The museum of vernacular regeneration
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Reblogged: useful list of Left History stuff
This is from Hatful of History. There was a time when links to these sorts of sites etc were a common thing on blogs, but even the ones…
Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509.
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
A World of Pain and Suffering and Dispossession: Remembering Sri Lankan Tamil Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
Comrade Saleh Memon asks to repost this: A WORLD OF PAIN, SUFFERING AND DISPOSSESSION – REMEMBERING SRI LANKAN TAMIL ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE JULY 31, 2018 SALEH MAMON LEAVE…
Destruction of weavers
Their bones will, Marx says, end up bleached on the plains of Bihar. Here Ranajit Guha in 1956 examines how colonial policy and corporation demands destroy livelihoods and…
History tick tock
A somewhat strange take on the watch mechanism metaphor for history, and on village structure, from K.N.Chaudhuri. Asia Before Europe (explaining Braudel).
Marx on India in 1857
Marx writes to document the outrages committed by the British in retaliation for the uprising in 1857: “The Punjaub is declared to be quiet, but at the same…
What did Friedrich Engels have to say about Australia?
there was a series that Ben and Melitta used to include in Rabelais, along such lines – what did Lenin think of the Labor Party etc., I wish…
Jabs up to date? – better be, legacies of global beneficence and payback owed by anti-vaxxers.
This from Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005: 86): ‘Inoculation against smallpox, a major killer in Europe up to the middle of the nineteenth century, was a practice imported from…
Handy hints on cracking up
F.Scott-Fitzgerald’s ‘crack-up’ as a model for going on with when needs must and all around have been ripping each other to shreds in a mass fraternal suicide: ‘I…
Smuggling – of tea to Scotland?
The Commission of Customs Scotland to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, reporting on the subject of trade with India, in 1812, examined Earl, Osborne and Ferrier (traders)…
Opium not as interesting as money for the parliament, even as…
Reading various Blue Books and the like, parliamentary reports. This one on the East India Company struck me as typical, though the clipped coins distraction is of course…
Restored 18th century Danish tavern to be inaugurated today
[JH comment: now if you were plying the illicit opium trade on behalf of dodgy East India Company officials, you’d also need to stop by the Tavern and…
Factory Inspections, in Chicago and more
Click on the link to go to the site. And a huge number of other report on Inspections here: And how about this one? Women in the…
Karen Tam opiumartifacts.
Opium dens taking over galleries has a perfect beauty. I was reminded telling a friend about this and thought it was time once again for another promo…
More Marx on Slavery
This fascinating article by Marx was in The People’s Paper, March 1953, and earlier in the NYDT, and about a third of it was carried over into Das Kapital (p758…
Statues – 1970 Kolkata.
Mrinal Sen’s great film Interview begins with a few shots of the removal of colonial statues from the Maidan in Calcutta, shipped off to a closed space in…
Blackboard Capital
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Defoe on prisons 1698
Defoe, as a good Protestant, was of course keen to remedy the ‘torrent of vice’, ‘venal crime’ and ‘Epidemick Distemper’ that afflicted the nation with ‘wicke…
English heritage trinkets
Apparently on sale at National Trust sites are mugs with this marking underneath. Thanks Katherine S for the pointer. My view is to welcome this as an historically…
Concentrate on the camps
This is from E-flux: Dheisheh Refugee Camp. Photo: Luca Capuano. Refugee Heritage, a new project by DAAR The Architecture of Exile IV. B: February 24, 7pm, with Suad…
Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
Hutnyk
Tracking down the old man’s arrival records from Europe to Australia. He was a violent drunken shit, but I do appreciate at least his refrain about how we…
Get Heartfield.
Got to get this: Buy hereFiled under: historical, politics