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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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Isabel Crook and Harry Magdoff. By Harry Magdoff (Posted Aug 23, 2023) Originally published: Monthly Review on March 2021 by Isabel Crook (more by Monthly Review) | Empire, Inequality, Media, StrategyAsia, ChinaExchange, Lost & Found In December 2002, Isabel Crook, a Canadian anthropologist who had spent most of her life in China and a longtime friend and supporter of Monthly Review, wrote a letter to…
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Capitalism: an unstoppable force meets an immovable object Originally published: Medium on September 26, 2023 by Tate Green (more by Medium) | (Posted Sep 28, 2023) Capitalism, Imperialism, Inequality, Political EconomyAmericas, United StatesNewswire Ah, money, the driving force behind life in the modern world. With such a fickle piece of paper (or plastic, depending on your residency) running our lives, shouldn’t we be…
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“Animal Farm” is a novella written by George Orwell and published in 1945. It’s a satirical allegory that uses a group of farm animals to represent events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Stalinist era in the Soviet Union. Here’s a summary and analysis of the novella: **Summary**: The story…
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BY MARIA POPOVA In the final years of his long life, which encompassed world wars and assassinations and numerous terrors, the great cellist and human rights advocate Pablo Casals urged humanity to “make this world worthy of its children.” Today, as we face a world that treats its children as worthless, we are challenged like we have never…
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