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• The Death of Ivan Nikitich Smirnov | Victor Serge (1936)

  7 October 2023

  Source: Les 16 fusillés. Paris, Paris, Spartacus pamphlets #1, 1936; First Published: in “La Wallonie” August 29, 1936; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitch Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2007
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  I write with my heart broken – broken, torn, trampled on as if it had been stepped on with heavy boots – standing before the fresh grave where sixteen heads with bullet holes in them lay in a line: a house full of “agents (…)

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  India: Journalist’s Unions Condemn Police Raids on Homes of Journalists | NUJ/DUJ Oct 3, 2023

  7 October 2023

  National Alliance of Journalists (Regd.) Delhi Union of Journalists (Regd.) Flat No.29, Central Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi-1 Phone: 23413459, Email: dui.delhi[at]gmail.com
  3 October, 2023
  The National Alliance of Journalists, the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (Delhi Unit) condemn the police raids at the houses of journalists Bhasha Singh, Urmilesh, Prabir Purkayastha, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Teesta Setalvad, Abhisar Sharma, Aunindyo (…)

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  AIDWA Condemns Raids on journalists, writers and human rights activists

  7 October 2023

  ALL INDIA DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION
  2253-E, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi – 110008
  Email: aidwacec[at]gmail.com | Website: aidwaonline.org
  Date: 3 October 2023
  AIDWA Condemns Raids on journalists, writers and human rights activists The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the early morning raids on journalists, writers, satirists and human rights activists today in Delhi and Mumbai. This highly undemocratic, unjustified, repressive (…)

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  Statement by Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on BJP Government’s Fresh Attack on the Media

  7 October 2023

  [3 October 2023]
  The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) parties strongly condemn the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government’s fresh attack on the media. We steadfastly stand with the media and for the constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and expression.
  In the last nine years, the BJP government has deliberately persecuted and suppressed the media by deploying investigative agencies to suppress the British Broadcasting Corporation, Newslaundry, Dainik (…)

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  Statement from National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) Over Police Raids on the NewsClick

  7 October 2023

  October 4, 2023
  Press Statement
  The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) strongly condemns the attack on independent media outlet the NewsClick.
  The news portal has been consistently championing the cause of the marginalised sections including disabled people. In this people-centric approach, the portal has been consistently carrying reports and articles on various struggles and issues of the disabled community and sought to lend a voice to their issues.
  One of the (…)

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  AIFRTE condemns the Delhi Police raid at the residence of Dipak Dholakia

  7 October 2023

  All India Forum for Right To Education (AIFRTE)
  AIFRTE condemns the Delhi Police raid at the residence of Dipak Dholakia, senior activist and journalist, supposedly under "some ongoing UAPA case" which remained unrevealed.
  Special Branch of Delhi Police raided the house of the 75-year-old Dipak Dholakia on the 3rd October 2023 from 6.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Dipak Dholakia, a well- known journalist and respected civil liberties activist, retired as Chief of Gujarati NEWS from Akashwani Bhawan. (…)

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  Review of Kirkwood’s, Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900

  7 October 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Jeff S. Nagy (University of Michigan)
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  Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood University of Minnesota Press 2022. vii + 235 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1253-6 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1254-3
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  This isn’t your parents’ history of computing. It would have to be at least your great-grandparents’. Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 finds a prehistory for digital (…)

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  Cartoon: India Sliding Down in World Press Freedom Index During Modi Years | Pencil Draw

  7 October 2023

  via Facebook
  [The above cartoon by Pencil Draw is reproduced here for educational and non-commercial use]

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  Photo: Man selling Granma newspapers, Havana (1995) by Ernesto Bazan

  7 October 2023
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  Music: Ouverture-Suite for Strings & Continuo in C Major: IX. Aria · La Serenissima · Adrian Chandler · Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello | An Englishman Abroad

  7 October 2023

  Ouverture-Suite for Strings & Continuo in C Major: IX. Aria · La Serenissima · Adrian Chandler · Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello