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  Union Budget 2024-25 - Press statement by Platform of Central Trade Unions

  3 August 2024

  Press Statement
  The following joint statement is issued to the press by the Platform of Central Trade Unions on 31st July 2024
  CTUs oppose Union Budget 2024-25 - exercise of betrayal yet again Pressing economic issues side stepped – Corporates catered Clarion Call for Nationwide protests on 9th August 2024 Union Budget 2024-25 of the NDA coalition government has come out as another colossal betrayal on the people. BJP has failed to learn lesson from its drubbing in the elections. It (…)

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  Press release on Waynad Disaster 30 July 2024 | AIKS

  3 August 2024

  All India Kisan Sabha
  Press release on Waynad Disaster 30 July 2024
  All India Kisan pays heartfelt condolences to the citizens, farmers and labourers who died in the natural calamity of Wayanad landslide in Kerala...! For the rescue & relief work of landslide victims, AIKS workers in Kerala are active along with LDF Kerala Government machinery which is working on war footing.
  The Narendra Modi-led Union Government should immediately activate all its machinery NDRF Military for the (…)

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  Review of Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Edited by Jaya Mehta | K.S. Chalam

  3 August 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Conceptualization: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Editor: Jaya Mehta Aakar Books, Delhi
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  Twenty First century India view the images of struggles that suit its history, economic structure and social base to get rid of an exploitative system that is more entrenched today than what was imagined under Imperialism during the last century. In fact, the Freedom movement in India had a (…)

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  Aruna Roy’s memoir reminds us as much of some great achievements as of the bigger challenges ahead | Bharat Dogra

  3 August 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  Aruna Roy’s memoir published by HarperCollins under the title ‘The Personal is Political –An Activist’s Memoir’ has attracted a lot of attention within a short time, and for good reason. A part of the reason relates to what Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze say in their comment on the book, “Aruna Roy reflects on a life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and the political. A great inspiration.”
  For most people Aruna Roy is a highly inspiring (…)

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  Photo: Karabo Mooki - Soweto Skateboarders (2016)

  3 August 2024

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  Music: Bulldozer Raj - Song in Bengali by various artistes

  3 August 2024

  Lyrics in English -
  The reign of the bulldozer must be defeated today
  The reign of the bulldozer must be broken today
  I stand with my chest pounding to stop the bulldozer
  Let’s raise our voices together We are all Indians this is my identity Amidst diversity Harmony will triumph
  Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Dalits, Adivasis We are all this country’s children
  This country is ours Some cultivate the fields Some wield a hammer Others a pen
  All of us build (…)

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  Video: Wounded Hills: A documentary on the environmental issues of the Western Ghats

  3 August 2024

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  Wounded Hills: A documentary on the environmental issues of the Western Ghats by The Hindu https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=bEifalaUVXXZ3U_G&v=rTV-56QagQM&feature=youtu.be

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  Documentary: In Search of Palestine - Edward Said’s Return Home (BBC) 1998

  3 August 2024

  In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home (BBC) 1998 from The Eqbal Ahmad Project on Vimeo.

• Should Government Employees be allowed to Join RSS? | Ram Puniyani

  3 August 2024, by Ram Puniyani

  RSS is the biggest organization in the World. It aims at working for Hindu Rashtra and also claims that it is a Cultural Organization. It is as such striving for Nationalism (Hindu)’ contrary to the one underlined in our Constitution, Indian Nationalism. It regards Hindus as a Nation and so it has set its goal. Times and over again one or the other top leader of BJP voices the demand for scrapping the Indian Constitution and proclaiming that we should become a Hindu Rashtra. RSS (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 27, 2024

  27 July 2024

  * Statement by General Secretary AITUC on the Union Budget 2024
  * With per capita allocation of Rs.638/- health budget a joke | IDPD
  * Union Budget 2024-25 for Corporatisation of Agriculture | Samyukt Kisan Morcha
  * Tribute to Samar Bagchi | Suresh Khairnar
  * Thousands evicted in Paris ahead of 2024 Olympics | Bharat Dogra
  * Toward an Explanation of the Radical | David S. D’Amato