A Deep Dive into Adani Group’s Acquisitions
In the weeks and months after the Hindenburg report, the Adani Group has repeatedly alluded to the robust health of its underlying assets. How it came to acquire some of them is worth a deeper look.
A Midnight’s Child Cautions Against the Gathering Darkness
“We have become refugees in our own country, we are ‘internally displaced’ not by climate change but by the changing political climate, not by dams but by the mob, held prisoner not for any crimes but for having a conscience”, writes Indira Jaising.
Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That’s been true since 1945. Environmental destruction is also leading in the same direction. And then there are dangers like pandemics …
The Strategic Revolutionary Thought and Legacy of Hugo Chávez Ten Years After His Death
Hugo Chávez emerged in the history of Venezuela when the thesis that ideological disputes throughout the world had ended was most entrenched. Far from being over, however, history had an important task for the Venezuelan people, who rose up against neoliberalism in 1989 and who continue to build a project of twenty first-century socialism today.
Imperial Disintegration: What’s Happening in West Africa?
In order to begin understanding past and current developments in Africa, it is important to understand neocolonialism as a phase in the development of imperialism.
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.
Gandhi and Liberal Modernity: The Vexed Question of Caste
Gandhi’s thinking on caste must be frameworked within his opposition to capitalist modernity and its destructive effects on the peasant. His ambivalences on caste owe to his efforts to integrate his idealized philosophical stances with his responses to the contingencies of the freedom struggle.
The EU-Indonesia Fight Over Nickel and Who Gets to Own the Clean Energy Future
Indonesia boasts some of the world’s richest mineral deposits, but it has long focused on digging them up and shipping them to other countries for processing. The government in Jakarta is now trying to change that, but is facing fierce resistance from the West.
‘Where Danger Lies…’: The Communal Alternative in Venezuela
The project of communal socialism that was emerging in Venezuela during Chavez’s time is precisely the kind of system change that could save the climate and the Earth System more generally. A look at some of the ecological aspects of Venezuela’s project of communal socialism today.
Lohia’s Quest for an Autonomous Socialism
In this paper, the author seeks to discuss Lohia’s attempts to develop an indigenous, autonomous socialism as an alternative to Nehruvian socialism or Eurocentred socialism.