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  • The politics of reading

    Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism  on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…

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  • Challenging the “permacrisis” paradigm – How “crisis” became the elites’ weapon of choice for the authoritarian management of Western societies

    THOMAS FAZI SEP 27, 2023 War, climate change, economic stagnation, political polarisation — there seems to be no shortage of crises these days. Indeed, the situation is so perilous that the rarely hysterical Financial Times last year named “polycrisis” one of its words of the year, defining it as “a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects,…

  • Deception All the Way Down

    A review of a ‘documentary’ film on Doordarshan about India’s heritage. First published in The Wire (PDF). A nation is an ‘imagined community’, wrote Benedict Anderson in his influential book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983). A nation is imagined, he argued, because its members feel a sense of solidarity with one another, even though…

  • The cost of protesting against mining in Gadchiroli

    Leaders have faced harassment and intimidation. Police have filed cases against many protestors, claiming that the agitations are supported by Maoists. Nolina Minj The road to Todgatta is long, rocky, and winding. The village is located in Etapalli tehsil of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, close to the border of Chhattisgarh. Google Maps does not show a…

  • Decolonising development with Frantz Fanon

    Originally published: The Bullet  on September 25, 2023 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by The Bullet) (Posted Sep 26, 2023) The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for freedom across the colonial world.1 Fanon illuminates how racism represented an organising principle for capitalist classes by systematically devaluing the lives…

  • With the recent India-Canada rift, the haunting shadow of the Komagata Maru and Canada’s once racist immigration laws looms large

    Source: The Paperclip With the recent India-Canada rift, the haunting shadow of the Komagata Maru and Canada’s once racist immigration laws looms large. Yet, from that history, one Canadian hero has been forgotten – a lone warrior who battled white supremacists on behalf of 376 Indians. It was a voyage from Hong Kong to Canada that represented…

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