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The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage

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The war in Ukraine has already caused massive...

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In the post-Covid era, even while the deprivations...

The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’

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Environment

  • The Human Mania for Roadbuilding Is a Threat to the Great Apex Predator Species
    Jeffrey Dunnink | 25/05/2022
  • Birds— Humanity is Rapidly Losing Its Most Endearing Friends
    Bharat Dogra | 13/05/2022
  • Earth Day: Enemies and Opportunities
    Wes Jackson | 21/04/2022

Featured Stories

  • Ukraine Update: Ukraine Must Give Russia Territory, Says Henry Kissinger

    Ukraine Update: Ukraine Must Give Russia Territory, Says Henry Kissinger

    by Countercurrents Collective — 26/05/2022

    Ukraine conflict has now entered in the area of intensive diplomacy. Davos, now the seat of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is rich with Ukraine debate. Media reports said: Veteran U.S. statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the[Read More…]

  • Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail

    Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail

    by Press Release — 26/05/2022

    Dr. G.N. Saibaba, a 90% physical disabled person languishing in Nagpur central Jail started a hunger strike for the second time from Saturday 21st May 2022 seeking immediate resolution of his demands. Dr. G.N. Saibaba, also sat on hunger strike one and half years ago during lockdown in the jail demanding the immediate handover of medicines supplied by his family[Read More…]

  • The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage

    The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage

    by Michael T Klare — 26/05/2022

    The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and south. Many thousands of soldiers and civilians have already been killed or wounded, some 13 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes, and an estimated one-third of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed. Worse yet, that war’s brutal[Read More…]

  • Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics

    Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics

    by Dr Ramzy Baroud — 26/05/2022

    Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the world, and this particular coalition was born out of the obsessive desire to dethrone Israel’s former leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. While Netanyahu was successfully ousted in June 2021, Bennett’s coalition has been left to[Read More…]

  • The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’

    The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’

    by Press Release — 26/05/2022

    Ernakulam: The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’ at Kaloor, Ernakulam, Kerala. The conference’s main goals were to prepare the Muslim community for resisting fascism in India, engender the creative potentiality of youth for the wellbeing of society, and address the infliction of islamophobia[Read More…]

  • The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings

    The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings

    by Dr Binoy Kampmark — 26/05/2022

    Societies generate their own economies of tolerable cruelties and injustices.  Poverty, for instance, will be allowed, as long a sufficient number of individuals are profiting.  To an extent, crime and violence can be allowed to thrive.  In the United States, the economy of tolerable massacres, executed by military grade weapons, is considerable and seemingly resilient.  Its participants all partake in[Read More…]

  • Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world

    Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world

    by Irwin Jerome — 26/05/2022

    America continues to unleash unparalleled madness in the world. It’s the madness spawned by an all-consuming hatred against: Children, Women, Men, Black-Brown-White folks, Russians and Communists, Palestinians and Houthi, Nature, the Environment, Beauty and Life itself. It remains mindless, formless and knows only violence. The manufacturers of all this violence can be found permanently-embedded in every state of the American[Read More…]

  • Candlelight Vigil for Shireen 

    Candlelight Vigil for Shireen 

    by Phil Pasquini — 26/05/2022

    On the sidewalk at the entrance to the National Press Club a large crowd of journalists, Palestinians and their supporters held a candlelight vigil May 17 to honor the memory of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The popular 51-year-old Al Jazeera TV reporter while on assignment in the West Bank with her crew was slain less than a week ago in[Read More…]

  • RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MAY 15:  Palestinian refugee Mohamad Mahmoud Al-Arja, 80, from the Rafah refugee camp, holds up a key allegedly from his house in Beer AI-saba, now located in Israeli, during a rally May 15, 2007 the in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza strip. Palestinians are marking May 15, as Nakba Day or Catastrophe Day, as the 59th anniversary of the al-Nakba, the day the Israeli state was created in 1948.  (Photo by Getty Images)

