The left must try to become truly ‘popular’ again, trying to translate values and programs into the language of common sense and bringing together two elements (one’s own political proposal and ‘the spontaneous feelings of the masses,’ as Gramsci called them).
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Memo to the left: Winning votes is not ‘selling out’ | Loris Caruso
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Khrushchev’s Speech at the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU: How a secret document got into American newspapers | Artyom Dobrovolsky
24 July 2020[English translation of an article that appeared in a Russian news site]
Three years passed after the death of the Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) Joseph Stalin. With his death, the Cold War between the USSR and the (...) -
Theja Gunawardana – a leading pioneer in Sri Lanka’s left movement | Kalyananda Tiranagama
24 July 2020by Kalyananda Tiranagama
The 25th anniversary of the death of Mrs. Theja Gunawardana, a great personality and an indefatigable fighter for social justice who played an indelible role in the Left Movement in Sri Lanka falls on July 17, 2020. Most (...) -
Are extremists exploiting the pandemic? | Saleem Samad
24 July 2020by Saleem Samad
Conspiracy theories and disinformation are spreading at an alarming rate
When Sara Khan, lead commissioner for an independent Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) in a flagship report “Challenging Hateful Extremism” talked of (...) -
Conlon on Kidambi and Kamat and Dwyer, ’Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos’
24 July 2020Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, Rachel Dwyer, eds. Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 336 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-006170-8.
Reviewed by Frank F. Conlon (University of (...) -
John Lewis, the Good Trouble Man | Badri Raina
24 July 2020, by Badri RainaJohn Lewis, you looked trouble
In the eye, and from its womb
Forged good trouble.
From the march on Washington
Till sixty years after, through umpteen
Arrests and near-fatal beatings
Your laughing spirit infused justice
With life and substance. (...) -
MASK! | AK Das
24 July 2020Boisterous, measured, hilarious, abrupt, laughter alters in its flight over a face bright, innocent, wrinkled, furrowed, vivid in all its colours, shades, contours. Now a mask has crept in, covering from ear to ear nose, lips underneath, (...) -
Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.17 | July 18, 2020
17 July 2020Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 31, New Delhi, July 18, 2020
LETTER TO THE READERS - Mainstream’s, COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.17
NREGA: The “digging hole” of Modi must take care of poor ; Arun Srivastava
A case for truth: Media (...) -
LETTER TO THE READERS - Mainstream’s, COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.17 | July 18, 2020
17 July 2020The initial trajectory of the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic was China, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, the United State and Iran —all rich or middle-income countries— where it rapidly spread and caused dramatic harm but many months on, it has now (...) -
NREGA: The “digging hole” of Modi must take care of poor | Arun Srivastava
17 July 2020by Arun Srivastava
The much despised and derided NREGA scheme has at least helped the Modi government to salvage its prestige and image. If the UPA government had not executed this pro-poor, feed the poor programme it would have been tough to (...)
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