2022

by Pramod Ranjan *
For the Brockport College of the State University of New York, March 2022 was a period of frenetic activity. The College faced acerbic attacks from White politicians and a section of newspapers. Reason: The College had invited a convicted Black Panther intellectual for giving a lecture.
It may be pertinent to mention here that Black Panther was the inspiration behind the founding of Dalit Panther in India in the year 1972. The ideology of the Black Panther was the (…)

April 28, 2022
Steering Committee, Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs
We strongly protest against the repeated statements by President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and other Russian leaders threatening to use nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons are the “weapons of absolute evil” which, if used, would cause catastrophic humanitarian consequences, and the use of which can never be accepted.
The use of nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass (…)

by James M. Dorsey
Apr 26, 2022 Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism, and sovereignty that have come to blows in Ukraine.
Newly renovated, brooding, and inward-looking, Russia’s art nouveau pavilion stands empty and abandoned after its Lithuanian curator and artists resigned in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A lone armed guard is (…)

by Lucien van der Walt
Johannesburg, South Africa. May 1918. A group of African workers, and a handful of white radicals, meet in a small room behind a general store on the corner of Fox and McLaren streets, as they have done on a weekly basis for over a year. Several new faces are present, so Rueben Cetiwe, a key African militant, outlines the purpose of the gathering:
"We are here for Organisation, so that as soon as all of your fellow workers are organised, then we can see what we can (…)

26 April 2022
Dear Prime Minister,
We are witnessing a frenzy of hate filled destruction in the country where at the sacrificial altar are not just Muslims and members of the other minority communities but the Constitution itself. As former civil servants, it is not normally our wont to express ourselves in such extreme terms, but the relentless pace at which the constitutional edifice created by our founding fathers is being destroyed compels us to speak out and express our anger and (…)

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY
PRESS RELEASE
27th April 2022
We are extremely concerned about news reports that allege aerial attacks by indeterminate platforms on the intervening night of 14-15 April 2022, in the villages of Bijapur and Sukma districts including, interalia Bottetong and Mettagudem (Usoor block), Duled, Sakler, Pottemangi (Konta block). (A partial list of reports is enclosed).
Photos from the ground by reporters from Bottetong village, Mettaguda and other (…)

* Climate Change 2022 Report: Act Now to Avert Catastrophic Event | K N Ninan
* Making Sense of IMF’s Institutional View on Capital Flows | Kavaljit Singh
* Jammu and Kashmir: Tenth Report Of The Concerned Citizens’ Group
* Audit of UIDAI reveals what Delhi High Court is yet to reveal | Gopal Krishna
* Puniyani on Bremen & Shah’s Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics
* Against the war, for global solidarity | International of Anarchist Federations

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 23, 2022
That climatic change and growing environmental stress must reshape state policy on land, water, forests, agriculture, transport, building rules, waste management and pollution control, sanitation, recycling, urbanisation and energy use at all levels have been a given for years but the inability of policymakers, corporates and society to change ways is all too visible. Economic development and industrial plans — infrastructure and mining (…)

by K N Ninan *
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its third and final report of the sixth assessment report which focusses on Mitigation of Climate Change. Like the earlier two assessment reports it depicts a very grim picture of the climate situation. The report notes that the last decade from 2010 to 2019 witnessed the highest decadal absolute increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 1850. Global net anthropogenic GHG emissions were around 59 (…)

This year Earth Day (22 April 2022 ) is being observed at a time when the dangers to our once beautiful and bountiful planet appear to be at their most extreme. This is not just because of the more worrying projections of climate change by leading scientists, or because of similar projections of a worsening situation with respect to other serious environmental problems. This is also because of the deeply disappointing attitudes of world leadership as seen in the rapid escalation of the (…)