2025

Secret Speech delivered First Party Secretary before a closed plenum at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956
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Comrades, in the report of the Central Committee of the party at the 20th Congress, in a number of speeches by delegates to the Congress, as also formerly during the plenary CC/CPSU sessions, quite a lot has been said about the cult of the individual and about its harmful consequences...
Allow me first of all to remind (…)

AUGUST 29, 2025
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc, jointly issue the following appeal on the Vice Presidential election:
We, the Left parties, endorse the candidature of Justice Sudershan Reddy (Retd.), who is contesting the election on behalf of all the opposition parties. Justice Sudershan Reddy is an eminent jurist, widely respected for his (…)

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All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
AIKS Press Release: New Delhi
Date 27 August 2025
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly condemns the BJP-led attacks and personal humiliation of Dr. Syeda Hameed, former Planning Commission member, Padma Shri recipient, and National President of the National Federation of Indian Women. Dr. Hameed, from a family with a distinguished freedom movement background, participated in a fact-finding delegation to Assam to assess eviction drives, citizenship (…)

Press Statement
25 August 2025
Fiji’s Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, referred to the International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity.
A new Fijian non-governmental group calling itself the Affected Group of Citizens of Fiji (AGCF) has reported the Prime Minister of Fiji, who was the first coup instigator in 1987, to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against the Rome Statute. Fiji is a signatory to the Rome Statute.
The (…)

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie
Random House
2024
ISBN 10: 0593730240
ISBN 13: 9780593730249
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There are books that explain, books that imagine, and books that dare. But every once in a while, a book comes along that refuses to be just a book, it becomes a cry, a wound, a reckoning. Salman Rushdie

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The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
by Iain MacGrego
Constable/Great Britain (Hachette India)
2025
ISBN-10: ?1408719517 / Pages: 429; Price: Rs 799
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Stand up and stop the Bully
Israel

The response of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to charges of voter list manipulation by Congress party Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi suggests that there may have been massive fraud in the electoral processes.
Instead of offering a clarification or an investigation into the alleged