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  Indian Left in a Pit: The Way Out? Prof. Achin Vanaik Examines | Sukla Sen

  5 March 2021, by Sukla Sen

  by Sukla Sen
  Professor Achin Vanaik, to the discerning Indian public in particular, is quite a familiar name—both as a radical intellectual and an activist as well, especially in the field of anti-nuclear peace movement; is a co-recipient, with (late) Praful Bidwai, of the International Peace Bureau’s Sean McBride International Peace Prize for 2000.
  Prof. Vanaik, who had started his professional career as a journalist with the Times of India, back in the ’70s, is intellectually, and even (…)

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  When Sonu Sood Beat Santa Claus | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  5 March 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Title: I Am No Messiah; Author: Sonu Sood with Meena K. Iyer; Publisher: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House); Pages: 215; Price: Rs 399
  This is a heart-warming and a candid account of how actor Sonu Sood achieved the impossible: in the worst nightmarish months of Covid-19, he became a one point of hope and instant action for countless people across the country and beyond. At a time when administrations appeared to collapse and “celebrities” retreated into safe cocoons, this man from Moga (…)

• Open Letter —Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America

  5 March 2021

  Open Letter Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America Address the Crisis in Today’s Ecuador
  Dear Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review,
  March 1st, 2021
  We, the signatories of this letter, have to come together to demand the retraction or clarification of two recent articles that smear political movements and leaders in Ecuador. The gains of Yaku Pérez and the coalition around the Pachakutik party in the 7 February 2021 (…)

• History of divisive ethnic identities shows it’s time Nigeria admits its role in enforcing them | Muhammad Dan Suleiman & Benjamin Maiangwa

  5 March 2021

  by Muhammad Dan Suleiman & Benjamin Maiangwa *
  February 24, 2021
  The Nigerian state, as with other African countries, is trapped in a crisis of belonging. This is expressed through identity battles which sometimes harm people of “other” religions and ethnicities. Such battles have even led to a call for the state to be dissolved.
  In our paper we trace the history of how this came about. We use frameworks provided by three philosophers and historians. To trace the first phase – what (…)

• To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It’s the only way | Jojo Mehta and Julia Jackson

  5 March 2021

  As a global community, we cannot wait for more warning signs or the “right moment”. Last year alone has seen devastating examples of ecocide: fires ravaging the Amazon, the Congo basin, Australia, Alaska and Siberia all at unprecedented rates; a large oil spill in Ecuador; and unending, accelerating plastic pollution, which could weigh up to 1.3bn tons by 2040. Unfortunately, under cover of Covid-19, ecocide has accelerated. Deforestation in the Amazon basin increased by 50% in the first quarter of 2020, with rampant fires reaching a 13-year high in June.

• The Workers Opposition | Alexandra Kollontai (1921) - The Text That was Banned in the Soviet Union

  5 March 2021

  Published first in Pravda, January 25, 1921. The text was banned in Soviet Russia in March of 1921, by resolution of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party

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  Simone de Beauvoir Tells Studs Terkel How She Became an Intellectual and a Feminist (1960)

  5 March 2021

  StudsTerkel Radio Archive · Simone de Beauvoir talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT ; 1960/05/04

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  Video: Why protestors are not parasites I Rights activist Anjali Bhardwaj I Shoma Chaudhury

  5 March 2021
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 27, 2021

  27 February 2021

  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 27, 2021 Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 27 On Asiatic Despotism and the Transcendence of Capitalism | Murzban Jal New farm laws & Solidarity Movement: Unfolding New politics | Sunil Ray On Farmers Mistrust of New Legislation in Indian Agriculture | Mohd Shahwaiz Emerging Unity of Farmers & Workers | Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan Singh Promotion of Coronil by the Health Minister Unfortunate | Dr. Arun Mitra Modi vs Disha Ravi and Disha Wins! | (…)

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 27

  27 February 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 27, 2021
  In 2003 India and Pakistan had signed a ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kashmir region but this agreement had pretty much broken down in the recent years and there had been continuing violations and tensions on borders. There has been an important development on that front and Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan have issued a joint statement —“Both sides agreed for strict observance of all (…)