The Labour Left and ‘The Long March Through the Institutions’

Sabrina Huck Red Pepper (UK)
The long march is a strategy to abolish existing structures and the institutions that reproduce them. It is a process of working politically from within, pushing boundaries through agitation not negotiation, and creating a counter public-sphere.

America’s ‘Untouchables’: the Silent Power of the Caste System

Isabel Wilkerson The Guardian
Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta, visiting India in 1959.
More than a century and a half before the American Revolution, a human hierarchy had evolved on the soil of the future United States. To comprehend the current upheavals one must understand the human pyramid encrypted into us all: the caste system.

MTA Calls for Remote Learning Until Building Safety Is Ensured

Massachusetts Teachers Association MTA
Decades of economic policies have allowed the 1 percent to prosper — even increasing their net worth by billions of dollars during the pandemic — while disinvesting in the public good has left almost everyone else behind.

Quarantine

Quinn Lewis Southern Review
Months before the public became aware of Covid-19, the poet Quinn Lewis used the word to depict a chosen escape from normal life and the ensuing comforts “inside/the walls.”

The Man Who Knew Infinity

The true story of a friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius, traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where over the course of five years, he forged a bond with his mentor, the brilliant and eccentric professor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), while fighting against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.