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AITUC pays homage to the Great Agricultural Scientist Dr M S Swaminathan.

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By Jayantha Das – India AITUC pays homage to the architect of India’s green revolution All India Trade Union Congress pays its rich tributes to the eminent agricultural scientist Dr M S Swaminathan. AITUC sends its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, the thousands of families under the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation who have lost their ‘Professor’, the scientist community for the loss of a great innovator and to the nation for having lost a colossus of a humanist scientist. “Father of India’s agriculture”, Dr M S Swaminathan has…

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Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy

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By Prabir Purkayastha (Posted Sep 16, 2023) Originally published: NewsClick.in on September 9, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in) The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had ended with the nineteenth century.1 The twentieth century was more about industry-based R&D laboratories, where corporations gathered together leading scientists and technologists to create the technologies of the future. In this phase, capital was still expanding production. Even…

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Art from The New Masses.

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Art from The New Masses. Vol. 4 No. 8. January, 1929. Art by Diego Rivera, William Seigel, Art Young, William Gropper, Gan Kolski,, Stuart Davis, Hugo Gellert, Xavier Guerrero, and Louis Lozowick. Art from The New Masses. Vol. 4 No. 8. January, 1929. The New Masses was the continuation of Workers Monthly which began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Communist Party publication, but drawing in a…

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India-CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY… 

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One Sanghi fraud of great India. …. Who dared to defeat 140 crores of Indian people… and finally defeated the Propaganda Political personal advisor G..O..E..B..E..L..L…of Nazi Hitler.. by manufacturing of Lies. trained  from his Rss SANATANA HINDUTHVA STOCKS… Uttered in all his well calculated false election .campaigns and his functiins as in PM POWER since from 2014-2024..! NO…. CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY…  with SANGHI RSS PM …!  Shameless … Hindu and Hinduthva.. in INDIA..! R.Sevvilam Parithi Erode.

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‘Political Education in Soviet Russia’ by Nikolai Lenin from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 4 No. 18. April 30, 1921.

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The speech by Lenin at the All-Russian Conference for Organizations for Political Education delivered on November 5, 1920. ‘Political Education in Soviet Russia’ by Nikolai Lenin from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 4 No. 18. April 30, 1921. Comrades! Permit me to impart a few thoughts to you that occurred to me in the Central Committee and in the Council of People’s Commissars in our discussion of the question of an organization of a central body for political education. Personally I take the liberty to remark that I have been…

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Sri Lanka – YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION DEMAND AN IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE  RESIGNATION OF THE MAGISTRATE OF MULLAITEEVU !

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The jurisdiction of the Mullaiteevu Magistrate has become a place of contentious judicial,  legal and political battle ground due to the Kurunthur Malai incident and the excavation of a  mass grave consisting of what appears to be the remains of LTTE carders. The Mullaiteevu  Magistrate’s Office has come under direct threat from Member of Parliament Sarath  Weerasekara who identified the Magistrate as a ‘Tamil’ Judge who is making orders inside a  ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ State. Despite condemning statements by the BASL and Lawyers’ Collective  and protests by Bars across the North…

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The Palestine Solidarity Alliance welcomes the Free VISA entry requirements for ordinary Palestinian people to visit South Africa.

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PRESS RELEASE The Palestine Solidarity Alliance welcomes the Free VISA entry requirements for ordinary Palestinian people to visit South Africa. The new 90-day Free Visa access for Palestinian citizens is an important step in affirming our countries commitment to supporting the Palestinian people in their struggle for basic human right, self-determination and dignity.  Importantly, we must recognise that this pronouncement by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, DIRCO is a result of the advocacy by many solidarity groups across the country, including the PSA, MRN and the SABDS Coalition…

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Bangladesh – Demand to ensure the rights of indigenous peoples to land and language!

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A solidarity rally was held at Zilla Parishad Auditorium in Sylhet on Friday (September 22) at 3 pm to demand the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Agreement. Speakers at Sylhet’s solidarity rally said that people of many races and languages live in Bangladesh. This is the beauty of a country. And it is the responsibility of the state to ensure the rights of people of all these races, religions and languages. Such a state should be formed so that it is not for any religion or any caste. The…

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