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  Book Review: Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism | ACG

  11 December 2020

  Review by Anarchist Communist Group (ACG)
  November 23, 2020
  Darch, Colin. Nestor Makhno and rural anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. Pluto Press.238 pages. £17.99
  I approached this book with some enthusiasm. A new book on the Makhnovist movement using sources previously unreferenced in the English language world. I was sorely disappointed. I should have read Darch’s doctoral thesis on Makhno, where his bias against Makhno and anarchism is immediately apparent. An example of that (…)

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  Video: Sona Jobarteh & Band - Kora Music from West Africa

  11 December 2020
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 5, 2020

  5 December 2020

  * Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, December 5, 2020
  * Judiciary and Social Justice - Human Rights and Frights | Justice Madan Lokur
  * The People’s Historian | Christopher Hill
  * The Wasteland of Public Sector Enterprises | Govind Bhattacharjee

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 5, 2020

  5 December 2020

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 5
  As we write these lines there is a continuing standoff between a movement of protesting peasants from Punjab and Haryana (with growing support from Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and other States) on one side and the Central Government on the other. Over the past ten days tens of thousands of peasants are parked on a highway leading to Delhi, they are demanding a rollback of three Farm bills that were rushed through Parliament (…)

• Judiciary and Social Justice, Dignity and Personal Liberty, Human Rights and Frights | Justice Madan Lokur

  5 December 2020

  Posted below is the Full Text of Seventh Sunil Memorial Lecture delivered by Justice (Retd) Madan Lokur on November 29, 2020
  Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen,
  It is indeed a privilege to deliver the Sunil Memorial Lecture for this year to an august audience consisting, among others, of academics, intellectuals and professionals from different disciplines and interests. I thank the Sunil Memorial Trust for this privilege.
  Sunil did his post-graduation from Jawaharlal Nehru University (…)

• The People’s Historian | Christopher Hill

  5 December 2020

  by Christopher Hill *
  Raphael Samuel recently drew attention to the number of British Communist Party intellectuals in the 1930s whose first interest had been English literature—Edgell Rickword, Alick West, Douglas Garman, Jack Lindsay—and A.L. Morton. Morton worked with T.S. Eliot on the Criterion in the 1920s, and spoke—many years later—of the ‘liberating experience’ of reading The Waste Land then. Leslie never lost his fascination with English literature, and it stood him in good stead (…)

• The Wasteland of Public Sector Enterprises | Govind Bhattacharjee

  5 December 2020

  by Dr Govind Bhattacharjee *
  Abstract:
  From only five to 444 Central and 1136 State PSUs, the public sector in India has grown phenomenally since independence. Paralysed by excessive government interference and politicization, Central PSUs have been systematically bled by successive governments and their excess cash squeezed out to finance government’s burgeoning fiscal deficits and populist agenda. But post 1991, with the State’s role being redefined as a facilitator rather than a (…)

• Misusing political power - In service of personal pride and prejudices | MA Sofi

  5 December 2020

  by Prof. M. A. Sofi *
  What is leadership supposed to achieve for the people after all? Surely, not capitulating to what the crowd wants or acting as demanded by the public pulse and conducting politics accordingly. Mainly because the people, more so those sections of them who are either uneducated or may come across as otherwise, but who are completely clueless about what it takes for the society to qualify as being robust, happy, healthy, open, tolerant and egalitarian. Come to think of (…)

• Goa since Liberation | Eduardo Falerio

  5 December 2020, by Eduardo Faleiro

  The last few decades have witnessed vast changes in political ideology and economic policies across the world. People of different countries have been affected differently, but always in a significant manner everywhere.
  Goa has achieved remarkable progress since Liberation [in December 1961]. The greatest gain of Liberation has been the feeling of self-respect regained, the opening of the portals of opportunity particularly to the vast mass of people who were denied upward mobility over (…)

• Yediyurappa phenomenon in Karnataka politics | P S Jayaramu

  5 December 2020

  by P. S. Jayaramu *
  Chief minister B. S. Yediyurappa, (popularly known as BSY) is very much in the news. Firstly for his decision to set up the Maratha Development Authority, which has not only led to strong condemnations by Kannada organisations but also led to the lingayat, Vokkaliga, Kuruba and other communities demanding similar Development Authorities for their betterment. Secondly, the demand of new entrants as well as old timers in the Party for ministerial positions. He also faces (…)