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On 5 January [2015], the first anniversary of the deeply contested 2014 elections, the most violent in Bangladesh’s history, clashes between government and opposition groups led to several deaths and scores injured. The confrontation marks a new phase of the deadlock between the ruling Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) opposition

When gung-ho posturing happens, the pit-poor daily wage earners like fishermen ultimately pay for it

Tariq Ali in conversation with Arundhati Roy about the state of Indian politics on The World Today on teleSUR English - December 2014

Sindh Agrarian Reforms Council was launched on Friday at a gathering held at a local hotel. The meeting was organized by National Peasants’ Coalition of Pakistan (NPCP) and Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE) in collaboration with Oxfam. More than 80 participants including Parliamentarians, civil society activists, journalists, peasants and people belonging to different sections of society attended the meeting and endorsed the initiative.

The era of Mao Zedong’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is often associated with its practices of “thought reform”—the ways in which the masses were indoctrinated into CCP ideology, self-criticism sessions, and mass “struggles” against counterrevolutionaries. However, until now, a comprehensive study of the pre-Communist origins of thought reform as a concept, and its evolution in implementation, have been left curiously understudied.