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• Does Right to Life give you the Right to Die?   By Sunita Aron and Veenu Sandhu

• Why India survives?
  
  Ever since India became independent, there have been sceptics who have predicted its imminent demise. But completely contrary to those prophecies, a united and democratic India still survives. Why? Ramachandra Guha continues his rememberance of the great patriots.

• Noam Chomsky exposes US hypocrisy- By K.S. Subramanian
  
  

• Relevance of Jawaharlal Nehru - By P.N. Haksar
  
  

• Modi, India's Milosevic - By Gulam K. Noon
  
  
• Gujarat Riots
  Is the 'Steel Frame' Cracking? - By M.M. Khajooria  
  
  
• Market, morals and the media - By Prabhat Patnaik  
  
  
• With Government Funding BBC becomes a Pak Mouthpiece? - By G.S. Bhargava        
  
  
• Criminals in high office  - By Jayaprakash Narayan
  
  
• Democracy
  Who is she when she's at home? - By Arundhati Roy
  
  
• What can India Offer To the World? - By Dr. CS Shah
  
  
• Fundamental Knowledge - By Jayaprakash Narayan
  
  
• The semantics of violence -By Pritish Nandy
  
  
• Policies and Politics of the NDA - By Kamala Prasad 
  
  
• Extended Dialogue on Relevance of Gandhian Thought - By Nirmal Mukarji
  
  
• Is Marxism relevant in the Third World?
  
  
• One year of the war on terror - By T. Sreedhar 
  
  
• The Indian bid for Great Powerdom
  
  
• LTTE, Hurriyat & self-determination - I - By Ajay Darshan Behera 
  
  
• LTTE, Hurriyat & self-determination - II - By Ajay Darshan Behera 
  
  
• America's great misleader 
  
  
• SLAM: Resistance and Reform - By Ziauddin Sardar
  
  
• US - the perils of pre-eminence
  
  
• Putin's gas attack in Moscow-the outcome of Russia's barbaric war in Chechnya
  By WSWS Editorial Board
  
  
• Beyond reasonable doubt?
  
  
• The Rediscovery of Imperialism - By John Bellamy Foster
  
  
• Is America Becoming Fascist? - By Anis Shivani
  
  
• Nehru's vision and anxieties
  The ignored aspects of his personality - By V.N. Datta 
  
  
• Money can't buy you dreams - By Pritish Nandy
  
  
• BJP and the Hindu state  - By Mani Shankar Aiyar
  
  
• Nation of moral monsters - By Praful Bidwai
  
• Exclusive with The President elect of Brazil  - GRANMA
  
  
• Demise of People's Front and the Communists  - By Kripa Shankar 
  
  
• Man From Myth: Che Guevara  - By Dilip D'Souza
  
  
• Iqbal, Jinnah and India's Partition 
  An Intimate Relationship  - By V N Datta
  
  
• How cities (don't) run - By Sunita Narain
  
  
• Clean-up in judiciary is a farce - By Manoj Mitta
  
  
• For tomorrow, remain together
  The spectre of division chases us into the new year  - By Kuldip Nayar 
  
  
• Democracy of judicial remedies - By V.R. Krishna Iyer 
  
  
• India has run through all options, except that of classical
  secularism - the separation of religion from state PSEUDO-SECULARISM
  AND ALL THAT   - By Swagato Ganguly
  
  
• Chinese capitalism: industrial powerhouse or sweatshop of the world?
  By John Chan
  
  
• BRITISH STATE AND HINDUTWA - By Amrit Wilson 
  
  
• Who decides educational policies? - By Amrik Singh 
  
  
• PERSPECTIVE
  Communalism vs pluralism - By Balraj Puri
  
  
• The End of the Internet? - By Dave Renton
  
  
• Clash of civilizations? - By Prasenjit Maiti
  
  
• Bengali Left: From Pink to Saffron?  - By Sumanta Banerjee
  
  
• Hooligans of the Hindu Right Fan the Flames of Hate around India-Pakistan World Cup Match : An account from Delhi - By Dhananjai Joshi 
  
  
• Caught in the crossfire - By Kuldip Nayar
  
  
• The wrestling-pit of public debate
  
  The Indian mediascape seems to give its subscribers a sense of collective identity and participation in the public affairs of the day, but it also reduces the discussion of vital issues to caricature and sensationalism, leaving us interconnected but dangerously uninformed, argues RANJIT HOSKOTE.
  
