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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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$16.95 Neoliberalism and Its Discontents By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Click here for the digital bookAn Orgy of Thieves quantityAdd to cart log in or donate or subscribe to get CP+ discounts on this product. Your web browser must also be set to accept cookies. Description Neoliberalism, that catch-phrase of our time, is one of those…
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Alexander Cockburn – Jeffrey St. Clair January 1, 2025 Brzezinski, Carter and Vance at the White House, August 14, 1977. Photo: National Archives. Of the four US presidents who’ve been handed a Nobel Peace Prize–Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama–the one who’d shown the cleanest pair of heels when it comes to…
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The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy — and how the West crushed it When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish…
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By: Albert Huffstickler Poetic Outlaws Dec 23, 2024 My father carried a poem with him all through his internment in Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines, carried it with him for four years, showed it to me one day folded and refolded, print blurred, coming apart. I, in my teens, not thinking, nodded and went…
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Fyodor Sep 05, 2024 It was late, and the shadows of the room seemed to grow with the deepening dusk, the flicker of a single candle the only break in the darkness. The two men sat across from each other at a small table, barely touching their tea. Both were silent for a moment, as…
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