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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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ARVIND NARRAIN·JANUARY 1, 2024 The Leaflet presents to you a curated list of books from 2023, perhaps for 2024. Happy reading! — Read Part 2 here. A review of books read and enjoyed in the previous year is a nod to what books can do. Broaden the imagination, help one cope with difficult circumstances with humour, provide a…
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BYSAM GINDIN Socialists can’t wave away concerns about the feasibility of a future socialist society — we need to offer people credible answers. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition today. The Essential Guide to Jacobin This article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a publication from the Jacobin Foundation. Right now, you…
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The Koregaon ‘Dalit Victory’ That Wasn’t ARAVINDAN NEELAKANDANTuesday, January 2, 2024 4:40 pm IST Bhima Koregaon Victory Pillar (Knitin777/Wikimedia Commons)The projection of the Koregaon event of 1818 as a Dalit victory is not an alternative reading of history.It is instead a rehashing of colonial propaganda that is not based on facts. The so-called ‘new’ Dalit…
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N D JAYAPRAKASH·DECEMBER 23, 2023 While the pursuit of justice for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims has been a harrowing experience, the positive signs that emanate now and then restore hope that justice will be rendered at some point in time, writes N.D. Jayaprakash. — Prologue Through an unprecedented Order dated November 28, 2023, the High Court…
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What is happening in Gaza is more than a spur-of-the-moment decision; it is part and parcel of the Zionist project. Thomas Fazi Jan 3 ∙ Preview Ethnic cleansing — the forced or “pressured” removal of an ethnic, racial or religious group from any given area with the intent of making the latter ethnically homogeneous —…
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