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reports and news clippings of PILER/NCJP conference in Karachi on ’Uprooting religious intolerance through formal education in Pakistan’

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Rudolf Hilferding died in the Gestapo dungeon of La Santé in Paris in the second week of February 1941, two days after he was handed over to the Nazis by the Vichy Government. He spent the last months of his life in Arles, working on what he called a ‘critique of Marxism’ whose first and only draft survives as “Das historische Problem” (1940). The following extracts show that among other things Hilferding wanted Marxists to move towards a less passive, more dynamic conception of the state and its role in history.

‘Make in India’ has failed to resonate with businesses internationally because the accumulation of capital, worldwide, is driven by more than just propaganda and a fading charisma. But this hasn’t stopped the ruling party and government machinery from ‘making’ at a furious pace. It has manufactured the crisis at JNU as part of a wide-ranging assault on the control of higher education in the country.

We urge that you use the summit to encourage the Indian government to:

– Repeal the sedition law, and in the interim instruct state governments to follow Supreme Court strictures when applying the law.
– Amend the FCRA so that it does not interfere with the rights to freedom of expression and association and cannot be misused to choke the protected peaceful activities of civil society organizations.