Pavements change at midnight On my way home, houses within houses, feet within feet, heart within heart Nothing more. Shakti Chattopadhyay, translated by Nandini Gupta 1 As I jot down my thoughts, a particular moment from the past comes to mind. It was not exactly an event, just a few utterings, and happened back in…

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the American military seized millions of pages of secret documents from Saddam Hussein’s regime, setting off an ongoing battle for the control of Iraqi history.An archivist checks books and documents at the Iraq National Library and Archives in Baghdad. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo Forgotten documents buried…

Banjot Kaur 3 hours ago 5 min read The cliche goes that a family is just one episode of serious illness away from poverty. A Niti Aayog report confirms this. It says 7% of India’s population — about 10 crore people — are pushed into poverty every year due to the amount of money they…

by The Editors (Jun 01, 2024) Topics: Ecology  Economic Theory  Marxist Ecology  Political Economy Places: Global The term Promethean, referring in this context to extreme productivism, first entered into the ecological debate as a censure aimed almost entirely at Karl Marx. It was adopted as a form of condemnation by first-stage ecosocialists in the 1980s and ’90s, who sought to graft standard liberal…

REVIEW OF THE MONTHEcosocialism and DegrowthOriginally published in the German journal Widerspruch, Arman Spéth interviews John Bellamy Foster about the growing interest in degrowth thought and the importance of incorporating democratic planning aimed at true equality into all levels of society. And what of the ecosocialist revolution? “Opportunities,” Foster says, “are everywhere. Obstacles, largely a product…