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• Beijing Revises ’Correct’ Version of Party History Ahead of Centenary | Xue Xiaoshan

  16 April 2021

  April 15, 2021
  The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has set up a hotline for people to report each other to the authorities for failing to toe the party’s freshly revised line on matters of history.
  The Cyberspace Administration said in a post to its official Weibo account on April 9 that people should use the number "to report erroneous online remarks relating to historical nihilism."
  The move is to "create a good public opinion environment" regarding China’s history since the CCP (…)

• Excerpt from The Right to Be Lazy | Paul Lafargue

  16 April 2021

  Le Droit à la paresse par Paul Lafargue (1880)
  [From English translation by Charles H. Kerr]
  CHAPTER III
  THE CONSEQUENCES OF OVER-PRODUCTION
  A Greek poet of Cicero’s time, Antiparos, thus sang of the invention of the water-mill (for grinding grain), which was to free the slave women and bring back the Golden Age: “Spare the arm which turns the mill, O, millers, and sleep peacefully. Let the cock warn you in vain that day is breaking. Demeter has imposed upon the nymphs the labor of (…)

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  Audio: Alexandra Kollontai in the New World | Earshot with Miyuki Jokirant (2017)

  16 April 2021

  Earshot with Miyuki Jokirant | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  With these nameless women, was Alexandra Kollontai, a socialist, a Bolshevik, and passionate advocate of working women’s rights. She was a fighter, but also a lover, a woman who wrote prolifically about working women’s rights, sexuality and eschewed bourgeois feminism. We look at her life and history, and imagine what she would have said about life for women today.
  Duration: 29min 4sec
  Broadcast: Tue 7 Mar 2017, (…)

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  Chronemics | animation by Animade

  16 April 2021

  Play
  Chronemics by Animade https://vimeo.com/118801020

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  Z | Costa Gavras (1969)

  16 April 2021

  https://youtu.be/o3IinKq1LaQ

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Apr 10, 2021

  10 April 2021

  * Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 10, 2021
  * Kerala: Changing Criteria for Tickets in Assembly Elections | Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph & Rekha V
  * Book Review: Dietrich on D’Mello’s India After Naxalbari

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 10, 2021

  10 April 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 10, 2021
  Over the past seventy years the United Nations officialdom came to provide the space and place for debate and helped international and global commitments by the nations of the world to a more just world. A vast array of databases and statistical resources and indicators have been drawn up and managed by the UN agencies as social and economic benchmarks for the world. But the UN is now getting increasingly corporatized. Private firms & (…)

• Changing Criteria for Ticketing in Assembly Elections: The Case of Kerala in the Midst of Intense Competition| Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph and Rekha V

  10 April 2021

  by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph and Rekha V*
  Abstract
  The candidate selection process and the issues that erupt within the political parties concerned as part of this can serve as a harbinger of the election outcomes, character, and style of the upcoming political regime in Kerala including the stability and longevity of the newly elected government. Despite a generational shift in the candidate profile in all the three major political fronts in the state, the representation of women (…)

• Orakandi’s pilgrim Prime Minister of India: Look London see Paris? | AK Biswas

  10 April 2021, by A K Biswas

  Part-1 Prime Minister’s pilgrimage to a shrine of untouchables
  Prime Minister Narendra Damodar Modi paid on March 27, 2021 his cherished visit to Orakandi, the seat of spiritual as also social reform movement of Harichand Thakur (1812-1877) and his son Guruchand (1846-1937) in district Gopalganj, Bangladesh. Since over a century, this village located deep in a marshy country was the nerve centre of their activities, focusing principally on access to education, social reform and progress of (…)

• BJP desperate to change the cultural contour of Bengal from class to caste | Arun Srivastava

  10 April 2021, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Suddenly the Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, have started rallying behind Mamata Banerjee. Even till April 1, the day Nandigram went to the polls, the Bengalis did not share a common perception about the role and policies of Mamata. But what happened on that day has suddenly altered the political and electoral scene and equation in the state. The BJP leadership which has been confident of reaping a good harvest are at a loss to comprehend this sudden change in the (…)