Long regarded as a future leader of Palestine, Marwan Barghouti has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002. What would his release mean for the future of the Middle East?Palestinian youths carrying a flag bearing a drawing of Marwan Barghouti. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo In the early hours of 5 March 2002, a 21-year-old…

Written by Isha Gupta January 9, 20249 min read 2023 was a transitional year for Sri Lanka as it continued to recover from its worst economic crisis since independence. While the previous year’s mass Aragalaya (“struggle” in Sinhalese) protests in response to the crisis kicked out the previous government, many economic and political realities remained the same. Sri Lanka continued…

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…

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.…

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.…