  
• History overtaken by politics -By Bulbul Roy Mishra 
  
  
• Twentyfive Years of Left Front Government : A Review -By Kripa Shankar
  
  
• Why dissent fails - By Supriya Roy Chowdhury 
  
  
• Grave perils of 'pre-emption' - By Praful Bidwai
  
  
• After the Fall: Putting Iraq Together Again - By Manoj Joshi
  
  
• One billion malnourished because...
  Profits come first
  
  
• Faith healers wanted - By Swami Agnivesh & Valson Thampu
  
  
• Whose mask is it anyway? - By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
  
  
• Islam and democracy - By Imtiaz Ahmad 
  
  
• Birth Pangs of Democracy in Nepal: Commentary from Dr. Baburam Bhattarai in Nepal
  
  
• Empire and democracy - A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 
  
  
• Indo-Pak. talks and Rawalpindi - By C. Raja Mohan 
  
  
• Engaging China - By Bhartendu Kumar Singh 
  
  
• Atrocities on Adivasis - I - By V.R. Krishna Iyer 
  
  
• Atrocities on Adivasis - II - By V. R. Krishna Iyer 
  
  
• Our names, our pluralism  - By Shashi Tharoor
  
  
• Bowing low - By Brahma Chellaney
  
  
• Counter-evolution - By Rajni Kothari
  
  
• The United Nations: An Organ for World Democracy, or Imperial Hangover?
  
  
• The Muslim Dilemma - By M. Hasan Jowher 
  
  
• Rebels make a comeback - By Juan Forero 
  
  
• Genocide in Gujarat
  The International Community Looks Away - By Martha C. Nussbaum
  
  
• Decommunalise Grievances, Problems and Aspirations of Religious Minorities
  A Long Term Political Strategy for Social Reconciliation - By Syed Shahabuddin
  
  
• The Fight to Establish Maoism - By Ajit
  
  
• Meeting the Maoists - By Jyoti Malhotra 
  
  
• Uneasy Convergence of Left and Right?  - By Sumanta Banerjee
  
  
• Corporate Interest in Sports: Minting Money out of People's Passion - By Sabyasachi Mitra
  
  
• Argentina : Altering the South American scenario
  
  
• Indian Economy in Global Context 
  Dialectics of Dependent Development - By Nirmal S. Azad
  
  
• Soviet impact on economic development in non-socialist countries 1947-1991 - By Nirmal Kumar Chandra

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• US Foreign Policy-A Historical Critique 
  From Isolationism to the Doctrine of Pre-emption - By B.N. Arora 
  
  
• Journalism and caste in Bihar
  By Sevanti Ninan 
  Recently in Patna, Bhagalpur and Muzafarpur 
  
  
• Remembering Ivan Illich
  Reflections on a seminal cultural critic/intellectual gadfly, by Carl Mitcham, Peter Warshall, Jerry Brown, Vijaya Nagarajan, Lee Swenson, David Cayley, and Lee Hoinacki 
  By Carl Mitcham et al  (Whole Earth Spring 2003 )
  
  
• On Rights and Duties
  Challenges Confronting the Worker - By Avijit Pathak 
  
  
• On Rights and Duties
  Challenges Confronting the Worker - By Avijit Pathak 
  
  
• Naxalites: Time for Introspection - Sumanta Banerjee
  
  
• Thank you, Amma - By Kuldip Nayar 
  
  
• New Germany in New Europe
  Germans are alarmed at the cowboy politics of Bush's America - By Mani Shankar Aiyar 
  
  
• The Orwell we never knew - By Lee Wengraf
  
  
• In search of the blooms
  A better tomorrow must be for us all, not just for the middle and upper classes. This has little to do with morality, altruism or idealism, but much more to do with realism says Dilip D'Souza.
  
