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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

A video recording from The Institute of Policy Studies in Washington

Two papers on the changed political economy in the countryside, the organisations of conservative Kulaks and their trajectory in India