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The Roots of Capitalism: Slavery and the Sugar Trade
The modern capitalist world was built not only in banks and factories but also through the plantations, ports, and ships that transformed sugar and enslaved human beings into sources of global profit. 18 August 2026 Download PDF The Roots of Capitalism is the first text in Studies on Historical Materialism, a new series from Tricontinental: Institute…
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Posted on Monday, Jul 20, 2026 6:00AM by John Ambrosio by John Ambrosio While it is a global phenomenon, people in the U.S., Europe, and other liberal democracies are living in the midst of a polycrisis, in a confluence of the intersecting and overlapping crises of rising authoritarianism and far-right populism, worsening climate and ecological disaster, the increasing…
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Christophe Jaffrelot 22/Jul/2026 5 min read Could the scenario that led to the Emergency and Indira Gandhi’s defeat in 1977 repeat itself today? It is certainly worth retracing the steps of this era. In the background in JP Narayan. In the foreground, protesters at Jantar Mantar wave the national flag. Photos: File and PTI. To…
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The young people in the streets are not asking merely to survive inside the cracks of a decaying system. They want to live, to work, to use what they have learned, and to contribute to society with dignity. Vijay Prashad July 22 2026 Lee en español aquí On July 20, thousands of young people attempted to…
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The ‘illegal’ status of slums or their description as ‘encroachments’ is a convenient pretext to snatch land from the city’s workers and serve it on a platter to the builders. Hussain Indorewala Jan 14, 2026 Published in the Mumbai Mirror, 15 January 2026 Some time ago, a housing activist asked a bureaucrat what he meant by…
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The parliament and the courts may be institutions of the state; but streets and maidans are institutions of the people. Hussain Indorewala Jul 22, 2026 Published in the Mumbai Mirror, 23 July 2026 On the morning of 7 April 1930, thousands of people gathered near the Congress House in Girgaon. Ten satyagrahis led the crowd in…
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