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Note: The author Luisa Landova-Stychova was a Czech anarchist during the 1910s. She was also a feminist, socialist, neo-Malthusian, and philosophical monist. In this piece, she argues that religion, capitalism, housework, and romantic love all alienate women from their interests and pursuit of justice. This piece was written in 1912, while she was an anarchist. It was a speech at an anarchist event and was printed in an anarchist journal. However, the author later became a member of (…)

ALL INDIA TRADE UNION CONGRESS (AITUC)
Press Release
14.04.2026
AITUC strongly condemns the repression let loose on agitating workers in Manesar and in Noida.
Demands release of all arrested and initiation of dialogue with union leaders
AITUC Strongly condemns the UP State Government’s attempt to malign the workers agitation on their genuine demands for raise in minimum

CPI(M)
April 14, 2026
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
Condemn Brutal Repression of Agitating Workers
The CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal repression unleashed on agitating factory workers in Delhi NCR

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), condemns the severe police action against striking factory workers of NOIDA and the attack on some reporters covering the protests on April 13, 2026. Reporters were also reportedly lathicharged and Dainik Bhaskar reporter Saket Anand was hit by a danda.
Some 350 workers have been arrested for vandalism and arson and another 100 detained for questioning, as per reports. Some CITU leaders are also stated to be under house arrest and reporters are not (…)

EGi Editors Guild of India
Statement on the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second Amendment Rules, 2026
April 4, 2026 ) New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGi) deeply opposes both the contents and the underlying intent behind the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second Amendment Rules, 2026 ("Draft Amendments"), which were made public by the Ministry of Electronics and (…)

Communist Party of India
April 21, 2026
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (April 21, 2026):
The Communist Party of India expresses deep concern over the recent observations reportedly made by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the occupied Palestinian territories about India

On April 16, 2026, a press conference was held in New Delhi to Reject Delimitation and strengthen the Women

BOOK REVIEW
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Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
by Alice Lovejoy
University of California Press
2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D

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