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  Women Journos Protest Attacks | DUJ Press Release, Sept 19, 2026

  20 September

  DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (Regd.) Email: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com 19 September, 2026
  Press Release
  Women Journos Protest Attacks
  Six angry young women faced the cameras at the Press Club in Delhi on Friday September 18, 2026.
  They were not activists, they were journalists determined to be heard by their peers and governments.
  The DUJ expresses its solidarity and complete support for the struggles of these courageous media women.
  Pooja Mathur set the tone at the meeting held by (…)

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  Solidarity with CGT and the Workers at the Eiffel Tower - Statement from NTUI

  20 September

  New Trade Union Initiative
  [Press Statement]
  September 19, 2026
  The New Trade Union Initiative extends its solidarity to our comrades at the CGT and the workers at the Eiffel Tower who staged a spontaneous strike to protect the dignity, equality and rights of women workers.
  The courage of the workers in refusing to accept the humiliation and invisibilising of their women colleagues is a testimony of what trade unionism is all about. There is no room in the workplace to negotiate away (…)

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  Platform Cooperatives as a Path Beyond Corporate Control: Review of Trebor Scholz’s Own This! | K Sahadevan

  20 September, by K. Sahadevan

  BOOK REVIEW Own This! How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet by R. Trebor Scholz Verso 2023 If one were asked to select books that share ideas conducive to the systemic transition demanded by our times, Trebor Scholz’s Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet would certainly rank among the first on the list. While I have read numerous books this year that accurately depict the problems and crises facing the present day, (…)

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  Music: Tamikrest - Wainan Adobat

  20 September

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  Tamikrest - Wainan Adobat by GlitterbeatTV https://youtu.be/2p4BFfG2unc?si=MZFaTJfETWYLVviu

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  Video: Growing up during the last days of communism I Lea Ypi

  20 September

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  Growing up during the last days of communism I Lea Ypi by Penguin Books UK https://youtu.be/z7rfK4HY_Qk?si=4gvSgZZuH3kRc1lC

• Political Borders Offer No Shield Against Ecological Crises | K. Sahadevan

  8 September, by K. Sahadevan

  GUEST EDITORIAL
  Multiple factors are now coming to light behind the recent flood disaster in Nepal. Although a detailed official investigation has yet to be conducted, mutual accusations have already begun—and some of them carry weight.
  Foremost among these is China’s irresponsible failure to share early-warning data. When Nepal states that no such information was received from China, the omission ought to be regarded as nothing less than a crime against humanity.
  China has also shown (…)

• Dimagi Naxal: A Dog Whistle that Undermines Chances of Becoming Vishwaguru | Arun Kumar

  8 September, by Arun Kumar

  The PM addressing the nation from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort emphasized “India is on its way on ‘Reform Express’.” And enunciated ‘seven reform Saptadhara goals’, like, Manufacturing power, Technology and innovation and Defence measures. Laudable announcements but the road map is unclear. He further said, ‘Reforms are to be achieved by conviction not by compulsion’.
  But, in the last decade and more, policies have been thrust without consultations on workers, farmers, (…)

• The New Gen Z versus the Old Gen Z: A Showdown is Foreordained | Partha S. Ghosh

  8 September, by Partha S Ghosh

  It is a strange coincidence that in July 2026, when an essentially secular-liberal youth rally at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar ground was in full steam, another set of youth in some other parts of north India, all of them Hindu, was preparing itself for its annual Kanwar Yatra. The event is held every Shravan of the Hindu calendar which this year corresponded to July 30-August 11.
  We are prefacing our essay with this event to tell the larger story about the Gen Z of the Hindu right. If (…)

• Sanghi Hypocrisy | Faraz Ahmad

  8 September, by Faraz Ahmad

  Sri Ram College of Commerce is one of the most prestigious colleges of Commerce and Economics in India and no less in the Delhi University campus. Now they call it North campus. But in our times that was the only university campus. Late Arun Jaitley, one time Delhi University students’ union president, and ABVP leader, also a solid pillar of support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi till he lived, an alumnus of this college, chose his alma mater to introduce the BJP’s prospective PM candidate (…)

• The Roof That Crushed Them: India’s Student Housing Crisis | Rajan Kshirsagar

  8 September, by Rajan Kshirsagar

  Delhi University houses one student in a hundred. JNU houses two in three. Seven students died in Satya Niketan because the state chose the first number.
  On a quiet Sunday afternoon in September 2026, a five-storey building in Delhi’s Satya Niketan collapsed like a house of cards. Inside, dozens of students were studying, sleeping, living. When the dust settled, at least seven were dead. The building was 50 years old, with walls just four inches thick and no pillars for support, and it was (…)