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• New York City Cab Drivers’ Strike and Waiting for Lefty | K.A. Manikumar

  20 June 2020

  by K.A. Manikumar*
  The 1930s, that experienced economic depression of unprecedented magnitude, has been hailed as America’s "Red Decade”. Hundreds of protests had been organized and conducted by Communist and Socialist Parties during this extremely trying period for common people. The most prominent among them was the New York City Cab Drivers’ Strike. On 3 February 1934 more than 10,000 taxi drivers launched into a lightning strike, disrupting the city’s transportation system. The cause (…)

• From Self-reliant Villages to a Self-reliant India | K Gireesan & Jos Chathukulam

  20 June 2020, by Jos Chathukulam

  by K Gireesan * and Jos Chathukulam**
  Abstract
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on 12 May 2020 at 8 p.m. sharing his views for the third time since the eruption of COVID-19 and imposition of lockdown in our country in which he highlighted the launch of ‘AthmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ (Self Reliant India Campaign). He revealed the vision of self-reliant India with its thrust on local economic development to boost the Indian economy, which is not much different from (…)

• No Wimbledon, No cinema. Why live!

  20 June 2020, by T J S George

  Mysore will never be the same to me again; Southern Star, my home on many a visit, has shut down. Tennis will not be the same again; Wimbledon has been cancelled this year, an outright sin. A cinema hall will not be a cinema hall again for any of us. How can a self-respecting "hall" live in an age when only 50 people can gather for a marriage and only 20 for a funeral? Even a prized restaurant will not remain so when social distancing matters more than food.
  Before closing, (…)

• Civil Society in the time of Covid-19 | Mahi Pal

  20 June 2020

  by Dr. Mahi Pal
  Role Civil Society (CS) which is also known as Civil Society Organisations(CSOs), Non- Governmental Organisations(NGOs), Voluntary Organisations (VOs) may be registered under any Act and non registered is very important in rescue operations, coordination, assessment and imparting training to persons engaged in the disaster management. On account of these qualities of CS, its role has been recognized and included in The Disaster Management Act 2005 in organising and (…)

• ’Warnography’: Frenzy Media, Frantic World | Navneet Sharma and Khem Raj Sharma

  20 June 2020

  by Navneet Sharma and Khem Raj Sharma
  ’The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry’ —William H. Mauldin
  War is an extreme aggression and destruction leading to mortality. It is only a masculine response to economic, political, geographical, religious and cultural conflicts. No war is fought for the sake of war but for peace or for the control over the ability to disturb peace. War is an economic enterprise. It benefits an ideology to be in perpetual state of war. The arms (…)

• The harassment of Harsh Mander / Sushant Singh Suicide / Heart Attack a poem by Faiz

  20 June 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  by Humra Quraishi
  16 June 2020
  I am saddened and shocked to see the systematic way in which civil servant turned activist, Harsh Mander’s name is getting dragged in the Delhi riots / pogrom of 2020. Needless to go into those backgrounders, to the obvious ‘whys’ to the harassment he is facing…
  In fact ,each time Mander’s books were launched I made it a point to read them and also to interview him because they were /are laced with the ground realities which most of us sit un-aware (…)

• Oil Price Hike - A Cartoon | Ajith

  20 June 2020

• Why History is so important | Ishfaq Ahmad Wani

  20 June 2020

  by Ishfaq Ahmad Wani History has a commanding role in the formation of nations and past is used as a means to instill in people sense of belongingness to the nation. Approach to studying past determines the political, social and cultural environment of nations. History as a discipline plays an important role in politically socialising citizens of state or nation. This to a large extent depends upon how history takes shape in the state or nation and its very nature determines the kind of (…)

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  Now it is for the Supreme Court to turn on the country’s Working Class | NTUI

  20 June 2020

  DOCUMENT
  New Trade Union Initiative
  Now it is for the Supreme Court to turn on the country’s Working Class
  June 12, 2020 secretariat
  The Supreme Court of India today handed down an order which in effect leaves no one responsible for the lives and livelihood of all working people in the country. In 28 pages of verbiage not located in constitutional rights, fact or the procedure of law, the Supreme Court accepted that employers cannot be held responsible for wages of workers during the (…)

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  Video: Christopher Hitchens & Robert Service on the Life of Trotsky (3 parts)

  15 June 2020

  Christopher Hitchens discussing the great Leon Trotsky on the BBC Radio 4 show "Great Lives", hosted by Matthew Parris. Historian Robert Service is also present to add to the discussion