  
• Psychodrama of History
  Hitler. Hindutava and its Allies
  
  
• Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty - By David Bacon
  
  
• Managing migration better - By Kofi A. Annan 
  No one should lose sight of the tremendous contribution that millions of immigrants have already made to modern European societies.
  
  
• The rise of India and WSF
  It will be a mistake to view the WSF merely as a platform for those dispossessed and displaced by market-driven globalization, says Rajni Bakshi. 
  
  
• Iraq War : America's game plan
  Madan G. Gandhi
  President, Gandhi Earth Vision Foundation
  
  
• DIOLOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: SOME REFELECTIONS
  Dr. Sushma Gandhi
  Deptt. of Communication , Management and Technology
  Guru Jambeshwar University, Hissar 
  
  
• Rights & Responsibilities of Majority/ Minorities 
  The Indian Perspective - Madan G. Gandhi
  President Gandhi Earth Vision Foundation
  
  
• MR-2004: A Step Ahead in the ongoing Anti-imperialist Struggle
  
  
• GLOBALISATION, THE HIGHEST STAGE OF IMPERIALISM
  
  
• A SAINT AND A SAGE  - PRABHAT PATNAIK 
  
  
• Hamid's Message To The World: 
  A Kashmiri Cry For Sanity - By Yoginder Sikand 
  
  
• LALA LAJPAT RAI'S SAGA OF SUFFERING AND NATIONAL RESURGENCE
  by Dr. Madan G. Gandhi
  Editor, Collected Works of Lala Lajpat Rai
  
  
• Bonfire of the Bourgeois Vanities - By David Stanway
  
  
• LETTER FROM BUENOS AIRES - By EDGARDO COZARINSKY
  
  
• Encircling Russia - By JOHN CHERIAN 
  
  
• The Plight of Fishworkers - Goldy M. George
  
  
• Post-war Afghan Economy
  How National is the National Development Framework - By SIBA SANKAR MOHANTY
  
  
• The Political Construction of Political Islam - By Hassan N. Gardezi
  
  
• Migration, agriculture and women 
  Increasingly, women are being pushed into becoming farm managers, with their men leaving villages for better income prospects elsewhere. As India begins to enter a new monsoon season, Jaideep Hardikar recounts the Chhatisgarh situation after the onset of the last monsoon.
  
  
• What Keeps Capitalism Going? - By Michael A. Lebowitz
  
  
• Survival of the Altruist:
  In Search of Political Transcendence - By Dr. Omar Swartz
  
  
• Human development in West Bengal - By Jayati Ghosh 
  
  
• Let's Plant Ideas - By Fidel Castro 
  
  
• PLANET OF SLUMS - By MIKE DAVIS
  
  
• LESBIANISM AND FEMINISM - By Shivani Verma
  
  
• Children of a lesser god
  Time for a new Panchsheel for tribals - By Pravesh Sharma
  
  
• Children of a lesser god
  Time for a new Panchsheel for tribals - By Pravesh Sharma
  
  
• Such is the Place of Origin of Maoist Revolt
  
  
• Bluebeard's Castle
  Disappearing the Right to Development - By TONI SOLO
  
   
• Changing face of Indian advertising - By Samir Nazareth 
  
   
• The great Indian science scam - Y P GUPTA
• Coca-Cola Spins Out of Control in India
  
  By Amit Srivastava
• The Kashmiri mind
  
  BY A.G. NOORANI
• Giving Arafat his due
  
  BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
• Saffronization,Hinduization Or Brahminization?
  
