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134235
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In the early 1970s in South Africa two developments coincided. Workers in the port city of Durban struck, triggering a union movement which was crucial in defeating apartheid and which remains the society’s largest organized force. And radical scholars began to analyse apartheid as a system of class domination. The two were related, for the scholarship helped convince middle-class radicals to join the union movement. It also made democracy and a critique of private economic power key themes for the movement. The relationship between the ideas and the movement show the limits and possibilities of academic influence on social movements.
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135434
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Retired historian Romila Thapar has written an opinion piece (History repeats itself, 11 July 2014, India Today, giving the standard secular reaction to the appointment of equally retired historian Y. Sudershan
Rao, as Chairperson of the Indian Council of Historical Research. It gives the predictable (indeed, predicted, see K. Elst: A Hindutva Historian in Office, 11 July 2014), show of indignation hiding an inside reaction of satisfaction at the BJP’s renewed display of incompetence in reforming the field of history
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135758
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Existing studies about the 1975 constitution in the English literature, mostly conducted shortly after its announcement, are primarily interested in how the document differs from the constitutions of 1954 and 1978. The current study is instead primarily interested in the dynamics and process of drafting the 1975 constitution. Although the document reflects the radicalism of the Cultural Revolution, it was also the result of political compromise. The roles of Mao and the party, the concept of “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and the belief in communist internationalism were all toned down because of the preceding events that occurred. The fate of the 1975 People’s Republic of China constitution was closely linked to Zhang Chunqiao, the key person in charge of drafting the document. Although many of Zhang’s ideas as reflected in the 1975 constitution were communistic, the way that the politics was conducted then was not. Unlike the more commonly used method of textual analysis from a comparative perspective, this study used materials that emerged after the Cultural Revolution to document the dynamics of drafting the constitution.
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