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Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi

Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P....

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The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions

The Truth About Our Failure to Curb...

We all know what needs to be done: reduce carbon...

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the ...

The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with...

Indore Tragedy Re-emphasizes Need for Better Safety in Religious Places

Indore Tragedy Re-emphasizes Need f...

36 persons were killed in a very tragic accident...

Environment

  • Draft notification on Insecticides unsatisfactory
    Dr Narasimha Reddy Donthi | 17/03/2023
  • 5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary
    Doug Tallamy | 07/03/2023
  • Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp
    Dr Binoy Kampmark | 06/03/2023

Featured Stories

  • In memory of centenary of George Lukacs’s ‘History and Class Consciousness’

    In memory of centenary of George Lukacs’s ‘History and Class Consciousness’

    by Harsh Thakor — 01/04/2023

    George Lukacs’s “History and Class Consciousness” is a truly landmark work, and its English translation, after almost fifty years of neglect by English and American publishers, was a major development. This year we commemorate 100 years of this work being published, in year 1923. Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat section of this work, published in 1923, is a[Read More…]

  • Indore Tragedy Re-emphasizes Need for Better Safety in Religious Places

    Indore Tragedy Re-emphasizes Need for Better Safety in Religious Places

    by Bharat Dogra — 01/04/2023

    36 persons were killed in a very tragic accident caused by the falling of roof slabs on worshippers who had collected for Ram Navmi prayers. 16 others have been admitted to hospital with injuries. The tragedy occurred at a step well located inside Baleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple in Indore. Many people fell inside the step well when slabs well on[Read More…]

  • It is time to Rediscover Our Democracy

    It is time to Rediscover Our Democracy

    by Sandeep Pandey — 01/04/2023

    by Harshavardhan Purandare and Sandeep Pandey Rahul Gandhi’s expulsion has come at a politically convenient time for Modi government with general elections due one year from now . This time, our judiciary chooses to go for harsh punishment for verbal jibes which appear innocuous to common sense; and the government gets the opportunity to attack and suppress the opposition voices[Read More…]

  • U.S. Top General On U.S. Ammunition Stockpile And Prospect Of Ukraine Winning The War

    U.S. Top General On U.S. Ammunition Stockpile And Prospect Of Ukraine Winning The War

    by Countercurrents Collective — 01/04/2023

    U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has commented on problems in stockpile of U.S. ammunitions and prospect of Ukraine winning the war this year. An AP report — Milley: US has long way to go to build munitions stockpile” (March 30, 2023) — said: The U.S. military “has a long ways to go”[Read More…]

  • The War between Russia, Ukraine and the West Encroaching the Humanity towards Extinction

    The War between Russia, Ukraine and the West Encroaching the Humanity towards Extinction

    by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja — 01/04/2023

    “The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in[Read More…]

  • Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange

    Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange

    by Dr Binoy Kampmark — 01/04/2023

    The sham that is the Assange affair, a scandal of monumental proportions connived in by the AUKUS powers, shows no signs of abating.  Prior to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assuming office in Australia, he insisted that the matter dealing with the WikiLeaks publisher would be finally resolved.  It had, he asserted, been going on for too long. Since then, it[Read More…]

  • Sub-Imperialism and Multipolarity: Brazil’s Dilemma

    Sub-Imperialism and Multipolarity: Brazil’s Dilemma

    by Justin Podur — 01/04/2023

    A look at sub-imperialism and multipolarity in Brazil historically and into the future. Galeano Names the Problem In the Open Veins of Latin America Eduardo Galeano described an 1870 genocidal war of regime change waged on Paraguay by a Triple Alliance of its neighbors, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, on behalf of British imperialism. The target, nationalist president Solano Lopez, died in battle.[Read More…]

  • 20 Years After Catastrophe in Iraq, the War Apologists Still Dominate U.S. Foreign Policy

    20 Years After Catastrophe in Iraq, the War Apologists Still Dominate U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Katrina vanden Heuvel — 01/04/2023

    In Warsaw last February, President Joe Biden condemned the lawless Russian invasion of Ukraine: “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country—since World War II, nothing like that has happened.” One month later marked the 20th anniversary of the greatest U.S. foreign policy debacle since Vietnam: America’s “war of choice” against Iraq, with 130,000 U.S. soldiers invading the country to[Read More…]

  • The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth

    The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth

    by Roger McKenzie — 01/04/2023

    Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997. Full spectrum dominance, as the doctrine is known, is the reason the United States behaves the way that[Read More…]

  • The great importance of International Criminal Court

    The great importance of International Criminal Court

    by John Scales Avery — 01/04/2023

    Establishment of the International Criminal Court In 1998, in Rome, representatives of 120 countries signed a statute establishing an International Criminal Court (ICC), with jurisdiction over the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Four years were to pass before the necessary ratifications were gathered, but by Thursday, April 11, 2002, 66 nations had[Read More…]

