US Taunts Russia to Escalate in Ukraine
While Russia is steadily winning the ground war in Ukraine, the US is determined not to lose the information war.
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Why Lithium Power Politics are Playing Out Very Differently in Chile and Bolivia
The people of Potosí in Bolivia, like the people of Tierra Amarilla in Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction: one that is controlled by those who live by the sources of the metal and one that does not destroy the earth, creating sinkholes everywhere.
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Gender-Based Violence in the Pandemic
One consequence of the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic is increasing levels of violence against women of all ages. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global pandemic that affects the lives of one in three women.
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The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make it an Asset Class & Sell it
John Bellamy Foster explains the ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars’ worth of assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons to make a profit.
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Imperialism | Online Blog | Russia | Ukraine
Europe for Peace: A Movement Grows – 2 Articles
On a weekend of coordinated protests across Europe calling for and end to the war in Ukraine; Also – “Despair and Joy in Berlin”: on the biggest peace rally in Berlin in many, many years.
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My Seventy Years and the Departed GDR
Victor Grossman on 70 years since his defection to the DDR: “I still look back with a mixture of nostalgia, regret and also pride at its many hard-won achievements …”
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Interview: James Poskett on Reframing the History of Science
A historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
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A People’s History of Howard Zinn
On the hundred year anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth, Sean Ledwith examines the life and work of America’s greatest radical historian
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Revisiting Kali: An Amalgam of Aboriginal Deities and a Symbol of Rebellion
However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.
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‘A Woman and Fire are as Ancient as Civilisation’: Six Dalit-Feminist Poems
Written during the pandemic, these six poems stage the myriad everyday theatres of the self, the family, the domestic, the personal, the public, the political, the national, and even the civilisational, where caste and gender interlock to determine intimate pasts and futures of inequity and exclusion.
