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  • The politics of reading

    Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism  on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…

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  • 12 years on, Dalit Survivors of Andhra Pradesh’s Laxmipeta Massacre Await Justice

    Suman Damera A protest march demanding justice for Dalits of Laxmipeta in Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Facebook. 13/Jun/2024 5 min read The bloody incident claimed the lives of five Dalit men and left over 40 people severely injured. The scale of violence unleashed in Laxmipeta was on par with Karamchedu (1985) and Tsunduru (1991) caste atrocities,…

  • The Making of Arundhati Roy

    Siddhartha Deb 10 hours ago 5 min read ‘I saw how the media can just excavate you and leave a shell behind. And I was lucky to learn from that. So when my turn came, the barricades were up.’ Arundhati Roy at the Press Club of India on October 4. Photo: The Wire Excerpted with…

  • Recognition, government support could be a win for Kashmiri willow cricket bats

    The industry in the region employs lakhs of Kashmiris but the lack of standardisation lowers the international market value of the product. Hirra Azmat Jun 14, 2024 · 07:30 pm Cricket was introduced to India over a century ago and as the game grew in the country, it led to the emergence of the cricket…

  • Ramachandra Guha: Can an autocrat become a democrat?

    In his narcissism, Modi is worlds removed from the prime ministers who had run coalition governments before him. Ramachandra Guha 10 hours ago In a piece published in these pages on July 1, 2023 – almost exactly a year ago – I wrote that while I had once harboured large ambitions for the renewal of…

  • Marxism and STS: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26

    By Helena Sheehan (Posted Dec 11, 2021) The Soviet delegation at the International History of Science Congress in London, 1931: Nikolai Bukharin, Modest Rubenstein, and Boris Hessen in the foreground. Ideology, Marxism, Media, MovementsEurope, GlobalMonthly Review Essaysco-published, Featured This article is a co-publication of MR Online and Science for the People. At the recent conference of the Society for…

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