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    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • Originally published: Red Flag  on July 21, 2024 by Lucas Brunning-Halsall (more by Red Flag)  |  (Posted Jul 27, 2024) Capitalism, Health, Imperialism, InequalityAmericas, United StatesNewswire3M, Poison Way back in 1979, Lewis Lehr, the CEO of American corporation 3M, met with an expert on toxic chemicals. A mysterious set of chemicals produced by 3M had been found in the blood of people across…


  • In this section of the website, find the testimonies and memories of those who were arrested, resisted and fought the emergency. Inevitably, we will reflect on today’s challenges to Indian democracy, Constitutional values and human rights. Click here to read ‘The Past as Present – The Emergency Then and Now – PUCL Bulletin (July 2023)…


  • The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting                                                                                                                      Milan Kundera On 12th June, 2024,  the Government of India came out with a gazette notification, in which it declared  25th June as “Samvidhan Hatya Divas” (literally translated as Constitution Murder Day) to ‘pay tribute to all those who suffered and fought against the…


  • The dialectic and why it matters to Marxists Originally published: Socialist Worker  on July 9, 2024 by Eric Ruder (more by Socialist Worker)  |  (Posted Jul 24, 2024) Ideology, Marxism, StrategyGlobalNewswire CAPITALISM IS like gravity: it envelops our world so completely that it’s easy to forget about it entirely. The laws of both operate inexorably, and attempts to disregard them can result in…


  • ByPaul Blackledge The German Marxist thinker Karl Kautsky uncovered the radical history of Christianity, from the early years of the Church to the Reformation and the German Peasant War. His pioneering work in Marxist historiography deserves to be remembered today. “Town & Country,” our focusing on rural politics, is out now. Subscribe to our print edition…


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