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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > gig-workers-demand-higher-per-kilometre-rates-after-fuel-price-hike

Gig Workers Demand Higher Per-Kilometre Rates After Fuel Price Hike

1+ hour, 58+ min ago  (218+ words) Gig & Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU) demands increase in per-kilometre service rates from the Government and digital gig platforms following hike in...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > reading-jnus-student-politics-through-the-lens-of-linguistic-landscape

Reading JNU's Student Politics Through the Lens of Linguistic Landscape

1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (318+ words) Pragya Ranjan'is a young critic and story writer. Email:'[email'protected] [2] ABVP: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (All Indian Student Council), student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Homogeneous AISA: All India Students Association, student wing of the Communist Party of…...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > fascism-gallops-opposition-in-disarray-and-democratic-forces-falter

Fascism Gallops, Opposition in Disarray and Democratic Forces Falter

2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (408+ words) Political cunning is now often mistaken for political savagery. The latter forgoes temporary local gains for long-term political benefits...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > when-capitalism-fuses-with-caste-the-globalization-of-indias-enclosed-class

When Capitalism Fuses with Caste: The Globalization of India's Enclosed Class

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (267+ words) Ambedkar warned that political democracy without social democracy would remain fragile and contradictory. Savarimuthu's analysis suggests that neoliberal capitalism has intensified this contradiction by modernizing caste rather than dismantling it. The market has not dissolved hierarchy; it has digitized, corporatized,…...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > the-assault-on-a-french-nun-and-the-forgotten-story-of-palestinian-christians

The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian Christians

22+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1103+ words) The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has been conditioned to see the "other" as subhuman. Yet, this was not the…...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > congress-is-about-to-legalize-the-liquidation-of-americas-national-forests

Congress is about to legalize the liquidation of america's national forests

19+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1400+ words) She did this unilaterally, using an authority buried in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act " an authority Congress wrote for discrete wildfire emergencies. She applied it to more than half of America's forests, all at once. He has been directed…...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > everything-you-need-to-know-about-jerusalem-day-and-the-flag-march

Everything You Need to Know About Jerusalem Day and the "Flag March

18+ hour, 29+ min ago  (545+ words) Thousands of Israeli settlers have joined the so-called "Flag March" through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, where large groups chanted racist...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-boy-confiscate-his-body-in-occupied-west-bank

Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Boy, Confiscate His Body in Occupied West Bank

19+ hour, 29+ min ago  (627+ words) Occupied West Bank (QNN)- A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces late last night in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, before confiscating his body. More than 70 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces since…...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > sino-us-summit-indias-strategic-dilemmas-and-the-emerging-global-economic-order

Sino'US Summit, India's Strategic Dilemmas, and the Emerging Global Economic Order

22+ hour, 29+ min ago  (1608+ words) The summit also carries profound implications for India. Over the past two decades, India benefited strategically from worsening US'China relations, which elevated New Delhi's importance within Washington's Indo-Pacific strategy (Pant and Joshi 2016). However, if Washington and Beijing move toward even…...

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countercurrents. org > 2026 > 05 > pucl-condemns-arrest-of-garga-chatterjee-as-criminalisation-of-democratic-dissent

PUCL Condemns Arrest of Garga Chatterjee as Criminalisation of Democratic Dissent

23+ hour, 40+ min ago  (605+ words) The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the arrest of activist and public intellectual Garga Chatterjee by the Cyber Crime Cell of the Kolkata Police on 12 May 2026 on the basis of allegations relating to social media posts concerning…...