  By Dr. K. Jamanadas
• SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE
  
  By Shoma Dats
• Mayhem in the Medical Marketplace
  
  By David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
• THE CASE FOR CHECHNYA BY TONY WOOD
• Civilization Versus Barbarism? An Interview with Noam Chomsky By M. Junaid Alam and Noam Chomsky
• War and the Tsunami BY CHRISTOPHER DELISO
• Reforming Our Universities By Pervez Hoodbhoy
• IMPACT OF TELEVISED VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN Dr. Sushma Gandhi
• DANGEROUS LIAISONS: CENTER-LEFT GOVERNMENTS & THE GRASSROOTS By Raúl Zibechi
• MEDIA EDUCATION IN INDIA NEED FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT Dr. Sushma Gandhi
• AN UNEARTHLY SECULARISMBy Jeremy Seabrook
• Working With Havel By Charles Marowitz
• India, a Great Power? By Samir Amin
• `But who lit the fire?' BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
• Narcotizing Dysfunction or Web of Vision? By Rajiv G. Aricat
• Fences of enclosure, windows of possibility By Naomi Klein
• The Law For Food Facism: The Proposed Food Safety & Standards Bill, 2005 By Vandana Shiva
• THE CASE FOR CHECHNYA BY TONY WOOD
• Armed with Conviction: The Passion of Manipur's Irom Sharmila BY PANKAJ BUTALIA
• The other side of Indian Muslim Identity By Fatima Chowdhury
• The End of Rational Capitalism By John Bellamy Foster
• Decline and fall
• Religion in Art? Nyet! By Cathy Young
• The history of revolution and the future of anti-capitalism By Sebastian Lamb
• Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic ReformBy Grover Furr
• "What is the last pric(z)e, comrade?" By Manu Kant
• Hoisting Red Ishtar Worldwide! By Manu Kant
• "What is the last price, comrade?" By Manu Kant
• Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile By John J. Simon
• Victory Day celebration in Russia reveals deepening political and social tensions By Andrea Peters
• Political expediency in journalism The media is partisan and the government corrupt. In this environment, the committed reporter has no choice but to go out and investigate with a hidden camera. But such sting operations are not a substitute for investigative reporting; as a result even serious revelations are quickly forgotten, says Arun Sadhu.
• Changing Profile of Imperialism in Global Political Order/Disorder By Rajen Harshe
• Chavez's Economy: Is it Sustainable? By Joshua Frank
• Second World War: The Battle of the Books By James Heartfield
• Globalization and Culture
• From military coups to people's coups
• Labor Movements: Is There Hope? By Fernando E. Gapasin and Michael D. Yates
• Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile By John J. Simon
• Will to Disaster By R Ramesh
• Darkness in Schools, Can theatre Bring Light? By Bharat Gupt
• Latin America’s Left Off Track BY MATIAS VERNENGO
• Brave new media world By Darryl D’Monte
• The Utopian Vision of the Future (Then and Now): A Marxist Critique By Bertell Ollman
• Violence and the human spirit By Bhaskar Ghose
• RESISTANCE, IN A TIME OF TERROR BY AIJAZ AHMAD
• UNDERSTANDING IMPERIALISM: THEN AND NOW BY DAVID MCNALLY
• Big Robbery of India’s Mineral Wealth
• FUTURE UNKNOWN BY GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN
• The Right Time For An Islamic Reformation By Salman Rushdie
• Redeeming a Pledge BY MAHMOOD FAROOQUI
• For a `New Deal' for labour BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
• Turning The Hour-Glass - The Empire Against The Clock By Toni Solo
• Arundhati Roy Speaks By Arundhati Roy & S. Anand
• Naked Imperialism By John Bellamy Foster
• India's Subalterns Too Have A Poet By Syed Amin Jafri
• The future of history in schools By Kumkum Roy
• Preconditions for an empowered India By John Samuel
• THE NAXALITE CHALLENGE BY VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN
• Are bloggers parked? Are bloggers just like journalists? The jury is still debating, but clearly bloggers are filling some voids in mainstream journalism, and connecting to net-savvy citizens in an exciting fashion. Blogs are not about to destroy conventional media, but they are making an impact, notes Darryl D'Monte.
• Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development By Paul Burkett
• Privatization at Gunpoint By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
• The Shostakovich revival BY JAYATI GHOSH
• France and the Burning Embers of Repression By Jack Random
• Revolt in Paris By Matt Reichel
• Recasting India as Vassal State By Badri Raina
• Riots In France - Lessons For India By Sambaiah Gundimeda
• TERROR, WAR, CULTURE BY AIJAZ AHMAD
• THE RISE OF AMERICA'S NEW ENEMY By John Pilger
• The Nepal Pact By Gary Leupp
• Why support to R&D is crucial By A. Vasudevan
• THE CHEQUERED RAINBOW BY FORREST HYLTON and SINCLAIR THOMSON
• How Does Aid / Debt Work: A View from Kerala By. S. Mohammed Irshad*
• A risk of global collapse By Dylan Evans
• GLOBALISATION OF CULTURE By Neha Girotra
• RSS and the Gandhi Murder By Badri Raina
• Race science heading for rehabilitation By Marek Kohn
  

