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• Bihar’s Two Democracies : Where Women Fought Back & Where Hate Politics Won | Varna Sri Raman

  22 November 2025, by Varna Sri Raman

  In Seemanchal, record women’s turnout resisted voter suppression. In Bhojpur, none of that mattered

• Election Commission hands Bihar on platter to BJP | Arun Srivastava

  22 November 2025

  by Arun Srivastava
  Following the Bihar assembly election results on 14 November 2025, it is very obvious that the Narendra Modi-led Union government has tacitly used the election machinery and India

• Lobbying Games: RSS connections in America | Ram Puniyani

  22 November 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  As RSS has completed 100 years of its existence, one new, not widely known fact has come to surface. Many YouTube channels have been discussing RSS hiring a lobbying firm in America. Interestingly, the firm hired for its lobbying happens to be the same one which is lobbying for Pakistan also. One recalls that when Narendra Modi became chief minister of Gujarat, he had hired a firm for hyping his image

• Congress Needs Introspection | Ishrat Husain

  22 November 2025

  Mohan Bhagwat once said that opposition parties are not enemies; they have their own viewpoints. Strong opposition is good for healthy democracy. In Indian context, many are regional parties but the Congress is a national opposition party. Undoubtedly, top leadership works hard including president Mallikarjun Kharge. But their efforts hardly transform into votes or help to compete with the BJP. Bihar result is a recent example. Reasons may be best known to the leaders of Congress. (…)

• Expectations from COP 30 climate summit in Belem | Soma Marla

  22 November 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  This year

• Globalization And Dis-Location of Politics | Sunita Samal

  22 November 2025, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: Globalisation is an encounter between universalist and state-centric conceptions of politics. It is also about legitimacy and power. Globalisation evokes the tension between the transnational and the interstate aspects of the world system. It can be explained as the deterritorialization of social space. It keeps the debates theoretically and empirically open and it makes that more difficult to use

• 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 Barik

  According 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 (…)

• Deepening Crisis of capitalism, tariff war, inter-imperialist contradictions, and the global south | Sunil Ray

  22 November 2025, by Sunil Ray

  IIntroduction
  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 2025

  Published 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 (…)