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• Confronting the final assault on peoples

  12 May

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  Global deregulation of economy, commerce and trade is bringing the hitherto uncharted natural resources of community commons within the realm of legal regimes so that these can be monetised and traded within the market frame. Recognition of community rights over the community commons and their resources, even while introducing democratised governance regimes, have also opened up the space for investment and ease of doing business. This has unleashed direct no-holds barred (…)

• The Rise of the Religious Right Everywhere is about Political Power, not Religion: An interview with Marieme Helie Lucas

  12 May

  Interview in Shuddhashar / August 24, 2025
  Marieme Helie Lucas was born and raised in Algeria, but she was forced to flee into exile after the rise of extremist Islamic politics in her country. Recently, Shuddhashar had an opportunity to interview her in-depth and engage in a lively conversation.
  Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian sociologist. She was born

• Fyodor Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin (1939)

  12 May

  Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin
  by F.F. Raskolnikov
  This document, dated August 17, 1939, was first published in the Paris

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  NEET Scam Exposes Complete Collapse of Modi Government

  12 May

  Communist Party of India
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (May 12, 2026):
  The Communist Party of India strongly condemns the cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 examination following paper leaks and large-scale irregularities. Lakhs of students who studied with immense hardship and hope are once again being punished because of the total failure of the NTA and the Modi Government.
  This is not an accident but a pattern. Repeated (…)

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  Statement from Trade Unions to Join/support the All India MNREGA workers

  12 May

  The following statement was issued to the media by the platform of Central Trade Unions, independent sectoral federations, and associations on 9th May 2026:
  Join/support the All India MNREGA workers

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  SPI Press — Release Elon Musk cannot sleep out of fear of Socialists, therefore defaming Socialism

  12 May

  Socialist Party India
  Press Release / 11 May 2026
  Patna (Bihar, India) : Reacting to top American industrialist Elon Musk comparing socialist ideology with Hitler, the Socialist Party (India) stated that capitalist forces are afraid of socialist ideology. Elon Musk and his mentor Donald Trump are unable to sleep at night solely due to their fear of socialist ideology. Therefore, they have already begun conspiring to defame socialists.
  Democracy Being Captured by Industrialists
  In a (…)

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  Review of Srinivasulu Karli’s Caste, Dominance and Resistance

  12 May

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Caste, Dominance and Resistance

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  Saudi Arabia

  12 May, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East;
  by Kim Ghattas
  Wildfire/Headline Publishing Group
  Pages: xvii + 378; Price: Rs. 799
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  It is mind-boggling to even know how much death, destruction and human suffering Saudi Arabia has rained on the larger Islamic world with an insular religious ideology that has torn apart even the believers.
  In a seminal study of the perennially turbulent (…)

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  Audio: Writer Amitav Ghosh on Why India Has Lost Its Way | Big Take Asia

  12 May
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  Video: How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics

  12 May