The period directly after the U.S. Civil was a new beginning involving the industrialization of the south. It was in fact a new beginning when in 1862-1863 the U.S. army created the beginning of an economic revolution by offering wages to thousands of former African-American slaves. They were still enslaved. But they moved in status from abject slavery to bonded labor. This step served to stabilize a South that was wrought by economic chaos immediately after the war. By 1864 blacks earned $3-8 per month working eight to ten hours daily. During the same period Edward Philbrick set up an experiment on the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas, where blacks worked at daily assigned "tasks" rather than in slave gangs. He paid them substandard wages, which led to record profits for the plantations, i.e., for himself.
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Wealthy and powerful elites are trying to erase the boundaries between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in order to take advantage of cheap labor and increase their profits. Several U.S. states have begun to fight back against this new form of exploitation, however, led by Idaho, a state in the western part of the country.
Resolution urges Congress to use 'all efforts, energies and diligence'
By Bob Unruh© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Lawmakers in Idaho have approved a "joint memorial" that urges the U.S. Congress to use "all efforts, energies and diligence" to get the United States out of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a multinational plan that opponents believe is being used to blend the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
As WND has reported previously, many other state legislatures have resolutions pending that condemn the idea of a "North American Union," but Idaho's is the first to pass such a measure.
(Chairperson - English Dept. - Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
Humanism has been a powerful ideology especially in western civilization. The term itself is usually ascribed to German educationist F. J. Niethammer who in 1808 used it to denote the study of Greek and Latin classics - "Literae humaniores" or human letters. Through the term is of more recent coinage, humanism actually refers to the rediscovery of the classics, which was a distinguishing feature of the Italian Renaissance. To move from a God-centric, to a man-centric universe was indeed a major shift for the West. Arguably it is this shift which gave rise not only to Humanism as such but also to Humanities or the study of human beings as it is revealed in History, Literature, Art and so on. Humanism, especially secular Humanism of European humanists like Voltaire and Hugh helped to undermine the dogmatism and the power of the Church. This is turn contributed to the secularization of western society. Post-enlightenment academic disciplines tended to divided into pure or natural sciences on the one hand, and human sciences on the other.
whose existences
have no charm of vitality -
let us guide them on the path of light,
let us educate them,
let us fulfill their demands and their need,
let us restore their lost dignity
with our hearts overflowing with love.
Let the sufferings of each be shared by all,
for this world belongs to us all.
Kolkata, Mar 24: Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee has sought action against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee over the recent killings of 14 persons in police firing at Nandigram.
Dr. Lars Mazzola provides here a delightful discussion of the issues involved in part-time teaching in the United States, including the lack of equity for Part-time faculty, who now comprise about 40 percent of the workforce, a Ten Point Program for Part-time faculty, a discussion of the composition of Part-time faculty, trends that affect part-time faculty, variables that can be adjusted to improve their lot, an example of bad math that is used against them, examples of good math that is used to alleviate their condition, and suggestions on how to support the cause, the well-being, of hundreds of thousands of highly qualified part-time university lecturers in the U.S.
"The plan to reduce the size of the Bengali population is being implemented through the systematic destruction of the vitality of the Bengali people. The most powerful means of expression of a people's collective psychic power is their language and literature. Hence, to try and uproot a people from their culture is a special form of psychic exploitation. The cultural suppression of Bengalees throughout eastern India is rampant. To undermine the morality and integrity of Bengal's national character, lewd films and books have been spread throughout the state like ulcerous wounds. In the factories and the rural production centres, the capitalist exploitation of India continues unabated, and the landholders, as the last vestiges of a feudalistic social order, perpetrate their exploitation in the villages. The capitalists and landlords carry on their exploitation hand-in-hand. The survival and social security of the landless labourers depends solely on the whims of the landlords, who can expel the labourers at any time on any pretext. The exploitation by capitalists and landlords is accompanied by the exploitation by moneylenders. In the rural economy they lend money to the farmers and rural peasants, and are present in nearly every village and hamlet of West Bengal. Where the landlords are not physically present, their loyal agents are very active. The moneylenders have nothing to do with the land - they merely give loans to the poor farmers at high interest. Sometimes poor farmers cannot afford to procure farming implements, hence they are compelled to take loans from the moneylenders. If a moneylender gives one hundred rupees to a farmer, the farmer will have to repay two hundred rupees with interest, but the moneylender does not take back the loan in cash. Instead he realizes the amount in kind in the form of paddy, potatoes, etc., at cheap rates at the time of the harvest. The poor farmer, under the pressure of circumstances, has to accept this unwelcome system. He is a double loser - first, he has to pay more than double the amount of the original loan, and secondly, this amount is paid in kind at the rate of the harvest price of the crop, which is naturally very cheap. This whole process is conducted through agents, who also take their profit. Thus, the peasants and farmers of India are deprived of all their agricultural produce in four to five months of the year to repay the moneylenders, so for the remaining seven to eight months they have to approach the moneylenders again for fresh loans. At first they mortgage their implements, and then they are forced to part with their land. When the amount of the loans with compound interest increases to the point where the interest and the mortgage is equal to the price of their land, the moneylenders confiscate the land of the farmers. Consequently, the farmers get evicted from their land and move from village to village, living on the streets as beggars."
In Nandigram the massacre of farmers and rape of women by security forces and police stalled proceedings in Indian Parliament for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday, forcing adjournment of both Houses.
