SC Order on Shaheen Bagh Protest Introduced Dangerous Constitutional Ideas
Is there something inevitable in the form in which we have conceived of liberal democracy that it will, more and more, construe the dissenter as a figure of criminality?
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Yemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis and the Complicity of Imperialists – Two Articles
As long as the US and UK continue their political and military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, there will be no solution to the country’s humanitarian or political situation. Also: Not just to Yemen, the US controls half the arms market in the Middle East.
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The Geo-Politics of EU-China Investment Deal
The EU-China investment deal is as much rooted in China’s own urge to expand as in the EU’s own growing search for its own place, independent of the USA.
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Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters Struck U.S. in 2020
In 2020 the U.S. experienced a record-smashing 22 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that killed at least 262 people and injured scores more.
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Changing Political Scenarios: a Conversation with Marco Teruggi
Examining both continental geopolitics and the dynamic of regional social movements, Teruggi – a prominent journalist – offers a rich interpretation of Venezuela’s recent electoral process.
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India’s Season of Dissent: an Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
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Sugathakumari (1934 – 2020): Her Inclusive Vision and Deep Empathy Set Her Apart
Sugathakumari not only produced some of the most iconic works of Malayalam poetry during her illustrious poetic career spanning almost six decades, she was also a leading social activist.
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Marx on Exploitation: an ABC for an Unequal World
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
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India’s Farmers Provide an Object Lesson in Democratic Mass Action
Where mobs flail to a tune set into motion by some dog-whistle, refuse reasoned debate, take recourse to abuse, vilification, threat, and finally, the strong arm, democratic mass actions bank on the power of knowledge.
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Where Is Justice? Most Farmers and Informal Workers have No Pension After Toiling All Their Life
At a time when highly dubious projects worth tens of thousands of crores have been cleared recklessly, the pension offered by the Union government to elderly citizens is just Rs. 200 per month, and this too only for about 27% of senior citizens who need this.