India

Indore Tragedy Re-emphasizes Need for Better Safety in Religious Places

Indore Tragedy Re-emphasizes Need for Better Safety in Religious Places

01/04/2023 — Bharat Dogra

36 persons were killed in a very tragic accident caused by the falling of roof slabs on worshippers who had collected for Ram Navmi prayers. 16 others have been admitted to hospital with injuries. The tragedy occurred at a step well located inside Baleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple in Indore. Many people fell inside the step well when slabs well on[Read More…]

  • It is time to Rediscover Our Democracy

    It is time to Rediscover Our Democracy

    01/04/2023 — Sandeep Pandey
  • NREGA and Other Development Initiatives Run Into Serious Problems

    NREGA and Other Development Initiatives Run Into Serious Problems

    01/04/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • The Boys of my Town at Ram Navami Day

    The Boys of my Town at Ram Navami Day

    31/03/2023 — Abu Siddik
  • Will the court act against hate speeches ?

    Will the court act against hate speeches ?

    31/03/2023 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat

COVID Response Watch

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

30/08/2022 — Sandeep Banerjee

The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with the Dominion of India on August 8, 1949 and became a part of the State of West Bengal on January 1, 1950. To go to Cooch Behar, one has to cross Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts, which were also once part of other neighbouring hill kingdoms and annexed by the British. During my[Read More…]

  • Public life in MP disrupted by heavy  rains linked to climate change

    Public life in MP disrupted by heavy rains linked to climate change

    29/08/2022 — Pooja Yadav
  • Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East

    Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East

    27/08/2022 — Sandeep Banerjee
  • Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality

    Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality

    25/08/2022 — Shirish Khare
  • When Forest Rights meets Right to Education

    When Forest Rights meets Right to Education

    23/08/2022 — Amit Sengupta

World

U.S. Top General On U.S. Ammunition Stockpile And Prospect Of Ukraine Winning The War

U.S. Top General On U.S. Ammunition Stockpile And Prospect Of Ukraine Winning The War

01/04/2023 — Countercurrents Collective

U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has commented on problems in stockpile of U.S. ammunitions and prospect of Ukraine winning the war this year. An AP report — Milley: US has long way to go to build munitions stockpile” (March 30, 2023) — said: The U.S. military “has a long ways to go”[Read More…]

  • The War between Russia, Ukraine and the West Encroaching the Humanity towards Extinction

    The War between Russia, Ukraine and the West Encroaching the Humanity towards Extinction

    01/04/2023 — Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
  • Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange

    Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange

    01/04/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • Sub-Imperialism and Multipolarity: Brazil’s Dilemma

    Sub-Imperialism and Multipolarity: Brazil’s Dilemma

    01/04/2023 — Justin Podur
  • 20 Years After Catastrophe in Iraq, the War Apologists Still Dominate U.S. Foreign Policy

    20 Years After Catastrophe in Iraq, the War Apologists Still Dominate U.S. Foreign Policy

    01/04/2023 — Katrina vanden Heuvel

Globalisation

Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

25/01/2023 — Sally Dugman

I remember when my small town lost its last family owned and run pharmacy — a beautiful, old, turn of the century store and a high quality company that the family had managed over four generations of pharmacists. In fact, the pharmacist-owners had loved their jobs and helped each other in work while simultaneously knowing most of their long-standing customers and[Read More…]

  • Corporatisation: Destroying Rural Economy 

    Corporatisation: Destroying Rural Economy 

    19/01/2023 — Tarun Kumar
  • How the policies of globalization exploited the resources and economy of the developing countries

    How the policies of globalization exploited the resources and economy of the developing countries

    25/07/2022 — Tarun Kumar
  • Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

    Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

    19/04/2022 — E Ahmet Tonak
  • Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

    Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

    25/11/2021 — KV Biju

Human Rights

Stop the Witch-hunt of Journalists and Human Rights Activists in Kashmir

Stop the Witch-hunt of Journalists and Human Rights Activists in Kashmir

01/04/2023 — People's Union For Civil Liberties

Release Irfan Mehraj, Khurram Parvez as well as Aasif Sultan, Sajad Gul, and Fahad Shah The PUCL strongly condemns the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Srinagar based freelance journalist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on 20th March, 2023 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The arrest of Irfan Mehraj was pursuant to an FIR registered in 2020, in[Read More…]

  • Poor work conditions, non-compliance with Constitutional provisions seriously impact adolescent girls in workforce

    Poor work conditions, non-compliance with Constitutional provisions seriously impact adolescent girls in workforce

    29/03/2023 — Bhagyashri Boywad
  • Tribal woman murdered after rape in Rohtas and strong protest demanding punishment of culprits

    Tribal woman murdered after rape in Rohtas and strong protest demanding punishment of culprits

