Venezuela’s Critical Conjunctures: A Conversation with Steve Ellner
A historian with four decades of life and work in Venezuela reflects on the Bolivarian Process and the events leading up to the revolution.
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In Defense of AMLO: Understanding MORENA’s Project
The top journalist looks at how decades worth of right-wing administrations and right-wing rule in Mexico was electorally overturned by the person affectionately called AMLO, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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Sijimali Bauxite Mining Project Hearing Held Under Massive Police Repression
Despite the intense police repression, the people of Kashipur have stood up against the Odisha Government coercively facilitating this project for Vedanta. We bring to you the developments of the last 24 hours from the night before the Public Hearing to the end of it.
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Revolutions Begin With ‘No’. And This Journey Starts with Asking Questions
It has never been easy to ask questions in human history. Those who have questioned have been persecuted, hounded, punished and even killed. Science has progressed because of the courage people had to say no. Philosophical movements and religions, too, began with questioning.
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Why the View Is Different from the Street: The Merits of Democratic Protest
It is easy to feel bleak in the confines of one’s living room, where social media-fuelled anxiety can lead to handwringing and despair. But as anyone who has taken part in a people’s movement in some shape or form can testify, the view is very different from the street.
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Disruptive Impact of ‘Unviable’ Ken-Betwa River Link Project for Bundelkhand Region
Villagers are protesting against the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, that is likely to lead to cutting down of 3 to 4 million trees and displacement of people of 21 villages. The project will be highly disastrous for the Bundelkhand region already suffering from several acute problems.
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Rojava: A Beacon of Solidarity, Cooperation and Progress
In one corner of Syria — the northern border regions known to the Kurds as Rojava — hope for a better world lives on. Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava stands defiantly as a beacon for human solidarity, cooperation, and progress.
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Antiwar Resistance Within the Military During the Vietnam War
This article, first published on October 17, 2017 by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, seeks to tell the truth and learn the lessons of the US war in Indochina, and of the broad, diverse protest movement that ended the war.
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Time to Abandon Industrial Farming – Two Articles
Many will argue that chemicals are needed to feed the population, but this is a false dilemma. Also: “Industrial Farming has Killed Billions of Birds”.
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Lessons from Gramsci for Social Movements Today
From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.
