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Washington and Tel Aviv Launch War on Iran When Peace Was Within Reach; Mass Protests in US – 5 Articles
‘Regime Change in the Iran War, But Which One?’; ‘Iran Prepared for an Existential War. How Much Are Trump and Israel Willing to Gamble?’; ‘Iran Attacked by the US and Israel When Peace Was Within Reach’; ‘The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It’; ‘Mass Movement Mobilizes Against Trump’s War on Iran’.
The War on Iran, and India
What are the implications for India of the US-Israel attack on Iran? To understand this, we need to place this development in the context of the present world situation, and India’s political economy within that.
The Collapse of ‘Modi Magic’: Failures at Home and Embarrassment Abroad – 3 Articles
‘The Modi Magic Lies Dismantled’: While the swagger is gone, Modi is now unwittingly parading his failures before the nation. Also: ‘Prime Minister Modi Humiliated India During His Visit to Israel’; and: ‘Cowards Then and Cowards Now’.
For India’s Hindutva Base, Israel Is Less an Ally and More a Model
The assault on Gaza shows how a population can be subjugated while maintaining international legitimacy. Hindutva’s interest in Israel is to learn this method.
Delay, Deference, and Partisan Justice: The Unravelling of India’s Constitutional Institutions – 2 Articles
‘Delay and Deference in India’s Courts and Other Institutions Have Normalised the Government’s Disregard of Laws and Constitutional Guarantees’; ‘The Communal, Criminal Injustice of the Stories of Bilkis Bano and Maya Kodnani’.
The Finance Commission’s Fiscal Shell Game
By keeping cess and surcharge outside the divisible pool and ending State-specific grants, the Finance Commission sided with the Centre’s Machiavellian moves, tightening fiscal federalism in ways that may weaken the Union.
Adivasi Self-Rule and the Constitution: The Republic’s Forgotten Promise – 2 Articles
‘The Adivasi Imprint on the Constitution and the Republic’s Amnesia’: Has the Constitution failed India’s aboriginals, or was the faith of their forefathers tragically misplaced? Also: ‘Why Self-Rule Still Matters in India’s Tribal Homelands’: The tribals continue to push for fundamentally different forms of democracy and governance through the scheduling provisions under Article 244.
The Global War Over Seeds; Farmers in India Reject the Seeds Bill – 2 Articles
‘The Global War Over Seeds’: How corporations privatise the seeds of the Global South, including India, through patents, destroying biodiversity and trampling farmers’ rights. Also: ‘Farmers in India Reject the Seeds Bill and the Corporate Enclosure of Seeds’.
Five Years of the NEP Reflects the Changed Hierarchy of Indian Education’s Aims
The NEP’s aims are multifaceted – more control over states, institutions and curricula; exclusion; segregation; rebranding of ‘model’ schools; closing and merging of schools; deletion, distortion, ‘Indianisation’ or Brahminisation of curricula; skilling; corporatisation, commercialisation …
The Jobless Growth Trap: Statistics, Self-Employment, and the Limits of Skilling – 2 Articles
‘Is No One in India Jobless After They Turn 30? Data Has the Answer’; ‘Why Skilling Alone Will Not Solve India’s Employment Problem’: The Union Budget should have prioritised development expenditure which is employment creating in nature.
Subhash Chandra Bose Beyond Popular Myths: The Relevance of His Secular Vision Today – 2 Articles
‘Studying Subhash Chandra Bose: Debunking “Popular Myths” Through Bose’: The three primary myths are about Nehru and Bose’s relations, Bose and Patel’s relations and why Bose’s appropriation by the communal forces is the greatest irony. Also: ‘Netaji’s Vision of Secular Unity Remains Vital as India Faces Religious Polarisation’.
Torture Trumps Tradition: Can Religion or Custom Give Female Genital Mutilation a Carte Blanche?
On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, this two-part series explores how international law recognizes FGM as torture—and why, as a jus cogens norm, the prohibition against torture cannot be derogated from under any circumstances.
Israel on the Brink
Two prominent Jewish historians have recently written from different perspectives – one economic and political; one largely theological and moral – that the state of Israel is doomed and living on borrowed time.
From Unipolar Moment to New Cold War: The Evolution of U.S. Imperial Strategy
March 2026 editorial by Foster for Monthly Review: To make sense of present developments, it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.
Decline and Fall
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
Western Hemisphere: A History of the United States Written by War
As the United States and Israel launch a new large-scale military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, while continuing the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people and the annexation of the West Bank, it is important to analyze, from a historical perspective, the policy of the United States in the Americas.
ICE Brings War Home
Killing, wounding, threatening, or investigating observers are just some of the many abuses and violent tactics of immigration officers in the era of Donald Trump.
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and the Worldwide Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism: An Interview with Chris Gilbert
In this interview, Chris Gilbert offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation in Venezuela within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region. He also discusses the Venezuelan communes in this context.
UK Economy: Still Winter, Not Spring
Rachel Reeves, Britain’s finance minister, recently claimed to have brought stability back and stopped austerity, but the figures tell a story of stagnation and unrelenting austerity.
More Than 2.1 Billion of World’s 3.6 Billion Workers Are in the Informal Economy
The International Labour Organisation’s Employment and Social Trends 2026 report paints a stark picture of the conditions facing most of the world’s workers.
Profit Over People: How the World Fuels Sudan’s War
Sudan’s war is not an anomaly but a concentrated expression of a global system that depends on unequal exchange, violent extraction, and moral distance. Armed violence, mass displacement, famine, and systemic exploitation are sustained not only by domestic actors but by regional and international powers that profit from instability.
On Being Female in a Potentially Fascist Country
“I look around at what’s happening in our country and worry that we may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed”, writes the author.
Two Africas, One Heart
There are, in effect, two Africas. One is the version that dominates global headlines: a continent defined by poverty, disease, and conflict. The other is the Africa I came to know firsthand—a dynamic, hardworking society of men and women striving for a better future.
Dadabhai Naoroji’s 200th Birth Anniversary: How Early Nationalists Thought About Mass Education
There is a yawning gap between their visions and independent India’s woeful track record in educating its citizens.
The Social Character of Labour: Exploring the Private Accumulation of the Social Intellect
This essay examines the Social Character of Labour through a set of economic concepts and applies them to a contemporary example: Generative AI.
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