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• On The Summer Strikes in Poland, 1980 | Echanges et mouvement

  23 August 2025

  [ Note from the Editor of Mainstream: The post 1968 left circles in Western Europe played a valuable role in defending and amplifying the leading voices of Polish left opposition like Adam Michnik and Jacek Kuron, who were among the co-founders of KOR (Komitet Obrony Robotnikow) - a committee for social defence of workers & their families facing repression. Posted below is a summary of discussions 45 years ago on the strikes in communist Poland in the pages of Echanges, a bulletin of a (…)

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  Press Club of India statement on sedition case against Editor’s of The Wire

  23 August 2025
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  EGI statement over Assam Police summons for editors of The Wire

  23 August 2025

  The Editors Guild of India
  Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
  Press Statement August 19, 2025
  The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned by media reports that the Assam Police have summoned two senior journalists

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  EGI Statement On the Abrupt Removal of Mr Ruben Banerjee

  23 August 2025

  The Editors Guild of India
  August 20, 2025 | New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed that the YouTube channel run by senior journalist and General Secretary of the Guild, Mr. Ruben Banerjee, has been abruptly removed without any prior warning or notice. His channel, Mu Ruben Kahuchhi (

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  Review of Weiner’s The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  23 August 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]

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  Arcimovich on Ayers and Alves and Leal and Hjartarson, ’Globalizing the Avant-Garde’

  23 August 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Globalizing the Avant-Garde
  David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha, Benedikt Hjartarson, eds.
  Walter de Gruyter
  2025. 499 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 9783111317533
  ISBN-10 : ?3111317536
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  Reviewed by Tania Arcimovich (Erfurt University)
  Globalizing the Avant-Garde, edited by David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha Leal, and Benedikt Hjartarson, continues the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies series, (…)

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  Photo: From a concerned citizens Palestine solidarity stand-in New Delhi distributing leaflets & holding posters

  23 August 2025

  Silent solidarity by concerned citizens distributed leflets and held posters on the war in Gaza & in support of Palestine on 20 August 2025 at CR Park Market No. 2, in New Delhi
  source Indians for Palestine
  source Facebook

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  Movie: Man of Iron (1981) | Andrzej Wajda

  23 August 2025

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  Man of Iron / Człowiek z żelaza (1981) by Andrzej Wajda Trailer | 2025 NYPFF Selection by NYPFF https://youtu.be/TWAkMTNe-y0?si=D0hulkTGMCkTSQVh
  Man of Iron depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize workers’ right to an independent union in 1980
  you can watch the full film of over two hours here:
  https://m.ok.ru/video/1593777326702

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  Documentary: Maharashtra Manipulated? How Elections Were Stolen in India’s 2nd Largest State

  23 August 2025

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  Maharashtra Manipulated? How Elections Were Stolen in India’s 2nd Largest State | Full Documentary by Paranjoy Online https://youtu.be/hWxR_uHYD4E?si=Y2wHWylif86e_-dk

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  Music: Lelita Saftita - Romanian Song with Meena Cristiana & Farya Faraji

  23 August 2025

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  Leliță Săftiță - Romanian Song feat. Meena Cristiana by Farya Faraji & World Musicians https://youtu.be/fBK5coq3ngc?si=GdVGHIlegrXVoiHk