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• We Celebrate 10 Years of Rojava: A Visionary Social Experiment Under Threat - A Letter

  13 August 2022

  July 21, 2022
  Ten years ago, an auspicious experiment started alongside one of the most atrocious bloodsheds of this century. In July 2012, as Assad’s troops faced an armed insurrection in southern and central Syria, a popular Kurdish-led uprising in northeast Syria quickly filled the power vacuum. By 2017, the Rojava revolution encompassed 5 million people—Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Turkmen, Armenians, Yazidis, and others. Guided by one of the most democratic constitutions in the world, the (…)

• All cultures are not equal | Kenan Malik

  13 August 2022

  (This article appeared in Spiked, 28 May 2002)
  by Kenan Malik
  ‘I denounce European colonialism’, wrote CLR James. ‘But I respect the learning and profound discoveries of Western civilisation.’
  James was one of the great radicals of the twentieth century, an anti-imperialist, a superb historian of black struggles, a Marxist who remained one even when it was no longer fashionable to be so. But today, James’ defence of ‘Western civilisation’ would probably be dismissed as Eurocentric, (…)

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  Video: Aspi Chinoy on judicial accountability: Criminalising Human Rights Defenders - Attack on Democracy

  13 August 2022

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  Music: Bumpin’ On Sunset | Tequila (1966 Album) by Wes Montgomery

  13 August 2022

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 30, 2022[/bleu]

  29 July 2022

  * jawans, Kisans, Karmiks, Come Together | SG Vombatkere
  * Panic-stricken Tories look for a Saviour | LK Sharma
  * July 2021 Protest Was No Cuban Spring | Jos Chathukulam
  * Understanding Patriarchy | Bell Hooks

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 30, 2022

  29 July 2022

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, July 30, 2022
  The 2022 Monsoon session of the Parliament has so far mostly been disrupted with some very tense standoffs. Some 27 opposition MPs have been suspended from Parliament for demanding a discussion on the hike in GST, inflation, fuel prices and the Gujarat hooch tragedy. The Government would like us to believe at the opposition is solely to blame for this. Distrust between the small opposition and a Government with a thumping majority is on open (…)

• Karnataka State Public Higher Education Institutions Bill -2022: An analysis | P. S. Jayaramu

  29 July 2022, by P S Jayaramu

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (20th July, 2022)
  In April 2020, the Government of Karnataka appointed a Committee headed by Dr. Vasudev Atre, with a few high profile personalities like the Vice Chairman of the Karnataka State Higher Education Council Prof. Thimme Gowda, Prof. M K. Sridhar, Member, UGC, Dr. S. Sadagopan and a few others to prepare a draft Bill to replace the existing Karnataka State Universities Act. The Committee’s work gathered momentum as the Government of Karnataka took the (…)

• Jawans, Kisans, and Karmiks Come Together | S.G.Vombatkere

  29 July 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  Calling an all-Party meeting recently, MEA Minister S.Jaishankar rightly expressed official concern at the critical economic-financial situation of our southern neighbour Sri Lanka. It had caused large-scale protests. Jaishankar also allayed fears that a similar situation could arise in India. It is devoutly to be hoped that he is correct, in the interest of our People and our nation.
  The vast majority of our 1.35-billion citizens across religious, regional and language divides, are in (…)

• Yashwant Sinha betrayed by his secular and democratic friends | Arun Srivastava

  29 July 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  Traumatised at the betrayal by his secular and anti-BJP friends , Yashwant Sinha has decided not to re-join the Trinmool Congress and to bid a final goodbye to politics. Before running for the presidential office, Sinha was the national vice president of the TMC. More than his defeat, he is disillusioned with the nonconformist attitude of the leaders of the parties in opposition who vow to fight the rightist ideology and policies of the BJP.
  Coming together of the (…)

• Why Trade Unions Feel Urgent Need to Question and Oppose the New Labor Codes | Bharat Dogra

  29 July 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  When the Government of India embarked on a very significant exercise with far-reaching implications of codifying a complex of existing laws in four labor codes, this was sought to be presented as overdue labor ‘reform’ which will be beneficial for workers. However the government has not been able to convince most labor organizations particularly the central trade unions about the benefits of these significant changes for workers.
  In fact even the Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh which is generally (…)