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• A war where humanity is on trial now | Sonia Gandhi

  4 November 2023

  By Sonia Gandhi
  On October 7, 2023, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel, killing more than a thousand people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping over 200 more.
  The unprecedented attack was devastating for Israel. The Indian National Congress strongly believes that violence has no place in a decent world, and the very next day unequivocally condemned Hamas’s attacks.
  This tragedy is, however, being compounded by the Israeli military’s (…)

• Stop The War!

  4 November 2023, by Sagari Chhabra

  Does it really matter who started this
  and who said what to whom;
  that endless circle of violence
  has spiralled into a cloud that
  looks much like a mushroom.
  It’s looming over two people;
  does it matter if one is brown
  the other white;
  does it really count
  if each thinks he’s right.
  All I can think of every night
  is of that child under the rubble
  and the hostages screaming too,
  you can sue me if you like
  but there is no morality
  behind this war,
  so let the world’s machismo (…)

• US & UK’s Support for Canada Against India: Cosmetic Diplomacy? | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  4 November 2023, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  The Diplomatic stand of India towards Canada may change again in near future. At present, it is marked by probably a shift from what was being displayed earlier. The apparent shift was first suggested by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar hinting at the resumption of Indian visa operations in Canada “very soon.” India had halted these around a month ago and was currently reviewing the “security situation” around India’s missions in Canada. In his words, “Some weeks ago, we stopped (…)

• Why the APEC Summit in San Francisco is significant | Bharat Bhushan

  4 November 2023, by Bharat Bhushan

  All eyes are on the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the US from 26 October.
  Wang Yi’s visit, ostensibly to reciprocate the visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing in June, takes place in the run-up to the Asia-Pacific Summit in San Francisco which kicks off on 11 November.
  There are expectations that US President Joe Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping there.
  China has not yet confirmed Xi’s visit to the annual APEC Summit.
  However, both (…)

• Why Ecosocialism? For a red-green future | Michael Lowy

  4 November 2023

  (This paper was first distributed in December 2018 for discussion in the Great Transition Initiative)
  The capitalist system, driven at its core by the maximization of profit, regardless of social and ecological costs, is incompatible with a just and sustainable future. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that puts social and ecological well-being first. Attuned to the links between the exploitation of labor and the exploitation of the environment, ecosocialism stands against both (…)

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  PUCL Statement for Immediate Ceasefire and Unhindered Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

  4 November 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES (PUCL) 332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091 E.mails:puclnat[at]gmail.com Please visit our website: www.pucl.org
  01st November, 2023
  CONDEMN THE ONGOING GENOCIDAL WAR WAGED BY ISRAEL AGAINST PALESTINIAN CITIZENS! Demand Immediate Ceasefire and Unhindered Humanitarian Aid.
  PUCL strongly condemns the genocidal violence and crimes against humanity perpetuated against Palestinians by Israeli forces in the (…)

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  Stop the War in Gaza - Joint Statement by CPI & CPI(M)

  4 November 2023

  October 28, 2023
  Press Statement
  Stop this Genocidal War in Gaza
  It is shocking that India abstained on a Resolution overwhelmingly adopted by the UN General Assembly calling for a humanitarian truce titled “Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” in the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.
  India’s abstention on a resolution that was overwhelmingly adopted shows the extent to which Indian foreign policy is being shaped by being a subordinate ally of US (…)

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  India’s abstention UN GA vote on a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza - IDPD statement

  4 November 2023

  Date: 28.10.2023
  India’s stand at the UN General Assembly on the resolution on the Middle East against our accepted policies of Peace and Disarmament - IDPD
  The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has expressed anguish at the abstention of India in the voting in the UN General Assembly on the resolution for ceasefire and peace in the Middle East. This is a total hypocrisy on the part of the Indian government and a reflection of its insensitivity towards the genocide being (…)

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  Review of O’Keeffe’s, Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia

  4 November 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Jasmine Calver
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  Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia by Brigid O’Keeffe
  London: Bloomsbury Academic 2021. 266 pp. $35.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-16067-5; $35.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-16066-8.
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  Esperanto and Internationalism
  Historians of internationalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries will have at least some knowledge of Esperanto, although for most the international language project remains (…)

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  Documentary: Eyal Weizman explains the Architecture of Violence

  4 November 2023

  Eyal Weizman explains architecture’s key role in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the evolution of urban warfare.