PRAGOTI

On the 29 November 2009, Switzerland in a very controversial referendum banned the construction of Minarets. This came as surprise for many who considered Europe as a better place to live and more secular in its societal construction. The continent, which suffered huge loss of both property, and life in two World Wars, witnessed the rise of fascism, and complete division during the cold war, seemed to bridging the gap by the continuous evolution of the European Union. In the contemporary world order international analyst visualize the EU as one of the emerging bloc but different from the US.

The violent attack on women in a pub in Mangalore needs to be condemned by one and all. Such attacks do not have any place in a civilized democratic society.

Marxists were for the defense of the national state in the bourgeois revolutionary epoch because it furthered the proletarian cause. Marxists can be for national defense today, upon a basis that furthers the interests of the proletariat against those of the bourgeoisie. In this lies the key to our agitation in the daily political struggle – our agitation to expose the “national defense” of the bourgeoisie and reveal its fraudulent character.

Ernest Erber wrote in 1940.

Such is the influence of the ‘ communal –fascist rhetoric’ on the political conscious and unconscious in India that the possibility of the involvement of Hindutva-Fascist forces in Malegaon Blast wasn’t even discussed widely. Nevertheless, the emerging leads through the investigations of the Malegaon blasts case give another opportunity to the Left to forcefully combat the ‘Hindutva-Fascist forces’ in this 'war of position'.

Nachiket Kulkarni writes for Pragoti.