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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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JOHN SIDEL 22 FEBRUARY 2024POLITICS This year, elections across the world are offering a stark reminder that voters can expect very little from liberal democracy, even under conditions of ‘free and fair’ competition. It’s easy to bemoan the rigged results in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Russia, or the advantages of incumbency for the BJP in India…
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Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 14, 2024 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report) | (Posted Feb 17, 2024) Human Rights, Movements, Race, StrategyAmericas, United StatesInterview, NewswireAustin Cole, Community Organizing, Political Writing Roberto Sirvent: Can you please share a little bit about your background, including how you became involved in community organizing? Austin Cole: I grew up in Ohio to a…
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by Alex Hochuli REVIEW ESSAYThe Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006–2022by Chris CutroneSublation, 2023, 293 pages If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolutionby Vincent BevinsPublicAffairs, 2023, 352 pages The Populist Moment: The Left after the Great Recessionby Arthur Boriello and Anton JägerVerso, 2023, 224 pages We failed. We millennials missed a…
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The “End of History” is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the “final form of human government” has been exposed as bluster: the old order is crumbling before our eyes. Angry anti-politics have arisen to threaten political establishments across the world. Elites have fallen into hysteria, blaming voters, “populism”, Putin, Facebook… anyone but…
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BYANTTI-VEIKKO LABBAS From Shadows in Paradise to Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki’s films show ordinary Finns in minimalist, near-timeless settings. But they’re also a response to changes in working-class life since the 1980s, as consumerist values edge out Finland’s social model. SETH ACKERMAN I am 60 percent existentialist, 20 percent communist, 10 percent ecological universal leftism, 10 percent anarchism,…
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