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" As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. "
Tariq Ali
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" The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity. "
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" The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America. "
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" Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow. "
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" The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism. "
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" For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy. "
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" Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all. "
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" The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides. "
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" The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. "
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" Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski. "
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" The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged. "
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" In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. "
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" Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans. "
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" Revolutionaries are not infallible. "
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" Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. "
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" I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis. "
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" To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system. "
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" As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. "
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" I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it. "
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" An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents. "
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" Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture. "
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" The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment. "
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" When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen. "
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" Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists. "
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