2024

At a time when existing and potential wars dominate the attention of world leadership to such an extent, it may appear very unrealistic to discuss a future for humanity in which there are no wars. Yet this must be a very important part of our thinking, the reason being that if at all the life-sustaining conditions of our planet are to be saved, this is unlikely to be possible without humanity being able to agree on some version of a future without wars. Hence instead of dismissing the idea (…)

Focus on 2024
The world’s first precision gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease has been approved for use in the UK and US.
The UK and US have both approved a gene editing therapy to overcome the genetic mutation that causes sickle cell disease, but the treatment is expensive.
A new gene therapy has just been approved as a treatment for the inherited blood disease, sickle cell disease, in the UK and the US.
What makes this therapy unique is that it uses a gene-editing (…)

[First appeared in Fifth Estate, issue number 310 (Vol. 17 No. 3)] Source: www.marxists.org
Escape from death in a gas chamber or a Pogrom, or incarceration in a concentration camp, may give a thoughtful and capable writer, Solzhenitsyn for example, profound insights into many of the central elements of contemporary existence, but such an experience does not, in itself, make Solzhenitsyn a thinker, a writer, or even a critic of concentration camps; it does not, in itself, confer any (…)

From: Le Monde diplomatique, September 1998
Toni Negri was one of the historic leadership of the Italian revolutionary group Potere Operaio (Workers’ Power) and is currently serving a prison sentence in Rebibbia prison, Rome. Negri gave himself up on 1 July 1997 after 14 years’ exile in Paris in a bid to close a chapter in his own personal “judicial history” and that of other far-left militants still in exile. Originally sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for “armed insurrection against (…)

Dear Isaac,
Don’t you remember?
The joyous beauty of our youth
When we sang and ran up the hills?
Dear Isaac
Don’t you remember?
The chilled winds blowing into our faces
And how we laughed together?
Dear Isaac
Don’t you remember?
How they came
With the crooked cross, leather jackets and jackboots
Goose-stepping throwing us both
In the furnace of hell?
Dear Isaac
Don’t you remember?
How they stamped
The Star of David on your jacket?
And don’t you remember,
Dear Isaac? (…)

The earth never knows names as America, England, Israel; but states are created with territories soaked in blood, races marked: white, brown, black in exact order, there is no disorder.
The victors are heroes declaring their story amidst blazing bugles; the colonized have no story to tell, for we live within a well; we speak in a language not our own, our land is taken, our culture is primitive, we appear alive but are smouldering within.
It does not matter that Columbus came and (…)

cpim.org
The Ayodhya Invitaion
Date: December 26, 2023
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The CPI(M) General Secretary Comrade Sitaram Yechury has received an invitation to attend the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The CPI(M) policy has been to respect religious beliefs and safeguarding the right of every individual to pursue their belief. It believes that religion is a personal choice not to be converted into an (…)

Press Release
Removing sewer workers without notice is illegal! Giving workers a salary in cash is illegal!
Hundreds of Delhi Jal Board sewer workers unite; Delhi Commission for Safai Karamcharis Chairman promises to take immediate action
For Immediate Release
New Delhi, 28th December 2023: Hundreds of contractual sewer workers from different zones of Delhi, working under Delhi Jal Board have been removed without any prior notice in the past month. Most of these workers, who have (…)

Not In Our Name!
We are in the Christmas Season: a time when we are all called to internalize and actualize the gifts of joy, love, peace, truth, justice and hope which Jesus our Saviour offers to us!
Today we also need to take legitimate pride in the fact that Christians in India have contributed significantly to the country: in the freedom struggle, as members of the Constituent Assembly, and ever since independence, in every sphere of public life particularly in the educational, (…)

December 7, 2023
Shri Anurag Singh Thakur The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Government of India Shastri Bhawan New Delhi
Subject: Comments on the draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, Hon’ble Minister
Editors Guild of India [“EGI”] is an organisation established in 1978 to protect freedom of the press and to raise the standards of editorial leadership of newspapers and magazines. Since our establishment, we have consistently defended the freedom of (…)