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Video: The Cold War race to the centre of the Earth | BBC
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Video: Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 – Class 1, Introduction (2019) | David Harvey
18 June 2021 -
Joint Statement by Left Parties - June 13, 2021
18 June 2021All India Protest Fortnight - June 16-30, 2021 Roll Back Petrol Price Hikes Control Prices of Essential Commodities & Drugs
More assaults on people’s livelihood are being mounted by this relentless rise in prices of all essential commodities. Instead of helping people to combat the ravages of the Covid health catastrophe, the Modi government hiked the prices of petroleum products by at least 21 times after the announcement of results of the recent assembly elections on May 2, 2021. (…) -
Recall the Governor of West Bengal - Communist Party of India Resolution | June 15, 2021
18 June 2021The National Executive of the Communist Party of India adopted the following resolution in its meeting on 15th June 2021
The National Executive meeting of the Communist Party of India expressed its displeasure over the activities of West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar. His actions are definitely against the prescribed norms of Indian Constitution. After taking over the responsibility as the governor he started behaving like BJP representative ignoring all moral and government protocols (…) -
Covid & Economic Slowdown: Needed a national relief and recovery package for the labouring poor
18 June 2021(Call for a National Relief and Recovery Package: If Not Now, When? released on June 14, 2021)
The impact of the two COVID waves and attendant lockdowns on Indian households and workers cannot be overstated. Even before the devastating second wave, several sources suggest that millions of households became poor, reversing hard-fought gains in poverty reduction. More than half of the informal workforce lost work and incomes, and over two-thirds experienced increased hunger (see Annexure 2 (…) -
‘Environmental Protection’ cannot be an excuse to deprive vulnerable people of shelter | NAPM Statement June 15, 2021
18 June 2021National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)
National Office: 6/6, Jungpura-B, New Delhi – 110014 | Ph: 011-24374535
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Blog: www.napmindia.wordpress.com | Web: www.napm-india.org NAPM Condemns the unjustifiable order of the Supreme Court to Evict around One Lakh Residents of Khori Gaon, Haryana, without Rehabilitation in the Middle of the Pandemic
Right to Housing of Working-Class people Living in Precarious Conditions is (…) -
FIRs by UP Police Against The Wire and Several Journalists - Statement by Editors Guild of India - June 17, 2021
18 June 2021The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
June 17, 2021
The Editors Guild of India condemns the filing of First Information Reports (FIRs) by the Uttar Pradesh Police against The Wire and several other journalists, for their tweets on an assault on an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad on June 5th. In the video that was posted by those charged, the man is seen alleging that he was beaten up by some people and was forced him to chant ‘ Jai Shree Ram’.
Several media organizations and (…) -
Statement by writers and readers of Gujarati literature about threats issued against them in the journal Shabdsrushti
18 June 2021[June 18, 2021]
Gujarat Sahitya Akademi whose autonomy was wrested by the Gujarat government, which then turned it into a government institution, publishes a journal named Shabdsrushti. The June 2021 issue of Shabdsrushti carries an anonymous piece of writing titled “No, This Is Not a Poem, It Is Misuse of a ‘Poem’ for Anarchy…” on page 89. The necessary obligation of writing the author’s name is not honoured which should be deemed immoral, criminal and dangerous according to government (…) -
Move to split of Ordnance Factories into Seven Corporations - Press Release by Communist Party of India - June 17, 2021
18 June 2021June 17, 2021
Press Release
CPI Condemns Modi Government’s Move to split of Ordnance Factories into Seven Corporations
D. RAJA, General Secretary, Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on June 17, 2021):
The CPI right from the beginning has been opposing the ill-designed move of the Modi government to corporatise the 220 years-old Indian Ordnance Factories consisting of 41 factories throughout the country involved in indigenously manufacturing all defence (…) -
Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 12, 2021
12 June 2021* Why Hindi Votaries Need to Shut Up | M R Narayan Swamy
* Re-Reading Hamlet Politically in Times of Covid-19 | Radhakanta Barik
* Role & Strategies of Political Parties in the Telangana Movement | Sreerupa Saha