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• The changing face of employment in the 21st century | Upal Chakraborty

  4 January 2025, by Upal Chakraborty

  There are developments in the global economy where established, time-tested models are going for a toss and right inside the heart of global capitalism

• Who killed Judge Loya? | Suresh Khairnar

  4 January 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked to speak as the keynote speaker, I first tried to say this book and what kind of people have India in their hands in the present times and freeing it should be our first goal. Who can do what in the intoxication of power? This is what one feels after reading this book. And how all the (…)

• Are You Dreaming Of A White Christmas? | Sagari Chhabra

  4 January 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  Are you dreaming of a white Christmas;
  the singing of carols
  and the Christmas tree,
  draped in mistletoe
  with gifts strung in golden filigree?
  Are you dreaming of a white Christmas;
  yonder, children lie listless,
  with vacant eyes,
  wondering what ahead, still lies;
  whatever happened to mom and dad;
  nothing you can do
  can make them less sad.
  The bullets, tanks and drones
  rain on relentlessly;
  in this age we thought
  there would be no war,
  but this horror,
  even our glazed (…)

• Interlinking Rivers: The story from scratch | S.G.Vombatkere

  4 January 2025, by S G Vombatkere

  The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here

• Municipal Socialism | Petr Kropotkin

  4 January 2025

  (The essay below by Petr Kropotkin first appeared in Freedom 172, December 1902)
  In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled

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  IMSD opposes calls for a ban on Satanic Verses

  4 January 2025

  December 30, 2024
  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie

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  Amit Shah

  4 January 2025

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  Statement on the record of India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh | Radical Socialist

  4 January 2025

  27 December 2024
  That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the

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  Review of Intondi’s, Saving the World from Nuclear War | Eric Ross

  4 January 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
  by Vincent J. Intondi
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Series
  2023. 152 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4640-0
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  Reviewed by Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the context (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Shyam Benegal | Jayaraj Vellur

  4 January 2025, by Jayaraj Vellur