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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of…
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Trump’s sentence in New York — no prison, probation or fines — solidifies the declining role of legal accountability in our politics. January 10, 2025 at 4:50 p.m. ESTYesterday at 4:50 p.m. EST 4 min106 Analysis by Aaron Blake The criminal sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday was not how most who wanted to see him held…
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Thomas Fazi January 9, 2025 5 mins With just over a week to go to his inauguration, Donald Trump is already sabre-rattling. It is, he said, an “absolute necessity” that America annexes Greenland. “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because…
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Vietnam today is a country molded by a century of the communist movement and anti-imperialist struggle. Jan 9, 2025 • By Greg Beyer, BA History & Linguistics, Journalism Diploma Founded almost a hundred years ago, the first official communist party in Vietnam traces its history back to colonialism and a struggle for independence from imperialist control. Through this movement,…
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Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward. 9 January 2025 Zulkifli Yusoff (Malaysia), Untitled, 1995. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Very few humans have had the good fortune to descend…
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A dose of working-class realism can save journalism from groupthink. William Deresiewicz Mar 08, 2024 From the editors: I started as an editor at Persuasion a little over a year ago. The feeling I had about Persuasion then is the same feeling I have now: that this is a jewel and, to some extent, a…
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