• Pouring troubled water on oil By Siddharth Varadarajan

• The power of oil  By Dilip Hiro

• Institutional excesses, elite deadlock   By Harish Khare

• The Left in Latin America  By Dhiraj Nayyar

• Freedom of expression or "unnecessary offence"?  By Rasheeda Bhagat

• Villagescope — Reviving the rural economy   By Sudhansu R. Das

• Not dead enough    By Seumas Milne
  

• Maoists’ charm offensive   By S. D. Muni

• Closing Of The Western Mind    By Shiv Visvanathan
  

• What is architecture?   By R.L.Kumar
  

• King refuses to listen: Friends of Nepal must act now   By Maj-Gen Ashok Mehta (retd)
  

• Chandigarh: tale of two cities   By Ashok Kundra
  

• Ugly face of knowledge economy   By N. Raghuram

• Judged by higher standards    By Rajindar Sachar

• Institutional excesses, elite deadlock  By Harish Khare

• Russia in the grip of its bureaucracy  By Vladimir Radyuhin

• Why do we kid ourselves?  By Farah Baria
  

• Police Reforms: Pandora's Box No One Wants to Open  By Madhav Godbole

• Walled City, Not World City  BY GAUTAM BHATIA

• Latin America's Leftist Mirage   BY JULIO MARMA SANGUINETTI

• New Winds from the Left or Hot Air from a New Right   By James Petras

• Till kingdom gone   By Sitaram Yechury

• The Adivasi, the State and the Naxalite: Case of Andhra Pradesh   By E A S Sarma

• Tribal rehabilitation — Going beyond the status quo   By P. V. Indiresan

• Fury Building Up Across India   By Shoma Chaudhuri

• Mahajan – A human 1st, BJP man 2nd   By Manu Kant

• Ensuring justice in a flat world   By T.K. Viswanathan

• Done to death   By V. Gangadhar

• Premchand and his Dalit writings   By V.B.Rawat

• Areas of darkness   BY BHASKAR GHOSE

• The NED, NGOs and the Imperial Uses of Philanthropy   By Joan Roelofs

• Seduced by an elusive idea of India   By Hasan Suroor

• The dynasty theory: Only people’s opinion will prevail   By Pran Chopra

• Unplugging Gandhi and his relationship with dissenters   By V.B.Rawat

• A future in the past   By Nayanjot Lahiri

• The Muslim Presence in the Racist Mind   By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

• Himalayan challenge   By Shastri Ramachandaran
• India, Nepal, and Left Praxis   By Badri Raina
• Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing:
  How Many More Innocents Must Die Before the World Realizes
  that Israel is Gathering Thorns and Thistles?   BY JASON MILLER
• Grey matters   By Bhaskar Ghose
• Hunger deaths in Kushinagar: Wanted an Immediate Response   By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

• The dismal picture: Save Indian sports from chiefs   By Lalit Mohan
• Gadchiroli: Inside the Red Line   By Anosh Malekar


