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September 10, 2024On 28th December, 2024, Saturday, more than hundreds of manual scavengers engaged in sewers and septic tank workers, and several families of the victims who had died in the line of duty on the practice of manual scavengers gathered for the public hearing conducted by the Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch along with various organisations and […]
“Full equality is antithetical to the logic and functioning of capitalism. A capitalist economy cannot work without exploiting workers,” said the economist. By C.J. Polychroniou Dec 24, 2024 In the 1990s, all the talk was about the end of socialism and the unchallenged military and economic superiority of the United States. Nonetheless, two decades later, […]
প্রতিবন্ধকতাযুক্ত মহিলাদের সঙ্গে ঘটতে থাকা লিঙ্গভিত্তিক হিংসার চিত্রটি বাস্তব। অথচ লিঙ্গভিত্তিক হিংসার বিরুদ্ধে আন্দোলনে, সমীক্ষায় বাদ পড়ে যান তাঁরা। লিখলেন সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী। উদাহরণ ১ ১৯ বছরের লতা (নাম পরিবর্তিত) হেমব্রম ঝাড়ঝন্ডের এক প্রত্যন্ত গ্রামের বাসিন্দা। লতার প্রতিবন্ধকতা উচ্চতাজনিত, তিনি ‘বামন’। বাড়িতে রয়েছেন মা, বাবা, বোন, দাদা, বৌদি। সপ্তম শ্রেণী পর্যন্ত পড়েছেন। খুবই ইচ্ছে থাকা […]
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price. By CHRIS HEDGES 23 DEC For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion […]
The year 2024 has been one of the deadliest in Bastar. Security forces reported over 235 killings since December 2023. Villagers have contested many of these “encounter” killings, alleging staged executions. PUCL (Chhattisgarh) has released a fact sheet on the recent incidents in Bastar (2024). Overview Bastar has become one of the most heavily militarized […]
Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a joint platform of farmers’ union, has written a letter to the President of India demanding her to direct the Union government to intervene and save the life of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, whose fast-unto death at the Khanauri border protest site in Punjab has entered 28 days; to stop repression […]