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June 6, 2022
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The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) deplores the hostility repeatedly exhibited by politicians and vigilante groups towards journalists.
The targetting of Mohd Zubair, co-founder and Editor of Alt News, is a classic case of shooting the messenger. Zubair tweeted that BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma had made objectionable (…)
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India: The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) deplores the hostility repeatedly exhibited by politicians and vigilante groups towards journalists
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Food Security Concerns in Jharkhand | Bharat Dogra
11 June 2022, by Bharat DograPeople’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 (…) -
Photo: Kalpana Dutt (later Kalpana Joshi)
11 June 2022Member, Indian Republican Army, Chittagong Group. An 18 year old college student when she was arrested while on reconnaissance just a week before the attack on the European Club in 1931. She got bail, went underground & managed to evade the police till 1933. She graduated from Calcutta University in 1940 and joined the Communist Party of India. In 1943, she married Puran Chand Joshi, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of India. She passed away in February 1995, here is the (…)
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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 2022The Hindu, June 7, 2022
Guest: Air Vice-Marshal Kapil Kak (retd.) is part of a group of concerned citizens regarding Jammu and Kashmir
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Relevance of Gramsci’s Reading of Fascism | Arup Kumar Sen
11 June 2022, by Arup Kumar SenThe 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 (…) -
Vergara on Hutchison, ’Workers Like All the Rest of Them
11 June 2022Reviewed 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 2022by 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 2022by 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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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