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DESCRIPTION:On August 5, 2019, the government of India, headed by Prime Minister 
 Narendra Modi of Hindu Nationalist BJP put Kashmir in a security lockdown 
 and then moved in the Lok Sabha (“Peoples Assembly” – i.e. the 
 Parliament, to revoke Articles 370 and 35A, which granted political 
 autonomy to the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir and barred outsiders to 
 purchase property in the state respectively. The upper house, known as 
 Rajya Sabha (“States Assembly” - where representatives are elected from 
 each state of India) ratified the new law. Mr. Modi’s Party has clear 
 majority in the Parliament but not in the Rajya Sabha.\n\n   Kashmir has 
 been a dispute between India and Pakistan ever since British colony of 
 India was split into two sovereign politically independent countries on 
 August 15-16, 1947. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, 
 all three initiated by Pakistan, the first one of which in 1947-48 ended in 
 a truce brokered by the UN, and which divided Kashmir ‘temporarily” 
 between the two countries . The latest move of India has angered Pakistan, 
 while India considers it as an internal matter.\n\n   Raj Sahai will 
 present a historical outline and his analysis based on ‘Marxism and the 
 National and Colonial Question’ developed by Joseph Stalin that helped 
 successfully integrate the oppressed nationalities under the Tsarist rule 
 in the socialist state of the USSR as partners and which success helped 
 develop the backward nations and in turn also the USSR very rapidly and 
 which helped vanquish the  German invaders in 1945.\n\n   Raj Sahai has 
 been associated with ICSS for the past 13 years and is a student of 
 Marx’s ‘Capital’ as well as anti-war activist starting with the 
 Vietnam War in 1968 to more recent wars imposed on small countries by 
 developed Capitalist countries.\n\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/17/18827368.php
SUMMARY:Marxism and the National Question - the Case of Kashmir
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/17/18827368.php
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