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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • Saakhi: Lessons in History for Midnight’s Children 

    Mrinal Pande 4 hours ago 5 min read Not unlike Herodotus and Heraclitus, we too are living at the juncture of two epochs: between the era of oral history being overtaken by the era of written history and bloody wars that erupt suddenly. Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes…

  • INDONESIAEXPELLEES | FEDERALISM | SOAP

    Trisha Baga. Spare Parts, 2023.  INDONESIA’S ELECTION On Wednesday, Prabowo Subtiano was officially declared the winner of Indonesia’s 2024 election. The former defense minister has promised to continue the legacy of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, with an agenda that includes industrial downstreaming, infrastructure development, and “good neighbor” policies with both the US and China. In a 2007 report,…

  • How the War in Gaza Mobilized the American Left

    As the death toll in Gaza climbed, the pro-Palestinian movement grew into a powerful, if disjointed, political force in the United States. Democrats are feeling the pressure. Activists have urged voters to “vote uncommitted” to protest President Biden’s support of Israel.Credit…Emily Elconin for The New York Times By Katie Glueck, Katie Benner and Sheera Frenkel Support for Palestinians, a…

  • The Left Chapter Socialism:

    Che in the People’s Republic of China, 1960 In the fall of 1960 the great revolutionary leader Che Guevara went on a diplomatic mission that saw him visit a number of socialist countries including Czechoslovakia, the USSR, North Korea and the People’s Republic of China. The visit to China came at at time when relations…

  • Gramsci and his friend “S”

    By Andy Merrifield (Posted Apr 25, 2024) Ideology, Marxism, Philosophy, StrategyAmericas, Europe, Italy, United StatesCommentaryAntonio Gramsci, Casa di Cura di Quisisana, David Harvey, Featured, L’Ordine Nuovo [The New Order], Nino (Gramsci), Piero Sraffa I was in New York recently, where I once lived, some twenty-years back, there to visit my old friend and mentor, my old university teacher—and…

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