December 30, 2015 Joe Hill: 1915-2015 It was the end of 1915, one hundred years ago. In Salt Lake City, Utah, the courts and the state killed Joe Hill, militant and bard of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union. From prison, he wrote: “I know that many prominent rebels say that satire and song…

il manifesto, 18.6.2011 The guardians OF THE MOUNTAINA march to the place where in 1921 ten thousand armed miners challenged the militias of the mining companies. That today, with their destructive practices, they have declared war on the air, the land and the people who live there Chief Logan Park, in West Virginia, is one…

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…