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• How the Gulf oil and gas states will play their hand at COP27 | Manal Shehabi

  12 November 2022

  by Manal Shehabi*
  31 October 2022
  Gulf oil and gas producing nations will badge themselves as climate leaders at COP27. It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.
  There is little room for grandiose ambitions at COP27. Instead, the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted this week by the African regional group in Egypt and dubbed the “African COP”, aims to meet COP26 commitments with practical solutions. In fact, the COP (…)

• After Lula’s Narrow Victory: Return to Democratic Capitalism or an Ongoing Rightwing Insurgency in Brazil? | Jörg Nowak

  12 November 2022

  by Jörg Nowak *
  After a tough campaign, centrist candidate Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT) won the second and final round of the Brazilian presidential election on October 30 with 50.9 percent of the vote, 2.1 million votes more than his extreme-right adversary Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL).
  This was the closest result for a Brazilian presidential election since 1989. Lula promised a return to democracy and normality in his victory speech on the packed Avenida Paulista (…)

• Birth of an Alternative Development paradigm: Unfolding of Transformative mode of Production | Sunil Ray

  12 November 2022, by Sunil Roy

  by Sunil Ray *
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  The 21st century made its beginning with a shift of geographies of reasons for reorganizing the principles of the economic and social life of humanity in the world. It is a new site in the making, unparallel in the history of the contemporary world, in the wake of the social movements against globalization that have been shaking several parts of the world for the past two decades or so. While epistemic disobedience (Mignolo, 2011: 44) is built into these (…)

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  Radical Socialist Statement on the Legalisation of the EWS Quota

  12 November 2022

  Radical Socialist (RS) strongly opposes the SC judgement upholding the BJP government’s policy proposal to enable 10% quota reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in Central government public sector employment and for access in its higher educational institutions. This judgement further enables state governments to do the same if they wish. Given that a host of non-BJP parties---one of the few exceptions being the DMK---have welcomed this judgement, the states they rule will try (…)

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  CPI Press Release - Refer SC Verdict on Reservation for EWS to Full Bench

  12 November 2022

  Communist Party of India Central Office New Delhi
  November 8, 2022
  Press Release
  Refer SC Verdict on Reservation for EWS to Full Bench: CPI
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on November 8, 2022):
  The Supreme Court judgment upholding 10 per cent reservation for EWS category by a five-member bench with three upholding and two expressing dissent has raised several questions regarding the very policy of reservations. (…)

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  Selective Tragetting of Media by Governor of Kerala - Statement by Editors Guild

  12 November 2022

  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  November 8th, 2022
  The Editors Guild of India takes strong exception to the arbitrary act by the Governor of Kerela, Mr. Arif Mohammad Khan, of expelling journalists of two news channels from a press conference that was organised in Kochi on November 7, 2022.
  Mr. Khan expelled journalists of news channels Kairali TV and MediaOne TV from the press briefing and started interacting with the media only after the representatives of the two (…)

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  A White Woman’s Secret War for South Africa | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 November 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The Unlikely Secret Agent
  by Ronnie Kasrils
  Monthly Review Press Pages: 183 Price: $14.95 Paperback ISBN: 9781583672778 eBook ISBN: 9781583672792
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  She could have led a privileged life as a white during the apartheid regime but she chose to risk everything to plunge into the struggle to build a new South Africa. She had a frail look but the soft-spoken, dainty woman had the heart of a lion. This gripping book is a well-deserved tribute to Eleanor Kasrils, written with love by her (…)

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  Review: Ramesh on Dewan’s Misreading the Bengal Delta

  12 November 2022

  Book reveiw by Aditya Ramesh*
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  Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
  by Camelia Dewan
  University of Washington Press 2021. Illustrations, maps, tables. 254 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-295-74960-0; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-295-74961-7.
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  Frequent headlines emanating from South Asia on extreme weather events are now unmissable, for example, Pakistan’s devastating floods, with some sources estimating a third of the (…)

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  Photo: Luís Inácio Lula da Silva by Jesus Carlos, May 1, 1981

  12 November 2022
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  Photo: Memorial for refugees of Spanish Civil War at the Rivesaltes internment camp

  12 November 2022

  Following the Retirada (the exodus of about half a million refugees from Spain to France in early 1939 during the Spanish Civil War), the French government decided to use Camp de Rivesaltes also known as the Camp Joffre to intern more than 15,000 Catalan refugees. The military camp was built in 1938, a few miles from Perpignan in Rivesaltes. Gradually, the Joffre camp became a place of internment for families of war refugees of the second world war and later for the Algerian war refugees and (…)