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The politics of reading
Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…
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Joel Whitney An excerpt from Joel Whitney’s ‘Flights: Radicals on the Run’. When the film version of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was released in early 1958 Greene was not happy. He skipped the premieres in New York and Washington, DC, and later called the movie “a complete travesty.” Greene usually liked to see his novels adapted,…
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by Akim Reinhardt The turn of the 21st century saw a burst of atheistic declarations and critiques in the United States and Great Britain, led by a small group of celebrity atheists including Philosopher Daniel Dennett, Biologist Richard Dawkins, and journalist Christopher Hitchens. I have always found this New Atheism, as the movement is often…
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The Wire Staff Czech authorities have confirmed the extradition, which they said took place on June 14 New Delhi: Almost one year after he arrived at the Prague airport, Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who the United States suspects of involvement in a conspiracy to murder a Sikh lawyer, was extradited to the US from the Czech…
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Sujeet Dasgupta 09 Jun 2024, 5:00 am 0 Whenever you enter a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) office, you can’t help but look at the huge photographs on the wall. They were all foreigners who had disappeared many years ago, and there might be pictures of one or two Indians beside them. If you don’t…
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K.Chandru 08 Jul 2022, 5:00 am 1 Thebiggest mistake made by the CPI(M) government was to get the resignation letter from Fisheries and Culture Minister Shaji Cherian and drop him from the cabinet. It is said that Shaji Cherian criticized the Constitution while addressing a meeting of Left workers. If you read the news, ‘The…
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