Reports from human rights organisations in West Bengal expressed deep concern on the incident in Nandigram. Reports say that some villages like Adhikaripara and Gokulnagar are literally deserted. Fact finding teams report that both the police and the CPI (M) activists were terrorising the villagers. For instance, witnesses say that the local Member of Parliament, Mr. Lakshman Seth, had allegedly brought in criminals who were given police uniforms and country guns to shoot, kill, and plunder. These criminals, alongside the police force, had attacked the villagers.
At the tender age of 3, she attended meetings of environmentalists and went to rallies denouncing dumping and using dumps as a waste management facility. Now aged 6, she has been climbing mountains to do her share in preserving the environment and to raise her battlecry, "No Waste."
Bhattacharjee and his fellow Stalinists claim that the villagers of Nandigram, Singur and other places designated for SEZs will benefit from capitalist development. In fact, as has been shown by the past 15 years of neo-liberal reform in India, capitalist development will strengthen the hold of big business over all aspects of socio-economic life, promote an ever-wider gap between the rich and poor, and increase poverty and economic insecurity. Moreover, the peasants of Nandigram are well aware that most of them lack the skills to be employed in modern industry and that the monetary compensation offered by the government can be quickly consumed, leaving them with no means of livelihood. The massacre at Nandigram has shattered the pretensions of the Left Front and the CPM to defend India's workers and toilers and shown them to be agents of domestic and international capital who stand ready to unleash violent state repression against working people. ~ Kranti Kumara
Eleven persons were killed and 34, including 14 policemen, injured when the police opened fire on a violent crowd in the strife-torn Nandigram area in West Bengal on Wednesday.
"On this path one must move in unison with many, because this path is the path of synthesis, of non-differentiation. Genuine righteous people will never bother to know whether one is a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are the spatial, temporal or personal expressions of the same dear Lord. True dharmic people can never engage themselves in any fratricidal war... They can never waste their valuable time arguing which propounder of which religion is superior, or inferior. Their only endeavour is to inspire people to develop a pinnacled intellect and pursue the synthetic path of knowledge, devotion and action, a path which is totally free from narrow, communal prejudices. They will not give the least importance to ritualistic differences. Where there is no internal progress, where there is no effort made for the attainment of Consciousness, we cannot call it dharma, it is simply religion. Human beings must not entertain any divisive religious tenets. People must be freed from the spell of scriptural authority and led along the path of rationality. They should be made to understand that to run towards Supreme Consciousness - the essence of all essences - is the one and only dharma. There is no other dharma for human beings."
Rally on International Day of Mother Language/Bengali Language Day - 21st February 2007 - Tatanagar (Jharkhand)Jharkhand is a newly formed state of India, and formerly belonged to Bihar state. According to the Samaja policy of Prout given by Shrii P.R. Sarkar, a major part of it comes under the area of Bangalistan. The original inhabitants of the state are people of Bengali origin and also of Nagpuri Samaj. Apart from these two original inhabitants, other people have settled in this area who come from Angika, Maethili, Magahi and Bhojpuri Samajas. Sixty-four percent of the total population in this state speak in Bengali. In spite of this fact, the state government imposed the Hindi language as the state language against the wishes and aspirations of the majority of the state population.
............... In this case the exploiters fully exercise their political and economic power for their own economic exploitation. The second half of British rule in India was characterized by imperialist exploitation. In fact, the imperialist exploitation of Bengal can be traced to the rein of the Mughal Emperor Akbar about 400 years ago. There is a reference in the book Ain-E-Akbari [The Laws of Akbar] that Bengal had to supply 23,301 cavalrymen, 801,159 infantrymen, 4,400 ships, 4,260 cannons and 108 elephants to the Mughal army. Bengal also had to pay a large tribute to meet Akbar's military expenses, supply provisions to the Mughal army, and pay taxes to offset the losses incurred in Akbar's campaigns. And when Aurangzeb deployed a large Mughal army to suppress the Marathas in the Deccan, Bengal again had to supply a large part of the provisions and running expenses of his army. In the process, the economy of Bengal was completely drained and the people impoverished. As a result of the Mughal exploitation, Bengal was confronted by a series of economic disasters and famines, and the Mughal rulers, with the help of their functionaries, ruthlessly suppressed all local revolts.
In an ominous hardening of policy, North Korea appears to be punishing its citizens with longer sentences in abusive prisons if they are caught crossing the border to China or have been forcibly repatriated by Beijing, Human Rights Watch said in a new briefing paper released today.
The following article is the report of Amnesty International about the dark side of China's so called "Economic Miracle". This shows the false propaganda of Chinese economic progress. The communists of India especially the provincial Communist government of West Bengal wants to adopt this very China model. In the name industrialization or modernization they want to grab the fertile land of the poor farmers and serve the greed of the capitalists. This hypocrisy must be exposed. ~ Proutist Universal
Internal migrant workers in China are paying the cost of the country’s economic "miracle". Most find themselves denied their rights - shut out of the healthcare system and state education, living in appalling, overcrowded conditions and routinely exploited by their employers.
Political economist Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar defines the term "evolution" as the accelerated movement of a social cycle. "Revolution" he defines as acceleration of that movement by the application of tremendous force, and reversing the movement of the social cycle by application of tremendous force is called "counter-revolution." Using Sarkar's definitions, and considering the time period, considering the collective worldview of most white southerners towards African-Americans in 1860, what happened in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War during the Emancipation and Reconstruction Era can only be defined as a revolution. - Garda Ghista
