2024

Against Hindutva

United Nationa Human Rights
Press releases
29 February 2024
GENEVA (29 February 2024) – The deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan two and a half years on is causing unacceptable suffering, a UN expert said today. He called for urgent action by the Taliban and the international community to halt this downward spiral and give hope to Afghans.
“Women and girls are being erased from public life, peaceful dissent is not tolerated, violence and the threat of violence are used (…)

On March 8 this year again, the world once again celebrates is going to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Let us have a look at its background, history and present, briefly. It is all the more necessary the financial oligarchy and the MNCs are misusing and distorting its history for their super-profit motives. They even use the word ‘revolution’ sans its revolutionary history, erasing the names of Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin and other trail-blazers. It is sad to find the (…)

Sixty-eight years before the date that the United States of America celebrates as its “Independence Day,” an enslaved Black woman in New York City led a revolt for her independence. The woman along with other enslaved people in farmhouses nearby, decided to kill their slavers one night in 1708. She and and a man called “Indian Sam” killed their slaver, his pregnant wife, and their five offspring. They were arrested the next morning.
Historian Rebecca Hall unearthed this woman-led revolt (…)

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Letter to the Editor,
This is in response to the review of my book that appeared in Mainstream, on Feb 24, 2024
The reviewer raises two questions in the review, and i am keen to answer these here
1. "But one wonders, and I do wonder, if this diary is indeed a true reflection of the life all the Muslims in India are now leading? Or is one section more adversely affected than others? "
MY answer: "Muslims in the country are going (…)

Press Statement
The following statement was issued to the press by the platform of Central Trade Unions, independent sectoral federations/associations today 1st March 2024
Central Trade Unions & Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations Condemns Inhuman Vindictive and Cruel Action by DDA and Central Govt by way of Demolition of Residence of Vakil Hasan, the Famous Rat-hole Miner, Who led the team to Rescue 41 Precious Lives Trapped under Hilly Tunnel
The Joint Platform of (…)

Press Release Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) Delhi-NCR State Committee
29.2.2024
DDA Bulldozes House of Rescue Miner Waqeel Hasan Who Saved 41 Entrapped Workers in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara Tunnel!
Nation’s Hero Treated as Criminal in Modi Government’s Bulldozer Regime! CPIML Team Meets Waqeel, Extends All Kinds of Support to Waqeel and His Family!
Waqeel Hasan was a part of the team of 12 workers who rescued the 41 entrapped workers in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara (…)

The International Sociological Association (ISA) expresses its deep concern and demands the immediate and full reinstatement of Professor Lesley Wood, who was, on November 23, 2023, indefinitely suspended from the Department of Sociology at York University by the York University administration. Professor Wood is a prominent and highly respected member of the Canadian sociological community whose career has been devoted to social justice research and whose work has been recognized through (…)

February 28, 2024 [marron] Stop Manipulating Sexual Assault
All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been wielded as a tool of war – and as an (often lethal) weapon of racism and colonialism.
In its current war against the people of Gaza, the (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir] __0__
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott-Baumann
Picador India; Pages: 279; Price: Not given
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After the killing of an Israeli woman and her two children in a Palestinian grenade attack, Israeli forces entered the West Bank village of Qibya in October 1953 and killed 69 of its inhabitants, most of them women and children. This was part of a policy Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion put in place to force (…)