Dr. Amit Sengupta shares with Newsclick the crucial local context behind the success of the recently concluded Tunis World Social Forum. He also discusses how the Tunis chapter went on to become a forum of resistance and how it changed many minds doubting the utility of the World Social Forum.

The Vision Document of AAP* brings no surprises. It puts down in black and white what its main protagonists have been saying for the last two years.

Newsclick presents its lecture series. The inaugural programme was on "20 Years after Fall of USSR". The panelists were Eminent Political Scientist Aijaz Ahmad, Eminent Economist Prabhat patnaik and CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat. This Part-I of the three part series.

Cuban intellectual and former diplomat Professor Carlos Alzugaray is interviewed by Newsclick. He dwells on a variety of subjects related to the political economy of Latin America, but focuses in particular on the role, character and dimensions of US hegemony in the continent today. This is the first part of the interview conducted by Newsclick.