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Throughout the 2019 election campaign, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah made it a point to announce that if his party is re-elected, it will ensure passage of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill. The Bill allows refugees belonging to virtually all religions except Islam to acquire citizenship in India. At the same time, he coupled…
(This article was written before the election results were announced on May 23. The figures that have been released by the Modi Government 2.0, and some of its policy decisions, more than bear out the analysis done in this article, so we are publishing it.) The Index of Industrial Production has for the first time…
The draft National Education Policy (2019) is right in emphasising what it calls “liberal” higher education but the manner in which it redefines the term robs it of its very essence. The increased privatisation of higher education, and the handing over of its vision, provision and delivery largely to private hands are features that have…
Text of a speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the May Day rally held in Revolution Square on May 1, 2003 (Note from Editors: Speech has been edited by us for reasons of space.) Distinguished guests, Dear fellow Cubans: Our heroic people have struggled for 44 years…
The Trump administration’s hostility toward our country seems to have no end. Yesterday (June 4, 2019), the US Treasury Department added to sanctions announced April 17, and the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, the prohibition of “people to people” cultural and educational trips, plus other restrictions on travel and transportation services, remittances,…
Right from the outset, the role of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) within the Indian National Congress (INC) was a debatable one. However on the eve of independence the relationship between the two became incompatable on several issues. For this reason both parties decided to part ways. The present paper deals with rightist–socialist relations alongwith…
Press Statement by Presidium, AIFRTE All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) unequivocally condemns the dastardly threats to the life and liberty of noted academic and former Professor of IIT Mumbai, and a leading figure in the movement for defence of civil liberties, Dr. Ram Puniyani. The articles, lectures and books of Dr. Puniyani,…
June 3, 2019: With the city of London effectively on “lockdown” in anticipation of the protests—complete with the now-famous Trump Baby Blimp—that are expected to flood the city’s streets on Tuesday (June 4), US President Donald Trump touched down in the United Kingdom on Monday, June 3, for his first state visit shortly after tweeting…
Interview with Rodolfo Machaca Yupanqui [As the general elections in Bolivia are approaching and the campaign for socialist president Evo Morales is gaining vigour, Peoples Dispatch interviewed Rodolfo Machaca Yupanqui, the leader of the Unified Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers Union (CSUTCB). The CSUTCB is the largest peasants’ union in Bolivia. Since 1967, it has…
Courtesy: Indian Cultural Forum On May 25, 2019, two days after sweeping back to power, Prime Minister Modi made a speech at the Central Hall of Parliament. He said, “We belong to those who voted for us and with those who consider us their enemy.” He spoke of minorities living in fear, but claimed that…
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