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• 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 (…)

• Does India have selfish ruling class? | Radhakanta Barik

  3 June 2022, by Radhakanta Barik

  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 (…)

• What It Means to Be a Pluriversal Marxist | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  3 June 2022

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
  There is no other philosopher who is more abused and misunderstood like Marx. There is no other philosophy like Marxism which is more demonised on a regular basis. The mindless vilification campaign against Marx and Marxism continues without any form of reason. The propaganda and portrayal of Marxism as a devilish doctrine signify its importance as a philosophy of human emancipation from the very forces who demonise it. Marxism is a philosophy of praxis which (…)

• Environment Destruction and the Way out | Kobad Ghandy

  3 June 2022

  On the occasion of World Environment Day 2022
  The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016. It has the goal to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this long-term temperature goal, they say “countries aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as (…)

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  Statement Party of the European Left on the NATO applications of Sweden and Finland

  3 June 2022

  Party of the European Left Square de Meeeus 25, 1000 Brussels Belgium https://www.european-left.org/
  Press release
  On the NATO applications of Sweden and Finland
  Published on: 19.05.2022
  On May 18, Sweden and Finland submitted their applications for NATO membership in Brussels. The day before, the foreign ministers of both countries signed the applications to join NATO. Heinz Bierbaum, the President of the Party of the European Left, comments:
  “Both countries are giving up their (…)

• Re-drawing the Security Architecture in Europe | Gautam Sen

  3 June 2022

  by Gautam Sen
  February 24, 2022 heralded starkly the beginning of the re-drawing the post-Cold War security architecture of Europe, albeit forcibly and unilaterally. The architecture began to evolve after December 1991 in the post-Gorbachev era with the dismantling of the former Soviet Union. Madeline Albright, former US secretary of state in the president Clinton administration, had initiated the process of realignment of east European countries with the collapse of the former Soviet (…)

• Urgent—Both Russia and the USA Should End Their Invasion of Ukraine | Bharat Dogra

  3 June 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  The title of this article needs an explanation. Several readers are likely to ask—of course it is clear that Russia should end its invasion of Ukraine, but what do you mean by the USA ending its invasion as it has not invaded Ukraine at all?
  Yes, of course, the USA has not at all invaded Ukraine openly with tanks and soldiers as in the case of Russia. But it has invaded in a different sense of trying to deny Ukraine any present or future policy other than than the one of relentless (…)

• India, China relations threaten to freeze over | Srikanth Kondapalli

  3 June 2022

  by Srikanth Kondapalli
  The invasion of Ukraine has upended world geopolitics, disrupting the already fragile relationship between India and China.
  As Ukrainians resist the Russian invasion, a renewed cold war is heating up between Russia and the NATO partners. Western sanctions are intensifying on Russia and the situation threatens to engulf other regions, challenging other tense regional dynamics — including the fragile relationship between India and China.
  India and China’s relations (…)