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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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Matt Lutz Jan 5 ∙ Guest post One recurring point of contention in political debates is what language we should use to discuss matters of moral and political significance. Many on the progressive left prefer particularist moral language, which emphasizes the specific needs and grievances of particular groups. Others prefer to use universalistic language, which…
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Originally published: Red Flag on December 26, 2023 by James Plested (more by Red Flag) | (Posted Jan 03, 2024) Climate Change, Environment, ImperialismGlobalNewswireCarbon Dioxide (CO2), Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) It’s more than 50 years since scientists first came to understand that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities could be drivers of a potentially catastrophic warming of the…
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No. 1 | Countermeasures Dear friend, In September 2022, the Progressive International dispatched an international delegation to the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Over the course of six days, we met with journalists, human rights defenders, unions, women’s organizations, and representatives from the Polisario — the movement fighting to liberate Western Sahara,…
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin. To mark the occasion, David Lane presents an assessment of Lenin’s theory of socialist revolution. He writes that while Lenin was correct in his appraisal of the social forces in support of a bourgeois revolution, he provided an incomplete and erroneous analysis of…
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Originally published: Counterfire on December 28, 2023 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire) | (Posted Jan 03, 2024) History, Literature, Movements, StrategyEurope, RussiaNewswireBolshevik party, Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin On 21 January it will be one hundred years since Lenin’s death. While many have tried to bury his legacy and ideas, revolutionary socialists need still to learn the lessons of his leadership of the…
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