    Long Marginalized, the ‘Right of Return’ is Once More a Palestinian Priority  

    by Dr Ramzy Baroud — 26/05/2022

    The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That real peace requires compromises and sacrifices, therefore, the original sin that has led to the destruction of their historic homeland should be entirely removed from any ‘pragmatic’ political discourse. They were[Read More…]

  • Ghetto America

    Ghetto America

    by Philip A Farruggio — 26/05/2022

    Kudos to the fine hit song by War entitled ‘ The World Is a Ghetto’ ( 1972). Again, as with so many other incidents, issues and complications within this empire, can you comprehend that this song, resonating so well now, was written 50 years ago? If anything, we have regressed further down that rabbit hole as I write this. Corporate[Read More…]

India

The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’

The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’

26/05/2022 — Press Release

Ernakulam: The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’ at Kaloor, Ernakulam, Kerala. The conference’s main goals were to prepare the Muslim community for resisting fascism in India, engender the creative potentiality of youth for the wellbeing of society, and address the infliction of islamophobia[Read More…]

  • Open letter to Sharda university Vice-Chancellor

    Open letter to Sharda university Vice-Chancellor

    25/05/2022 — Shamsul Islam
  • Rule by law is a threat to freedom

    Rule by law is a threat to freedom

    25/05/2022 — S G Vombatkere
  • Naxalbari must be resurrected in relevant form on 55th anniversary

    Naxalbari must be resurrected in relevant form on 55th anniversary

    25/05/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • Ban on Indian Wheat Exports Deprives income to Farmers But Profits Traders and Exporters

    Ban on Indian Wheat Exports Deprives income to Farmers But Profits Traders and Exporters

    25/05/2022 — Dr. Soma Marla

COVID Response Watch

Covid-hit Adivasis of MP under attack from communal forces

Covid-hit Adivasis of MP under attack from communal forces

25/05/2022 — Amit Sengupta

In the post-Covid era, even while the deprivations and despair of the pandemic and lockdowns continue, not only Muslims and Christians, Adivasis too are being systematically attacked by the Sangh Parivar front organizations, specifically in the BJP-ruled states. The latest brutal assaults in the rural area of Seoni district  in Madhya Pradesh is a pointer to these litany of atrocities[Read More…]

  • Despite Covid lessons India’s healthcare system remains dysfunctional

    Despite Covid lessons India’s healthcare system remains dysfunctional

    14/05/2022 — Shirish Khare
  • Forest rights violations under cover of Covid

    Forest rights violations under cover of Covid

    12/05/2022 — Amit Sengupta
  • Covid-19: When will the profiteering of private hospitals be curbed?

    Covid-19: When will the profiteering of private hospitals be curbed?

    04/05/2022 — Shirish Khare
  • Reincarnation of fraudulent data

    Reincarnation of fraudulent data

    01/05/2022 — Megha Singh

World

Ukraine Update: Ukraine Must Give Russia Territory, Says Henry Kissinger

Ukraine Update: Ukraine Must Give Russia Territory, Says Henry Kissinger

26/05/2022 — Countercurrents Collective

Ukraine conflict has now entered in the area of intensive diplomacy. Davos, now the seat of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is rich with Ukraine debate. Media reports said: Veteran U.S. statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the[Read More…]

  • Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics

    Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics

    26/05/2022 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings

    The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings

    26/05/2022 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world

    Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world

    26/05/2022 — Irwin Jerome
  • Candlelight Vigil for Shireen 

    Candlelight Vigil for Shireen 

    26/05/2022 — Phil Pasquini

Globalisation

Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

19/04/2022 — E Ahmet Tonak

by E Ahmet Tonak and Vijay Prashad An article written by authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg on March 24 sounded the alarm to announce the end of “the second great age of globalization.” The Western trade war and sanctions against China that predated the pandemic have now been joined by the stiff Western sanctions imposed against Russia after it[Read More…]

  • Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

    Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

    25/11/2021 — KV Biju
  • Is Globalization Leading to a Homogenized Global Culture?

    Is Globalization Leading to a Homogenized Global Culture?

