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• Will The Indian Communist Leadership Read Dimitrov? A Reminder to Comrades Sitaram Yechury and D. Raja | Ajayakumar Kodoth

  6 May 2022, by Ajayakumar Kodoth

  by Dr Ajayakumar Kodoth *
  “Only by a united struggle, carried on step by step, day by day, only by tirelessly extending the anti-fascist movement of the masses and thoroughly strengthening the people’s front will the working people in town and country cut the claws of fascist beast and carry the struggle against fascism to a victorious conclusion.” – Georgi Dimitrov
  These words were written by Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949), the Bulgarian Communist leader and General Secretary of the (…)

• Why Civil Resistance Does Not Work Against Wars? | Prem Singh

  6 May 2022, by Prem Singh

  Splintered lies the ethics, In varying degrees Which both have bent The Pandavas less, the Kauravas more Oh, when will this bloodletting end …? (’Andha Yug’, Dharamveer Bharati) The Russia-Ukraine war shows no signs of ending. However, there continue to be constant statements, discussions, and write ups from leaders, diplomats, experts, officials, scholars and ordinary citizens on various aspects related to the war.
  Whatever the significance of this whole exercise in the discussion of (…)

• Role and behaviour of the judges in the backdrop of majoritarian politics | Arun Srivastava

  6 May 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  Majoritarian’ propensities has completely riveted the Indian politics and its social order. This majoritarian principle has not only vitiated the political structure, instead it has also affected the judiciary; the bureaucracy is already dancing to its tunes. Stimulating majoritarian is the part of the well designed strategy to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra.
  The attack has been so intense that only a week back Supreme Court CJI N V Ramana while presiding over a (…)

• Culprits and Victims | Humra Quraishi

  6 May 2022, by Humra Quraishi

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  5 May 2022
  The ground realities are turning painful and disturbing by the day. In fact, on this just passed by Eid-ul- Fitr, I know of several Muslims who travelled from Haryana’s Gurgaon to New Delhi to offer the Eid namaaz. Why? They were not too sure which Gurgaon masjids would be ‘open’ for Eid namaaz and which ones would be ‘safe’ in terms of the Hindutva goons lurking around!
  Well, such are the apprehensions today that a Muslim has to (…)

• Self mauling in the subcontinent | Mustafa Khan

  6 May 2022

  by Mustafa Khan
  By no standard is this civilized behaviour that female madrassa teachers have slaughtered fellow female teacher in the same seminary as it happened in Dera Ismail Khan on March 29 2022 or e-rickshaw driver, Afsar Ahmad, being beaten and paraded as his daughter clung to him in August 2021. This is a clash within. How long it will take to eradicate will depend on how early we become rational and better educated. Why did Benjamin Franklin and fellow minded others like the (…)

• Ahead of May Day 2022, a call for worker unity, solidarity and a visa-free Southasia | Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Priyanka Singh, Beena Sarwar

  6 May 2022

  By Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Priyanka Singh, Beena Sarwar
  [30 April 2022 A Sapan news feature] The last Sunday of April 2022 marked the ninth anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Dhaka. It was also the birthday of late Southasian feminist activist Kamla Bhasin who always stood for workers’ rights, as a May Day-related discussion last weekend highlighted.
  Organised by the Southasia Peace Action Network, or Sapan, the online gathering featured songs and speakers including (…)

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  Open Letter Against Targeting of Meat Eaters and Meat Sellers

  6 May 2022

  Open letter released on 5th May 2022
  Ahara Namma Hakku/Our food, our right
  As a group of concerned activists, doctors, nutritionists, parents, advocates and researchers, we are deeply concerned at the recent irrational attacks on the food habits and nutrition rights of people, in the form of laws, bans and calls to boycott the sale and consumption of meat. While these bans and calls to boycott meat have been isolated incidents as of now, this culture of interfering in people’s choice of (…)

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  Jahangirpuri Demolitions: Letter to CM Delhi protesting women’s loss of livelihoods

  6 May 2022

  To: Shri Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi 5 May 2022
  Subject: Loss of women’s livelihoods and Jahangirpuri Demolitions
  Dear Shri Kejriwal:
  We the undersigned academics, policy advisors, and civil society practitioners, all working on aspects of Gender and the Economy in India, are deeply shocked by the spate of demolitions carried out by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation in the Jahangirpuri resettlement colony on April 20, 2022.
  The most tragic victims of this targeted (…)

• What is the profit-shifting behaviour of India’s emerging multinationals? | Khanindra Ch. Das (Wider, 2022)

  6 May 2022

  This paper examines the profit-shifting behaviour of emerging multinational firms from India. It is found that the before-tax profitability of subsidiaries differs according to whether they were established directly or via an Offshore Financial Centre (OFC).

• Peru: The Broken Dream of Transformative Government? | Alejandra Dinegro Martínez

  6 May 2022

  by Alejandra Dinegro Martínez *
  April 28, 2022
  Eight months in, the administration of Pedro Castillo, whose victory in the 2021 elections was once a symbol of transformation and hope, is now closer to a nightmare. The dream of a government that could have laid the foundation for a process of structural transformation seems unattainable. This is a severe blow to the Left, just as it is for voters who share the current president’s background, habits, cultural practices, and common (…)