Why are Farmers Against Ambani and Adani – Two Articles
Some facts about how Ambani and Adani are already penetrating into Indian agriculture.
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.
Farmers’ Struggle: A Lesson in Resilience; Farmers Announce Republic Day Parade with Tractors
A month into the protests, farmers are determined not to yield. Alternative media, books, and songs are keeping their spirits high. On January 2, they announced a new plan of action for the month, including a “tractor parade” on Republic Day if their demands are not met.
The Revolutionary Promise of New Year’s Day
In 1804, enslaved Africans seized their freedom on the Caribbean island that became Haiti. It came at an unthinkable cost, but it remains an inspiring example of what popular commitment and organisation can achieve.
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.
Indigenous Movements and the Struggle for Defense of Land in 2020
On top of the existing violence and institutional impediments, this year was particularly taxing for the defenders of land and environment as they had to face double whammy of COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of neoliberalism using the pandemic as an excuse.
Blows Against the Empire – 2020 In Memoriam
Not only did the imperialist system prove incapable of handling COVID-19 in a reasonable manner, it has also hastened the crumbling of the US empire. A chronology of 2020’s most salient events.
Engels was a Bro!
A tribute to Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, which laid the groundwork for feminism.
The Long Shot of Democratic Socialism Is Our Only Shot
Mass workers’ movements transformed much of the world in the twentieth century, but they couldn’t overcome the power of capital. Today, we need a new democratic socialism to remake politics and revive working-class organizing.
A Matter of Survival of the Peasantry
Till now there was an arrangement in the country under which, even though agriculture was crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, the peasantry was kept alive. The three laws brought in by the Modi government are meant to remove this life-line altogether.