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  • The Roots of Capitalism: Slavery and the Sugar Trade

    The modern capitalist world was built not only in banks and factories but also through the plantations, ports, and ships that transformed sugar and enslaved human beings into sources of global profit. 18 August 2026 Download PDF The Roots of Capitalism is the first text in Studies on Historical Materialism, a new series from Tricontinental: Institute…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025 6:00AM by Ashutosh Jogalekar by Ashutosh Jogalekar When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for the people of a nation to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with their Executive, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the…


  • by The Editors Notes from the Editors (Apr 01, 2025) Topics: Capitalism  Economic Theory  Ideology  Marxism  Political Economy Places: Americas  United States buy this issue The Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish Central Bank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel—the so-called Nobel Prize in Economics—was first awarded in 1969, a full sixty-eight years after the Nobel Foundation, in accordance with the will of Alfred…


  • in India by Humra Quraishi 03/08/2019 Share: Share onWhatsAppShare onFacebookShare onX (Twitter)Share onTelegramShare onRedditShare onEmail There was something or everything so very extraordinarily different to Khushwant Singh that even after five years of his passing away he holds sway. At the recently concluded Khushwant Singh Literary Festival at King’s College, London, it got more than apparent that…


  • An exploration into why India did not have its own Industrial Revolution despite its rich scientific history. Prof. Jayant V. Narlikar Oct 28, 2024 A frequently asked question Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam had asked a question that historians of science have discussed from time to time. The background to the question is outlined first. The…


  • The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia University graduate and leader in the anti-genocide student movement, signals a dark shift in American politics with deep legal implications. Chris Hedges Mar 19, 2025 This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention in a Louisiana ICE facility is a harbinger for a…


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