The most significant takeaway from the 2024 US presidential election is not a resounding endorsement of Trump but rather the disillusionment of almost nine million Democratic voters with their party and its leadership under Biden and Harris.

This caste electoral engineering by the BJP may exacerbate the existing, but dormant, Jat resentment against Punjabi Hindus in Haryana. 

When Yechury contested for the president of the JNU students' union in 1977, I publicly supported Rajan James, one of his opponents for the post.

It will remain a very black spot in the US’s role in the international political order that it engineered a most dreadful military coup of a democratically elected leader.

Pritam Singh pays tribute to his brother. whose life covered many shifts in the contemporary economic, social and cultural history of Punjab, especially its rural sector.

While the unjust rulers draw their lessons for their modes of oppression from the past, those who fight for freedom and social justice remain continuously inspired by the memory and inheritance of Bhagat Singh and his associates.

Justice Bains' life was testament to his deeply held belief that as a former judge, he was in a position to confront the state’s oppressive power structures.

The forced surrender and public humiliation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the politico-economic battle over the farm laws engenders feelings of revenge against the farmers.

In offering a hand of friendship to the BJP—currently the most hated political organisation in Punjab due to the farm laws—he has not only dug his political grave, but also runs the risk of tarnishing his previous achievements.

The military action at the Golden Temple in 1984 has left a lasting impact on generations of Sikhs, leaving many to try and piece together fragments of painful pasts.

Born in 1993, La Via Campesina has been developing and promoting the vision of food sovereignty as an alternative to the dominant capitalist relations of production, particularly in agriculture.

No movement in India’s history – including the movement for independence from British colonial rule – saw this degree of participation by women.

It would be a folly for the government to weaponise the actions of dissidents in an attempt to weaken the influence of the movement.

The farmers’ movement has reached a stage where it no longer deals with the sectional interests of farmers alone but has deeply affected all sections of Indian society.

The BJP views regional identities with suspicion – as a subversion of its overarching Hindu identity agenda. Its differences with regional parties highlight this larger vulnerability.

‘One India, One Agriculture Market’ slogan is an open declaration of the centralising objective of these reforms.

Calling the Kartarpur entry fee a ‘jizya tax’ is ill-advised and overlooks the fact that such norms are followed by national governments across the world.

In both cases, left parties have overcome sectarianism to put up a united front against the right.

Excessive emphasis on the constitutionality of the move is deflecting attention away from the ideology that is the driving force behind this decision.

Prof Randhir Singh brought rigour and a Marxist view to his scholarship, and foresaw the emergence of Hindu chauvinism