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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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  • Samir Amin’s last two battles

    31/03/2024 By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Shortly before his death, in a series of writings, Samir Amin unfolded the two issues that mainly concerned him. The first was China’s refusal to succumb to financial globalization, that is, to the totalitarian power of global financial capital; the second was the need to build a “Fifth International.” We had…

  • When Hatred of the Left Becomes Love for Putin

    There are deep ideological reasons behind conservative affinity for Russia. CATHY YOUNG APR 01, 2024 According to Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will quickly end the war in Ukraine if he is elected, by refusing “a single penny” of aid and effectively forcing the country’s capitulation to Russia. The statement, which…

  • Lessons from history for women’s liberation

    Originally published: Morning Star Online  on March 22, 2024 by Ron Jacobs (more by Morning Star Online)  |  (Posted Mar 26, 2024) Feminism, History, Inequality, MovementsAmericas, United StatesNewswire, Review‘Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle’, Barbara Winslow Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in SeattleBarbara WinslowDuke University Press, £22.99 Like most of the liberation movements of the period we call the 1960s,…

  • Films Building Up Majoritarian Narratives: Swatantraveer Savarkar

    Ram Puniyani 27/Mar/2024 5 min read The film is yet another one based on distorting the truth to strengthen Hindu nationalist politics, with an eye on the forthcoming elections. Films are a powerful medium which create a social understanding in various ways. Till decades ago we had films which reflected social realities and promoted progressive…

  • China’s new rules for finance pull the brakes on gravy train, bringing ‘greed is good’ era to a halt

    Frank Chenin Shanghai+ FOLLOW Published: 6:00am, 30 Mar 2024 Why you can trust SCMP Listen to this article In China’s era of breakneck growth, there were few better jobs to have than one in finance. During those heady days – when the pursuit of money was exalted above all else – bankers’ swanky offices and hefty salaries…

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