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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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In its 40-year journey, Frontline has evolved with changing times while steadfastly preserving its commitment to critical, investigative journalism. Published : Dec 25, 2024 12:00 IST – 9 MINS READ N. Ram N. Ram, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu and Frontline, is currently a Director in THGPPL. At a bus stop in Delhi in on January 6,…
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John Fea, Eric Miller, Robert Erle Barham, Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Dixie Dillon Lane and Nadya Williams | December 19, 2024 1 Comment Current is a little magazine–and thus part of a noble American tradition (and you can listen to this conversation between Current editors Eric Miller and John Fea about what this means). We regularly celebrate our own writers and their essays and book reviews (see our 2024…
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EMILY WILSON Dec 31, 2024 A few guiding principles of my translation practice: 1. If the original uses a traditional poetic verse form (or several such forms), the translation should find a way to honor and echo this feature – for instance by using a traditional meter in the translation. Something important is lost if…
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By James Doughney Published 5 January, 2025 LINKS – International Journal of Socialist Renewal is a journal for a post-Cold War left. It is a journal that rejects the Stalinist distortion of the socialist project; takes into account ecological questions; is committed to taking steps to bring together the forces for socialism in the world today; a…
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Filed: Disability Forthcoming Books Health Marxism Mental Health Social Security Welfare state By David Matthews, author of The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy under Capitalism “To use Marxist terminology we need to see the ‘welfare state’ as a dialectical formula, one that arises from class struggle as inherently part of the state itself, which arrives through a conflict between labor and capital.” So…
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