Mainstream WeeklyKeywords: Adivasi, Central Tribal Belt, Karl Polanyi, embedded economy, capitalism, neo-liberal economy, equality
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The present-day GDP-driven neo-liberal economic model has resulted in irreversible climate change and extreme economic inequality in India. An alternative, sustainable economic paradigm is the need of the hour. In post 2008 global economic crisis class-based modern civilisation history, is being questioned with the discovery of new evidence of prehistoric equitable (…)
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The Adivasi Paradigm: Towards an Embedded and Sustainable Economy | Sujit Choudhury
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Indian-American activists battle Hindutva politics | M.R. Narayan Swamy
21 December 2025, by M R Narayan SwamyThe other day, a small group of Indian Americans convened a breakfast meeting to felicitate fellow citizens of Hindu faith from among a large number of people of Indian origin who hold elected offices in New Jersey. But, more importantly, Indian-American Christians, Sikhs and Muslims were carefully excluded.
Some Hindu Indian Americans responded to the invitation. Others refused to attend, saying they would not be a party to anything divisive in nature. A few went simply because they did (…) -
Chile just elected a far right extremist president who venerates Pinochet, the dictator | Marc Cooper
21 December 2025Dec 15, 2025
Six years ago Chile experienced a massive civic rebellion that on one day brought 1.2 million protesters into the street in a country of 15 million. This weekend 58% of Chileans voted into power a far right extremist president, Jose Antonio Kast, whose father was a Nazi and whose brother was a minister in the Pinochet dictatorship. What happened?
The social explosion of 2019 was an unplanned unorganized outburst of frustration. Thirty years of centrist democratic (…) -
NREGA Sangharsh Morcha condemns the repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) | Dec 19 2025
21 December 2025NREGA Sangharsh Morcha
Ph: 9433002064/ 7982910587/ 7012919362/ 9945767607
Twitter: @NREGA_Sangharsh
Facebook: @NREGASangharshMorcha Email: nrega.sangharsh.morcha[at]gmail.com
The Right to Work Repealed
The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha condemns the proposed Viksit Bharat - Guarantee For Rozgar And Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 (VB-G RAM G) that seeks to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA). Introduced without any consultation with workers (…) -
CPI(M) seeks withdrawal of VB-GRAMG Bill
21 December 2025December 15, 2025
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
Withdraw VB-GRAMG Bill Immediately
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Joint Call for Protest from Left Parties Against Changes in MGNREGA - 22 Dec 2025
21 December 2025Joint Protest Call By Left Parties
22 December - All India Protest Day Left Parties Call for Protest Against Changes in MGNREGA
The Left parties strongly oppose the BJP-led Union Government’s move to alter the basic character of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which was enacted due to the pressure exerted by the Left parties on the UPA government. We call upon the people to mobilise in large numbers and protest on 22 December, against the Viksit (…) -
Withdraw Opening the Nuclear industry to the private sector — Statement from IDPD, 13 Dec 2025
21 December 2025Date: 13.12.2025
Press Note
Opening of nuclear industry to private sector would be disastrous
IDPD demands withdrawal of this move
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has in a statement warned that privatization in the nuclear industry would be disastrous. The nuclear industry is already full of various risks. Various countries around the world are now transitioning to renewable energy resources rather than nuclear. Its management and later on dumping of the waste has no (…) -
A critique of The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill No. 196 of 2025 | National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM)
21 December 2025The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill No. 196 of 2025
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Documentary: How the British Empire turned colonialism into business
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Music: Anoushka Shankar ’We Return to Love’ (Live with Alam Khan)
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