Countering the Corporate – Hindutva Narrative on the Nation
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Countering the Corporate – Hindutva Narrative on the Nation

The entire practice of the kisan agitation constitutes an emphatic rejection of the ‘nationalism’ propagated by the corporate-Hindutva alliance, and a recovery of the real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.

Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and Saving Ecuador
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Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and Saving Ecuador

The former president of Ecuador discusses issues ranging from the repression in his country under its neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, to the persecution of Julian Assange, as well as the prospect of a left-wing victory in Ecuador’s upcoming national elections.

John Lennon and the Politics of the New Left
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John Lennon and the Politics of the New Left

Forty years after his murder in New York City, we remember John Lennon’s record of political engagement as a champion of the anti-war movement and a self-styled “instinctive socialist”—which brought him into conflict with Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.

‘It’s Time We Speak up For Each Other’: Farmers’ Group Supports Political Prisoners
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‘It’s Time We Speak up For Each Other’: Farmers’ Group Supports Political Prisoners

“We are confronting a prime minister who is behaving like an exploitative king. All these activists and intellectuals have been arrested on false charges merely because they highlighted the plight of the poor,” said the head of BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan).

The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left
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The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left

Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about the program—it helped to engineer it.