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Imperialist expansion, wars and neo-fascism

Imposition of a neo-liberal economic order and engaging in wars are two weapons used by imperialism to reassert its hegemony. The “inevitable striving of finance capital”, Lenin had written in Imperialism, (is) “to enlarge its spheres of influence and even...
Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka wins Lanka Presidental election
September 23, 2024

Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka wins Lanka Presidental election

MELBOURNE, 23 September, 2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayaka  (AKD) Leader of the Marxist JVP and the NPP coalition has been elected...
आरएसएस को लगता है चुनाव में भाजपा की सीटों में गिरावट का मुख्य कारण है दलित वोटों का इंडिया गठबंधन की ओर खिसक जाना
September 16, 2024

आरएसएस को लगता है चुनाव में भाजपा की सीटों में गिरावट का मुख्य कारण है दलित वोटों का इंडिया गठबंधन की ओर खिसक जाना

भाजपा के लिए सन 2024 के लोकसभा चुनाव के नतीजे निराशाजनक रहे. लोकसभा में उसके सदस्यों की संख्या 303 से...
SC/ST’Creamy layer’ a ‘bogus concept’, ‘atrocious policy’: Dr. Umakant
August 24, 2024

SC/ST’Creamy layer’ a ‘bogus concept’, ‘atrocious policy’: Dr. Umakant

By Abhay Kumar*  The recent Supreme Court’s decision favouring sub-categorization within SC reservation is “disappointing,” Ambedkarite scholar and Dalit rights...
Misinformation undermines life in the age of digital revolution
April 16, 2024

Misinformation undermines life in the age of digital revolution

  By Bhabani Shankar Nayak* In this era of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) -fuelled digital revolution, misinformation has emerged as...
Loneliness and capitalism: Social & emotional cost
March 18, 2024

Loneliness and capitalism: Social & emotional cost

The epidemic of loneliness is spreading rapidly in our hyper-connected world of social media. Studies by the World Health Organization...
How people get sucked into misinformation rabbit holes …
February 23, 2024

How people get sucked into misinformation rabbit holes …

How people get sucked into misinformation rabbit holes – and how to get them out As misinformation and radicalisation rise,...
Laziness as a form of resistance
February 18, 2024

Laziness as a form of resistance

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak* The productivist ideology lies at the core of the profit-making pyramid of capitalism. It perpetuates a...
Economy: A single hold-all measure like GDP is a camouflaging device
February 4, 2024

Economy: A single hold-all measure like GDP is a camouflaging device

3 February 2024: There are well-known problems associated with the concept of gross domestic product (GDP) as well as with...
March 11, 2022

COMMENT : AAP tsunami decimates the big & mighty in Punjab & …

MELBOURNE, 11 March 2022: Politics can throw up strange situations. But what has happened in Punjab is mind-boggling. The AAP...
Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine: Where you stand depends on where you sit
March 8, 2022

Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine: Where you stand depends on where you sit

ROME, Mar 4, 2022 (IPS) – This aphorism which dates back to the late 1940s points out that one’s position...
Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi
January 10, 2022

Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi

Statues of Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, have been vandalised or removed around the world – but why does his...
June 10, 2016

Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar

‘Why can’t we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?’: Historian Romila Thapar Full text of the speech...
December 26, 2015

Book Review : “The Past As Present” By Romila Thapar

By Anil Gokhale The Book to be considered as milestone in Historical writings on Ancient India and its reverberations on...

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Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka wins Lanka Presidental election

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