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After almost a decade of slumber, voices of resistance are emerging from landless peasants in Punjab once again. This is the tale of how biradari divided their social movement, but now, a shared struggle is bringing them close again

We are a group of retired civil servants who came together last year to express our concern at the decline in the secular, democratic, and liberal values enshrined in our constitution. We did so to join other voices of protest against the frightening climate of hate, fear and viciousness that the ruling establishment had insidiously induced. We spoke then as we do now: as citizens who have no affiliations with any political party nor adherence to any political ideology other than the values enshrined in our Constitution.

Born into a family of painters who were determined that he at least shouldn’t become one, so he could contribute to their upkeep financially, Sohn-Rethel instead started reading Bebel and Marx when he was still in school. He asked for the three volumes of Capital as a Christmas present when he was about to turn 17. A few years later, at university in Heidelberg, he immersed himself in the first sixty pages of Marx’s book for a whole year and a half, riveted by the theory of value.

The Sanatan Sanstha is likely the most mysterious, hardline right-wing Hindu organisation that exists in India today. . . .apart from this absurd mixture of nationalist Hindutva, doomsday panic and even theories of a mass cult in formation, the Sanatan Sanstha has also been accused of having blood on their hands for three bomb blasts in Goa and Mumbai and cold-blooded murders of Govind Pansare, Narendra Dhabolkar, MM Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh — all rationalists and activists who didn’t agree to their point of view.

recordings of proceedings of the People’s tribunal on the attack on educational institutions in India being held in Delhi