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The dissent of man

A detail of radical Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Man, The Controller

of the Universe, painted in 1934 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in

Mexico City. The mural had originally been commissioned for the

new Rockefeller Center in New York City, where it was titled Man

at the Crossroads. When painting that version in 1933, Rivera added

a small image of Lenin, which he refused to remove when requested;

as a result, the mural was destroyed the following January. In this

second iteration in Mexico, Rivera included small images of Trotsky,

Marx and Engels (not seen in this section) as well as Lenin.

Speaking to the voiceless

Indian Congress leader Mahatma Gandhi

addresses a crowd of Scheduled Caste people

• also known as dalits or ‘untouchables’,
  designated as outside the Indian caste system


• on 6 August 1934. Gandhi was campaigning
  against the 1932 British decision to hold
  separate local elections for Scheduled Castes
  (and other Indian minorities), thus confirming
  their exclusion from the rest of Indian society


• a decision that was rescinded later that
  year. Gandhi’s non-violent protests against
  such issues and against British rule saw him
  repeatedly imprisoned, but his long campaign
  helped lead to independence for India in 1947.

A year in pictures: 1934

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