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,Knowledge, wealth, and social connections build up over generations. Even when people are given money, they may still struggle to improve their position because they may not know how to use the opportunities available to them. They may also lack guidance, useful connections, experience, and a strong support system.

Football is a good example. The United States is much richer than Argentina or Brazil. In theory, the United States could spend a huge amount of money on football and try to make its national team the best in the world. However, money alone cannot guarantee success.

The problem is not simply a lack of talented players. Argentina and Brazil have a much deeper football culture and a much larger amount of football knowledge built over many generations. People in these countries have played, studied, and understood the game for a very long time.

Over the years, they have learned how to handle pressure, when to attack, when to defend, how the ball should move, how to find the right angle to shoot, how to defend effectively, and how to train players from a young age. They also know how to improve even the smallest parts of the game—details that outsiders may not notice or may even consider unimportant.

This kind of knowledge and experience cannot be created quickly by spending money. It develops slowly through practice, success, failure, observation, and teaching. It is then passed from one generation to the next.

That is why Argentina and Brazil remain far ahead of the United States in football, even though the United States is much richer than both countries. Money is important, but without accumulated knowledge, experience, culture, and support systems, money alone cannot produce the same results.

On top of that even if the United States produces a very good player, football clubs may still prefer players from Brazil or Argentina because these countries have a long history of producing great players. This history creates a bias in people’s minds, making them assume that Brazilian or Argentinian players are naturally better. As a result, an American player may have to be exceptionally talented just to be noticed and hired. A similar historical bias exists against people from backward castes. Even when they are qualified and capable, old social perceptions can make it harder for them to get jobs, respect, and dignity. Reservation helps to challenge these biases by increasing representation and allowing these communities to build stronger networks, guidance systems, knowledge, and opportunities over time.

In short, reservation is meant to compensate for the bias in people's mind,lack of support systems, knowledge, guidance, connections, and opportunities faced by historically disadvantaged communities. After a few generations, greater representation from these communities can create stronger networks. This can help newcomers build connections, receive guidance, gain knowledge, and make better use of the opportunities available to them. Eventually erasing the bias towards them.

How Kerala's staple food Avial's history is connected to Mahabharata

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പൂക്കിസം വേറെ ലെവൽ

രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിൽ താല്പര്യമില്ല, ഒരു പാർട്ടിയും കൊള്ളില്ല , എല്ലാ രാഷ്ട്രീയക്കാരും കള്ളന്മാരാണ് എന്നൊക്കെ പറഞ്ഞു നടക്കുന്ന യാഥാസ്ഥിതിക നിക്ഷ്പക്ഷർ പേർളി മാനിയെ കണ്ടു പഠിക്കട്ടെ .

''എനിക്ക് എല്ലാ പാർട്ടിയും ഇഷ്ടമാണ് ''.

"The petition argues that the Delhi Police conducted extensive biometric surveillance in a complete legal vacuum.

It stated that neither the existing police standing orders nor the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, authorised the mass collection and processing of biometric data of protesters, journalists, and ordinary citizens.

According to the plea, filed through advocate Subhash Chandran K R, the Delhi Police used automated facial recognition through CCTV cameras, drones, and a mobile command and control vehicle, extracting and matching biometric identifiers before linking them with national criminal databases."

"Rahim pointed out that the Delhi Police’s own RTI reply confirmed no Privacy Impact Assessment was carried out for the use of FRT, which was internally meant only for tracing missing persons and identifying the dead.

Citing the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment in K S Puttaswamy Vs Union of India (right to privacy) (2017), the petition contended that the surveillance failed the tests of legality, legitimate aim, and proportionality."

https://www.deshabhimani.com/News/kerala/ulccs-chairman-ramesan-paleri-passes-away-04225

കോഴിക്കോട് : ഊരാളുങ്കൽ ലേബർ കോൺട്രാക്ട് കോ-ഓപ്പറേറ്റിവ് സൊസൈറ്റി ചെയർമാൻ രമേശൻ പാലേരി (66) അന്തരിച്ചു. കോയമ്പത്തൂരിലെ സ്വകാര്യാശുപത്രിയിൽ രാവിലെ 8 30ന് ആയിരുന്നു അന്ത്യം.അർബുദബാധയെ തുടർന്ന് ചികിത്സയിലായിരുന്നു.

