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  • Mullaperiyar: Dam nuisance

    A lifeline for Tamil Nadu is now life-threatening in Kerala. K.A. Shaji explores arguments for and against a new dam K.A. Shaji Published: 30 Aug 2026, 4:05 PM Ever heard of Colonel John Pennycuick? You’ll find a statue of him in faraway Surrey — donated by Tamil Nadu. It was the then M.K. Stalin government…

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  • pplying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution to Latin America

    by Steve Ellner (Oct 01, 2024) Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. By Antonio Gramsci – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. Topics: Marxism  Movements  Revolutions  Socialism Places: Americas  Bolivia  Latin America  Venezuela Steve Ellner is a retired professor from the Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, where he taught from 1977 to 2003, and is currently an associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. The second wave of progressive Latin American…

  • A Message from John Bellamy Foster

    Dear Friends, Monthly Review emerged seventy-five years ago out of the Popular Front milieu of the Great Depression and Second World War years, which has been a key part of our identity ever since. The historical significance of this is perhaps best captured by Gerald Horne, author of a number of landmark Monthly Review Press books,…

  • Problems vs. Questions: Chekhov on How (Not) to Be a Writer and the Essence of Creative Work

    It is a truism that the questions we ask shape the answers we find. It is, also, a truth. Another is that our questions — those wonderments, uncertainties, and quickenings of doubt that roil under the surface of life — are the atomic units of our creativity. Everything we make — our songs and our stories,…

  • Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

    By Maria Popova Meaning is not something we find — it is something we make, and the puzzle pieces are often the fragments of our shattered hopes and dreams. “There is no love of life without despair of life,” Albert Camus wrote between two World Wars. The transmutation of despair into love is what we call meaning.…

  • We Don’t Want Our Islands to Be Used to Kill People: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2024)

    Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania. 7 November 2024 Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon (Ngāti Ruanui), Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, c.…

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