U.S. Lawfare and the Destabilization of Latin America
Lawfare is the weaponized use of the law to annihilate a political or business enemy. The US piloted the use of Lawfare in the USA before rolling it out in Latin America.
Why the Government of Venezuela has Resisted While Many Leftist Presidents Could Not
Chávez faced—and Maduro has continued to face—all the strategies, tactics, maneuvers, games, and schemes that the U.S. empire and its satellites and lackeys have successfully used throughout the rest of the continent, among other ploys that have been used in other parts of the world.
World Bank Is No Friend of Working People or the Planet
Its policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost.
Editorial: Nafrat Chodo, Bharat Jodo
Reflections on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, as it nears completion.
EWS Quota: Was Economic Condition Ever the Foundational Principle for Reservation in India?
Since the first reservation implemented by the Maharaja of Kolhapur to the days of independence, quota in education and public services has been a mechanism to alleviate social degradation, not poverty.
Honoring MLK Six Decades After the Mass Struggles of 1963
Dr. King linked the struggles against poverty, racism and war into a program of action which the U.S. government feared. In 2023, we must study these developments to gain guidance and inspiration for the impending mass struggles ahead.
A Battle Against Forgetting: Recording the Sordid Saga of Kashmir Since August 2019
Anuradha Bhasin’s new book, ‘A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370’, goes deep into the saga of a people betrayed and promises broken.
One Year of Karnataka’s War on Muslim Women’s Right to Learn
Young Muslim women in Karnataka recount how a court order legitimised Hindutva prejudice and locked them out of an education.
Thomas Friedman and the Myth of Liberal Israel
Israel is putting together an aggressively racist rightwing government under the leadership of the unprincipled Benjamin Netanyahu. It is a logical outcome of a national point of view—represented by Israel’s Zionist state ideology—which has always been fundamentally racist.
Vision of Gandhi and Ambedkar Needs to be Salvaged to Save the Indian Republic
Mahatma Gandhi consistently maintained that India ought to be a Republic. Dr BR Ambedkar and Nehru carried forward the Republican sentiment, which is confronting an existential crisis today on account of majoritarianism, growing inequality and criminalising of dissent.