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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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  • K. Balagopal’s Incisive Essays on Caste, Communalism and Rise of State Authoritarianism in India

    The author’s pieces on Hindutva in the 1980s had forecast many of the trends that are visible today. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty. BOOKSCOMMUNALISMPOLITICS10/FEB/2024 K. Balagopal was a civil rights activist and left-wing intellectual who was mainly active in Andhra Pradesh from the 1980s until his death in 2009. In the nineties, he became increasingly critical of…

  • Ambivalent Fanonism: On Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic”

    By Anthony AlessandriniFebruary 7, 2024 The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz FRANTZ FANON ONCE overheard his secretary Marie-Jeanne Manuellan describing her dreams to colleagues at the Centre neuropsychiatrique de jour (CNPJ) in Tunis, where Fanon was the director. “You must never tell your dreams to anyone,” he instructed her—except a professional analyst.…

  • Chinese Perspectives on Twenty-First Century Socialism

    December 20, 2023 How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Underdevelopment in the Global South Marco Fernandes Marco Fernandes is a researcher at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, co-founder of the Dongsheng collective, and member of the No Cold War campaign. He researches and writes on geopolitics and China from a Global South perspective.…

  • The New Forms of Socialism in the Twenty-First Century

    December 20, 2023 Pan Shiwei Pan Shiwei (潘世伟) is the honorary president of the Institute of Chinese Marxism, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. His research focuses on Chinese socialism, party building, and political development. His published works include A Study of the Chinese Model and World Socialist Research Yearbook. ‘The New Forms of Twenty-First Century…

  • Nury Vittachy

    A U.S. PROMISE to Taiwan has quietly imploded after the dramatic collapse of Germany’s industrial sector. Researchers at the Brookings thinktank said Taiwan’s economy would survive the shock of war in the same way that Germany’s industrial economy would survive the shock of losing its gas pipeline from Russia. But it’s now clear that the…

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