by Kaan Kangal (Feb 01, 2024) Topics: Biography  Marxism  Media  Socialism Places: Global Notes by Marx on Italian grammar. Image credit: Kaan Kangal. Kaan Kangal is an associate professor at the Center for Studies of Marxist Social Theory in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. His work on Marx’s Bonn Notebooks won the 2019 David Riazanov Prize. His most recent book is Friedrich Engels and the…

FEBRUARY 22, 2024 Students display a butterfly they made at the Madu Adu (science, or ‘let’s do it’) corner. Credit: Photographs and collages by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1945, the newly formed United Nations held a conference to found the United Nations Educational, Scientific,…

The Left Chapter Newsletter  Hello Friends and Comrades! Thanks for subscribing to our newsletter. The week saw the beginning of proceedings at the International Court of Justice looking at the Israeli occupation of Palestine: ICJ Hearings to Examine 57 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine. The proceedings began with a lawyer for Palestine Ripping US for Defending…

SHELAL LODHI RAJPUT·FEBRUARY 16, 2024 Taking a rights-based approach, the Delhi High Court has ruled that an accused person cannot be forced to disclose passwords in digital evidence, but is this in consonance with previous decisions by high courts?  — In Delhi’s high court, where justice takes flight,  Accused shielded from a coercive plight.  Passwords…

Assange pictured in 2014 (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)   Thomas Fazi FEBRUARY 20, 2024   7 MINS Britain’s political class rightly responded to the mysterious death of Alexei Navalny with an assortment of horror, outrage and indignation. The Kremlin critic’s treatment was an “appalling human rights outrage”, foreign secretary Lord Cameron said. Putin has to be “held to account”,…