JANUARY 4, 2024 Michael Armitage (Kenya), The Promised Land, 2019. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness. Israel’s escalating violence has killed more than twenty thousand Palestinians to date, wiping out entire generations…

Pointing out linguistic abuses is a perilous business BY TERRY EAGLETON January 4, 2024    What is the most overused word in the English language at present? “Incredible.” Just count how many times it crops up in an evening’s TV viewing. It’s almost never used literally. “Incredible” literally means not to be believed, but when people…

GURSIMRAN KAUR BAKSHI·JANUARY 2, 2024 Military administration and the unequal hand of law ensure that the lives of civilians in Kashmir sell cheaper than a secret under the Official Secrets Act. — ON December 11, the Supreme Court upheld the Union government’s exercise of de-operationalisation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. The August 5, 2019 abrogation ended the special autonomy of…

ARVIND NARRAIN·JANUARY 1, 2024 The Leaflet presents to you a curated list of books from 2023, perhaps for 2024. Happy reading! — Read Part 2 here. A review of books read and enjoyed in the previous year is a nod to what books can do. Broaden the imagination, help one cope with difficult circumstances with humour, provide a…

BYSAM GINDIN Socialists can’t wave away concerns about the feasibility of a future socialist society — we need to offer people credible answers. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition today. The Essential Guide to Jacobin This article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a publication from the Jacobin Foundation. Right now, you…