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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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U.S. expat Victor Grossman as a young man in East Germany, early 1950s.(Photo credit: Courtesy) By Zhao Dingqi, Victor Grossman (Posted Apr 23, 2024) GermanyInterview, Monthly Review EssaysFeatured Zhao Dingqi: What things did you experience in your early years that have converted you to a Communist? What did you do in America after you became a Communist? Victor Grossman: Born in…
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Originally published: Counterfire on April 18, 2024 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire) | (Posted Apr 20, 2024) Capitalism, Imperialism, Monopoly, Political EconomyGlobalNewswire, ReviewGrace Blakeley The ‘free market’ was supposed to liberate us from the looming ‘serfdom’ of the potentially totalitarian ‘nanny’ state, according to the neoliberals. However, as Grace Blakeley argues in Vulture Capitalism, there’s nothing ‘free’ about the free market. In reality,…
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African liberation struggles not only won independence in their own countries; they also defeated Estado Novo colonialism, which spurred the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago. APRIL 25, 2024 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Portugal), A Poesia Está Na Rua I [Poetry Is out on the Street I], 1974. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for…
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Where does culture come from? Terry Eagleton Share on TwitterShare on FacebookEmailPrint 3571 words In Jude the Obscure, Jude Fawley finds himself living in Beersheba, the area of Oxford we know as Jericho, home at the time to a community of craftsmen and artisans who maintained the fabric of the university. It doesn’t take Jude long to realise…
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An excerpt from ‘The Jallianwala Bagh Journals’, by Sarmistha Dutta Gupta. Sarmistha Dutta Gupta 4 hours ago An old photo of the Jallianwala Bagh grounds framed in the office of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust. | Utsab Chatterjee When I had begun researching on Jallianwala Bagh, I had no knowledge of Rabindranath Tagore’s views on…
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