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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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  • To re-create Marxism, but not repeat Marx (The Dialectics of Dependency reviewed in Journal of European Economic History)

    Filed: Dependency Theory  Latin America  Marxism The Dialectics of DependencyBy Ruy Mauro Mariniedited by Amanda Latimer and Jaime Osorio$26 / 228 pages / 978-1-58367-9821 Reviewed by Marco Bertuccio for the Journal of European Economic History Strange as it may seem, the winner of the latest (2022) edition of the prestigious “Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award” granted by Monthly Review Press is a text…

  • The Knowledge Economy and Socialism: Science and Society in Cuba

    by Agustín Lage Dávila $29.00 – $89.00 “Cuba’s future must, by necessity, be a future of scientists,” Fidel Castro proclaimed in 1960. As Agustín Lage Dávila shows in this pathbreaking book, Cuba has in fact become a global leader in both the generation and application of scientific knowledge—as demonstrated by its ubiquitous production of socially useful products, from…

  • Colonization and surplus: The origins of race and class

    Zara Jemuel 12 April, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare “Oppression follows logically from exploitation so as to guarantee the latter.”— Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa In Ceremonies of Possession Patricia Seed describes how the various colonizer nations introduced themselves to Indigenous peoples. The Spanish declared war by literally reading aloud a formal declaration. The French held elaborate processions with settlers…

  • BR Ambedkar birth anniversary: 14 books on his struggle for the dignity of India’s most downtrodden

    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April, 1891. Scroll Staff Yesterday · 07:30 am BR Ambedkar (1891-1956) was the first Dalit to be formally educated to the highest level, gaining his PhDs from the Columbia University and London School of Economics in 1927 and 1932, respectively. He was also the first Indian to pursue…

  • NATO 75th Anniversary: A guarantor of war

    Originally published: Counterfire  on April 4, 2024 by Chris Bambery (more by Counterfire)  |  (Posted Apr 11, 2024) NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium., 2018. (Photo: NATO – Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Empire, Imperialism, Inequality, WarGlobalNewswireNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ‘To condemn NATO is to condemn the guarantee of democracy and security it brings.’ Those were…

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