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  Illustration: Darling Spring Has Sprung | Michael Leunig (Sept 6, 2016)

  4 February 2022
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  Review of Miguel La Serna. With Masses and Arms: Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

  4 February 2022

  Reviewed by Brenda Rupar (Universidad de Buenos Aires) on H-LatAm (January, 2022)
  With Masses and Arms: Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
  by Miguel La Serna
  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
  2020 | 288 pp
  ISBN 978-1-4696-5597-0.
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  In 1997, TVs worldwide transmitted the images of an armed group besieging the Japanese embassy in Peru with a degree of spectacle and horror. In its last days, the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento (…)

• Nepal Uprising Against the Ranas: GB Yakthumba - Valour Unlimited | Mandeep Lama

  4 February 2022

  by Mandeep Lama
  We conclude the story of unerring vision, despite some hiccups on the way, and the ‘stop-me-if-you-can’ daring of Yakthumba, who even got two cannons and an armoured vehicle innovatively structured in the war field itself, to get rid of the terrible Ranas of Nepal [See Part 1 here]
  (Part 2)
  Attack On Birgunj
  The three Commanders, Yakthumba, Malla, and Gurung, had prepared a foolproof sort of plan for attacking the National Army barracks in Birgunj. They would attack (…)

• Capital, governments, multilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations | Pradip Baksi

  4 February 2022

  by Pradip Baksi
  Abstract:
  Contemporary transnational capital aims at full spectrum dominance over the entire political economy of our planet. We learn from the first sentence of the Foreword of Karl Marx (1859), Zur Kritik derPolitischen Ökonomie: Erstes Heft, that he wished to critically investigate the system of bourgeois economy involving the six domains of capital, landed property, wage-labour, state, foreign trade and world market. Critical investigations on the contemporary system (…)

• Myanmar: while the world sits on its hands, people fight military junta with violence and silence | Ronan Lee

  4 February 2022

  by Ronan Lee
  January 31, 2022
  A year after a military coup, Myanmar remains mired in conflict. The country’s military, the Tatmadaw, has failed to convince most of Myanmar’s 55 million people of the legitimacy of its rule. Anti-coup resistance continues to be widespread nationwide.
  The anniversary will be marked within Myanmar by a “silent strike”, with participants acknowledging those jailed or killed by the junta during the last year by avoiding public space, leaving Myanmar’s (…)

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  Music: Nani Nana by Sundar Popo

  4 February 2022

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  Sundar Popo - Nani Nana by surinamheritage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22T_K_PrhC0

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  Video: The History of the Dutch Slave Trade 1600- 1863

  4 February 2022

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  The History of the Dutch Slave Trade 1600- 1863 by Timescape Indonesia https://youtu.be/6icWBxDVgLg

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 29, 2022

  28 January 2022

  * Democracy is Inconceivable Without Rights | Vijay Kumar
  * Kerala: Male bias behind acquittal of Bishop Franko Mulakkal | Sukumaran CV
  * Pressing Issues before Budget 2022-23 | Sarma & Sunder
  * Amendments to Biodiversity Legislation Weaken Conservation | Soma Marla
  * Letter to President of India - alternative proposal on Bose Statue at India Gate

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 29, 2022

  28 January 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, January 29, 2022
  At the time of the 2014 or the 2019 national elections, the Narendra Modi’s BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) promised the moon, millions of jobs, and welfarist measures which failed to appear on a required scale, but this has not evoked much adverse social reaction or protest in India. There have been scattered regional protests that have come up, on single issues and these are mostly blocked out in the national media. We hardly (…)

• The Odd thing about the assassins and their worldviews are that they think they have Killed Gandhi | S N Sahu

  28 January 2022, by S N Sahu

  In 1968 after the tragic killing of Martin Luther King the Chicago Sun-Times published a cartoon showing assassinated Mahatma Gandhi talking to assassinated Martin Luther King in the heavens and telling, “The odd thing about assassins, Dr. King, is that they think they’ve killed you.”
  That cartoon is so appropriate in today’s India, often called New India of Modi regime, marked by vilification of Gandhi, glorification of his assassin and deafening silence of those claiming to be the (…)