Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 6, Feb 8, 2025

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In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 8, 2025
• Delhi Assembly Election Results: A preliminary assessment | P. S. Jayaramu
• Repealed farm laws return as NPFAM | Rajan Kshirsagar
• The Union Budget 2025-26 : An Analysis | P. S. Jayaramu
• Budget 2025-26: Pushing Growth while Ignoring Employment | Sher Singh Sangwan
• The Diminishing of a Hindutva Icon | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• Handloom Weavers’ Cooperatives in Neo-Liberal India: Need for Strengthening them | K Srinivasulu
• Why Resolving Manipur Has Become Difficult? | Ajay K. Mehra
• Indian Politics: Towards communal consensus? | Prem Singh
• Justice Delayed is Justice Denied | Pandey, Singh and Pandey
• Attempts to Undermine Gandhi’s Contribution to Freedom Movement | Ram Puniyani
• Tribute to Tapan Bose| Sagari Chhabra
• On Student Protests of Late 2024 in Serbia | Ivaylo Dinev
• Donald Trump’s Policy of ‘America First’ & Its Deconstruction | Sunita Samal
• Trump’s Dubious Plan for Dismembering Gaza | J P Gadkari
• USA: MAGA is just a populist pipedream | Anuradha Chenoy
• Remembering Michael Burawoy | Jos Chathukulam

DOCUMENTS

• Joint Statement by Left Parties with Alternative Proposals for Budget
• Joint Statement by Central Trade Unions on the 2025-2026 Budget
• Letter from MPs expressing concern over Naga Peace Talks (Feb 3, 2025)
• Editors Guild statement on Seizure of Phones
• Statement by Communist Party of India on Trump’s Threat Against Gaza

BOOKS

• A Dalit Activist’s Quest for Freedom | Arup Kumar Sen

IMAGE & SOUND

• Workers doing repairs at the Port of Genoa in Italy - Photo by Gianni-Berengo-Gardin
• Documentary: On the rise of the far-right in Germany
• L’italiana in Algeri (1813) by Gioachino Rossini | arr. Lucien Cailliet

Editor’s Picks

• The social sector is again the target of spending cuts
• Maruti Suzuki: How A New Generation of Young Workers Fight On
• Analysing the Delhi assembly election results
• Not the end of immigration challenges for India
• A. E. Goonesinha: An iconoclast that emerged from the independence movement
• The Rise of Authoritarianism
• The role of purges and terror in the formation of the USSR
• US top diplomat Rubio to skip G20 over ‘anti-Americanism’
• Housewives, Prostitutes, and Workers

Books of Note

• Populism and Fascism by Carlos de la Torre (Cambridge University Press, February 2025, Paperback ISBN: 9781009528986)

• In the Storms of Transformation: Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU by Ulf Brunnbauer, Philipp Ther, Piotr Filipkowski, Andrew Hodges, Stefano Petrungaro and Peter Wegenschimmel (University of Toronto Press, January 2025, Pages: 288)

* (Coverpage artwork credits: drawing from Paul Klee notebooks of 1922, 1923 | Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee_Notebooks)