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Human Rights Watch called on the Bangladesh government, factory owners, and Western retailers to ensure respect for workers’ rights and end the unlawful targeting of labor leaders by factory owners and supervisors. The 78-page report, ‘“Whoever Raises Their Head, Suffers the Most’: Workers’ Rights in Bangladesh’s Garment Factories,” is based on interviews with more than 160 workers from 44 factories. [. . . ]

M.N.Roy and Borodin decided that Mexico should take the lead. Soon Socialist Party of Mexico was converted into the Communist Party of Mexico in an extra-ordinary conference held in November, 1919 in the city of Mexico. Carranza, President of Mexico, who was on friendly terms with Roy, approved the event to take place. So the first communist party in the world outside Russia was born. It was in this background that Lenin invited M.N.Roy to attend the second Congress of the Communist International to be held in Moscow in July-August, 1920. Roy landed in Moscow in May 1920 and was given a copy of Lenin’s ‘Preliminary Draft Theses on the National & Colonial Questions’. Roy had certain differences on some fundamental issues with the views of Lenin. Roy’s Supplementary Theses was also adopted by the Comintern alongwith Lenin’s theses. Roy, on behalf of the Communist International, played major part in formulating the policies and implementing the programme of building up communist movements in different countries of Asia, including India.

The Pakistani passport, I was told during a recent argument on nationalism, is our identity in the world. Appropriate then, that it depicts the national predicament. On the cover, embossed in gold, is the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Ritu Gairola Khanduri, on history of cartoons, from colonial to current times, and about various aspects of Indian society from the state, to political society to modernity.

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Complaint u/s 153-A and 295 -A IPC against Shri Munna Kumar Shukla, General Secretary, Akhil Bhartiya, Hindu Mahasabha, Mandir Marg,New Delhi-110001 for making (…)