    03/11/2021 — Rawsab Said
  • Captives of Coca-Cola

    Captives of Coca-Cola

    15/10/2021 — Stephen Shenfield
  • Globalization Meets Entropy…and We Lose

    Globalization Meets Entropy…and We Lose

    07/10/2021 — George Ochenski

Human Rights

Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail

Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail

26/05/2022 — Press Release

Dr. G.N. Saibaba, a 90% physical disabled person languishing in Nagpur central Jail started a hunger strike for the second time from Saturday 21st May 2022 seeking immediate resolution of his demands. Dr. G.N. Saibaba, also sat on hunger strike one and half years ago during lockdown in the jail demanding the immediate handover of medicines supplied by his family[Read More…]

  • Historic Supreme Court decision on sedition law

    Historic Supreme Court decision on sedition law

    12/05/2022 — Vikas Parashram Meshram
  • 10 day Ordeal of Jignesh Mewani Exposes Wider  Trend to Crush Democratic Dissent

    10 day Ordeal of Jignesh Mewani Exposes Wider  Trend to Crush Democratic Dissent

    01/05/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • Appeal to demand to end brutal police repression in Dhinkia

    Appeal to demand to end brutal police repression in Dhinkia

    28/04/2022 — Press Release
  • Re-arrest of Jignesh Mevani is a mockery of law

    Re-arrest of Jignesh Mevani is a mockery of law

    26/04/2022 — Hiren Gohain

Imperialism

Five Reasons Why Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction

Five Reasons Why Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction

10/05/2022 — William J Astore

Why has the United States already become so heavily invested in the Russia-Ukraine war? And why has it so regularly gotten involved, in some fashion, in so many other wars on this planet since it invaded Afghanistan in 2001?  Those with long memories might echo the conclusion reached more than a century ago by radical social critic Randolph Bourne that “war is the[Read More…]

  • The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About

    The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About

    26/04/2022 — Nick Turse
  • In this April 3, 1968, file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his last public appearance at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. (Photo: AP/Charles Kelly, File)

    American Militarism, A Persistent Malady

    15/04/2022 — Andrew Bacevich
  • US Soldiers Massacre Filipinos in 1906 Philippines

    America’s Concealed Past, Condemned Future

    12/04/2022 — Brian Victoria
  • Starting from Idlib, Syria: A Trail of Tears and Bombs

    Starting from Idlib, Syria: A Trail of Tears and Bombs

    08/04/2022 — George Capaccio

Communal Harmony

Aligarh (Muslim University) – Legacy of Hindu-Muslim Amity

Aligarh (Muslim University) – Legacy of Hindu-Muslim Amity

30/04/2022 — Abdulrahim P Vijapur

Aligarh city in Uttar Pradesh is known for two things – the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the lock manufacturing industries. Aligarh is a university town, notable as the seat of AMU, which was founded here as Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College in 1975, initiating the Aligarh Movement. Sir Hamilton Gibb, who was an eminent Scottish Orientalist from England who taught[Read More…]

  • Historical trauma, mourning and majoritarianism: Psycho-social explorations

    Historical trauma, mourning and majoritarianism: Psycho-social explorations

    24/04/2022 — Rakesh Shukla
  • Goa must rein in the communal tinderbox

    Goa must rein in the communal tinderbox

    19/04/2022 — Dr Ranjan Solomon
  • There can be no bigger harm to national welfare than disturbing inter-faith harmony

    There can be no bigger harm to national welfare than disturbing inter-faith harmony

    19/04/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam: Uniting India

    Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam: Uniting India

    05/01/2022 — Dr Ram Puniyani

Climate Change

The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage

The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage

26/05/2022 — Michael T Klare

The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and south. Many thousands of soldiers and civilians have already been killed or wounded, some 13 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes, and an estimated one-third of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed. Worse yet, that war’s brutal[Read More…]

  • India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die

    India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die

    25/05/2022 — Robert Hunziker
  • The Biomass Peril

    The Biomass Peril

    25/05/2022 — Robert Hunziker
  • As the Planet Warms, Let’s Be Clear: We Are Sacrificing Lives for Profits

