The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development
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The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development

Michael Lebowitz interviewed by editors of Hak Mücadeleleri   HM: Let’s start with your ideas about rethinking Marx, capital’s logic, and the logic of the working class? And how we can relate these subjects with today’s social movements?   ML: For some time, I have argued that Marx did not develop theoretically the side of…

India’s Worsening Unemployment Crisis
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India’s Worsening Unemployment Crisis

Neeraj Jain   Soon after Modi-led BJP won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the government felt emboldened to release the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, that it had suppressed. The data show that absolute employment in the country has actually fallen during the years of Modi’s prime ministership – the first time it has…

Defining Needs: Marx and Gandhi

Defining Needs: Marx and Gandhi

                                                                                                                                                               Samar Bagchi On 26th November 2019 Agence France-Presse reported from Paris that the scientists of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have predicted that if the global temperature rise has to be restricted to 1.5°C then the global emission of CO2 has to be reduced by 76% by 2030. Acknowledging the imminent ecological crisis endangering the…

Dr.  Ambedkar and the Future of Indian Democracy

Dr.  Ambedkar and the Future of Indian Democracy

Jean Drèze   The future of Indian democracy depends a great deal on a revival of Dr. Ambedkar’s visionary conception of democracy. This vision also needs to be enlarged and updated in the light of recent experience. Revolutionary Democracy Dr. Ambedkar’s vision of democracy was closely related to his ideal of a “good society”. He…

The Importance and Centrality of Jawaharlal Nehru in Contemporary India

The Importance and Centrality of Jawaharlal Nehru in Contemporary India

Anil Nauriya   (This essay was written in 2015, as a review of Nayantara Sahgal’s book, “Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of a Nation”. We are publishing an edited version of this essay, because it has become even more relevant today.) If one scans the political landscape of India in the 20th century for…

Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth?
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Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth?

Debasish Bhattacharjee    Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC….

Economy in Shambles, But PM Asking Culprits for Solution!
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Economy in Shambles, But PM Asking Culprits for Solution!

Subodh Varma    In case you have been wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been so silent of late, not uttering a word about the CAA/NRC protests and police killings or the continuing horror in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University or the stream of numbers showing how the economy is in shambles, here is the…

Pan-India NRC May Lead to Initial Exclusion of 10 Crore Applicants
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Pan-India NRC May Lead to Initial Exclusion of 10 Crore Applicants

Amitava Bandyopadhyay   The process of preparation of the National Register of Citizens or NRC may declare a true citizen an illegal immigrant or fail to detect a non-citizen. Erroneously classifying a bona fide citizen as illegal immigrant is called ‘false positive’ and failure to identify a non-citizen is called ‘false negative’. While false negatives…