• A Swiss model to make the hills come alive   BY P. V. Indiresan


• Turning the clock back on Lebanon   By Anjali Kamat


• Tribal Development means the establishment of “Tribal Self Reliant Villages”   By A.Kachhap



• No place called home   By Usha Ramanathan

• Israel-Lebanon war COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS   By S R Ramanujan

• The L(a)ost Moghul- The Lasting genius - NAUSHAD   By N. Divakar

• ‘MY TONGUE IS THERE, I CAN STILL SING'   By Shoma Chaudhury & Vikram Jit Singh



• ICDS — The entitlement of every Indian child   By Nirmala Lakshman

• Indian Muslims Prospects and Ways Forward   By Badri Raina

• Consensus is the way   By H. K. Dua

• Bad time to be Muslim   BY SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM

• NGOs should practise what they preach   BY R. VAIDYANATHAN

• Dereserve these myths   By Tanweer Fazal

• The story of the iconic image of Che Guevara   By Richard Gott

• Cooking it right   By Rashmi Saksena

• Three 9/11s — choose your own   By P. Sainath

• How much information can you stand?   BY ND Batra

• PASTORAL DISQUIET: The Pope’s theological gloss on violence in Regensburg   BY SWAPAN DASGUPTA

• Muslims need more than Madrasas   By Syed Iqbal Hasnain

• Forward With The Revolutionary Legacy of Bhagat Singh   By Arindam Sen

• Ford Foundation, Cold War, and World Social Forum   By Taimur Rahman

• Can a slum become a world class township?   By Kalpana Sharma

• New Age crusaders stand up only for their own   By Freny Manecksha

• Is natural gas the fuel of the 21st century?   By Sudha Mahalingam

• ‘Visibility for real issues tough’   By Gayathri Nivas

• Our right to basic services   By Jayati Ghosh

• Restore the right to education   By Shantha Sinha

• Murder, we said   By Jug Suraiya

• What is Journalism?   By Richard Keeble

• Let the tribals speak for themselves   By Sharad Joshi

• Vanishing act   By Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Autumn concerns   BY PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI

• Post-modernism: Illusion and Reality   By Sathya Chandran

• Death of vernaculars   By Vasudha Dalmia

• War against dogmas   By Desmond Tutu, André Azoulay and Ali Alatas

• By Architect Surinder Bahga, Saakaar Foundation   By Surinder Bahga

• Its plural culture allows India to have an original world-view   BY MUKUL KESAVAN

• The concert of Asia actually reinforces US supremacy   By Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

• The Judiciary: Cutting Edge Of A Predator State  By Prashant Bhushan

• Ready, steady...  By Pargat Singh

• Branded education  BY JAYATI GHOSH

• What Maoism Has Contributed  By Samir Amin

• Wah “Ta(j)ta”Indicom!  By Manu Kant

• Democracy And Reinforced Building  By Amit Chamaria

• There Was Once An Old Tehri Town  By Harsh Dobhal

• Bush is America’s prerogative  By Manu Kant

• Neither India nor Bharat  By Bibek Debroy

• Case for gun control  BY R.K RAGHAVAN

• Is there a lesson for us in Ambedkar’s experience?  By Kancha Ilaiah

• Courage under fire   By Teesta Setalvad

• An Accidental Cyclist  By Manu Kant

• Re-educating Daddy   By Manu Kant

• The Three Contemporary Currents among Indian Communists   By Dipankar Bhattacharya

• Is India's an exclusively elitist democracy?   By T.C.A. Ramanujam

• Ring In Reforms   By Zaheer Ali

• Resource Wars   By William K. Tabb

• How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World   By Michael Parenti

• "I Killed My Husband": In the Theater of the Jungle Belt   By P. Sainath

• Giving roads back to the people   By G. Ananthakrishnan

• Live and let die?   By Barkha Dutt

• There's a great need for equal rights   By Teesta Setalvad

• Caught on the Net   By R.K. Raghavan

• Importance of awareness   By M. R. Narayana

• Knight of the living dead   By Slavoj Zizek

• The politics of love and social change   By Anita Ratnam