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Colombo’s hopes of buying off the Tamil ’separatist struggle’ with development may prove short-sighted

MEMORANDUM SENT TO : Hon’ble Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, United Progressive Alliance, Home Minister and Law Minister on October 8, 2013

Prof. Pralay Kanungo explains the notion of Hindutva and talks about its religious and political sources; this recording is part of the "Living with Religious Diversity" conference held in India in February 2013.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu’s Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era is a wide-ranging, thought-provoking contribution to a growing literature on radicalism in U.S. foreign relations. As its title suggests, Radicals on the Road uses the transpacific journeys of anti-Vietnam War activists as a window into radical American and Vietnamese politics and culture in the 1960s. Its principal claim is as multipronged as its intended audience and intervention: in the 1960s American and Vietnamese antiwar activists created a transnational political community, beyond the confines of any nation-state or locality, based on a sustained critique of U.S. policy in Asia. Through Third World tourism, alternative journalism, citizen diplomacy, familial ties, and personal encounters across the Pacific, such activists created “a global public sphere” centered on the war (p. 4). Wu argues that these individuals shaped the era’s tumultuous events in ways not captured by existing accounts.

Platform Publication 2, May - June 1979

Translated and abridged by Jairus Banaji from Henryk Grossmann Das Akkumulations - und Zusammenbruchsgesetz des kapitalistischen Systems (Zugleich eine Krisentheorie), (Hirschfeld, Leipzig, 1929)