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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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  • The Tanner Lecture 2024 – Amitav Ghosh

  • Rosa Luxemburg Exposed the Colonial Genocide in Namibia

    BYPETER HUDIS When Germany pledged to oppose South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the Namibian government reminded German politicians of their state’s genocidal record in Africa. Rosa Luxemburg exposed the crimes of German colonialism while they were happening. The Namibian government issued one of the most striking expressions of solidarity with Palestinians facing the blows…

  • Sequencing Revolt: How Grandmothers Fought the Argentinian Military Dictatorship and Revolutionized Science

    By Camila Valle (Posted Feb 02, 2024) Originally published: Science for the People  on Volume 26, no. 1 (Autumn 2023) – Gender: Beyond Binaries (more by Science for the People)  |  Health, Movements, State Repression, StrategyAmericas, ArgentinaCommentaryFeatured “They’re a married couple who never had children, she wasn’t pregnant as far as I know, and now all of a sudden there’s a baby,” someone tells…

  • Marcelo Musto

    What is “fair” in capitalism? In 1881 Engels criticized the slogan “fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work”. The timid contemporary left returns to repeat it, using moral, humanitarian or even charitable considerations. Instead, the issue is about economics: the workers give to the capitalist their full day’s working power and, in exchange, they…

  • Enshittification

    Enshittification, also known as platform decay,[1] is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. Examples of enshittification include services and products provided by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft[2][3] and according to Doctorow, “absolutely everything”.[4] The term enshittification was coined by the writer Cory Doctorow in November 2022; the American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year. History and definition[edit] The term enshittification was…

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