to the back to the…
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