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  AITUC Zindabad - a Lithograph by Chittoprasad

  1 May 2021

• The Never-ending First of May | Charles Magde

  1 May 2021

  One day I will wake and find
  Suddenly into the Sky has climbed
  The unheard-off day
  The Never-ending First of May
  — Charles Magde

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  Corona’s consequences – how the pandemic is changing globalization | DW Documentary

  1 May 2021

  https://youtu.be/j1z-gVc6HZg

• The Coup in Chile | Ralph Miliband (1973)

  1 May 2021

  What happened in Chile on September 11, 1973 did not suddenly reveal anything new about the ways in which men of power and privilege seek to protect their social order: the history of the last 150 years is spattered with such episodes.

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  Video: Death in the Haymarket | Talk by James Green (introduced by Howard Zinn)

  1 May 2021

  Play
  Death in the Haymarket by GBH Forum Network https://youtu.be/7iEGac3gpZs
  see also:
  Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America by James Green (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. 383 pp.)
  Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday.

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  Video: The Kid by Charlie Chaplin (1921)

  1 May 2021

  https://youtu.be/0wg7QjQztlk

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 24

  23 April 2021

  * Kashmir: 8th Report of the Concerned Citizens Group
  * Cry, Afghanistan | Apratim Mukarji
  * Ganges water and myths of immunity from Coronavirus | Chetan Sinha

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 24, 2021

  23 April 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 24, 2021
  As the explosive Covid-19 second wave strikes across India, the officials and politicians who call the shots have been caught unawares and unprepared in developing the much needed medical infrastructure to deal with a large public health crisis. But our political leaders and the bureaucracy that runs the state seem not to be bothered. They are never in the wrong and their record is spotless clean come what may.
  In April 2021 as India has (…)

• Kashmir: 8th Report of the Concerned Citizens Group

  23 April 2021

  15 April 2021
  The Concerned Citizens’ Group visited Kashmir from March 30 to April 2, 2021. This was its third visit after the Narendra Modi government revoked the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and the eighth since violence erupted in the Valley following the gunning down of a militant leader Burhan Wani in July 2016.
  The first visit of the CCG had taken place amidst the strikes, deaths and pellet injuries to citizens young and old, in October 2016. Since (…)

• Causing Deaths Through Artificial Oxygen Crisis - Responsibility Must Be Fixed And Guilty Punished | Gyan Pathak

  23 April 2021

  by Gyan Pathak
  (India Press Agency, April 22, 2021) India has sufficient stock of oxygen, says the Union Government. It means the catastrophic oxygen crisis in the country is created either artificially for profiteering, criminal neglect of responsibility, or obstructing its smooth movement by design or carelessness. This essential commodity for sustaining human life is not reaching to all the critical COVID-19 patients admitted in hospitals causing their death in large number. It is a (…)