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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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Confronting and renewing Lenin’s legacy on the centenary of his death Information Author Michael Brie … even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. –Walter Benjamin The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history — both the Stalinists and…
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Defend Democracy PressThe Newsletter of The Delphi Initiative Website Excerpts: Crisis of Globalization, Crisis of the Left, and the Rise of the Far RightThe model of “globalization,” as a model of global capitalist domination, was based on the expansion of capitalist relations of production and distribution, along with their ideological and cultural superstructure, across most of the planet following the “collapse—suicide”…
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Interviewed by Michael Berry Issue 246, Winter 2023 Beijing Normal University, 2021. All photographs courtesy of Yu Hua. Yu Hua was born in 1960. He grew up in Haiyan County in the Zhejiang province of eastern China, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. His parents were both in the medical profession—his father a surgeon, his…
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Society & Culture “Red Star Over China” was a massive coup for the young American journalist Edgar Snow. The book is still a gripping read, but it is also an abject lesson in the pitfalls of access in China. Paul Frenc Edgar Snow and Mao Zedong This is book No. 39 on Paul French’s Ultimate China…
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After many decades of stasis, we see the growth of a ‘new mood’ in the Global South. Though only a hint of a new possibility, it holds tremendous democratic potential, with sovereignty at its centre. 17 April 2025 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the last days of March,…
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