Mainstream Weeklyby Paresh Chattopadhyay* Marx’s Critique is informed by two great ideas from two great minds, Spinoza and Hegel. In the first manuscript of CAPITAL vol. two Marx cites SPINOZA: “All determination is negation” to which Marx adds “all negation is affirmation”. (Marx advises the vulgar economists to reflect on Spinozasdictum; “Omnideterminatzioistnegatzio” (in the manuscript of the second volume of Capital). As regards Hegel, in his 1844 manuscripts Marx notes that the greatness of Hegel’s (…)
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Dialectic of Negativity in Marx’s Critique . . . Capital’s ‘chapter six’ Revisited | Paresh Chattopadhyay
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Woman must work (1921) | Madeleine Pelletier
25 September 2021(Le Libertaire, 1921)
by Madeleine Pelletier
The Woman’s Voice published the summary of an article from the Rote Fahne (The Red Flag) from Vienna on women’s labour.
It offers the old Socialist idea of the situation of women; an idea which is primarily antifeminist since, by advocating to keep women at home, it perpetuates their slavery. However, we can see some progress. The Austrian Socialist understands that by closing the factory gates to women, he turns her into an enemy of (…) -
A Declaration: Climate mitigation efforts must reject so-called “sustainable hydropower” as a solution to combat climate change
25 September 2021September 21, 2021
To: Alok Sharma, the 2021 President of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Parties to the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-26) On behalf of 300 organizations from 69 countries, representing civil society, peoples movements, Indigenous Peoples organizations, scientists, conservationists, we call upon Alok Sharma, the 2021 President of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-26), and all parties to COP-26, to reject attempts by the hydropower industry to secure (…) -
India Put on Sale by the ruling regime at the Centre - Press Release from Central Trade Unions - Sept 23, 2021
25 September 2021The following statement was issued today 23rd September, 2021 by the Platform of Central Trade Unions and independent sectoral Federations/Associations
Press Release
September 23, 2021
India Put on Sale by the ruling regime at the Centre
It is the task of the Working Class to Save India!
The so called ‘National Monetisation Pipeline’ (NMP) was announced by the Union Finance Minister on 23 August 2021, to raise Rs 6 lakh crore over the next 4 years. The plan envisages leasing out (…) -
The UN Food Systems Summit is hogwash. It is a threat to peoples’ food sovereignty | La Via Campesina’s Press Statement - Sept 22, 2021
25 September 2021La Via Campesina is among scores of other social movements of organized small-scale food producers, workers and indigenous people boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), slated to take place in New York – September 23rd, 2021. Peoples’ movements are united in condemning the illegitimacy of this ’summit’ and in denouncing the attempt by transnational corporations to usurp the institutional spaces within the United Nations.
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Myanmar’s exile government signs up to ICC prosecutions | Adam Simpson
25 September 2021by Adam Simpson*
A recent decision by Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) may offer a path to justice for the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Myanmar. The NUG was formed by elected representatives of the parliament and others who were ousted by the February military coup. On 20 August the NUG announced that it had lodged a declaration with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accepting the court’s jurisdiction with respect to all international crimes (…) -
Print of 1784 Hot air balloon flight over Lyon, France
25 September 2021Experience aërostatique faite à Lyon; d’un ballon de cent pieds de diamètre le 10 [i.e. 19] janvier 1784, à midi 48 min[u]tes
Image publisher in Paris : Chés Enaut et Rapilly, rüe St. Jacques à la ville de Coutances, [1784]
Medium: etching, hand-colored.
Summary: Print shows the balloon, "Le Flesselles" ascending over Lyon, France, on January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier.
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Photo of The Water Girl from the Cooperative, Bulgaria (1985) | Jacko Vassilev
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Music: Felix Mendelssohn "Rondo capriccioso in E major, Op 14" (1828-30) by Alicia de Larrocha
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"Two" by Satyajit Ray (1964)
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"Two" by Satyajit Ray by Oscars https://youtu.be/zACGLjd9JNY