    As the Planet Warms, Let’s Be Clear: We Are Sacrificing Lives for Profits

    14/05/2022 — Sonali Kolhatkar
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    Droughts Up 29% In A Generation And World At A Crossroads, Says UN

    12/05/2022 — Countercurrents Collective

Environmental Protection

The Human Mania for Roadbuilding Is a Threat to the Great Apex Predator Species

The Human Mania for Roadbuilding Is a Threat to the Great Apex Predator Species

25/05/2022 — Jeffrey Dunnink

Tigers and leopards are among the 10 apex predators most threatened by the world’s roads. Designed for speed and efficiency, roadways across the globe are effectively killing wildlife whose futures are intrinsically linked to the future of the planet: apex predators, those species including big cats like tigers and leopards who sit at the top of the food chain and[Read More…]

  • Birds— Humanity is Rapidly Losing Its Most Endearing Friends

    Birds— Humanity is Rapidly Losing Its Most Endearing Friends

    13/05/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • Earth Day: Enemies and Opportunities

    Earth Day: Enemies and Opportunities

    21/04/2022 — Wes Jackson
  • From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring   

    From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring   

    18/04/2022 — Colin Todhunter
  • Sham of Public Hearing in Mali Parbat

    Sham of Public Hearing in Mali Parbat

    16/04/2022 — Devendra and Arjun

Counter Solutions

How Small Farms Are Reclaiming Culture in Palestine

How Small Farms Are Reclaiming Culture in Palestine

25/05/2022 — April M Short

Palestinians are organizing CSA programs and small farms to become food sovereign and protect their culture against colonialism. Food sovereignty is an urgent issue in communities around the world, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic led to further disruptions in the already fragile global food supply chains. In Palestine, where traditional farming has been a way of life for millennia (and perhaps where farming began, according[Read More…]

  • How People Can Change the World—JEPESD Path of Social Movements

    How People Can Change the World—JEPESD Path of Social Movements

    04/05/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • We Cannot Adequately Resist Without Reimagining the World We Want

    We Cannot Adequately Resist Without Reimagining the World We Want

    30/04/2022 — Greta Zarro
  • Localization and Local Futures: The Alternative to the Authoritarian New Normal

    Localization and Local Futures: The Alternative to the Authoritarian New Normal

    26/04/2022 — Colin Todhunter
  • Pandemic Blues

    Pandemic Blues

    14/04/2022 — Suprabha Seshan

Resource Crisis

The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis

The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis

03/10/2021 — T Vijayendra

ABSTRACT This is a response to the two sets of articles written by Sajai Jose on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the world’s and India’s hunger crisis. It is in two parts. In the first part it lays the historical background of the response of capital in the face of periodic crises it faces and people’s response to it.[Read More…]

  • Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

    Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

    12/09/2021 — Sean Sweeney
  • The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

    The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

    09/09/2021 — Priti Gulati Cox
  • Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction

    15/06/2021 — Don Fitz
  • Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

    Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

    20/05/2021 — Michael T Klare

Patriarchy

Living room as a space of feminist solidarity

Living room as a space of feminist solidarity

18/04/2022 — Ravneet Param

Didi kabhi shadi mat karna (Didi, never get married). Durga’s voice reverberated in the house during our morning ritual of chatting over a cup of piping hot tea. Durga, one of the thousands or probably lakhs of immigrants from Bihar, helps me with household chores. Mine is the first house she comes to in the morning, primarily because I have[Read More…]

  • Marital Rape Exception: Have women control of their own bodies? What Hindu scriptures say!

    Marital Rape Exception: Have women control of their own bodies? What Hindu scriptures say!

