Day: May 17, 2022

How China’s 1942 Yan’an Forum Inspired the Culture of National Liberation in the Third World

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Tuesday, 17 May 2022 — The Tricontinental

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Tings Chak
tings@thetricontinental.org

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research releases a new dossier on the legacy of the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art eight decades later.

On 2 May 1942, hundreds of China’s top writers, artists, and communist leaders gathered to discuss the most urgent cultural questions of the time. Dossier no. 52, Go to Yan’an! Culture and National Liberation, explores the history and enduring legacy of the three-week forum as well as the text that Mao Zedong published the following year summarising the fruit that it bore, entitled Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art. Why did tens of thousands of artists and writers make the long journey to the remote city of Yan’an, what were the intellectual debates of the time, and how did the cultural developments help bring the Chinese people and nation to revolution?

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General Dynamics Calls Critics “Radical Skeptics” for “Undermining” US Foreign Policy

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Monday, 9 May 2022 — MintPress News

General Dynamics recently rejected a human rights proposal on the grounds that it would “undermine shareholder value and more notably, “embed radical skepticism toward U.S. foreign policy.”

By Shea Leibow

Yemen gen dynamics

RESTON, VIRGINIA (CODEPINK) — On May 4th, General Dynamics held its annual shareholder meeting. This meeting took place virtually, possibly in response to last year when shareholders were able to directly engage with the General Dynamics Board and ask how they justify the destruction and death their weapons cause.

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Keir Starmer has returned western imperialism to the core of Labour policy

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Tuesday, 17 May 2022 —Jonathan Cook

Two years in, the Labour leader’s war on the left has shifted to ideological tests that even Pope Francis and Amnesty International would fail

Middle East Eye – 16 May 2022

The local authority election results earlier this month in the UK were as bleak as expected for Boris Johnson’s government, with the electorate ready to punish the ruling party both for its glaring corruption and rocketing high-street prices.

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Ukraine News Links 16-17 May 2022

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Tuesday, 17 May 2022 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the readers has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Have they Sent Biden to Consult with Eastern Medicine Practitioners?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/05/17/have-they-sent-biden-to-consult-with-eastern-medicine-practitioners/

Modern America’s devastated conditions show how ripe we are for an equivalent of the Russian Revolution
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/05/modern-americas-devastated-conditions.html

How Long Before Kiev and CNN (BBC) Declare This A Victory?
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/how-long-before-kiev-and-cnn-bbc.html

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