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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of
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Yascha Mounk and Yanis Varoufakis discuss whether the dominance of large cloud-focused tech companies signals the arrival of a new economic order. Yascha Mounk Jan 25, 2025 ∙ Paid 48 199 Share Thanks for reading! The best way to make sure that you don’t miss any of these conversations is to subscribe to The Good Fight on your…
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Franz Kafka was a man consumed by dualities—an artist trapped in a bureaucrat’s body, a son crushed beneath the weight of an overbearing father, a lover forever estranged from intimacy. Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka lived at the crossroads of fading empires and emerging modernity, a world teetering between ancient traditions and the cold,…
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By Tariq Ali (Posted Mar 04, 2025) Originally published: New Left Review on January / February 2025 (more by New Left Review) | Inequality, Movements, State Repression, StrategyEgypt, Iran, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, SyriaNewswire To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the…
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The 2025 Vijay Nambisan Lecture The recent functioning of global capitalism has led to extreme inequalities and the concentration of wealth and power, increasing the fragility and vulnerability of livelihoods, rapidly accelerating climate change, and severe ecological damage, resulting in social and political tensions, polarisation, and instability. India is a major example of such tendencies. In…
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In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South. 13 March 2025 Rocio Navarro (Mexico), Watering Day, 2024. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the…
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