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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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  • An Education for Rita

    A Memoir, 1975-1985 Brinda Karat 978-93-92018-21-3 LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2024 Language: English 206 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches Price INR 325.00 ADD TO CART View CartJoin BookClub Book Club Price INR 227.00 Forthcoming. Available for preorder. Expected to ship from 17 January. August 1975. The Emergency is barely two months old. A group of communists meet at…

  • The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction

    by John Bellamy Foster (Jan 01, 2024) Topics: Ecology  Marxism  Marxist Ecology  Philosophy Places: Global This is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.… There is nothing clearly defined in nature.… Everything is bound up with everything else. —Denis Diderot1 As Harvard ecologist…

  • NOTES FROM THE EDITORS

    January 2024 (Volume 75, Number 8) by The Editors BUY THIS ISSUE At the time of writing in late November 2023, Israel has continued its merciless assault on Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands at horrifying rates, as it also condones Israeli settler terrorism against Palestinians living in the West Bank. | more… REVIEW OF THE MONTH…

  • A Hard Year For Federalism— Part 1 of the interview with P.D.T. Achary

    AAKRITEE RAJ·JANUARY 6, 2024 A Hard Year For Federalism— Part 1 of the interview with P.D.T. Achary AAKRITEE RAJ·JANUARY 6, 2024 In the first part of this The Leaflet exclusive interview, one of India’s foremost constitutional and parliamentary procedure experts, P.D.T. Achary, expresses his thoughts on the general state of federalism in India and the Delhi ‘services’…

  • OLIVER EAGLETON

    THERBORN’S WORLD-CASTING The Left against Dialectics? Since the turn of the millennium, the Swedish sociologist Göran Therborn has been developing a series of formidably ambitious arguments in these pages, providing a near comprehensive overview of global politics, its principal forces, trajectories and tensions, plus the changing aims and tactics of the left.footnote1 At the core of these…

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