The president-elect, once accused of war crimes, has rebranded himself as a cuddly grandpa. President-elect Prabowo Subianto and Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images.) “Do you all want to see me dance?” He called to the crowd, which roared back its approval. The short and almost spherical…

Here’s a good — well-planned, revealing, and meticulously documented and verified — investigation by Newslaundry and The News Minute into the patterns of political funding in India: ‘Part 1: Behind the BJP’s rise and rise, bonds, trusts and raids on corporates’: ‘Corporate funding of politics is a controversial subject. More so in India, where most…

Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2024. 258 pp., £100 hb ISBN 9781800880757 Reviewed by Peter Green About the reviewer … The title of the edited collection of essays Marx’s Key Concepts may mistakenly suggest that it is yet another of those handbooks on Marx favoured by publishers. The editors have aimed ‘to cover the full range of his critique of political…

By Prabhat Patnaik (Posted Feb 19, 2024) Originally published: Peoples Democracy  on February 18, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |  Class, Culture, Race, SocialismGlobalNewswire IN The Junius Pamphlet written from jail in 1915, Rosa Luxemburg had said that the choice before mankind was between barbarism and socialism. Liberal opinion would contest this, arguing thatthe barbarism that marked the two world wars and the period in between…

What we are facing today is the promotion of religiosity and conservatism during the last few decades. Since politics is stalking the streets in the garb of religion, our culture is coming under the attack from conservative and orthodox values. Narendra Modi inaugurates a temple in Abu Dhabi. Photo: X/@narendramodi. COMMUNALISMCULTURE22/FEB/2024 The recent (January 22,…