2022

People’s Campaigns Raise Serious Objections to Rice Fortification Scheme, with Special Concerns Regarding Tribal Communities
At a time when the plans of the Government of India to hurriedly spread rice fortification have already become highly controversial with several serious objections being raised by several experts, leading food rights campaigns have prepared a detailed report in the specific context of Jharkhand and particularly its tribal communities which carries the debate and its (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 - (…)

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 (…)

* 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
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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

by Radhakanta Barik *
India is suffering from the selfish ruling class who are rooted in Hinduism. As a religion it does not create moral and ethical pressures on class to work for the welfare of the common people. This religion believes in past life and present life which guides the prosperity and sufferings of people. Karma Dharma guides the present rulers who believe in the philosophy. It is highly selfish ruling class India has today. As Prof Thomas Pogge explains the justice suffers (…)