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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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Wealth accumulation by the rich has risen to the point that the world could see its first trillionaire within a decade. Meanwhile, it will take more than 200 years to end global poverty, a report by Oxfam International has found.January 16, 2024 by Tanupriya Singh The wealth of the world’s top five richest men has more than…
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When India tried to liberate the Indian territory of Goa, from Portuguese Colonisers, Portuguese dictator Salazar sent his powerful Navy to fight the Indians. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the greatest Arab leader, closed the Suez Canal on 18.12.61, to deny access to the invading Navy, much to the chagrin of NATO. 15th Jan was…
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JANUARY 18, 2024 Tarek al-Ghoussein (Palestine), Untitled 9 from the series Self Portrait, 2002. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But…
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Societal anomie explains Kohei Saito’s allure BY THOMAS FAZI A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of degrowth communism. Or so Kohei Saito, the rising star of contemporary Marxist thought, would have you believe. Saito is the author of Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth, which was a huge success in his…
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Television The most important thing we’ve learned,So far as children are concerned,Is never, NEVER, NEVER letThem near your television set –Or better still, just don’t installThe idiotic thing at all.In almost every house we’ve been,We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.They loll and slop and lounge about,And stare until their eyes pop out.(Last week in…
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