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• Karpoori Thakur’s Quest for Justice | Gopal Krishna

  9 February 2024

  I am a casteless man. Those who oppose me are die-hard casteists.The Constitution provides for reservation for the educationally and socially backward. It has been implemented in several states. We have included the economically backward as well. This has not been done in other states. —Karpoori Thakur in an interview with Arul B. Louis, India Today, December 31, 1978
  The real subaltern hero and one of the tallest legislators and the tallest chief minister of Bihar, Karpoori Thakur died an (…)

• Millets: The Resilient Saviors of Nutrition and Sustainability | S N Tripathy

  9 February 2024, by S N Tripathy

  Food security remains a critical global concern, with accessibility to nutritious food still elusive for many. Significant challenges persist despite the United Nations’ ambitious target to provide food for everyone by 2030. The staple carbohydrates on which humanity heavily relies lack essential amino acids and minerals crucial for optimal nutrition. This deficiency in diet contributes to the prevalence of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and diabetes. Millets, in (…)

• A Delhi RWA Sounds The Bgule | LK Sharma

  9 February 2024

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  by L K Sharma
  The Modi-devotees applauded the Jangpura Extension Residents Welfare Association for asking the Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and his non-resident daughter to move out of the colony for hurting the religious sentiments of the Hindus. (Ms. Suranya Aiyar had provoked the RWA by going on a fast for communal harmony and expressing her views on Ayodhya’s new Ram Temple.) The RWA President got hundreds of bouquets and one (…)

• A Dialogue on New Socialism An Interview with the Editor of ‘The New Socialist Reader’ | T. Vijayendra

  9 February 2024, by T. Vijayendra

  Reader: What are the aims of your journal?
  Editor: As the bold lines at the bottom of every page in our journal says:
  Our short term goal is to unionise all the working classes.
  Our long term goal is to achieve socialism.
  R: What are the main issues you take up in your journal? E: Every issue of our journal carries material to help educate the working class in the ideas of New Socialism.
  R: What is New Socialism? E: It is the ideas of socialism relevant to our times.
  R: What do (…)

• European and Indian Farmer Protests and common Issues | Soma Marla

  9 February 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  Farmers are protesting all across the Europe. Their major demand being is primarily against denial of an assured and rightful price for their produce. Farmers virtually blocked all seven motorways leading to Paris with thousands of tractors and are camped outside the city. Beginning in France, the protests soon spread over to Germany, where enraged farmers paralysed half of Berlin. The farm stir has also spread to Romania, the Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria and (…)

• Poem: Holocaust Now! | Murzban Jal

  9 February 2024

  In the depths of the heavens,
  And in cosmos where it never rains,
  It rained and lightning permanently
  flashed across the skies,
  Though there is no sky,
  Like there is no ground.
  But once there was the sky,
  Like there was once the ground,
  And when the sun once did shine,
  And the birds once did sing,
  And crops once did grow.,
  And we danced, danced and danced,
  Yes, danced, danced and danced
  Jews and Gentiles,
  Hindus and Muslims,
  Kurds and Turks,
  Sally Bowles and the Master of (…)

• Why BDS Can’t Tolerate Jews and Palestinians in Israel Standing Together | Etan Nechin

  9 February 2024

  Jan 31, 2024
  Standing Together is a fast-growing grassroots movements in Israel bringing Jews and Arabs together. It confronts the occupation, it’s at the forefront of protests against the Gaza war, it visits the families of hostages. And now a key BDS group is calling to boycott it
  One of the largest and fastest growing grassroots movements in Israel is one that brings Jewish and Arab citizens together. It is called Standing Together, in Hebrew, Omdim Beyhad, and most recently, it’s (…)

• Debt, wage theft and coercion drive the global garment industry – the only answer is collective action | Alessandra Mezzadri

  9 February 2024

  24 january 2024
  Major fashion brands including Barbour and PVH (the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger) have agreed to pay over £400,000 in compensation to migrant workers in Mauritius. These workers from Bangladesh, India, China and Madagascar had been forced to pay illegal recruitment fees and, alongside other indicators of forced labour, were allegedly subject to deception and intimidation.
  These are the findings from an investigation carried out between 2022 and 2023 by (…)

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  NREGA Diwas 2024: Demand of the country’s workers: Employment guarantee for all | NREGA Sangharsh Morcha

  9 February 2024

  The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha extends revolutionary greetings to all the workers of India on the day that led to the birth of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act after years of people’s struggle. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has completed 19 years since its enactment. This progressive law aimed to ensure the right to work in the country, establish social and economic justice, end distressed migration, and eradicate poverty. However, today NREGA is dying a slow death- (…)

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  India: Uttarakhand Women’s Groups’ Statement on the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code Draft Bill

  9 February 2024

  Uttarakhand Women’s Groups’ Statement on the Uttarakhand UCC Draft Bill The Uttarakhand women’s groups and representatives reject this Bill in toto, in the form introduced in the State Assembly. A Bill criminalizing constitutional behaviour, and introducing moral policing is unacceptable. The Bill which is predominantly a cut paste from the Hindu family laws, does not remove inequalities in family across the spectrum of religious and secular laws, but criminalises the Muslim minority and (…)