    07/04/2022 — Sankara Narayanan
  • Asexuality- An Emerging Identity

    Asexuality- An Emerging Identity

    05/04/2022 — Aadya Sain
  • Mainstream feminism and the paradox of women’s emancipation

    Mainstream feminism and the paradox of women’s emancipation

    19/03/2022 — Malavika Pradhan
  • Gender roles and their Blurred Envision       

    Gender roles and their Blurred Envision       

    11/03/2022 — Madhubrota Chatterjee

Palestine

RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MAY 15:  Palestinian refugee Mohamad Mahmoud Al-Arja, 80, from the Rafah refugee camp, holds up a key allegedly from his house in Beer AI-saba, now located in Israeli, during a rally May 15, 2007 the in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza strip. Palestinians are marking May 15, as Nakba Day or Catastrophe Day, as the 59th anniversary of the al-Nakba, the day the Israeli state was created in 1948.  (Photo by Getty Images)

Long Marginalized, the ‘Right of Return’ is Once More a Palestinian Priority  

26/05/2022 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That real peace requires compromises and sacrifices, therefore, the original sin that has led to the destruction of their historic homeland should be entirely removed from any ‘pragmatic’ political discourse. They were[Read More…]

  • The long road to Palestine, A prisoner in my home!

    The long road to Palestine, A prisoner in my home!

    25/05/2022 — Dr Salim Nazzal
  • Where is the Rabbi? Shireen Abu Akleh’s Via Dolorosa

    Where is the Rabbi? Shireen Abu Akleh’s Via Dolorosa

    16/05/2022 — Rima Najjar
  •  74th Anniversary of the Nakba at the Lincoln Memorial

     74th Anniversary of the Nakba at the Lincoln Memorial

    16/05/2022 — Phil Pasquini
  • The second wave of the Zionist arrests

    The second wave of the Zionist arrests

    16/05/2022 — Dr Salim Nazzal

South Asia

Remembering the burning of Jaffna public library – 41 years on

Remembering the burning of Jaffna public library – 41 years on

25/05/2022 — Kumarathasan Rasingam

On midnight 31st May 1981, the Jaffna Public Library, famous for being the crucible of Tamil literature and heritage, was set ablaze by Sri Lankan security forces and state-sponsored mobs. The burning has since been marked by Eelam Tamils as an act of genocide. This was one of the most heinous ethnic-based book burnings of the twentieth century. The library[Read More…]

  • India`s non-engagement in Afghanistan and its implications

    India`s non-engagement in Afghanistan and its implications

    25/05/2022 — Dr Rahul Kumar
  • The crisis in Sri Lanka: Exploited for regime changes in South Asia?

    The crisis in Sri Lanka: Exploited for regime changes in South Asia?

    12/05/2022 — Ramakrishnan
  • An ignored genocide of Tamils at Mullivaikkal in Sri Lanka on 18th May 2009

    An ignored genocide of Tamils at Mullivaikkal in Sri Lanka on 18th May 2009

    12/05/2022 — Thambu Kanagasabai
  • Sri Lanka in Deepening Turmoil: Between Crisis and Opportunities

    Sri Lanka in Deepening Turmoil: Between Crisis and Opportunities

    11/05/2022 — K M Seethi

Annihilate Caste

Dalit Sikhs gather for a protest in New Delhi. AP Photo/ R S Iyer

Caste doesn’t just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora

25/05/2022 — Aseem Hasnain

by Aseem Hasnain and Abhilasha Srivastava The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing students, staff and faculty across its 23 campuses to report caste bias and discrimination. CSU’s move has drawn a sharp response from some in the Indian diaspora: About 80 faculty members of[Read More…]

  • Incineration of Nathapur Dalits’ Hutment  a barbaric act

    Incineration of Nathapur Dalits’ Hutment  a barbaric act

    04/05/2022 — Debi Prasanna Rath
  • Dalit panchayat presidents face brazen discrimination in Tamilnadu, after a century of Periyarist politics

    Dalit panchayat presidents face brazen discrimination in Tamilnadu, after a century of Periyarist politics

