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• Against Leninism | Tom Wetzel

  14 June 2024, by Tom Wetzel

  A major influence on radical thinking since the Russian revolution is the form of radical politics called Leninism. The name derives from the central role of the Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin in shaping the direction of the Bolsheviks in the revolution. The political legacy of Leninism is directly at odds with syndicalism, as we’ll see. But what is Leninism? To understand this, I think we need to look at the practice of the Bolshevik party in the revolutionary process in Russia and Lenin’s (…)

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  IDPD demands high level investigation in the irregularities in NEET

  14 June 2024

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  [June 14, 2024]
  PRESS NOTE
  IDPD demands high level investigation in the irregularities in NEET and redress students’ grievances
  Review the whole process of entrance into the higher education courses
  The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has demanded high level investigation in the scam in the NEET [National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test] examination for entrance into medical courses. The irregularities in the conduct of (…)

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  Lala Lajpat Rai: A Hindu leader who was secular at heart | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  14 June 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  __0__ Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
  Penguin/Viking
  ISBN: 9780670094073 Pages: xliii + 748; Price: Rs 1,299
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  Who was the real Lala Lajpat Rai? A veteran Congress leader and a leading star of the Indian freedom movement? Fiercely anti-British and who died due to grievous injuries he sustained in a street protest? A Hindu Mahasabha leader who advocated (…)

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  Review of Timothy Lorek’s Timothy, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia | Javier Puente

  14 June 2024

  BOOK REVIEW
  Review by Javier Puente
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  Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges by Timothy Lorek
  University of North Carolina Press 2023. xxii + 317 pp (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0
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  In September 2016, Colombia’s government and the leadership of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) achieved the unthinkable. After a four-year series of conversations and negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos (…)

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  Photo: Statue of Acharya Narendra Deva (1889-1956) , India s leading Marxist Socialist, at the Khadi Bhandar, Baccha Park, Meerut. 11 June 2024

  14 June 2024

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  Poster: Women return from Work and Start working Again | Double Burden of Women’s Labour

  14 June 2024
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  Podcast: Value In Motion | Beverley Best & Aaron Benanav

  14 June 2024

  VersoBooks · Value In Motion | Beverley Best & Aaron Benanav

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  Documentary: Nothing Grows Forever: The lessons to learn from nature

  14 June 2024

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  Nothing Grows Forever: The lessons to learn from nature | Dying Earth: E7 | Featured Documentary by Al Jazeera English https://youtu.be/qf0lZ5nLYv4?si=YAM-eXE-cWmkyszd

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  Music: Ney: Kianoush Khalilian - Constantinople Concert, Kiya Tabassian, Montreal, Canada, "Breathing"

  14 June 2024

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  Ney: Kianoush Khalilian - Constantinople Concert, Kiya Tabassian, Montreal, Canada, "Breathing" by Kianoush Khalilian https://youtu.be/vDKwnoxLA2c?si=O6NjzMRM9nE5-FU4

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 8, 2024

  8 June 2024

  * The climb down of Humpty Dumpty what a relief! | Vijay Kumar
  * India bestirred, a political era ends | L K Sharma
  * Decoding the Momentous Significance of the Lok Sabha Elections Verdict, 2024 | Gilbert Sebastian
  * West Bengal Poll Verdict | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Eugen Sandow was the poster boy of physical culture