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Teesta Setalvad Lecture in Goa on "The Politics of Development" on Sunday 1 st September 2013. Organised by - Citizens Initiative for Communal Harmony (CICH) and Nature Education Society & Transformation(NEST)

Published in: [blue]Historical Materialism 21.2 (2013) 1–17blue]
The first appearance of the term ‘fictitious capital’ in Volume III of Capital is in the heading of Chapter 25 (‘Credit and Fictitious Capital’), yet curiously the term itself appears only twice in the main body of the chapter and on neither occasion is it Marx himself speaking. The first occasion is an excerpt from the Yorkshire banker Leatham who, as early as 1840, discusses the humungous circulation of bills of exchange, (…)

Greenham was a place where a generation of women found a public voice. It was a voice that was predicated on inclusion and difference... It identified earlier than most, that we had been let down by a political class, that the interests of ordinary people had been ignored in favor of warmongers and international business interests

THE assassination of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune is a black mark on Indian society. Forces of intolerance, superstition, irrationality and reaction killed him not because he threatened their faith or freedom, but because he was against exploiting people through black magic, sorcery, and sleights-of-hand while invoking supernatural powers.

Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) has been fighting a relentless legal battle to expose and book the culprits of the four fake encounters, namely Javed-Ishrat, Sohrabuddin Sheikh, Sadik Jamal and Tulsiram Prajapati. JSM has always held that all the encounters between 2002 and 2007 were not only fake but were carried out under the instructions of Government of Gujarat. The reasons given by DG Vanzara for his resignation from the Gujarat Police would perhaps be more applicable for the Chief Minister to resign from his office. If the CM has any conscience left in him, he should resign and dissolve the present assembly or else it would be the Constitutional duty of the President of India to dismiss the Government under Article 356 of the Constitution and impose President’s Rule. The Constitution of India has no other provision to deal with such a Government which has resorted to murders under the guise of ‘encounters’ as now confessed by the main architect of all the encounters – DG Vanzara.