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  • Farmer hounded by loan sharks to sell kidney

    A Facebook community and a WhatsApp group set Roshan Kule on the road from Chandrapur to Cambodia, via Kolkata. PARI investigates. The Minthur series: Part II – Organ Trafficking Author Jaideep Hardikar Editor Harshita Kalyan Photo Editor Binaifer BharuchaSee all credits On his modest smartphone, Roshan Sadashiv Kule opens his Facebook account and scrolls through…

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  • The Great Indian Coalition

    What the Mahagathbandhan leaders can learn from Ram Manohar Lohia AKSHAYA MUKUL 01 January, 2019 {ONE} ON THE EVENING OF 10 DECEMBER 2018, a day before the results of assembly elections in five states were announced, India’s biggest opposition leaders began trickling into the Parliament House Annexe in Delhi. The politicians in attendance included Sonia and…

  • The Specter of ‘Knowledge as Commons’

    by Sam Popowich (Mar 01, 2024) Topics: Democracy  Movements  State Repression Places: Asia  India Prabir Purkayastha is a social activist and peoples science activist of India. By Adv.tksujith – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. Sam Popowich is a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. On October 3, 2023, in an egregious violation of press freedom, the founder of the progressive Indian media company NewsClick, Prabir Purkayastha,…

  • To Struggle!: A Review of Marcello Musto’s ‘The Last Years of Karl Marx’

    by Mauricio Betancourt (Feb 01, 2024) Topics: History  Marxism Places: Global Mauricio Betancourt is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, translated by Patrick Camiller (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020), 208 pages, $25, paperback. The Last Years of Karl Marx, the enhanced English translation of…

  • Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus

    Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the promise and perils of artificial intelligence. FEB 24, 2024 Larry Summers is an economist, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and a member of the board of directors of OpenAI. Summers is the former…

  • The Cuban revolution differed from the Stalinist regimes (How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

    Filed: Cuban Revolution  Reviews How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution:Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet UnionBy Pedro Ross$27 / 288 pages / 978-1-58367-9784 Reviewed by Orlando Hill for Counterfire Pedro Ross is a retired General Secretary of the Cuban Workers’ Unions (CTC- Central de Trabajadores de Cuba), Cuba’s TUC. Most importantly, he was actively involved in the…

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