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• Right-Wing Attempts to Undermine Gandhi

  8 February 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  Eric Hobswam famously stated that History is as important to (sectarianism) Nationalism as poppy is to an opium addict. The right-wing is surging with great speed; its ideologues keep a matching pace to construct the history which suits their political agenda of exclusion of some and glorification of their past. In this direction, medieval Indian history was the major one to be mauled by showing particularly that the medieval period of Indian history was an era of Islamic Imperialism and by (…)

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  Tribute to Tapan Bose | Sagari Chhabra

  8 February 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  Tapan Bose (8 June 1946

• On Student Protests of Late 2024 in Serbia | Ivaylo Dinev

  8 February 2025

  Serbia has been shaken in recent months by student-led protests. What began as an isolated demonstration to honour the dead and demand accountability after a railway station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad has quickly evolved into a mass movement that is presenting Aleksandar Vucic with his most severe test yet.
  In late 2024, students in Serbia initiated a wave of protests, leading to the occupation of university buildings, the blockade of schools, and demonstrations in cities across the (…)

• Donald Trump

  8 February 2025, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: With the 2024 US election came to an end, the global community must brace for potential shifts in American foreign policy particularly under a second Donald Trump Presidency. Trump

• Trump’s Dubious Plan for Dismembering Gaza | J P Gadkari

  8 February 2025, by J P Gadkari

  February 7, 2025
  As suspected at the back in his so-called innocent ’humanatarian’ pleas to the Govts of Arab nations in West Asia to take back more from millions of Palestinians refugees displaced from GAZA strip with brutal devastation wrought by the Israeli marauders, the U S Don Donald Trump has now come out with a "FINAL SOLUTION" to the festering problem of estabilising a legitimate PALESTINIAN nation.
  While casually referring to the GAZA resettlement problem in his White House (…)

• MAGA is just a populist pipedream | Anuradha Chenoy

  8 February 2025, by Anuradha M. Chenoy

  February 3, 2025
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  Remembering Michael Burawoy: A True Inspiration for 21st Century Sociologists | Jos Chathukulam

  8 February 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

  On February 3, 2025, Michael Burawoy (age 77 years), a world-renowned Marxist Sociologist, died in a road accident. He was hit by a car while walking near his home in Oakland, United States. Burawoy joined the Berkeley Sociology Department as an Assistant Professor in 1976, after earning a PhD in sociology. After 47 years of service, he retired in 2023. With the passing of Burawoy, the world has lost not only a prominent public intellectual and compassionate educator but also a scholar who (…)

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  Joint Statement by Left Parties with Alternative Proposals for Budget

  8 February 2025

  Press Release
  The leaders of the Left parties

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  MPs Letter to India’s Home Minister on the Naga Peace Process (Feb 3, 2025)

  8 February 2025
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  Joint Statement by Central Trade Unions on the 2025-2026 Budget

  8 February 2025

  Press Statement
  The following statement was released to the press by the platform of Central Trade Unions and independent Sectoral Federations/Associations on Budget 2025-2026 presented by the finance minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman. Pro-corporate Budget 2025-2026, shattering hopes of workers, farmers, unemployed youth, students and women No relief from price rise of essential commodities Job losses and jobless growth is the main direction. Trade Unions to organise Nationwide Protest on 5th (…)