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• The Quiet Theft: How India’s Labour Codes Legalise the Dispossession of Workers | Varna Sri Raman

  21 December 2025, by Varna Sri Raman

  The codes are designed to leave labour unprotected in the face of capital’s onslaught.

• The BJP & the Boy with the Fist in the Dyke | Arun Srivastava

  21 December 2025, by Arun Srivastava

  PART II (Part I appeared as Why the RSS-BJP Juggernaut Needs a Political Seawall in the Dec 6, 2025 issue of Mainstream)
  Hans ran and ran, past the fields of tulips and past the windmills. His small wooden shoes clicked and clacked against the brick road and kept his feet warm and dry from the sloshy mud and puddles. Hans was still running when he passed one of the many dykes. Something did not look right. Hans crept closer to the dyke to see. There, in the middle of the high stone (…)

• Is Nitish trying to secure his chair in the new BJP-led Bihar | Faraz Ahmad

  21 December 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Did Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar outrage the modesty of Dr Nusrat Parveen pulling down her veil on November 15 while distributing appointment letters to the non-allopathic doctors offered government jobs?
  Pleaders Blog, a legal site, explains that Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) states that

• Indian Judiciary as Development Constraint: Rhetoric vs. Reality | Nayakara Veeresha

  21 December 2025, by Nayakara Veeresha

  Abstract
  The functioning of democracy depends upon the harmonious coordination of all the three organs of the state namely Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The observations made by the PM-EAC member on the lines of economic factors alone is inadequate to enthuse the judiciary to reform from within as the key to legal reforms lie in the hands of legislature and executive. The economic rhetoric of under performance of the judiciary failed to see the political reality of the state within (…)

• Delhi

  21 December 2025, by Disha

  I recently went for lunch at India International Centre. This time I was not there for a talk or a panel or a seminar. My supervisor invited me and a few friends for a meal, and since she has a membership, we were allowed into the dining space. I have admired this place many times while attending academic events. The lawns, the old trees, the calm corridors, the sense of scholarship in the air. But a quiet event room is different from a dining room where rules breathe in every corner.
  I (…)

• The Adivasi Paradigm: Towards an Embedded and Sustainable Economy | Sujit Choudhury

  21 December 2025

  Keywords: Adivasi, Central Tribal Belt, Karl Polanyi, embedded economy, capitalism, neo-liberal economy, equality
  Abstract:
  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 (…)

• Indian-American activists battle Hindutva politics | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  21 December 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The 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 2025

  Dec 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 (…)

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  NREGA Sangharsh Morcha condemns the repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) | Dec 19 2025

  21 December 2025

  NREGA 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 (…)

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  CPI(M) seeks withdrawal of VB-GRAMG Bill

  21 December 2025

  December 15, 2025
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Withdraw VB-GRAMG Bill Immediately
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly opposes the Union government