Back To Reality

The Communist University meets again this coming Friday (April 21st) for the second last of our series “No Woman, No Revolution”. In case you may have been struggling with the text (“Untimely Critiques for a Red Feminism) here linked below is a “crib” or “key” designed to help us all get more out of this document. Because of Freedom Day on April 24th there will be no session the following week. That will leave two weeks between the next two sessions, plenty of time for people to read the final text of this set on women, which is Meera Nanda’s 2004 “Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism and Vedic science”. We will discuss that one on May 5th, which happens to be Karl Marx’s birthday, by the way. No news is good news, some people say. At least if it means peace, it’s good. Easter has been a slack time for news. The three new linked articles below contain some wicked humour, some realism, and some regret, all well designed for people who may have had an overdose of religion this weekend. Let’s hope tomorrow will be time enough to get back to business. The first item of our business, as always, is peace. Of which it is clear that the too few religious people are taking good enough care. The statements of the Chief Rabbi on the TV programme “Interface” last night were truly terrifying. Links: 20 Pages of Teresa Ebert made easy for the CU, Tweedie (1904 words) God Cannot Keep His Own Commandments, Twain, Counterpunch (1072 words) Israel, The Dead Roach in the US Salad, Reese, Antiwar (664 words) In the Ashes of Lament, Ortiz, Counterpunch (377 words)