Mainstream Weeklyby Pramod Ranjan *
For the Brockport College of the State University of New York, March 2022 was a period of frenetic activity. The College faced acerbic attacks from White politicians and a section of newspapers. Reason: The College had invited a convicted Black Panther intellectual for giving a lecture.
It may be pertinent to mention here that Black Panther was the inspiration behind the founding of Dalit Panther in India in the year 1972. The ideology of the Black Panther was the (…)
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How an American college refused to be cowed down | Pramod Ranjan
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Statement of Protest against Russia threatening to use nuclear weapons | World Conference against A and H Bombs
29 April 2022April 28, 2022
Steering Committee, Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs
We strongly protest against the repeated statements by President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and other Russian leaders threatening to use nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons are the “weapons of absolute evil” which, if used, would cause catastrophic humanitarian consequences, and the use of which can never be accepted.
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A Clash of Civilisations: the Russian vs. the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale | James M. Dorsey
29 April 2022by James M. Dorsey
Apr 26, 2022 Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism, and sovereignty that have come to blows in Ukraine.
Newly renovated, brooding, and inward-looking, Russia’s art nouveau pavilion stands empty and abandoned after its Lithuanian curator and artists resigned in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A lone armed guard is (…) -
"Fight for Africa, which you deserve" The Industrial Workers of Africa in South Africa, 1917-1921 | Lucien van der Walt
29 April 2022by Lucien van der Walt
Johannesburg, South Africa. May 1918. A group of African workers, and a handful of white radicals, meet in a small room behind a general store on the corner of Fox and McLaren streets, as they have done on a weekly basis for over a year. Several new faces are present, so Rueben Cetiwe, a key African militant, outlines the purpose of the gathering:
"We are here for Organisation, so that as soon as all of your fellow workers are organised, then we can see what we can (…) -
Video: Charlie Chaplin - Factory Scence - Modern Times (1936)
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Audio: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie | BBC Radio Drama
29 April 2022https://youtu.be/rIuQtxEzzm4
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End Politics of Hate Letter From Retired former officials To The Prime Minister of India
29 April 202226 April 2022
Dear Prime Minister,
We are witnessing a frenzy of hate filled destruction in the country where at the sacrificial altar are not just Muslims and members of the other minority communities but the Constitution itself. As former civil servants, it is not normally our wont to express ourselves in such extreme terms, but the relentless pace at which the constitutional edifice created by our founding fathers is being destroyed compels us to speak out and express our anger and (…) -
Will the Union of India and the Government of Chhattisgarh explain the existence of craters and bomb remnants in the forests of Sukma and Bijapur? | Press Release National Campaign to Defend Democracy (April 27, 2022)
29 April 2022NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY
PRESS RELEASE
27th April 2022
We are extremely concerned about news reports that allege aerial attacks by indeterminate platforms on the intervening night of 14-15 April 2022, in the villages of Bijapur and Sukma districts including, interalia Bottetong and Mettagudem (Usoor block), Duled, Sakler, Pottemangi (Konta block). (A partial list of reports is enclosed).
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 23, 2022
22 April 2022* Climate Change 2022 Report: Act Now to Avert Catastrophic Event | K N Ninan
* Making Sense of IMF’s Institutional View on Capital Flows | Kavaljit Singh
* Jammu and Kashmir: Tenth Report Of The Concerned Citizens’ Group
* Audit of UIDAI reveals what Delhi High Court is yet to reveal | Gopal Krishna
* Puniyani on Bremen & Shah’s Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics
* Against the war, for global solidarity | International of Anarchist Federations