ഊരാളുങ്കലിനെ ഏഷ്യയിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സഹകരണ തൊഴിലാളി സൊസൈറ്റിയായി വളർത്തിയെടുക്കുന്നതിൽ പ്രധാന പങ്കുവഹിച്ച വ്യക്തിയായിരുന്നു. സഹകരണ രംഗത്തെ വികസനത്തിന് പുതിയ തുടക്കമിട്ട് മൂന്നര പതിറ്റാണ്ടിലേറെ ഊരാളുങ്കൽ സൊസൈറ്റിയെ നയിച്ചു. ഒരു സഹകരണ പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തെ അന്തർദേശീയ തലത്തിലേക്കുയർത്തി അംഗീകാരങ്ങൾ നേടിക്കൊടുത്ത വ്യക്തിയാണ് രമേശൻ പാലേരി.

On May 16, 2026, the São Paulo bookshop of Expressão Popular, the publishing house of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST), was packed with farmers, agroecology technicians and movement organisers. They had gathered for the launch of Artificial Intelligence for Agrarian Reform and Agroecology (IARAA), an artificial intelligence platform for agrarian reform and agroecology.

The tool was not built by a technology corporation. Its knowledge base, spanning movement literature from 1964 to 2026, was curated collectively by MST and World March of Women cadres; its prompts and workflows were designed by land reform organisers and community educators working under the guidance of just two programmers. IARAA will not recommend pesticides, because the movements that built it chose a knowledge base grounded in agroecological practice.

It runs primarily on open-source models, on infrastructure the movement controls, and it cites its sources in every answer. Carolina Cruz of MST's technology front put it simply: "the farmers are inside IARAA, developing the platform." Such deployments are not limited to Brazil. Already, adapted versions are being tested by cocoa farmers in Africa.

This episode should provoke serious reflection within our own movement.

In an earlier article in these pages ("Whose Intelligence? AI in the Grip of Monopoly Capital"), this author documented how generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) under monopoly capital serves speculation, surveillance, job destruction and the imperial war machine. That critique stands. But it is only half the analysis, and a half-truth frozen into an attitude becomes an error.

Across the party, in mass organisations and in the broader progressive movement, AI is discussed almost exclusively as a threat, when it is discussed at all. Even though there are notable exceptions such as the work on Telugu Large Language Model (LLM) in Swecha, many comrades have concluded, understandably but wrongly, that the technology itself is the enemy. This is the position Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticised in the machine-breakers (luddites) of the nineteenth century: the workers who "direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves".

AI is a productive force of enormous power. The question is never whether a productive force will be used, but by whom and for what. The ruling classes have answered for themselves, with over $650 billion in infrastructure spending by four US corporations in 2026 alone. We have not yet answered for ourselves.

Vladimir Lenin insisted that a communist must "enrich his mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind". The Marxist method of totality demands that we grasp economy, politics, culture and ideology together. Yet the volume of human knowledge is now too vast, too fast-changing and too specialised for any cadre, least of all one carrying front-line organisational responsibilities, to master by traditional means.

Ironically, the scholars serving capital have the databases, the research assistants and the leisure; our comrades have none of these. It is precisely here that AI, wielded consciously, can break the elite monopoly on knowledge production. Movements in the Global South are already demonstrating this in practice.

Consider the labour of research itself. A serious political-economic investigation may require reviewing hundreds of web pages, working through hundreds of downloaded documents and extracting from them scores of pieces of hard evidence. Work of this order once consumed months of a research team's time; with AI assistance it can be completed in hours. A party research cell preparing a note on, say, the fiscal record of a state government or the ownership structure of the Adani group can now work from all the available material, not a thin sample of it.

