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  The Last Adieu | Kanta Sukhdev

  12 June 2021

  a documentary on the documentary filmmaker Sukhdev Singh Sandhu (1933 - 1979)

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  Video: Beirut’s Hotel Commodore a Safe Haven for the Media in 1970s and 1980s

  12 June 2021

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  🇱🇧 How Beirut’s Commodore Hotel became a safe haven for the world’s media | War Hotels by Al Jazeera English https://youtu.be/8yICeAE7Z_0

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  Video: Maria Todorova on The Lost World of European Socialists at Europe’s Margin

  12 June 2021

  Maria Todorova on the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, surveying the period of the Second International. It examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia, moving beyond traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology, into intersections of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 5, 2021

  4 June 2021

  * Origins of Corona and the Conspiracy Theorists | Kobad Ghandy
  * Chronicle of deaths foretold | Ash Narain Roy
  * Review of foundation document of CPI | Nityananda Ghosh
  * Official Marxism in India disappearing in sync with global trend | Sankar Ray

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 5, 2021

  4 June 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 5, 2021
  India has had all the trappings of a democratic state since its independence in 1947 and from the time of its adoption of the republican constitution was adopted on January 26 1950. So democratic rights were guaranteed and there was a desire and an effort to set limits against excesses and to allow the courts independence, and permit considerable freedom of the press, freedom of association, etc. A lot of it remained on paper but there was (…)

• Origins of Corona and the Conspiracy Theorists | Kobad Ghandy

  4 June 2021, by Kobad Ghandy

  by Kobad Ghandy
  The object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty. —Benedict Spinoza
  So said the great philosopher 3 ½ centuries back. Today we are heading in just the opposite direction, and not just (…)

• Chronicle of deaths foretold | Ash Narain Roy

  4 June 2021, by Ash Narain Roy

  by Ash Narain Roy
  The Covid-19 pandemic marks what American writer and futurist Alwin Toffler calls “the premature arrival of the future.” It has led to an unprecedented craving for the past and put a big question mark on the future. While reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic, much of humanity finds itself “alone together,” stranded as it is in what American poet Rachel Hadas calls “our shared nowhere,” politics in India is going through magical unrealism. India is witnessing a tragedy of (…)

• Once more on the founding of CPI | Nityananda Ghosh

  4 June 2021

  A reveiw by Nityananda Ghosh
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  COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA: FOUNDATION NOTE by Bhanudeb Dutta
  (CPI Publication, Rs 20/-, Dec 2020)
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  Leaderships of Communist Party of India (Marx) and, Communist Party of India have been close to each other for several years and think of moving towards unification. However, this remains on paper due to an ivory tower-mindset of their leaders. Other Left parties like Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist), Revolutionary Socialist Party (…)

• Official Marxism in India disappearing in sync with global trend | Sankar Ray

  4 June 2021, by Sankar Ray

  The crisis of Marxism the world over surfaced in the late twentieth century. The fault doesn’t lie in Marx, but in so-called Marxist parties.
  Extremely incorrigibly optimist sections of the concerned about the future of India’s official Marxist parties (better be termed ‘Leninist’) such as the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, and variants of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) dream of comeback of those parties. The reality is that Indian Leftist (…)

• Requiem for an unknown Nun in the time of Covid | John Dayal

  4 June 2021, by John Dayal

  24 May 2021
  Recently, the Editors Guild of India condoled the deaths of journalists of over 100 news reporters, newspapers, intranet platforms and independent grassroots media persons, who have died because of Covid-19 over the past year. In April 2021 itself, more than 52 journalists died because of the virus. Many of these were brave journalists who had been reporting on the worsening pandemic and bringing to fore stories on the great human tragedy that has been unfolding before us. (…)