((Translated by Mayank Saxena)) 12 अप्रैल, 2014 (12 अप्रैल, 2014 के इस लेख को लिखे गए अब एक साल से अधिक समय हो चला है, आम चुनाव हो गए हैं और देश में नई सरकार आ गई है। चारों ओर वैसा ही माहौल परिपक्व हो चुका है, जिसका ख़तरा भाप कर ये लेख लिखा गया था, ऐसे में जब पुणे में सिर्फ दाढ़ी और टोपी … Continue reading क्या आप वाकई मुस्लिमों को जानते हैं?
Gandhi and Nehru had differences. But they had strong mutual synergies on vital issues. Gandhi and Nehru had differences. But they had strong mutual synergies on vital issues. BEFORE THE mid-19th century, the term secular was sometimes used with contempt. For the clergy, in particular, it was almost a synonym for the uninitiated or “ignorant”. The term was sought to be popularised in its … Continue reading Gandhi on secular law and state – Anil Nauriya
On 7 May 2014, groups and individuals demonstrated outside the Assam Bhavan in Chanakyapuri, Delhi, against the recent killings of Bangla speaking Muslims in Bodoland. Photo Article by Mukul Dube Continue reading It is never illegal to be human – Mukul Dube
Journalists of Bastar are often exposed to serious security threats by Maoists who want to release a statement or by the police who want to gather information Sometime in the early summer of 2013, while preparing for a motorbike ride in the forests of Bastar, the State administration came up with a request to this correspondent — to mediate with left-wing rebels to recover the … Continue reading Whose journalism is it anyway? – Suvojit Bagchi
By AVIVA SHEN AND JUDD LEGUM, ThinkProgess.com, In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into something everyone can support. This is not, however, an accurate representation of the man. Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he … Continue reading Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won’t Talk About
(A coal-fired power plant billows smoke (Arnold Paul)) Chris Williams, the author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis and a participant in the ecosocialist coalition System Change Not Climate Change, reports on the latest report on climate change–and the Wall Street non-response to it. “The conventional wisdom on the world’s stock markets is that all listed reserves will be exploited and burnt.” … Continue reading Who cares about the planet anyway?
Source: Rolling Stone All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers By Matt Taibbi September 26, 2013 7:00 AM ET In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state of Rhode Island took bold action to avert … Continue reading Looting the Pension Funds
A discussion initiated by activist, author and filmmaker Naomi Klein has raised important questions for the environmental movement, from the character of mainstream groups to the strategies of the left. Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis and a participant in the ecosocialist coalition System Change Not Climate Change, responds to the debate in this first installment of a three-part … Continue reading The inconvenient truth about greenwashing
Palestinian activist Budour Hassan explains the case of a jailed Syrian journalist October 3, 2013 Jihad Asa’ad Muhammad SYRIAN SECURITY forces arrested Syrian journalist and Marxist dissident Jihad Asa’ad Muhammad near Athawra Street in central Damascus on August 20. News of his arrest was confirmed by his sister Lina, a fellow Marxist and anti-regime activist forced into hiding. Jihad had been among the few revolutionary … Continue reading Telling the stories of Syria’s masses
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