Mainstream WeeklyThe following statement was issued today 23rd September, 2021 by the Platform of Central Trade Unions and independent sectoral Federations/Associations
Press Release
September 23, 2021
India Put on Sale by the ruling regime at the Centre
It is the task of the Working Class to Save India!
The so called ‘National Monetisation Pipeline’ (NMP) was announced by the Union Finance Minister on 23 August 2021, to raise Rs 6 lakh crore over the next 4 years. The plan envisages leasing out (…)
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India Put on Sale by the ruling regime at the Centre - Press Release from Central Trade Unions - Sept 23, 2021
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The UN Food Systems Summit is hogwash. It is a threat to peoples’ food sovereignty | La Via Campesina’s Press Statement - Sept 22, 2021
25 September 2021La Via Campesina is among scores of other social movements of organized small-scale food producers, workers and indigenous people boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), slated to take place in New York – September 23rd, 2021. Peoples’ movements are united in condemning the illegitimacy of this ’summit’ and in denouncing the attempt by transnational corporations to usurp the institutional spaces within the United Nations.
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Myanmar’s exile government signs up to ICC prosecutions | Adam Simpson
25 September 2021by Adam Simpson*
A recent decision by Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) may offer a path to justice for the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Myanmar. The NUG was formed by elected representatives of the parliament and others who were ousted by the February military coup. On 20 August the NUG announced that it had lodged a declaration with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accepting the court’s jurisdiction with respect to all international crimes (…) -
Print of 1784 Hot air balloon flight over Lyon, France
25 September 2021Experience aërostatique faite à Lyon; d’un ballon de cent pieds de diamètre le 10 [i.e. 19] janvier 1784, à midi 48 min[u]tes
Image publisher in Paris : Chés Enaut et Rapilly, rüe St. Jacques à la ville de Coutances, [1784]
Medium: etching, hand-colored.
Summary: Print shows the balloon, "Le Flesselles" ascending over Lyon, France, on January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier.
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Photo of The Water Girl from the Cooperative, Bulgaria (1985) | Jacko Vassilev
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Music: Felix Mendelssohn "Rondo capriccioso in E major, Op 14" (1828-30) by Alicia de Larrocha
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"Two" by Satyajit Ray (1964)
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 18, 2021
17 September 2021* India-Pakistan Hatred is a Mindset Problem | M R Narayan Swamy
* Nature key to Human Well-Being and Prosperity | KN Ninan
* What is Plaguing the Catholic Church in Kerala? | Chathukulam and Joseph
* The Aesthetics of Silence | Susan Sontag (1967) -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 18, 2021
17 September 2021Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 18, 2021
The disturbing trend under the Modi government of using investigating agencies under the central government to go after critics or people out of favour with the government continues. Many observers, human rights groups and even the UN experts have been pointing this out. Recent developments confirm the trend where the Government seems to regularly send in the taxman to unsettle and harass critics —and all at the same time denying any (…) -
Miseries of Poverty, Not Pleasures | T J S George
17 September 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Prince Charles has a special valet to squeeze one inch of toothpaste on to his brush every night. There is also a valet to iron his shoe laces every morning.
What a worthless life! You need some flunkey even to put tooth paste on your brush? Does he also brush your teeth while you contemplate how to rule the world? Shoe laces that are ironed everyday are essential for your self-respect?
I didn’t even know that shoe laces could be ironed. No wonder I never (…)