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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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  • Scholar or ideologue?

    Originally published: Pearls and Irritations  on March 12, 2024 by Richard Cullen (more by Pearls and Irritations) (Posted Mar 14, 2024) Culture, Empire, Ideology, StrategyAsia, ChinaNewswire“The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”, Communist Party of China (CPC), Professor Minxin Pei, The Economist The Economist, a leading British weekly, enjoys wide global readership. It recently covered the thoughts…

  • The Struggle for Women’s Emancipation Will Always Be Worth It: The Twelfth Newsletter (2024)

    8 March was not always International Women’s Day, nor has such a day always existed. This date became fixed to our calendars through decades of struggle – led by communist women. MARCH 21, 2024 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. 8 March was not always International Women’s Day, nor has…

  • A People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy – 2.0

    in Counter Solutions, Editor’s Picks by Countercurrents Collective 13/03/2024 This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should develop in an age of “Polycrisis” Preamble Since 2014, we have been subject to rule by a government that…

  • Too Little; Too Late

    BY L. MICHAEL HAGER Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – CC BY 2.0 After five months of doubling down with Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, the Biden administration now finds itself walking in two directions.  On the one hand, it continues to supply U.S. bombs that fall indiscriminately on both northern and southern Gaza.  At the same time,…

  • ex, liberation and the Russian Revolution

    Originally published: Rupture  on March 8, 2024 by Jason Yanowitz (more by Rupture)  (Posted Mar 16, 2024) Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, InequalityAmericas, United StatesNewswire All Russia was learning to read and reading; politics, economics, history. Because the people wanted to know. Russia absorbed reading matter like hot sand drinks water. Insatiable.— JOHN REED, ’TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD’ There was another…

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