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  Table of Contents - Lockdown Edition no.14 | June 27, 2020

  26 June
  Full Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 27, 2020
  LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.14
  Why China’s Finger Points at Ladakh: Imperatives for India ; Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere
  From the Archives: extracts from the story of  (...)

• 1919 Constructivist Artwork by El Lissitzsky

  1 July

  ("Клином красным бей белых!" Klinom krasnym bey belykh!) is a 1919[1] lithographic Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky

• ’If you Are Not Careful, The Newspapers Will Have You Hating The People Who Are Being Oppressed’ Media Manipulation in Words of MaclomX, 1964 | Poster by Fred Sochard

  1 July

  Art work by Fred Sochard

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.14

  26 June
  Letter to Readers Mainstream, 27 June 2020 - Lockdown Edition no 14 Forty-Five years have passed since the midnight of June 25 - 26, 1975, when the infamous National Emergency was imposed on India by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi –- suspending  (...)

• Why China’s Finger Points at Ladakh: Imperatives for India | Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere

  26 June, by S G Vombatkere

  Mao Zedong, first president of the People’s Republic of China, had designs on “reclaiming” territories to the west of China, by placing the “Chinese hand” over the region. Tibet was likened to the palm of the hand, and the fingers were Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh), spanning across the whole Himalayan range.

• From the Archives: extracts from the story of Mainstream’s Journey Through The Emergency

  26 June

  The story of Mainstream during the nineteen months of Emergency is both exciting and rewarding. It has many lessons to impart. The confrontation with a despotic authority could not possibly be direct and formal: by its very logic it was in the nature of a continuous political guerilla warfare for eighteen long months until its forcible closure with the issue of December 26, 1976. It could reappear only with the relaxation of Emergency following Indira Gandhi’s fateful decision to go to the polls.

• From The Archives: The Roots of the Emergency | Nikhil Chakravartty

  26 June, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  [Reproduced below is a piece from NC’s Writings first published in Mainstream on July 1, 1995]
  As years pass by, one after the other, the past recedes more and more into distant memory. There are certain events in the life of a nation as of  (...)

• Video: Super Crisis Lies Ahead - Patrick Bond | 9 June 2020

  26 June

  A conversation with Patrick Bond, professor of political economy at the University of the Western Cape School of Government

• Splintered but not broken: A history of Israel’s independent left | Matan Kaminer and Joel Beinin

  26 June

  From class struggles to women’s rights to fighting occupation, Israel’s ’independent left’ was never a cohesive social movement. Yet its impact is being felt to this day.

• The Statue Movement: Unbolting Gandhi | Khal Torubally

  26 June

  It is worth remembering that the movement of statues, beheading Columbus in Boston or throwing the slave trader Colston in Bristol, was preceded by a proposal to unbolt the statue of Gandhi in Ghana in 2018 and the destruction of that of Schoelcher (he voted for the abolition of slavery) in the West Indies. For Gandhi, we are coming back to the charge in the English city of Leicester at this very moment...

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