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Globalization And Dis-Location of Politics | Sunita Samal
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Trump Presidency: Ex-Jihadist is Welcome, Not a Democrat | M.R. Narayan Swamy
22 November 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy[This article was written before the unexpected meeting between New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani & the US President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday Nov 21, 2025]
It is no coincidence that Donald Trump poured further scorn on Zohran Mamdani after he won the New York mayoral election, and just a week later warmly embraced former Syrian jihadist Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, dubbed a terrorist by Washington not too long ago.
Both Mamdani and al-Sharaa are Muslims; that is where (…) -
Nehru and Mamdani in Indian politics | Radhakanta Barik
22 November 2025, by Radhakanta BarikAccording to the Rashtra Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) the number one enemy is Jawaharlal Nehru, as said by K R Malkani in a letter to the Editor in Times of India. After Modi came to power, he started campaigning against Hehru and his ideas on a regular basis. For eleven years, this campaign has been going on. In New York election politics, Nehru has been quoted, which has brought back Nehru and his ideas to sharp focus in Indian politics. Nehru, as an intellectual giant, cannot be evaluated by (…)
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Deepening Crisis of capitalism, tariff war, inter-imperialist contradictions, and the global south | Sunil Ray
22 November 2025, by Sunil RayIIntroduction
The crisis of capitalism (capital system) is deepening. It stems from its deeper internal contradictions which is essentially the crisis of profitability rooted in its development. No doubt capital system, historically speaking, is crisis prone. But it is equally true that it could open up a route to escape from it. It then goes on to repair its system that stopped meeting the conditions for its further expansion. A new development narrative surfaces to legitimise the (…) -
Leon Trotsky Protests Too Much | Emma Goldman (1938)
22 November 2025Published by The Anarchist Communist Federation, Glasgow, Scotland, 1938
[marron]Introduction
Leon Trotsky Protests Too Much. By Emma Goldman
Leon Trotsky, John G. Wright and the Spanish Anarchists.marron]
Introduction
This pamphlet grew out of an article for Vanguard, the Anarchist monthly published in New York City. It appeared in the July issue, 1938, but as the space of the magazine is limited, only part of the manuscript could be used. It is here given in a revised and (…) -
Labour Codes Implementation: Codifying Modern Slavery For
22 November 2025The Union Government on November 21 notified the implementation of the four Labour Codes, despite strong opposition from workers and the toiling masses. The four Labour Codes - the Code on Wages, 2019; the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020; the Social Security Code, 2020; and the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 - though presented in the name of
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Statement on the Notified Rules Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act | EGI (Nov 19, 2025)
22 November 2025The Editors Guild of India
November 19, 2025 | New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India notes with concern the recent notification of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. While the Guild has earlier highlighted the Act -
Radical Socialist Statement on Bihar Election Results | Nov 18, 2025
22 November 2025What was expected to be a very close-fought election turned out to be a massive victory for the NDA in Bihar. To what extent did the 65 lakhs deletions from the voters list and other additions to it of those coming of voting age or who were otherwise being included, affect the final results? Was the ECI complicit in this, thereby expressing its bias towards the BJP-led Central government and to the NDA in Bihar? There have been sound reasons for suspecting such a bias, which, if true, (…)
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Review of Bala Ramulu Chinnala’s Development Strategies and Governance in India | Srinivasulu Karli
22 November 2025, by Karli Srinivasulu[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Development Strategies and Governance in India:
Predicaments and Challenges
by Bala Ramulu Chinnala
Routledge
2025
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Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
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Reconciling Gandhi and Savarkar: The Paranjape Way | M.R. Narayan Swamy
22 November 2025, by M R Narayan SwamyBiographer Vikram Sampath may be convinced that the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Savarkar remain the perfectly irreconcilable polar opposites that would never meet. But prolific writer and veteran academic Makarand R. Paranjape disagrees. The feud between the two men of history, he is equally confident, was actually a family quarrel as they were both fellow freedom fighters and professedly fellow Hindus.
And so, the unending antagonism between Gandhi and Savarkar needs a new (…)