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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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By Denis Voltaire September 12, 2023 Anew trial, expected to start shortly in the District of Brescia, Northern Italy, is grounded on the accusation that NATO bases in the region of Veneto provided orientation, training and support to infamous right-wing terrorist organizations, most notably Ordine Nuovo. In May 1974, Ordine Nuovo operatives planted a bomb at an anti-fascist rally in…
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By Jeremy Kuzmarov September 14, 2023 When CIA-trained terrorists tried to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s, the left erupted in protest. Now the left is cheering for the CIA. During the 1980s, the American left was mobilized in opposition to the Reagan administration policy of arming the Nicaraguan Contras—counter-revolutionaries, whose primary purpose was…
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Preface to Engels’ Dialectics of Nature by J.B.S. Haldane. International Publishers, New York, 1940.
One of the most prominent biologists and important popularizers of science of the 20th century, J.B.S. Haldane writes the preface to Engels’ ‘Dialectics of Nature’ on its first English-language publication. MARXISM has a two-fold bearing on science. In the first place Marxists study science among other human activities. They show how the scientific activities of any society…
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THOMAS FAZI SEP 27, 2023 War, climate change, economic stagnation, political polarisation — there seems to be no shortage of crises these days. Indeed, the situation is so perilous that the rarely hysterical Financial Times last year named “polycrisis” one of its words of the year, defining it as “a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects,…
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