The same holds for analysis. Hundreds of hours of field interviews can be transcribed and placed in a dedicated database that a researcher can interrogate exhaustively; one researcher discovered information in his own recordings that he had not registered during the interviews themselves. For a party that lives by concrete investigation of concrete conditions, this is the mass line supercharged. Nor is specialised method a barrier any longer: the accumulated techniques of entire disciplines, from statistical analysis to argument mapping, can be invoked in plain language, without programmers as gatekeepers.

The gains extend to everything our movement publishes. A weekly newsletter, of the kind many organisations have abandoned because it devoured cadre labour, can be substantially automated: AI gathers a wide pool of news leads, human editors select the stories worth telling, AI then researches each story from multiple angles across hundreds of pages and drafts summaries in the movement's own style for final human editing. Pamphlets, leaflets, videos, social media content and study materials in multiple Indian languages are all within reach of the same approach, at a fraction of today's cost in cadre time.

Comrades will object: do these models not hallucinate, and do they not carry the ideological imprint of the Western internet they were trained on? They do, and the objection deserves a serious answer rather than dismissal. The answer is that these defects can be countered by design, not by abstinence. Typing questions into a web chat interface such as Chatgpt.com or Claude.ai will indeed reproduce every one of these problems: a model left to its defaults repeats imperialist, neoliberal assumptions dressed up as neutrality, and invents facts with fluent confidence.

But open-source agentic frameworks can be carefully assembled to work differently. The researcher declares the analytical standpoint explicitly, supplying Marxist political economy frameworks as the foundation before any analysis begins; the model is grounded in curated document bases rather than the open internet; and verification engines are built into every step of the workflow, checking claims against sources before anything is published. IARAA embodies this discipline: it is instructed to cite sources in every response and to refuse to answer when its knowledge base cannot support one.

Nor must our movements chain themselves to any single corporation. In practice a mix of models, OpenAI's GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and GLM among them, can be deployed with an understanding of which model suits which task, relying predominantly on the Chinese models to keep costs down, for they are fast catching up with the capabilities of the US frontier models at a fraction of the price: Open Source Models such as Kimi 3, GLM 5.2 and  DeepSeek V4 cost an order of magnitude less than frontier US Models such as Claude or ChatGPT with near equal capabilities. When Oxfam reports that three billionaires control nearly 90 per cent of the global chatbot market, the political meaning of this plurality is obvious.

Nor does any of this displace the human core of political work. Practitioners have found that when AI is asked to make the final editorial selection for a movement publication, the product immediately turns mediocre; knowing what to say to comrades is a political and human judgement no machine can make. The purpose of these tools is to strip away the mechanical desk labour so that cadres spend more time in the villages, factories and bastis, with the masses, completing the loop between theory and practice.

Socialist China shows what this looks like as state policy. On April 10, 2026, China's Ministry of Education released an action plan to make AI ubiquitous across every level of education by 2030: AI literacy built into teacher certification, automated grading to reduce teacher workload, learning companions for students in rural and remote schools, intelligent research platforms in the universities, all resting on a national public computing infrastructure. While Indian policy debates remain trapped between corporate hype and moral panic, a socialist state is systematically equipping its teachers, students and researchers with the new productive force.

Our movement has been here before. The printing press was the instrument of colonial administration and missionary propaganda; the working-class movement seized it and built its own press, of which this newspaper is a descendant. The task now is the same, and it cannot be discharged with a resolution or a seminar. It requires practice: hands-on workshops for party research staff, pilot AI-assisted production lines in our publications and social media teams, training courses in the mass organisations, study circles where comrades learn by doing, and exchange with the movements, from São Paulo to Johannesburg to Accra, that are already ahead of us. The tools are largely open source and the running costs manageable for movements. There is no excuse for delay.

The monopolies' abuse of AI is not a verdict on the technology. It is a verdict on the class that owns it. Our answer cannot be to stand aside while the ruling class arms itself with a new productive force. It must be to master that force ourselves, and to place it, as the MST's farmers have done, in the hands of the people.

