18+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1223+ words) These three broad tiers overlap in certain areas, but they also have distinct organisational structures, strategies and constituencies. Together, they provide a framework for understanding the changing character of Left politics in contemporary India. 1. The Parliamentary Left The parliamentary Left…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1137+ words) Three areas are particularly important: the dispossession of indigenous communities, the growth of identity struggles, including struggles around gender identity, and the experience of alienation within the digitised economy. Dispossession and the Loss of Indigenous Livelihoods The significance of this…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (863+ words) There is a problem with political writing. There is too much of it. People write essays explaining why the world is insane. Others read them and nod solemnly because they already know the world is insane. Then somebody writes another…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1189+ words) This metric of “223,214 Gazans killed per million of population per year” for the first 2 years of the Gaza Genocide is shockingly greater than the “175,439Jews killed per million of population per year” during the WW2 Jewish Holocaust. Set out below for comparative…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (440+ words) Here are some of the things I’ve learned and the books that were important to me at the beginning of that education. Letters from a War Zone: Writings 1976-1987 by Andrea Dworkin (1988) (For details, see my 2017 book, The End of Patriarchy:…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (277+ words) Intellectualism is a subversive act. Therefore, subverting all forms of power and authority, dominant ideas, and established knowledge traditions is the primary function of an intellectual who is committed to the people and the planet. Scientific thinking, reading, reflecting, and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (668+ words) What the lawyers say, coldly When the historians of the Holocaust start using the word The gallows, and the man standing before them Smotrich, Netanyahu, and the map that answers the question The architects of impunity None of this happened…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (239+ words) Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political commentator Recent reports indicate that PM Modi is being worshipped as a god at several locations—both inside existing temples and outside them—and a "Modi Mandir" is currently under construction plan in… The…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (343+ words) There are 8 countries in South Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives. Together they have a population of about 1.95 billion. With about 23% of the world’s population, South Asia has only about 5% of the world’s land share…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1170+ words) “We still have time” has been superseded by “How much worse can it get.” The world has been turned upside down by a destructive out-of-control global climate system. “Unprecedented” is found in every corner of the planet. There are no…...