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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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Dear friend,The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established by world governments in 1992, creating the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings to negotiate climate agreements. Despite recurring hopes and fanfare, the COP system has failed by any objective measure. Global CO2 emissions have surged from 22 billion metric tonnes in 1992 to…
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Yemeni Government Sees the Only Solution Is Israel Ceasing Its Genocide in Gaza Vijay Prashad Dec 03, 2024 On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah and of the government of Yemen, delivered a speech that was broadcast on…
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With Chad and Senegal joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in demanding the withdrawal of the French military from their countries, a surge of sovereignty continues to ripple across the Sahel. 5 December 2024 Hadjara Ali Soumaila, Confederation of Women Combatants and Pan-African Leaders (Niger). Photograph by Pedro Stropasolas for Peoples Dispatch. Dear friends, Greetings from…
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In a fateful year for the international order, three crucial events took place that continue to define superpower competition today.A helicopter is pushed off the overcrowded deck of the aircarft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) off the coast of South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo The scramble…
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Posted on Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024 6:00AM by Ashutosh Jogalekar by Ashutosh Jogalekar The Founding Fathers aren’t much in fashion among liberals these days. A good friend of mine has been trying to get a novel about Thomas Jefferson published for three years. He has approached more publishers than he can care to name, publishers of all sizes,…
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