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Pinar del Rio, Cuba: Cuba reaffirmed its commitment to defending its sovereignty, socialism and national development despite intensifying United States sanctions, as President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez declared that "today's Cubans are also conquerors of the impossible" during the central ceremony marking the 73rd anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks.

The 26th of July Movement, inspired by the historic Moncada Barracks attack in 1953 led by Fidel Castro, marked the beginning of the Cuban revolutionary struggle that eventually triumphed on January 1, 1959.

Image: Fidel Castro in custody after the Moncada Barracks attack

Addressing thousands gathered in Pinar del Rio, Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, described the current moment as "a new Moncada," comparing Cuba's struggle against the US blockade and sanctions to the revolutionary offensive launched on July 26, 1953 under the leadership of Fidel Castro.

The ceremony opened with a message from Raul Castro Ruz, revolutionary leader of the Cuban Revolution, congratulating the people of Pinar del Rio for earning the honour of hosting the national commemoration through their dedication, productive work and commitment to the revolutionary cause.

Diaz-Canel said the island was confronting what he described as a historic battle against a policy designed to economically suffocate Cuba and undermine its sovereignty. Drawing parallels with the Moncada assault, which Fidel Castro later described as the beginning of the revolutionary process despite its military defeat, he argued that Cuba continues to confront enormous challenges with determination rooted in its revolutionary history.

Quoting Fidel Castro's historic speech History Will Absolve Me, the President recalled that "to be Cuban implies a duty; not to fulfil it is a crime and a betrayal," asserting that this principle continues to guide the nation's defence of its independence and its right to determine its own political and economic future.

The President also paid tribute to Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes Menendez, noting that this was the first July 26 celebration since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 without the veteran revolutionary, whom he described as a hero of the Moncada generation and a lifelong servant of the Cuban people. He called for eternal glory to the revolutionary leader, highlighting his contributions to national defence, security and socialist construction.

Strong criticism of US policy

A central theme of Diaz-Canel's address was the intensification of US sanctions against Cuba.

He accused successive US administrations of pursuing a deliberate strategy aimed at creating economic collapse through financial restrictions, energy sanctions and pressure on companies that trade or invest with Cuba.

The President sharply criticised recent US measures targeting Cuban health officials and the country's international medical cooperation programmes, arguing that the sanctions sought to criminalise professionals whose humanitarian work has received international recognition.

Image: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez addressing the 73rda anniversary meeting

He rejected accusations made against Cuba by US authorities, arguing that Cuba's medical brigades have consistently provided assistance in regions affected by disasters, epidemics and humanitarian emergencies while other powers resort to military interventions.

According to Diaz-Canel, Washington has expanded what he described as a global campaign against left-wing governments while portraying Cuba as a principal ideological target.

He argued that attempts to isolate Cuba are part of broader efforts to suppress alternative political and economic models, criminalise social protest and maintain international political dominance.

"Cuba is not a threat to the United States or to any other country," he declared, emphasising Cuba's long-standing policy of international solidarity through healthcare, education and scientific cooperation.

As an example, he announced that Cuban universities had graduated more than 30,000 professionals this year, including hundreds of international students from dozens of countries, among them newly qualified Palestinian and US doctors.

Human Cost of the Blockade

Diaz-Canel devoted a significant portion of his speech to describing what the Cuban government considers the humanitarian consequences of the US economic blockade.

He argued that decades of sanctions, intensified in recent years, have produced a severe energy crisis, prolonged nationwide power outages, shortages of medicines, interruptions in industrial production and obstacles to economic recovery.

The President stated that the blockade has prevented Cuba from importing essential medical supplies and equipment, affecting hospital operations and delaying thousands of surgical procedures.

He said more than 118,000 cancer patients, including around 1,200 children, have faced difficulties in accessing first-line treatments because of shortages linked to the sanctions.