    15/04/2022 — Ramakrishnan
  • Caste and Constitution: Revisiting Ambedkar

    Caste and Constitution: Revisiting Ambedkar

    13/04/2022 — Sargam Sanil
  • Right to Access Public Space

    Right to Access Public Space

    13/04/2022 — Deepak Kumar

Life/Philosophy

Justice Ajit Singh Bains’ birth centenary celebrated in Greater Vancouver

Justice Ajit Singh Bains’ birth centenary celebrated in Greater Vancouver

25/05/2022 — Press Release

South Asian activists came together to mark the 100th birthday of a towering human rights defender of Punjab, at Strawberry Hill Library in Surrey on Sunday, May 22. The late Ajit Singh Bains passed away on February 11, leaving a rich legacy of tireless work for social justice. He would have turned 100 on May 14. Bains, a retired judge,[Read More…]

  • Tribute to Bertrand Russell on 150th birth anniversary  

    Tribute to Bertrand Russell on 150th birth anniversary  

    25/05/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • How we Treat Our Disabled : Our Not so Hidden Shame

    How we Treat Our Disabled : Our Not so Hidden Shame

    14/05/2022 — Shantanu Dutta
  • Remembering Inge Deutschkron, a Force of Nature Holocaust Survivor

    Remembering Inge Deutschkron, a Force of Nature Holocaust Survivor

    12/05/2022 — Evelyn Leopold
  • Story of a revolutionary mom, India’s mainstream media won’t tell

    Story of a revolutionary mom, India’s mainstream media won’t tell

    11/05/2022 — Gurpreet Singh

Arts/Literature

Three Great Poems by Narayan Surve – Poetic Portraits of Repressed and Helpless Women

Three Great Poems by Narayan Surve – Poetic Portraits of Repressed and Helpless Women

25/05/2022 — Vasanti Gokhale

Three great poems By Narayan Surve, which take leap into the Inner Psychic – Mental World and expresses the Inner turmoil of the Toiling, Repressed, deprived, outcast Women who have lost everything. The Poetic narrations have deep impact on Listeners and readers and profusely disturb them. Narayan Surve (15th October 1926 to 16th August 2010) can be counted as one[Read More…]

  • A Phallic Country

    A Phallic Country

    25/05/2022 — Moumita Alam
  • Great Bigots Think Alike: Indian Muslima to the Establishment

    Great Bigots Think Alike: Indian Muslima to the Establishment

    11/05/2022 — Mujeeb Jaihoon
  • Saikat Majumdar talks about his new novel – The Middle Finger

    Saikat Majumdar talks about his new novel – The Middle Finger

    11/05/2022 — Shoma A Chatterji
  • The Return

    The Return

    01/05/2022 — Mini Babu

Book Review

 Review: “Time For Socialism” By Thomas Piketty – Climate Action & Sharing Limited Resources

 Review: “Time For Socialism” By Thomas Piketty – Climate Action & Sharing Limited Resources

13/05/2022 — Dr Gideon Polya

French economist Thomas Piketty’s latest West-oriented book “Time for Socialism” is about worsening wealth inequality in an ever worsening global climate crisis. His solutions for Western economies include a just and progressive income tax, wealth taxes, carbon taxes, and economic justice for the poor and the young. Because capital begets more capital he argues for a  big grant to 25[Read More…]

  • Homo Sapiens?

    Homo Sapiens?

    12/05/2022 — John Scales Avery
  • Review of Professor Joma Sison’s books  ‘Peoples War’ and ‘Imperialism in Turmoil, Socialism in prospect’

    Review of Professor Joma Sison’s books  ‘Peoples War’ and ‘Imperialism in Turmoil, Socialism in prospect’

    11/05/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • Unvanquished – The fight beyond justice by Dr Jonaki Mukherjee

    Unvanquished – The fight beyond justice by Dr Jonaki Mukherjee

    05/05/2022 — Shoma A Chatterji
  • The Chidananda Dasgupta Best Book Award to Vidyarthy Chatterjee’s book on Calcutta and the Joshy Joseph Trilogy

    The Chidananda Dasgupta Best Book Award to Vidyarthy Chatterjee’s book on Calcutta and the Joshy Joseph Trilogy

    04/05/2022 — Shoma A Chatterji

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