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— Raya Dunayevskaya,
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What the Indian Left should learn from Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxist-Humanism | Murzban Jal
31 August 2024 -
What is driving the largest women-led rights movement in Balochistan’s recent history? | Abdullah Zahid
31 August 2024On the annual International Day of the Disappeared, 30 August, a look at how the Baloch community in Pakistan is being pushed to the wall but also ignored by the state. Their marches, sit-ins, and demonstrations do get some attention, but little seems to change.
By Abdullah Zahid / Sapan News
The International Day of the Disappeared, observed on 30 August annually, holds particular relevance to Pakistan’s Khyber PakhtunKhwa and Balochistan provinces, plagued by enforced (…) -
Text of Citizens Statement Against Sexual Violence From Kilkata to Manipur, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Bihar, UP . . .
31 August 2024WOMEN RIGHTS NOW!
CITIZENS SPEAK OUT AGAINST BRUTAL CASES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM KOLKATA TO MANIPUR, GUJARAT, UTTARAKHAND, BIHAR, UTTAR PRADESH…
DEMAND URGENT, INDEPENDENT AND UNBIASED INVESTIGATIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY!
NO MORE SHIELDING OF PERPETRATORS AND THEIR PROTECTORS JUSTICE TO VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES!
August, 2024
Amidst distressing news of brutal rape cases coming from multiple states, women’s rights groups were joined by mass organisations, trade unions, (…) -
Statement against Sexual violence - Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha | Aug 26, 2024
31 August 2024Press Release
The following statement was issued to the press jointly by the Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha on 26th August 2024
Justice to the Victims and survivors Unitedly Fight to End Violence Against Women Violence against women - deep rooted issue of patriarchy and commodification of women
The brutal rape and murder of a young medico in R G Kar medical (…) -
Hema Committee Report constituted by the Govt of Kerala on various issues faced by women in cinema (Dec 2019)
31 August 2024The original 295 page Hema Committee report on issues faced by women in the Malayalam film industry was submitted to the Kerala government on December 31, 2019. It is not available publicly. The Kerala government released a heavily redacted version of the report on August 19, 2024, after removing 63 pages
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Census Operations Are Starting In September But The Data Collection Process Must Improve | Tirthankar Mitra
31 August 2024by Tirthankar Mitra
For India, correct data compilation is of paramount Importance at the present stage
August 29, 2024
KOLKATA: India’s population census was initially due for completion in 2024 but was delayed by COVID-19 pandemic. It’s resumption scheduled to begin in September this year will be a pivotal moment. The history of Indian census can be traced back to 1800 during the British colonial period. The first census of an Indian city was conducted in Dhaka in 1830 by Henry (…) -
For Others’ Sins, Ordinary Afghans Suffer | M.R. Narayan Swamy
31 August 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Return of the Taliban: State, Society and Terror
by Apratim Mukarji
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd 2023, Pages: lii + 292 ISBN-10 8119670035 ISBN-13 978-8119670031
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With very little hope that the Taliban may become a responsive administration, one does not know when millions of Afghans can even dream of a better tomorrow.
This is the price ordinary Afghan men, women and children are today paying for the needless aggression (…) -
Thom Loyd. Review of Iandolo, Alessandro, Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
31 August 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
by Alessandro Iandolo
Cornell University Press 2022. xv + 287 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6443-1.
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Reviewed by Thom Loyd (Augusta University)
In his 1955 novel, Flamingo Feather, the Afrikaner writer Laurens van der Post painted a sinister picture of Soviet influence in Africa, one in which the Soviet Union used whatever underhand means it (…) -
Music: Georges Delerue - Tendre Poulet
31 August 2024Play
Georges Delerue - Tendre Poulet by Ricardo Maraña https://youtu.be/QZeLh7Nkx4I -
Audio/Video: Looking Back at Grunwick the 1976-78 Strike in the UK
31 August 2024https://youtu.be/0uDkIPOPV98