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  Provide Immediate Cash Transfers and Free Rations - Statement by Left Parties on 30 May 2020

  6 June
  DOCUMENT
  May 30, 2020
  Press Statement
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc have issued the following  (...)

• Central Vista enshrines the history of the nation’s most central institutions | Swapna Liddle

  6 June
  A Place in our History
  by Swapna Liddle, MAY 24 2020
  When the British government first considered transferring the capital of their Raj from Calcutta to Delhi, they knew that it would be an unpopular decision among powerful British commercial  (...)

• Babri Masjid, Ram Janmbhumi and Buddhist Relics | Ram Puniyani

  6 June
  by Ram Puniyani Country is under lockdown. Most of the activities related to production and construction have come to a standstill barring few. One such is the construction of the Ram temple. The path for this has been cleared by the Supreme  (...)

• Why the Wren is a Patriot and not a Nationalist

  6 June, by Badri Raina
  Here is how the sight of a wren, the smallest of birds in creation, fighting to protect her little nest from an intruding hawk taught me the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
  As she unleashed the fury of her miniscule wings  (...)

• Dissident movements within the Eastern bloc aspired to genuine socialism | Catherine Samary

  6 June

  One of the received ideas that became a ‘truth’ after the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the Soviet bloc’s populations cursed communism, yet obeyed it slavishly. In fact, many social movements within the Eastern bloc had long aspired to genuine socialism.

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  Statement by Indian Feminists On The Police Violence That Killed George Floyd

  6 June
  DOCUMENT
  We, feminists in India, strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd, an African-American, by a white officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, and express our deep solidarity with the people’s resistance against police violence  (...)
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  USA: Police Failing to Ensure Right to Protest, Endangering Lives - Statement by Amnesty International USA

  6 June
  Amnesty International – USA
  For Immediate Release
  Sunday, May 30, 2020
  WASHINGTON - Rachel Ward, National Director of Research at Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), issued the following statement about the police response in cities nationwide to  (...)

• They could never breathe | Sukumaran C.V.

  6 June
  by Sukumaran C.V.
  George Floyd, an innocent African American, was killed in the night of May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, by a white police man pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck. Floyd was not even the suspect the police man suspected him to be!  (...)

• Time to think about the history of Hand Washing | Jos Chathukulam

  6 June
  by Jos Chathukulam
  By now most of us have become very vigilant about washing our hands with soap or sanitizers as it is widely touted as an effective strategy to contain the spread of the novel Coronavirus. As the world grapples with the deadly  (...)

• In My Own Voice: The Great Migration

  6 June, by Sagari Chhabra
  By now all of us have broken our hearts and moved between rage and despair at the merciless way in which our people are walking for miles back to their villages without adequate food, water or shelter. The two year old child pulling the sheet  (...)

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