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• October Revolution and Indian Independence | Alan Paul Varghese

  16 November 2024

  We live in a post-truth era in which the concept of nationalism and patriotism is restructured around the premises of

• The Lessons of the October Experiment | Karl Kautsky (1925)

  16 November 2024

  (The text by Karl Kautsky below was first published in Die Gesellschaft, 1925
  Marked up: Zdravko Saveski for marxists.org, 2008)
  THE DESPOTISM of the Bolshevik party in Russia appears to be stronger and less open to attack than ever. Yet already it shows signs of impending collapse. That has been proved very recently by the Trotsky case. It may seem at first sight as if its swift and easy settlement has strengthened the dictatorial regime to the greatest degree, and has shown that no (…)

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  Unlawful Arrest, Detention and Extrajudicial Killing of Villagers in Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh

  16 November 2024

  CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN CHHATTISGARH
  Email id: cpjchhattisgarh[at]gmail.com
  10 November 2024
  Unlawful Arrest, Detention of members of the Moolvasi Bachao Manch and Extrajudicial Killing of Villagers in Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh
  We unequivocally condemn the recent escalation of state-led violence, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings targeting members of the Moolvasi Bachao Manch (MBM) and villagers in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh. (…)

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  250+ activists from across India call for immediate release of Jammu and Kashmir

  16 November 2024

  National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)
  National Office: A/29, Haji Habib Bldg., Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai

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  1989 Stamp from Soviet Union in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru

  16 November 2024
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  Audio: The Lancet Commission on Self-Harm - a discussion

  16 November 2024

  See associated article: The Lancet Commission on self-harm
  [The above content from Lancet is embedded here for educational and non-commercial use]

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  Music: Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna (1632) | L’arpeggiata, Nurial Rial, and Philippe Jaroussky

  16 November 2024
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 9, 2024

  9 November 2024

  * Note on Left Consolidation | Bhannudeb Dutta & Shobanlal Datta Gupta
  * Kamala’s Defeat | Faraz Ahmad
  * Manipur Under Shadow of Guns | Irfan Engineer
  * The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world | Fernand Braudel

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 9, 2024

  9 November 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 9, 2024
  A massive electoral disaster struck the democratic party in the United States when it lost the 2024 election to Donald Trump. The far right business man Donald Trump won a resounding victory with a considerable section of the American working class on his side [1], [2]. Trump is widely known as a liar, a misogynist, a bully, who has been sentenced by courts in multiple cases of felony, tax evasion etc, known for anti-migrant, pro-gun ownership (…)

• 2024 US Election: Kamala

  9 November 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  Kamala Harris, an Indo-African American woman