Mainstream WeeklyOn March 8 this year again, the world once again celebrates is going to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Let us have a look at its background, history and present, briefly. It is all the more necessary the financial oligarchy and the MNCs are misusing and distorting its history for their super-profit motives. They even use the word ‘revolution’ sans its revolutionary history, erasing the names of Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin and other trail-blazers. It is sad to find the (…)
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International Women’s Day: Origins, History and Present | Anil Rajimwale
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Inciting Liberation - “No God, No Boss, No Husband” | Mona Eltahawy
1 March 2024Sixty-eight years before the date that the United States of America celebrates as its “Independence Day,” an enslaved Black woman in New York City led a revolt for her independence. The woman along with other enslaved people in farmhouses nearby, decided to kill their slavers one night in 1708. She and and a man called “Indian Sam” killed their slaver, his pregnant wife, and their five offspring. They were arrested the next morning.
Historian Rebecca Hall unearthed this woman-led revolt (…) -
Letter to the Editor, March 1, 2024 | Humra Quarishi
1 March 2024, by Humra Quraishi[fond noir][blanc]COMMUNICATIONblanc]fond noir]
Letter to the Editor,
This is in response to the review of my book that appeared in Mainstream, on Feb 24, 2024
The reviewer raises two questions in the review, and i am keen to answer these here
1. "But one wonders, and I do wonder, if this diary is indeed a true reflection of the life all the Muslims in India are now leading? Or is one section more adversely affected than others? "
MY answer: "Muslims in the country are going (…) -
Demolition of Home of Vakil Khan, the Rat Hole Miner who led the rescue in Silkyara Tunnel - Statement by Central Trade Unions (March 1, 2024)
1 March 2024Press Statement
The following statement was issued to the press by the platform of Central Trade Unions, independent sectoral federations/associations today 1st March 2024
Central Trade Unions & Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations Condemns Inhuman Vindictive and Cruel Action by DDA and Central Govt by way of Demolition of Residence of Vakil Hasan, the Famous Rat-hole Miner, Who led the team to Rescue 41 Precious Lives Trapped under Hilly Tunnel
The Joint Platform of (…) -
DDA Bulldozes House of Rescue Miner Waqeel Hasan | Press Statement by CPIML (Liberation) - Delhi-NCR State Committee
1 March 2024Press Release Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) Delhi-NCR State Committee
29.2.2024
DDA Bulldozes House of Rescue Miner Waqeel Hasan Who Saved 41 Entrapped Workers in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara Tunnel!
Nation’s Hero Treated as Criminal in Modi Government’s Bulldozer Regime! CPIML Team Meets Waqeel, Extends All Kinds of Support to Waqeel and His Family!
Waqeel Hasan was a part of the team of 12 workers who rescued the 41 entrapped workers in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara (…) -
ISA supports the call for the reinstatement of Professor Lesley Wood
1 March 2024The International Sociological Association (ISA) expresses its deep concern and demands the immediate and full reinstatement of Professor Lesley Wood, who was, on November 23, 2023, indefinitely suspended from the Department of Sociology at York University by the York University administration. Professor Wood is a prominent and highly respected member of the Canadian sociological community whose career has been devoted to social justice research and whose work has been recognized through (…)
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Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape
1 March 2024February 28, 2024 [marron] Stop Manipulating Sexual Assault
All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been wielded as a tool of war – and as an (often lethal) weapon of racism and colonialism.
In its current war against the people of Gaza, the (…) -
Israel is reaping what it has sowed | M.R. Narayan Swamy
1 March 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir] __0__
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott-Baumann
Picador India; Pages: 279; Price: Not given
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After the killing of an Israeli woman and her two children in a Palestinian grenade attack, Israeli forces entered the West Bank village of Qibya in October 1953 and killed 69 of its inhabitants, most of them women and children. This was part of a policy Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion put in place to force (…) -
Wan on Williamson and Guffey, ’Making Disability Modern: Design Histories’
1 March 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
Reviewed by Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)
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Making Disability Modern: Design Histories Bess Williamson, Elizabeth Guffey, eds.
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-1-350-07042-4
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Wan on Williamson et. al, Making Disability Modern
As a promising academic field, disability studies is currently undergoing a material turn. The proliferation of scholarly writings about the past and present of (…) -
Tribute to Kumar Shahani | J Vellur
1 March 2024, by Jayaraj Vellur