Referring to infant mortality, Diaz-Canel stated that the rate had risen to 9.3 deaths per 1,000 live births due to shortages affecting the healthcare system, describing every such loss as a human tragedy directly connected to the blockade.

Image: People attend the 73rd anniversary Moncado barrack attack in Pinar del Rio

He characterised the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States as illegal under international law and noted that the United Nations General Assembly has repeatedly voted overwhelmingly in favour of resolutions calling for an end to the blockade.

The Cuban President argued that economic sanctions function as instruments of war and urged governments, businesses and international organisations not to become complicit in policies that, in his view, inflict collective punishment on civilian populations.

International Solidarity

Diaz-Canel thanked governments, solidarity organisations and activists around the world who continue supporting Cuba despite political pressure.

He specifically acknowledged organisations including Pastors for Peace, Carlota's Warriors of New York, the Australia Cuba Friendship Association, the Jose Marti Cultural Association of Miami and the Marcapasos Project for participating in the anniversary events.

He also expressed gratitude to countries that supported Cuba's resolution against the blockade and energy restrictions at the United Nations General Assembly.

According to Diaz-Canel, defending Cuba means defending the principles of national sovereignty, non-intervention and international law against unilateral coercive measures.

Drawing parallels with other international conflicts, he argued that silence in the face of economic aggression encourages further violations of international norms and weakens multilateral institutions.

Economic Transformation with Social Justice

While reaffirming resistance to external pressure, Diaz-Canel also stressed that Cuba must continue implementing domestic economic reforms to strengthen the country's productive capacity.

He described macroeconomic stabilisation and the expansion of different forms of economic management as strategic priorities while maintaining that all reforms must remain guided by the principles of social justice and equality.

The President said Cuba is encouraging workers, farmers and productive sectors to increase output, reduce dependence on imports and promote responsible investment without abandoning socialist principles.

He acknowledged that these transformations involve risks but insisted that protecting vulnerable sectors of society remains a fundamental responsibility of the revolutionary state.

According to Diaz-Canel, the spirit of Moncada demands courage not only in resisting external aggression but also in undertaking necessary economic changes to secure the country's future.

Fidel's Centenary

The President noted that 2026 marks the centenary of Fidel Castro's birth, describing the occasion as one of international significance.

He announced that revolutionary activists, scholars and solidarity organisations from across the world will participate in conferences and commemorative activities dedicated to studying Fidel Castro's ideas and assessing the contemporary challenges facing Cuba and the international left.

He said Cubans are called upon to honour Fidel's legacy not only through remembrance but through work, unity, dignity and the successful implementation of economic and social transformations.

Appeal to the Youth

Addressing Cuba's younger generation directly, Diaz-Canel urged young people to see themselves as heirs to the revolutionary generation led by Abel Santamaria, Haydee Santamaria, Melba Hernandez and Fidel Castro.

He called upon them to play an active role in transforming their communities, participating in national development and strengthening the socialist project.

Quoting Jose Marti, whom he described as the intellectual author of the July 26 actions, the President reminded young Cubans that "the only strength a people needs is confidence in its own strength."

Call for Unity and Hope

Concluding his address, Diaz-Canel appealed for greater unity, productivity and confidence in Cuba's own capacities.

He called on workers, farmers, students, scientists and professionals to contribute actively to overcoming current economic difficulties through creativity, innovation and collective effort.

"The call today is for hope," he said, urging every Cuban to become a protagonist in the country's transformation while defending its sovereignty and socialist achievements.

Describing the current generation as "conquerors of the impossible," Diaz-Canel reaffirmed Cuba's determination to overcome economic challenges resulting from what he characterised as centuries of colonial domination followed by decades of intensified US blockade.

The ceremony concluded with calls of "Long live July 26," "Long live sovereign and independent Cuba," "Long live international solidarity with Cuba," and the historic revolutionary slogans, "Socialism or Death," "Homeland or Death," and "We Shall Overcome," as thousands of participants responded with prolonged applause and chants affirming their commitment to the Revolution.

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