Mainstream WeeklyThe Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden, is now in international news. The Suez Canal which is the world’s largest man-made waterway is on the northern side of the Red Sea. The canal, which is 193 km long and now close to 200 meters wide, connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea. The Houthis are attacking the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait within this, which is merely 26 kilometres wide.
Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the United (…)
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Bab-el-Mandeb Strait Tensions: The Global Impact on Maritime Security and the Blue Economy | Santosh Mathew
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South Koreans blame feminism for demographic collapse | Dylan Motin
17 February 2024South Korea’s pressing fertility challenge is complex and solely linking it to feminism deflects focus from underlying societal and structural contributors to the demographic crisis. To boost natality rates, addressing factors such as extended work hours, economic stress, mounting household debts and cultural expectations on childcare and marriage is crucial. Policymakers must tackle the issue with unbiased, trans-partisan efforts rooted in comprehensive diagnoses, rather than succumbing to ideological divides.
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Pakistan: Fraudulent elections ensure the army’s status quo | Claude Rakisits
17 February 2024February 12, 2024
By anyone’s standard, the elections held in Pakistan on February 8 were neither free nor fair.
Under the leadership of General Asim Munir, the military ‘massaged’ three-time leader Nawaz Sharif’s return to power. Sharif, a convicted corrupt politician, has had an ambivalent relationship with the army for the last 40 years.
Prior to polling day, the military and the judiciary had ensured that the highly popular former prime minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan (…) -
Open Letter to Western European Workers | Petr Kropotkin
17 February 2024With the outbreak of war, the anarchist newspaper Temps Nouveaux, in which Kropotkin was a regular contributor, had to be suspended, as almost all its readers and subscribers went off to war. In its place the publishing group of Temps Nouveaux — Jean Grave, Kropotkin, Guerin, Paul Reclus, Cherkezishvili, and others — published a series of pamphlets: the first, issued in May 1916, contained a “declaration
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AITUC Condemns the Centre’s Brute Force Against Farmers | Feb 13, 2024
17 February 2024Press Release by AITUC Secretariat on 13.02.2024
AITUC Condemns the Centre’s Brute Force Against Farmers
News is being flashed that the farmers’ column coming towards Delhi in support of their demands, is being tear-gassed, being doused with water-cannons from drones etc. Early reports also mentioned heavy barricading of roads with cement blocks, sharp nails etc. This is utterly condemnable, as the Centre had given written assurances accepting Farmers’ demands while requesting them to (…) -
Letter to the Prime Minister Modi over failure to meet promisses and repressin against farmers | SKM, Feb 13, 2024
17 February 2024Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM)
13th February 2024, New Delhi
Letter to the Prime Minister
To, Narendra Modi ji , Hon’ble Prime Minister of India North Block, New Delhi, Govt of India
Subject: Failure to Fulfill Promises to Farmers and Repression Let Loose on Farmers Protest in Punjab - Haryana Border. Kisan Movement will resist united and single-minded any act of authoritarianism and excessive use of state power
Sir,
We write to you once again on the eve of our All India call (…) -
Stop Waging War against our Farmers - Statment by PUCL, Feb 15, 2024
17 February 2024PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091
Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mail:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org
15.02.2024
PUCL condemns the Union Government:
Stop Waging War against our Farmers
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Supreme Court ruling renders the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional - Statements by CPI(M) & CPI
17 February 2024[Text of Statements by Left Parties]
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee
Press Statement February 15, 2024
A Historic Verdict
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) hails the historic judgment of the Supreme Court, which has struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional. By this verdict, this unscrupulous scheme designed to finance the ruling party by anonymous corporate donors has been completely scrapped.
The CPI(M) had declared at the outset itself (…) -
Ruble’s Review of Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
17 February 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
Reviewed by Alexandria Ruble (University of Idaho)
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Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 by Jane Freeland
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2022. viii + 239 pp. ISBN: 9780197267110
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In many societies, even today, the voices of women who have endured domestic violence remain muted. Jane Freeland’s fantastic new monograph provides survivors and the (…) -
An X-Ray of Britain’s scheming and India’s follies on China | M.R. Narayan Swamy
17 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir] __0__ Cross Winds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China; by Vijay Gokhale
Vintage/Penguin Random House
Pages: xvii + 235; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 : 0670099910 ISBN-13 : 978-0670099917 Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale’s scholarly study is a pointer that Jawaharlal Nehru may not have been the biggest villain of India’s disastrous policy on China after all. Based on startling archival material, Gokhale’s (…)