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Hungary’s Reshuffle Within Far Right of a Special Type

Hungary’s April 2026 parliamentary elections ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule and brought Péter Magyar to power with a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Instantly, the Western media began to celebrate the victory as a democratic turning point, indicating that Magyar, unlike Orbán, was cosy with the European Union. Yet, beneath the celebratory rhetoric of democratic renewal lies a more sober reality. What has occurred is not a rupture with the political trajectory of the post-communist period in Hungary, but a reconfiguration within the right-wing bloc itself.

Discontent of Immiserated Workers Explodes

WHEN human beings are reduced to packets of labour power, squeezed to the last drop of sweat and silenced through intimidation, such packets can explode! Employers across the world have tried the same strategy to reduce the cost of labour and assert their control over the labour process and history has shown that they have failed every time. Noida is not a stray incident, and it is part of a series of flash protests organised by workers in the recent past in Panipat, Palwal, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Manesar.

DUJ Condemns Attack on Pratidin

The Delhi Union of Journalists has expressed its condemnation of the cowardly attack on the office of the newspaper Asomiya Pratidin in Lakhimpur in the early hours of April 10, 2026. Stones were pelted at the office, shattering glass windows and landing in the newsroom. The attack, in which luckily no one was hurt, comes in the wake of several intemperate statements against the media made by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.  

90 Years of the All India Kisan Sabha: Year-Long Celebrations Start on Foundation Day

The year-long celebration of 90 years of the glorious history of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) started on April 11, 2026 at New Delhi by hoisting the Kisan Sabha Flag. AIKS President Dr Ashok Dhawale unfurled the flag at the AIKS Central Office in an enthusiastic function attended by leaders and activists of different class and mass organisations and the democratic movement. Thousands of village units of the Kisan Sabha across the country commemorated the day by hoisting the AIKS flag.

Rajya Sabha election and its impact on Bihar politics

The Rajya Sabha election to send 5 members from Bihar went in favour of the NDA with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar leading the tally. Despite the support of the five member AIMIM legislative group and one from the BSP, the Mahagathbandhan failed to keep its flock together and three out of six legislators of the Congress party and one of the RJD did not participate in voting, remaining incommunicado till the time the vote ended, thus paving the way for the fifth candidate of the NDA to win.

Neo-Fascist Ascendancy and Education

Many thoughtful people believe that the dominance of a small English-speaking elite in the social and intellectual life of India that has continued long after decolonization has been an important factor in arousing the hostility of a segment of the vernacular proto-elite that has felt excluded and hence has gravitated towards the Bharatiya Janata Party; that the BJP in other words represents inter alia a revolt against the dominance of a small English-speaking elite in the affairs of the country.

How Trump Decided to Attack Iran

A report in the New York Times on April 7, 2026, has revealed in vivid detail how US President Trump and his top advisers were convinced by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to start the current war against Iran. The report, by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, both Whitehouse reporters is drawn from a book written by the duo “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” It is based on interviews with top officials who remain anonymous.

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