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  • Farmer hounded by loan sharks to sell kidney

    A Facebook community and a WhatsApp group set Roshan Kule on the road from Chandrapur to Cambodia, via Kolkata. PARI investigates. The Minthur series: Part II – Organ Trafficking Author Jaideep Hardikar Editor Harshita Kalyan Photo Editor Binaifer BharuchaSee all credits On his modest smartphone, Roshan Sadashiv Kule opens his Facebook account and scrolls through…

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  • The theoretical significance of Lenin’s “Imperialism”

    By Prabhat Patnaik (Posted Jan 20, 2024) Originally published: Peoples Democracy  on January 21, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy) The significance of Lenin’s Imperialism lay in the fact that it totally revolutionized the perception of the revolution. Marx and Engels had already visualised the possibility of colonial and dependent countries having revolutions of their own even before the proletarian revolution in the metropolis, but these…

  • The Economists Who Found the Richest People of All Time

    Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good. Timothy Noah/January 3, 2024 ILLUSTRATION BY MARTIN ELFMAN https://blink.net/iframe.html In late September 1066, William of Normandy asked his second cousin, Alan Rufus (en français: Alain le Roux), to join the Normans’ fateful war party against the Saxons. Rufus…

  • The new imperialism’s strange bedfellows

    riginally published: Africa is a Country  on July 29, 2022 by Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o (more by Africa is a Country)  |  (Posted Aug 10, 2022) Globalization, Imperialism, Inequality, StrategyAfricaNewswire A new imperialism stalks the Third World. It shares an unquenchable thirst—for our labor, our land, our minerals, and our water—with the old. If colonization depended on the political strategies of divide and rule,…

  • The Art of the Revolution will be Internationalist

    APRIL 8, 2019 Dossier no. 15 Iskra Newspaper collection at Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, London, U.K. From a spark a fire will flare up —motto of Iskra Mariana is buried amongst piles of posters in the musty basement of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in London. She is the volunteer responsible for digitising…

  • The Genius and the Laborer

    The troubled friendship of Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. By Aaron Lake Smith WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016 https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/296334080%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-MStNU&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Audio brought to you by Curio, a Lapham’s Quarterly partner Let me tell you my life; it won’t take much of your time—you ought to know it.I am a weed, a foundling, an illegitimate being.—Maxim Gorky, 1908 As a writer, I…

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