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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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by John Bellamy Foster The title page of the first edition of V. I. Lenin’s work “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, published in Petrograd in 1917. By Filimonov Ivan – http://www.litfund.ru, Public Domain, Link. (Nov 01, 2024) Topics: Imperialism Labor Marxism Movements Places: Europe Global Russia The title page of the first edition of V. I. Lenin’s work “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, published…
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03/11/2024 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd was disinvited from ‘Hortus’ Arts and Literary Festival hosted by Malayala Manorama in Kozhikode Kerala from November 1-3. Kancha Ilaiah alleges that this was due to an article he wrote in the Telugu daily Sakshi on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The festival organisers had conveyed to him that there was…
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by Bernard D’Mello (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: History Imperialism Political Economy Places: Asia India President Biden and Prime Minister Modi of India before the 2023 G20 Summit. Twitter, Public Domain, Link. Bernard D’Mello is the author of India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History (Monthly Review Press, 2018) and a journalist associated from the 1980s with the Economic and Political Weekly and Frontier. He lives in Mumbai. Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata…
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The continuing interest in the Zinoviev Letter, a century after its publication, is illustrative of how the defeated look for someone to blame, often with destructive results.Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist politician, after his arrest by the Okhrana in 1908. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo In the past month…
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The market forces of supply and demand applied to Ancient Rome as much as anywhere. But two essential goals of the Roman state complicated matters: the capital’s need for grain, and for a well-fed army.A print illustrating a street scene somewhere in the Roman Empire. Credit: Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo It…
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