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Historic Significance of October Revolution
8 November 2011, by Randhir Singh[(On November 7 this year falls the ninetyfourth anniversary of the historic October Revolution that changed the face of Russia and led to the birth of the USSR three years later. Remembering that Revolution we are reproducing excerpts from the (...) -
Asia - Pacific: Russia’s Evolving Strategy
8 November 2011, by Benjamin ToddStriking a course distinctly different from its pro-West orientation as well as US and Europe-centric approach during Boris Yeltsin’s steward-ship of the country, Russia today is paying considerable attention to participation in the Asia-Pacific (...) -
Light and Shade
5 November 2011, by SCLibyan strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s gruesome end oustide Sirte in the morning of October 20 was the most noteworthy event on the international front in the last few days. While the precise manner of his killing is still shrouded in mystery (...) -
India’s Moment of Truth in Afghanistan
5 November 2011, by M K BhadrakumarRecently I read an extraordinary book on Afghanistan, Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles. Sir Sherard had everything going for him as a career diplomat in the British Foreign Service (...) -
Who Selects Whom and How!
5 November 2011COMMUNICATION
During the recent impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha, some members did a little loud thinking about the mechanism for selection of judges of the High Courts. Decades ago, in course of an endowment lecture at the Ambedkar (...) -
Censoring Ramanujan’s Essay on Ramayana
5 November 2011by DILEEP PADGAONKAR
Nothing straight can ever emerge from the crooked timber of a parochial mind. Those responsible for the decision to drop A.K. Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana from Delhi University’s undergraduate Arts course argue in (...) -
Meaning of ’Occupy Wall Street’
5 November 2011, by Bharat JhunjhunwalaThe common man of the developed countries is agitated. Hundreds are camping in a park across the Wall Street which houses the New York Stock Exchange. People are holding demons-trations at City Square in Melbourne and in front of the Reserve (...) -
Protests Erupt in over 1500 Cities Worldwide
5 November 2011FROM TAHRIR SQUARE TO TIMES SQUARE
The following piece appeared in ML Update, the weekly newsmagazine of the CPI-ML (Liberation), in its October 18-24, 2011 issue and is being reproduced from there with due acknowledgement.
Tens of thousands (...) -
Capitalism, Republicans, and the American Spring
5 November 2011, by Eddie J Girdner“Help! Thief! I´ve been robbed, I´ve been robbed by the capitalists and the government!” ‘’There aint but two sides, the workers side and the big bosses side.’’ —Woody Guthrie
This cry is being heard more and more around the cities and capitals of the (...) -
Time to beat Swords into Ploughshares
5 November 2011, by Uttam SenThe striking aspect of the European financial crisis on the heels of the American was corroboration that the asymmetry which had erupted in the First World War was being played back. To some the causality of the periodic rises and falls of the (...)
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