Why Anganwadi and ASHAs are Essential Workers and Not Volunteers
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Why Anganwadi and ASHAs are Essential Workers and Not Volunteers

BySuchita Krishnaprasad; and Peeyush Sharma

Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers are technically volunteers and therefore paid an honorarium below the minimum wage, but actually they are essential workers, who managed the State’s on-ground pandemic response. Also: 1.93 lakh posts of Anganwadi workers lying vacant across country.

Two Years Since Abrogation of Article 370: Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir
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Two Years Since Abrogation of Article 370: Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir

ByForum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir

This executive summary of the third report issued by the Forum details several issues from civilian security to freedom of media, speech and information as well as health, employment, land, demography and identity rights.

In Chokhamela’s Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present
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In Chokhamela’s Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present

ByYogesh Maitreya

Chokhamela’s 13th to 14th-century abhangas, and the songs of other Maharashtrian dalit-bahujan saint-poets from the Bhakti movement, offer a complex and crucial narrative to understand the inception and growth of resistance in future Dalit traditions and movements.

Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

ByJacques R. Pauwels

The real reason why the US dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to prevent the Soviets from making a contribution to the victory against Japan, which would have forced Washington to allow Moscow to participate in the postwar occupation and reconstruction of the country.

Nicaragua’s Sandinistas Battle ‘Diabolical’ U.S. Empire and Poverty on 42nd Anniversary of Revolution
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Nicaragua’s Sandinistas Battle ‘Diabolical’ U.S. Empire and Poverty on 42nd Anniversary of Revolution

ByBen Norton

Report from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life. President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries”.

What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
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What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?

ByMichael A. Lebowitz

Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.