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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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11:23 18.01.2024 • On the 75th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2, people walk in snowfall to the Motherland monument to place flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where the victims were buried, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 26, 2019 An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history…
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by Jacques LaPere (Dec 01, 2023) Topics: Fascism Marxism Movements Revolutions Places: Europe Portugal Jacques LaPere is a retired professor, literary critic, and translator. He currently resides in northern California. Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal), Until Tomorrow, Comrades, trans. Eric A. Gordon (New York: International Publishers, 2023), 432 pages, $21.99, paperback. If ever there were a more urgent moment to read a novel due to the…
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An excerpt from ‘In That Mill, I Too Was Forged: Poems’, by Narayan Surve, translated from the Marathi by Jerry Pinto. Narayan Surve & Jerry Pinto Jan 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm By way of introduction I’m run ragged, in and out.My daily bread is my daily doubt.I am a worker, a flashing sword,Set to slash through…
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ByHarrison FlussSam Miller On her birthday, we celebrate the life of Eleanor Marx. Subscribe to Tribune today and help us build a real, socialist alternative to Britain’s media moguls. Join our mailing list SUBMIT Born on January 16, 1855, Eleanor Marx was Karl and Jenny Marx’s youngest daughter. She would become the forerunner of socialist feminism and one of the…
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BY VIJAY PRASHAD JANUARY 15, 2024 Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is…
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