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Anand Teltumbde argues that caste enumeration entrenches hierarchy instead of dismantling it, and explains why the Modi government’s U-turn on a caste census is rooted in electoral arithmetic.
Migrant workers fuel India’s growth yet remain excluded from its rewards. Policy silences and regional inequalities sustain their exploitation, and caste hierarchies have been reconfigured within neoliberal urban economies to normalise their exclusion from the nation’s systems.
We speak of democracy, freedom, and justice—but sometimes nations betray their bravest voices. Sanjiv Bhatt, once a senior police officer who dared to speak uncomfortable truth about the 2002 Gujarat carnage, sits in prison. His crime? Not murder. Not corruption. But refusal to bow before power.
‘“The Imperialist Offensive is Nothing New for the Bolivarian Revolution”: A Conversation with Ana Maldonado’; ‘The Militias Make Venezuela Impregnable: Padrino Lopez’; ‘Interview: Venezuela’s Militias and the Civil-Military Union’; ‘Facing U.S. Military Aggression, Venezuela Launches Simón Bolívar International Brigades’; ‘Brazilian Workers Lead in Offering Solidarity to Venezuelans Under US Attack’.
‘Inside America’s Academic Gulags: Interview with Rashid Khalidi’: Historian Rashid Khalidi dwells on the dwindling academic freedom in American universities and society at large as Donald Trump’s grip on free speech tightens. Also: ‘Protesters at 100+ Campuses Tell Trump “Hands Off Higher Ed!” – 2 Reports’.
The stock market may be booming and the AI hype is still exploding, but the rest of the economy is not so buoyant; and there appear to be cockroaches eating into the clean running of the world of debt.
‘Trump’s Moment of Truth in New World Order’: The brevity of the Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea compared to Trump’s anticipated three to four hours, was a sobering reminder that the mistrust between the two world powers still runs deep. The meeting’s outcome appears more like a truce that is fragile. Also: ‘No Big Deal: The Trump-Xi Meeting in Korea’.
‘France in Crisis: An Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise’; ‘Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward’: Seven years of Macronist neoliberalism have created the conditions for either genuine left-wing transformation or authoritarian breakthrough.
The BRICS countries support the preservation of the existing international financial architecture, with the IMF and the World Bank at its core, and the international trade system (WTO, free trade agreements, etc).
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
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