S.N. Sahu 18/Apr/2024 5 min read Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s 133rd birth anniversary was celebrated on April 14 in the midst of parties campaigning for the 2024 general elections – reminding us his of his fears concerning the constitution and our independence and of the need to take steps to save them. While speaking in the…

R. Ramachandran 7 hours ago 5 min read Illustration: The Wire New Delhi: On April 5, India was one of 13 countries to abstain from voting in a resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel. Having voted in favour of a UN General Assembly…

Filed: Dependency Theory  Latin America  Marxism The Dialectics of DependencyBy Ruy Mauro Mariniedited by Amanda Latimer and Jaime Osorio$26 / 228 pages / 978-1-58367-9821 Reviewed by Marco Bertuccio for the Journal of European Economic History Strange as it may seem, the winner of the latest (2022) edition of the prestigious “Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award” granted by Monthly Review Press is a text…

by Agustín Lage Dávila $29.00 – $89.00 “Cuba’s future must, by necessity, be a future of scientists,” Fidel Castro proclaimed in 1960. As Agustín Lage Dávila shows in this pathbreaking book, Cuba has in fact become a global leader in both the generation and application of scientific knowledge—as demonstrated by its ubiquitous production of socially useful products, from…

Zara Jemuel 12 April, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare “Oppression follows logically from exploitation so as to guarantee the latter.”— Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa In Ceremonies of Possession Patricia Seed describes how the various colonizer nations introduced themselves to Indigenous peoples. The Spanish declared war by literally reading aloud a formal declaration. The French held elaborate processions with settlers…