At the Edge of Apocalypse
Biblical flooding, scorching heat, collapsing grid system, animals crumbling, waters rising, crops wilting, economy on the brink, and millions displaced. Welcome to the future of climate change… Pakistan.
Transforming Mexico
The emerging social order in Mexico – based on rising living standards and stronger social welfare – is the result of AMLO’s state-led nationalist-developmentalist capitalism. Sheinbaum has now received a major mandate to consolidate it.
Rahul Gandhi: Changing Perceptions – 2 Articles
‘When More Voters in UP Prefer Rahul Gandhi to Modi as PM, It is Clear the Ground Has Shifted’; ‘The Radical Rahul Gandhi Nobody Expected’.
Need to Rebuild the Left to Stop the Surge of Europe’s Far Right – 2 Articles
‘Rebuilding the Left Is Crucial to Stemming the Surge of Europe’s Far Right’: Europe has been lurching further to the right to the point that the far right has now become mainstream and normalized. Also: ‘European Parliament: Only the Left Can Stop the Far-Right’.
Temple Tourism Trauma: Modi ‘Scraping Away’ Kashi’s Soul One Project at a Time
Since 2014, when PM Modi arrived in Varanasi to contest the Lok Sabha elections and promised to turn Varanasi into Kyoto, the city has been in demolition and construction mode – to corner Hindu votes across the country and in the process benefit corporates and builders. The people of Varanasi are turning out to be the biggest losers in this bargain.
‘They’re Out to Destroy Everything… That’s Why We Too Must Think of Everything’
Last year, 2023, marked the 125th birth anniversary of epoch-defining German playwright and practitioner Bertolt Brecht. His words carry a sense of immediacy for us, so striking are the parallels between Nazi Germany and present-day India.
A New Left Party Shakes Up Germany – 2 Articles
A new political party in Germany has been launched in Germany. It aims to draw a clear line between Berlin’s belligerence towards Russia and how the weight of that stance falls most heavily on the German working class through deindustrialization and austerity.
Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The Prophetic Last Words of a Marxist for Our Times
‘Lenin led to Stalin’ is not even given the status of a historical controversy in schools and colleges. It is accepted as fact. This belief is destroyed by a document known as Lenin’s Testament. The Testament was dictated by Lenin as he lay dying in Gorky.
Capitalism and the Production of Poverty
The perpetual production of ever-changing forms of poverty is an inevitable part of the creative destruction that characterizes capitalism. The form of poverty changes, because capitalism is dynamic and constantly changing, but poverty remains.
NREGA Sangharsh Morcha Flays Linking of MNREGA to Aadhaar; Congress Calls it Cruel
In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.