Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state? -

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> ravi wrote: Kashmir:
>
>>> a US protectorate in reality.
>
>> then our duty is not to deny the former, but to fight the latter,
>> isn't it?
>
> How do you fight the latter?
>

isn't the answer to that question what the broader context of this list
is? or at least the humanist left is? i am hardly qualified to answer
the question in any sufficient sense, but i think there are answers
available... in the writings, recommendations and actions of various
people (thoreau, gandhi, mlk, chomsky, feyerabend, ...).

> Btw, do CPI and CPM share your positions?

i do not have a position, at least on kashmir, other than this: the
wishes of the population need to be ascertained and honored in some
manner that is satisfactory to them. i am not sure what the positions of
the CPI and CPM are, since i am not a communist.

the following provides some information:

http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000809/ian09065.html

> Wary of a communal division of Jammu and Kashmir gaining acceptance
> among political circles and an increasing role for the US in the
> Valley, the Left parties stress on more autonomy for the state.
> AMRITH LAL analyses the position
>
> The position of the Indian mainstream Left on the Kashmir issue has
> been consistent right from the 1940s. The Left has always espoused
> the peculiar position of the state within the Indian union and the
> need to give it maximum autonomy.

which seems like a good start to me.

        --ravi