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  Podcast: Why are Kashmiri Hindus Quitting the Valley? | Kapil Kak speaks to Amit Baruah - The Hindu, June 7, 2022

  11 June 2022

  The Hindu, June 7, 2022
  Guest: Air Vice-Marshal Kapil Kak (retd.) is part of a group of concerned citizens regarding Jammu and Kashmir
  Host: Amit Baruah, Senior Associate Editor, The Hindu

• Relevance of Gramsci’s Reading of Fascism | Arup Kumar Sen

  11 June 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The editor and translator of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks (1930-32), Vol. III (Columbia University Press, New York, 2007), Joseph A. Buttigieg observed in his Preface:
  “...short of reading for themselves the same range of publications that Gramsci painstakingly examined, there are few better ways for today’s readers to enrich their understanding of the cultural politics and political culture of fascist Italy than by accompanying Gramsci as he systematically casts his critical eye on (…)

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  Vergara on Hutchison, ’Workers Like All the Rest of Them

  11 June 2022

  Reviewed by Ángela Vergara (California State University)
  __0__ Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
  Durham: Duke University Press 2022 228 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1489-8; (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1395-2.
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  The history of Chile’s paid domestic workers has remained largely invisible. Labor studies do not mention their struggles and unionization efforts or consider the (…)

• Why does Putin make all the Soviet dead of the Second World War... “Russians”? | Yorgos Mitralias

  11 June 2022

  by Yorgos Mitralias
  18 May 2022
  May 9 has come and gone, and as has been the constant for the past two decades, both Mr. Putin’s enemies and friends have repeated in unison that on May 9 of every year, Russia remembers and honors the 20 or 25 plus million of its dead during World War II. It even seems that in recent years, and even more so this year because of Mr. Putin’s war on Ukraine, these millions of Russian dead have been commemorated even more forcefully in order to highlight - (…)

• Nationalism and Economic Life | Leon Trotsky

  11 June 2022

  by Leon Trotsky
  (First Appeared in Foreign Affairs, April 1934)
  ITALIAN fascism has proclaimed national "sacred egoism" as the sole creative factor. After reducing the history of humanity to national history, German fascism proceeded to reduce nation to race, and race to blood. Moreover, in those countries which politically have not risen—or rather, descended—to fascism, the problems of economy are more and more being forced into national frameworks. Not all of them have the courage to (…)

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  Music: Linton Kwesi Johnson - More Time

  11 June 2022

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 4, 2022

  3 June 2022

  * Revisiting the Kudumbashree Experiment of Kerala | J Chathukulam & M Joseph
  * Ingenious Farmers and Ignoble Experts | H S Shylendra
  * India, China relations threaten to freeze over | S Kondapalli

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 4, 2022

  3 June 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 4, 2022
  For months we have seen a steady stream of targeted killings by terrorists in Kashmir. All this has been happening in the new administrative reality of direct rule by the central Government after the revocation of the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 in August 2019. We have been constantly served a standard fare ever since that of the return to normalcy in the state and Kashmir is a safer space than (…)

• Between Euphoria and Scepticism: Revisiting the Kudumbashree Experiment of Kerala | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

  3 June 2022, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  Abstract
  Kerala’s Kudumbashree is celebrating its silver jubilee in 2022. While Kudumbashree has made significant contributions in terms of empowering women and reducing poverty, there have been criticisms that it has failed to evolve as a powerful critical alternative development model with gender perspectives to address strategic gender needs even after 25 years. __0__
  Introduction
  Kudumbashree, a Made in Kerala initiative, that is (…)

• ‘Ingenious Farmers and Ignoble Experts’: Case of the Supreme Court Appointed Committee on Farm Laws | H.S. Shylendra

  3 June 2022

  by H.S. Shylendra
  Introduction
  The fifteen-month long farmers’ agitation in India held between September 2020 and December 2021 demanding the total withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws was a major social movement staged successfully using democratic and non-violent methods against a domineering state backed by corporate power (Shylendra 2022). The movement because of its sheer conviction of purpose, tenacity, and innovative strategies can hold several lessons for agitational (…)