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Interview with Rodolfo Machaca Yupanqui [As the general elections in Bolivia are approaching and the campaign for socialist president Evo Morales is gaining vigour, Peoples Dispatch interviewed Rodolfo Machaca Yupanqui, the leader of the Unified Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers Union (CSUTCB). The CSUTCB is the largest peasants’ union in Bolivia. Since 1967, it has…
Courtesy: Indian Cultural Forum On May 25, 2019, two days after sweeping back to power, Prime Minister Modi made a speech at the Central Hall of Parliament. He said, “We belong to those who voted for us and with those who consider us their enemy.” He spoke of minorities living in fear, but claimed that…
A.G. Noorani is nothing if not prolific. In his latest book, The RSS: A Menace to India, we have another tome of over 500 pages with its contents diligently distilled. It is also timely. The topicality of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a subject of study is evident. This is the second volume on…
I am surprised that no one else is saying it, writing it, shouting it at each and every corner: It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Iran that are in dire and crucial need of ‘regime change’. It is the United States of America, it is the entire European Union; in fact, the entire West….
(This paper was first presented at a five-day conference on ‘Indian Constitution and Social Justice’ held in Mysore in 1995, under the joint auspices of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Dhwanyalok Center for Indian Studies, Mysore. It generated considerable controversy then, as the author had written and presented it in Hindi, even though…
The result of the recent Indian elections, which gave Narendra Modi’s Hindu Supremacist Party a second five-year term, confirms the basic argument regarding the nature of fascism. There is a fundamental difference between the 2014 elections that brought Modi to power and the 2019 elections. In the 2014 elections Modi’s victory was made possible by…
They say that the country’s PM works for 18 hrs, Like a machine! No need – Let him work just 8 hours as our workers do. Let him rest when tired, Sleep when sleepy, Smile when he dreams, like a baby, Enjoy the beloved’s hug. Let him not set on fire those who are in…
Finally, the government has released the suppressed report on unemployment, now that elections are done and dusted with. Meanwhile, joblessness has worsened dramatically with an estimated 4.17 crore people unemployed, according to another recent report of the CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy), based on a similar sample survey. The government had directed the National…
[Martha Lia Grajales is part of the Surgentes Collective (a human rights organisation) and a founding member of the San Agustin Convive cooperative in Venezuela. She is a lawyer, and has a master’s degree in human rights and democracy. In this interview, we ask her questions about the relationship between state power and popular organisation,…
Today, on May 9, Basava Jayanthi is being celebrated across the state. The tragedy is that most Lingayats, who say they admire Basavanna, neither follow his religious teachings nor live according to the credo propagated by Basavanna and other Sharanas. Let’s take B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is considered as the strongman of Lingayats in the state,…
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