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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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A section from the introduction to ‘Fractured Communities: Adivasi Histories and the Politics of Power’, the book based on Khalid’s PhD thesis. Umar Khalid 16 hours ago Singhbhum district in a map from The Imperial Gazetteer of India 1909. | Wikimedia Commons Over the last decade and a half, as vast parts of the Adivasi hinterland…
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An excerpt from ‘Birth of a Nation: The Twenty-One Days That Made India’, by Josy Joseph. Josy Joseph Jun 22, 2026 · 08:30 am In the North East, it was one step forward, two steps back. Much of the progress made by Sir Muhammed Saleh Akbar Hydari, the Governor of Assam, was being undone. Before…
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by Helena Sheehan View in the MR Archives: Article | Issue Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of Science, Navigating the Zeitgeist, and The Syriza Wave (the last two published by Monthly Review Press), as well as journal articles…
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by Helena Sheehan View in the MR Archives: Article | Issue Helena Sheehan is a philosopher. She is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught philosophy of science, history of ideas, and media studies, and visiting professor at Peking University, where she teaches Marxist philosophy. She is the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of Science (Verso,…
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Bappa Sinha 29/Mar/2026 5 min read A book transforms the question from the technocratic ‘does digitalisation work?’ to the political-economic ‘whose interests does digitalisation serve?’. No policy domain in contemporary India enjoys more uncritical celebration than digitalisation. The International Monetary Fund treats India’s digital public infrastructure as a model for the developing world. The World…
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