Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Two Songs, Two Visions: TM Krishna on Why India Chose ‘Jana Gana Mana’ Over ‘Vande Mataram’
The Carnatic vocalist and public intellectual argues that India must defend its founding symbols and also reimagine their meaning for a changing time.
