2024

What comes next will determine whether my country can find lasting change.
by Shahidul Alam
September 4, 2024
We had violated curfew to join the protest at Shahbag, the Bangladeshi equivalent of Tahrir Square. Injured friends we left behind bade tearful goodbyes, not knowing whether it would be the last time we’d meet. Police opened fire on our group of 20-some students, teachers and journalists. Three were hit, and as they were taken to the hospital, my partner and I happened upon a (…)

There is a strong case for arguing that the number of nuclear weapons at world level should have never been allowed to increase to three digits, let alone four or five digits. In fact it would have been much better to find ways of stopping any accumulation of nuclear weapons at a very early stage, either even before Hiroshima or else soon after this. At the most a stock of about fifty or so nuclear weapons ( at the most) could have been kept under the authorization of the United Nations to (…)

September 4, 2024
Therapy combining a type of engineered blood cells and bacteria that modify the gut microbiome offers promise for managing autoimmune diseases.
Blame it on lifestyles, genetic predispositions, and changes in our environment: autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis are emerging as a significant public health challenge.
Estimates suggest that a staggering 18 per cent are living with an autoimmune disease — although (…)

September 5, 2024
The BJP Government at the Centre appears to have decided to go all out not only in its bid to destabilise the Congress Government in Karnataka, but use the office of Karnataka Governor to attack the Congress leadership at the National level by targetting its national president Mallikarjun Kharge in an alleged new land scam case.
While the hearing on Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s petition challenging the State Governor’s order to prosecute him in the (…)

5 September 2024
Tell me how many more will get lynched, murdered, and slaughtered on the beef alibi! It’s just too shocking and disgusting to see how the goon brigades are calling the shots. Quite obviously they have the Hindutva backing and the go-ahead nods. The situation gets just too lethal as the political cum state machinery is under the control of the Right-Wing rulers of the day.
Lynching and humiliating Muslims on the beef alibi is increasing by the day. Last week an elderly (…)

The emergence of new health epidemics, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent outbreaks such as Monkeypox, reflects a continuous spectre of Non-traditional Security threats with the complex interplay of factors that distinguish these phenomena from historical epidemics.
First, the rapid spread of COVID-19 is largely attributed to unprecedented levels of global travel and trade due to closer integration of the world economy. The more the degree of (…)

(The Text below is excerpted from Party-Political Peasant-Central Discourse in the Day of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: Ideological Types and Mobilization Possibilites. doi:10.36059/978-966-397-236-7/53-72)
Left and far-left forces dominated the Ukrainian political space. After the February Revolution of 1917, N. Makhno expanded his activities in the south of Ukraine, which turned into a powerful peasant movement. At first, N. Makhno and his movement did not have their own political (…)

The Socialist Party (India) recently organized a India Pakistan Peace and Friendship March during 9 to 14 August, 2024 from Mansa to Atari-Wagha border in Amritsar District. Since the Modi government has come to power it has become difficult to cross the border otherwise it would have been a march going inside Pakistan as one was organized in 2005 between Delhi and Multan.
The march this year was on foot the first day, on vehicles the second day and again on foot for the last 3 (…)

Abstract
This essay scrutini​ses the likelihood of reform over revolution, attributed to the sway of neoliberal hegemony and state-mediated conspiratorial welfarism. It recogni​ses the potential of the social democratic movement for instigating revolutionary change but posits that such prospects are dampened by the influence of neoliberal hegemony and state-mediated conspiratorial welfarism, thereby underscoring the relevance of reform. Furthermore, it contends that while revolution is (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
September 3, 2024
Press Release
CPI Welcomes the Supreme Court Directions to Stop Indiscriminate Use of Bulldozer Policy of Demolition
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (September 3, 2024) the following statement:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India welcomes the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court directing the State Authorities to stop indiscriminate use of bulldozers to demolish the (…)