Mainstream Weeklyby Christopher Wong
The workers’ struggle at Tiananmen Square and the transition from one world into the next The meaning of Tiananmen Democracy in the factory The instinct of the workers’ movement The road to Tiananmen The death of the workers’ movement
Thirty-two years later, the basic details of the events that transpired at Tiananmen Square between April 15, 1989 and June 4, 1989 are agreed upon by all but the most intractable propagandists. Angered at what they viewed as delays in (…)
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 6, 2021
5 November 2021* Japan’s imperial system faces existential crisis | Rajaram Panda
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5 November 2021Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 6, 2021
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Barunda - a tribute
5 November 2021, by Sankar RayThe end of mundane innings of Barun Das Gupta screeched a four-decade long association of mine to a permanent halt and Barunda like Jollyda- Jolly Mohan Kaul, an outstanding communist in the pre-split CPI– was a cricket lover who used to be glued to the TV screen during one-day matches. I knew about him as both of us used to write almost regularly for ‘This Fortnight’, edited by Raman Swamy. One day when I was the senior sub-editor of now-defunct Capital Weekly in the very early 1980s, BP (…)
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Gautam Navlakha shifted to high isolation zone in Prison - An open letter from Sahba Husain
5 November 2021Gautam Navlakha, nearly 70, is one of the oldest of the Bhima Koregaon arrestees, who was shifted to the “Anda Circle” (high security) from the barracks on October 12, 2021. Additionally, his telephone calls to me and his lawyers, his lifeline to the outside world, have been discontinued on the pretext that physical mulaquats have resumed in jail.
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