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  Declaration of Celebration of Dissent adopted at Celebrating Dissent Conference 2022, Cologne

  3 September 2022

  DECLARATION ON THE CELEBRATION OF DISSENT
  As atheists, agnostics, ex-Muslims and freethinkers we stand for a world in which all human beings enjoy freedom of expression and conscience, and freedom from fear and want.
  We claim our freedom from religion, from superstition.
  We claim our freedom to love and live as we choose, to creativity and to enjoy the benefits of scientific and human progress.
  We affirm our right to act with reason and conscience.
  Apostasy and blasphemy are (…)

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  Uncovering Brutalities of Russian Revolution | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  3 September 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  __0__ Russia :
  Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
  by Antony Beevor
  Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  Pages: 576;
  Price: Rs 1,399
  __0__ There is no doubt that life under Tsar was a torture to most people in Russia. Conditions in factories were appalling and dangerous. Strikes were outlawed. If you got sacked, large numbers of impoverished peasants were ready to take your place. In any dispute with factory owners, the police always backed them. Workers slept in barracks and (…)

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  Nancy Spero, Art Against Apartheid (1984)

  3 September 2022

  Nancy Spero was an American painter and feminist artist, she took up a wide range of social and political issues to make her artwork. This is a glimpse of her work against Apartheid in South Africa

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  Photo: Edward Carpenter the British socialist, free love advocate (1900) | Holland Day

  3 September 2022

  See: Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love’ by Sheila Rowbotham

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  Video: Deccan Dialogues, Mohan Guruswamy and Parakala Prabhakar discuss the state of India agriculture (Sept 2, 2022)

  3 September 2022
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  Film: Salt of the Earth (1954) | Herbert J. Biberman

  3 September 2022

  The film Salt of the Earth was made at the height of the Red Scare, the film’s writer, producer, and director had been blacklisted for their leftist sympathies, so the film was sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, not a Hollywood studio.
  a film with real miners acting in a depiction of the zinc miners’ struggles in New Mexico.

• Tools for Conviviality | Ivan Illich (1973)

  27 August 2022
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 27, 2022

  26 August 2022

  * India’s Public Healthcare for the 21st Century | Govind Bhattacharjee
  * Talk of Employment Creation | Sunil Ray
  * Marx’s mathematical manuscripts - an overview | Sankar Ray
  * Pegasus: Judiciary must ensure accountability - Press Release by CPI(M)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 27, 2022

  26 August 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, August 27, 2022
  India stands at 142nd position out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2021. Multiple parameters are used to make credible comparative assessments on questions of media independence, legislation, freedom of the press, freedom to write and report for journalists, etc. Media barons are doing brisk business, but media freedoms are not in great health in India. The use of repressive state apparatus and also the use of powerful (…)

• Diamond Jubilee or Rusted Freedom? (Part II) | Kobad Ghandy

  26 August 2022, by Kobad Ghandy

  This is the second half and concluding part of the article by the same name. In the first section which appeared in the Mainstream, August 20, 2022 we dealt with the: State of the Country as it exists today; the impact on the people and environment; the impact of two centuries of colonial Rule & the process of Globalisation worldwide. In this concluding section, we shall deal with the impact of Globalisation on India and the Swadeshi Alternative. Here we will also give a call to action (…)