Venezuela Wins Simply by Holding an Election
These days, even the holding of an election is a contest between the Venezuelan people and the United States government.
The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Farm Laws
The farmers have risen to defend their rights and this has now also become linked with the wider constitutional rights of all Indian citizens. We should do away with our pessimism and join them …
Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers?
“No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or the State Government, or any officer of the Central Government or the State Government or any other person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or of any rules or…
Farmers’ Agitation: Two Ground Reports
There is great determination and clarity of thought among the farmers camping at Delhi’s borders about how India is being sold to corporate interests.
Two Poems
Farmers’ Mann ki Baat; Father, We have Sinned.
Paul Robeson, Artist as Revolutionary
Notes on Sharon Rudahl’s superlative biography of Paul Robeson.
Clare Grady at 100 Seconds To Midnight
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s murder, seven white, aging Catholic peace activists cut a fence and enter Georgia’s Kings Bay Naval Base, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world.
36th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Leak Tragedy: State Continues to Fail Victims
Statement by the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghthan (BGPMUS) and Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS) highlighting the struggle for justice which the gas victims have been relentlessly waging for the past 35 years.
The Pillage of Resources: A Glimpse into the Lives and Labor of Marginalized Women
Lives of women dependent on natural resources, such as land, forests, rivers, and mountains, are being tossed asunder by the appropriation and expropriation of these resources by corporations and the state.
The Supreme Court Sets at Naught the Solemn Guarantee of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
In the case of the journalist Siddique Kappan, the Supreme Court abnegates its own responsibility by treating the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts as an acceptable alternative in disposing of habeas corpus petitions.