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23 Oct 2019
Walking with Bhagat Singh Soon After Independence
Book Review by Sunish Kumar Deb
‘... On January 21, 1930 they [Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru] appeared in court wearing red scarves and raised slogans such as: ‘Long Live Socialist Revolution’, ‘Long Live the Communist International’, ‘Long Live the People’, ‘Lenin’s name will never die’, and ‘Down with Imperialism’ ...’ ‘... they also handed over the text of a telegram to be sent to Russia, USSR: ‘On Lenin Day [Lenin’s death anniversary] we send hearty greetings to all who are doing something for carrying forward the ideas of the great Lenin, we wish success to the great experiment Russia is carrying out ...’.
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23 Oct 2019
On Clemens Palme Dutt’s Book
Book Review by Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Clemens Palme Dutt (1893 1975) is a name that every student of Marxism is acquainted with. He translated no fewer than 44 pieces. Besides the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, he translated into English Y. P. Prolov’s ‘Pavlov and his school’ as early as 1937, J. V. Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’ (edited and translated with Andrew Rothstein) and perhaps many other works anonymously. His translated works include Marx and Engels’s The German Ideology (1932, pp. 94-451), the two classic pieces by Engels, Anti-Duehring and Dialectics of Nature (both in 1934)...
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23 Oct 2019
The Global Climate Movement is Failing: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes
It has been satisfying to note the significant response to two recent climate campaigns: the actions, including the recent Global Climate Strike, initiated by school students inspired by Greta Thunberg and the climate actions organized by Extinction Rebellion.
While delighted that these campaigns have finally managed to mobilize significant numbers of people around the existential threat the climate catastrophe poses to life on Earth, I would like to briefly raise some issues for consideration by each of those involved in the climate movement as well as those considering involvement.
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23 Oct 2019
India since time immemorial: Homogenizing Civilization?
Bhaskar Majumder
The recent jokes in India’s public sphere that aims at homogenization may turn into seriousness in 2019 for the people in Bharat lived in innocence over centuries to the extent that their social identity was not questioned for its legitimacy. Actually public sphere is not confined to India even when it affects India’s domiciles. For the time being, I keep it limited to India. Once they perceive that their sub-national identity or caste identity or linguistic identity is questioned for its legitimacy they may react. Since era of the Varna-system to the era of fractured caste-system, people did not question their social identity.
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