2026

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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