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• Protests Erupt in over 1500 Cities Worldwide

  5 November 2011

  FROM TAHRIR SQUARE TO TIMES SQUARE
  The following piece appeared in ML Update, the weekly newsmagazine of the CPI-ML (Liberation), in its October 18-24, 2011 issue and is being reproduced from there with due acknowledgement.
  Tens of thousands flooded the streets of global financial centres, capital cities and small towns on October 15.
  After triumphing in a standoff with the authorities over the continued protest of Wall Street at Liberty Square in Manhattan’s financial district, the (…)

• Capitalism, Republicans, and the American Spring

  5 November 2011, by Eddie J Girdner

  “Help! Thief! I´ve been robbed, I´ve been robbed by the capitalists and the government!” ‘’There aint but two sides, the workers side and the big bosses side.’’ —Woody Guthrie
  This cry is being heard more and more around the cities and capitals of the United States and Western Europe today and even further around the globe.
  Is there a genuine awakening among the American youth? The recent Occupy Wall Street Movement suggests that an awareness of the destructive and unethical nature of (…)

• Time to beat Swords into Ploughshares

  5 November 2011, by Uttam Sen

  The striking aspect of the European financial crisis on the heels of the American was corroboration that the asymmetry which had erupted in the First World War was being played back. To some the causality of the periodic rises and falls of the global financial architecture is confined to tentative insights on cycles provided by the Russian economist, Nikolai Kondratiev (later a victim of the Stalinist purges). But the occurrence has remained a legacy of the liberal capitalist world inherited (…)

• Stakeholders in Junglemahal and Battle between the Lines

  5 November 2011

  by SUBRATA BAGCHI
  In the wake of the West Bengal Chief Minister’s announcement of a development package for Junglemahal and without mincing words for the Maoists, the debates within the civil rights movements regarding the release of political prisoners and withdrawal of the joint forces from Junglemahal are now rocking the entire political spectrum. It seems that the detention of Chhatradhar Mahato and Manoj Mahato, leaders of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA),1 and (…)

• J&K: The Way Forward

  5 November 2011

  by JAYAN P.A.
  The much-awaited report on Jammu and Kashmir (hereinafter J and K) was submitted by the three interlocutors—journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, academic Radha Kumar, former Information Commissioner M.M. Ansari—to the Union Home Ministry on October 12, 2011. The three-member panel was appointed by the Centre exactly a year ago with a mandate to suggest the contours of a political settlement of the J and K problem. The report is the outcome of the interactions of the three (…)

• Mad Dog on Rampage

  5 November 2011, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  FROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
  The position that the President of the United States of America holds in the affairs of the world carries with it a modicum of dignity and a certain degree of responsibility. It is amazing that the present occupant of that high office has recently demonstrated that he possesses neither. Leaders of nations sometimes indulge in bitter polemics and hurl harsh words at each other, but none of them has called another head of a state a mad dog. Not at least since Adolf (…)

• Pakistan Has Indeed Failed Jinnah

  5 November 2011

  COMMUNICATION
  With reference to the article by Ajit Jawed, "Pakistan Failed Jinnah" (Mainstream, September 10, 2011), I want to point out that the write-up does not talk about the letter which Habibur Rahman, an ex-Muslim League member, wrote to his party members. In this letter he says that Jinnah was a follower of Chengiz Khan and Hitler. He wanted the Hindus to be killed and looted. He wanted that Hindu girls should be abducted and raped en-masse. I have compiled this letter from the (…)

• Beyond the Chains of Illusions of Inclusive Development

  5 November 2011, by Ananta Kumar Giri

  POVERTY, CREATIVITY AND CHALLENGES OF TRANSFORMATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ODISHA AND THE WORLD
  "Dreams are made out of the impossibles. We cannot reach the impossible by using the analytical minds trained to deal with hard information that is currently available. These minds are fitted with flashing red lights to warn us about obstacles we may face. We’ll have to put our minds in a different mode when we think about our future, will have to dare to make bold leaps to make the impossible (…)

• Ernesto ’Che’ Guevara

  5 November 2011

  by K.P. BHANUMATHY
  Ernesto Che Crevana was executed by the Bolivian Army in Bolivia on October 9, 1967 when he was just 39 years in age. On the occasion of his fortyfourth death anniversary this year we are carrying the following article by veteran journalist K.P. Bhanumathy who interviewed him when he visited India in July 1959. This has been included in her book Candid Conversations with Towering Persons (first published in 2007 and then republished in 2010 by the National Book Trusts, (…)

• Taming the Beasts

  5 November 2011, by Samit Kar

  West Bengal has seen Friday, May 13 this year. The majority of the Bengalis might not have considered this day horrifying as the poll outcome did suggest. Instead, this day did mark the cut-off point of a long legacy which made West Bengal to be a State with a difference. The difference was not limited to the gamut of political affiliation. There had been a rise of a number of impediments which made this State to become unmanageable to render good governance. This happens to be the horror of (…)