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• Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government | Kate Lamb

  29 March 2025

  Activists in world

• The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict through a Third-World Feminist Lens | Rajeshwari Sharma

  29 March 2025

  Understanding militarism and war through a gendered lens

• The Left Needs to Back a European Security Policy | Hanna Perekhoda

  29 March 2025

  For decades, European countries have underinvested in defense, relying on American military power and assuming that large-scale conflict on the continent was a thing of the past. However, Russia

• Need to go beyond puerile ’definitions’ of Fascism | Aditya Nigam

  29 March 2025, by Aditya Nigam

  Quite apart from the dinosaur-like CPI-M position on fascism, there is a genuine and serious problem with the way we discuss or study the phenomenon - exclusively with reference to the Italian and German experiences (more German actually). Even that experience is reduced to some unhelpful superficial formulas like Horkheimer’s largely misunderstood statement in 1939 ’if you aren’t willing to talk about capitalism, you had better keep quiet about fascism too’, or Dimitrov’s rendering of (…)

• Slave Trade

  29 March 2025

  26 March 2025
  Press Release/061/2025
  UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE
  FROM THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
  Following are UN Secretary-General Ant

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  Review of Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts . . . | Gond & Chandravanshi

  29 March 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
  Henry Holt and Company 2018, 160 pages, ?3,230
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  Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond, Ranjan Kumar Chandravanshi
  This book highlights the importance of avoiding social media. Author Jaron Lanier, a tech expert, critiques big tech and their exploitative practices. He explains how social media harms freedom, real-life interactions, and productivity while (…)

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  A tribute to a communist | Joydip Ghosal

  29 March 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Sitaram Yechury: Outstanding Communist
  CPI (M) Publications
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  Sitaram Yechury: Outstanding Communist, Tributes by Comrades is a collection of articles on the life and contribution of departed comrade. It was originally published in People

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  Review of Brunstedt, Jonathan, The Soviet Myth of World War II

  29 March 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
  by Jonathan Brunstedt
  Cambridge University Press
  Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series
  2021, 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-49875-3
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  Reviewed by Christopher Bishop (University of Southern Mississippi)
  In May 1945, Joseph Stalin raised a toast to the

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  Review of Researching Social Media with Children | Arun Kumar Gond

  29 March 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Researching Social Media with Children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytelling by Antonio Silva Esquinas, Jorge Ramiro Perez Suarez, Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo, Julio Diaz Galan
  Routledge 2024, 105 pages, Rs 1,622 ISBN: 9781032506173
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  Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond
  Social media is more than just a platform for connection- it shapes how young people form identities, express emotions, and navigate reality. This book explores their (…)

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  Govt move to discriminate past and future pensioners - Statement by AITUC (March 28, 2025)

  29 March 2025

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  Press Release
  The following statement was released by Amarjeet Kaur General Secretary AITUC, today on 28th March 2025
  AITUC Condemns the Unilateral Decision of the BJP led NDA Government to discriminate past and future pensioners
  AITUC demands to immediately withdraw the cruelty shown towards the pensioners
  AITUC calls upon the entire Central and State Government Employees / Pensioners and their Organisations to immediately plunge into action (…)