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  CPI(M) Statement on Bombay High Court’s Observations regarding challenge to Mumbai Police’s refusal to allow a protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza

  26 July 2025

  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  [July 25, 2025]
  Condemn Bombay High Court’s Anti-Constitutional Observations
  The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the observations of the Bombay High Court bench while rejecting an application by the Party to challenge the Mumbai Police’s refusal to allow a protest action against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
  While doing so, the court went to the extent of calling into question the patriotism of the Party. Ironically, the bench (…)

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  Review of Budjeryn’s ’Inheriting the Bomb’ | Wesley Fite

  26 July 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine
  by Mariana Budjeryn
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  2022. 328 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4586-1.
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  Reviewed by Wesley Fite
  With the hindsight of the 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine, some armchair strategists have questioned Ukraine

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  Caricature: Tribute to V.S. Achutanandan | Jayaraj Vellur

  26 July 2025

  V.S. Achutananda was among the co-founders of India’s Communist Party of India (Marxist), who went on to serve as the Chief Minister of Kerala (2006

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  Yashpal: A Life in Science, documentary film by Yousuf Saeed

  26 July 2025
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  Audio: Russia

  26 July 2025
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  Music: Send in the Drums | James Asher

  26 July 2025

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  Send in the Drums by James Asher - Topic https://youtu.be/_a1LcQMqgPY?si=rpc57A8itxjWMFRu

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 29, July 19, 2025

  19 July 2025

  * Does Bihar Show the Way? | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Socialism and Secularism Are the Soul of the Constitution | Sabzar Ahmad Bhat
  * Mahmood Mamdani on the expulsion of Uganda

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 19, 2025

  19 July 2025

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  Time for Opposition to Mobilise for the Bihar Assembly elections
  The state of Bihar has India

• Does Bihar Show the Way? | Arup Kumar Sen

  19 July 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The radical scholar, late Arvind N. Das, wrote a book in the late 1970s with the title

• The Politics of Exclusion: Disenfranchising Bihar

  19 July 2025, by D Raja

  The Election Commission of India has launched a sweeping Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Though presented as a legitimate administrative effort to update voter data ahead of the Assembly elections, the move has attracted sharp social criticism and legal challenges. The Commission has initiated door-to-door verification of voter records across the state, demanding submission of multiple documents including personal and parental proof of age and residence, (…)