    27/03/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • Stop Criminalizing Journalism and Human Rights Activism: Release Irfan Mehraj and Parvez Khurram

    Stop Criminalizing Journalism and Human Rights Activism: Release Irfan Mehraj and Parvez Khurram

    24/03/2023 — Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
  • Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill

    Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill

    16/03/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

Imperialism

America’s Wars

America’s Wars

20/03/2023 — John Scales Avery

Over 300 wars! As documented in the Wikipedia timeline of U.S. wars, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations and in the Wikipedia list of wars involving the United States, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States the United States of America has been more or less continuously at war ever since the American Revolutionary war of 1775-1783, which established the United States as a nation. Often several wars took place simultaneously.[Read More…]

  • The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

    The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

    07/02/2023 — David Swanson
  • No Peaceful Multipolar World Anytime Soon: Underestimating US Power is Dangerous

    No Peaceful Multipolar World Anytime Soon: Underestimating US Power is Dangerous

    20/01/2023 — John Stanton
  • The 2002 Bush Doctrine and the Pandora Box of the Preemptive War

    The 2002 Bush Doctrine and the Pandora Box of the Preemptive War

    04/12/2022 — Dr VladislavB Sotirovic
  • A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

    A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

    18/11/2022 — William D Hartung

Communal Harmony

Scapegoats and Holy Cows:  Crime and Justice Delivery System in the era of Sectarian Nationalism

Scapegoats and Holy Cows:  Crime and Justice Delivery System in the era of Sectarian Nationalism

15/02/2023 — Dr Ram Puniyani

In the case of Jamia violence of 2019, 11 students were arrested. One of them was Sharjeel Imam, who was student of JNU. The others included likes of Safoora Zargar and Asif Iqbal Tanha. While discharging them Court comments, “police was unable to apprehend “actual perpetrators” and “surely managed to rope them (accused) as scapegoats” in the matter.” Court also[Read More…]

  • History, Communal Narratives and Sectarian Politics

    History, Communal Narratives and Sectarian Politics

    21/10/2022 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Leicester Spells “Communal” Tension For British Society? 

    Leicester Spells “Communal” Tension For British Society? 

    25/09/2022 — Nilofar Suhrawardy
  • Nafrat chhodo! Bharat jodo! Bharat jodo! The Failed Fraternity Factor: A wake-up call

    Nafrat chhodo! Bharat jodo! Bharat jodo! The Failed Fraternity Factor: A wake-up call

    30/07/2022 — S G Vombatkere
  • Demonising Muslims: How the act is rooted in a cynical reading of Islamic scriptures!

    Demonising Muslims: How the act is rooted in a cynical reading of Islamic scriptures!

    01/07/2022 — Prof M A Sofi

Climate Change

The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions

The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions

22/03/2023 — Richard Heinberg

We all know what needs to be done: reduce carbon emissions. But so far, we members of global humanity just haven’t been able to turn the tide. The latest IPCC report documents that carbon emissions are still increasing, despite all the promises and efforts of the past few decades. The report tells us there’s only a narrow (and rapidly shrinking) pathway to[Read More…]

  • Climate Crisis Has Caused Increasingly Irreversible Losses, Says UN Report

    Climate Crisis Has Caused Increasingly Irreversible Losses, Says UN Report

    21/03/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World

    Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World

    18/03/2023 — Robert Hunziker
  • Linking Climate Action to Decolonization and Degrowth

    Linking Climate Action to Decolonization and Degrowth

    17/03/2023 — Neha Saigal
  • The quantity of energy contained in the fossil fuels used to produce feed grains for cattle is ten times the amount of energy contained in the marketable beef that’s produced by those cattle.

    Climate Policy’s on Shaky Ground in the Farm Bill

    16/03/2023 — Stan Cox

Environmental Protection

Draft notification on Insecticides unsatisfactory

Draft notification on Insecticides unsatisfactory

17/03/2023 — Dr Narasimha Reddy Donthi

To Joint Secretary (Plant Protection), Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Govt of India, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001. E Mail: jspp-dac@gov.in. Sub: Comments/ Suggestion on the Draft Insecticides (Prohibition) Order, 2023 Ref. : 1. Gazette Notification, No.:S.O 701(E), dated 2nd February, 2023 Gazette Notification, No.:S.O 1512(E) dated 18th May 2020 Gazette[Read More…]

  • 5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary

    5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary

    07/03/2023 — Doug Tallamy
  • Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp

    Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp

    06/03/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn

    Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn

    18/02/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Forever Chemicals, Everywhere

    Forever Chemicals, Everywhere

    03/02/2023 — Robert Hunziker

Counter Solutions

How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

28/03/2023 — Daniel Ross

 As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices. Several Hollywood action films center around an impending apocalypse in the form of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth—a glaring metaphor for the real-world implications of a rapidly accelerating climate crisis. As this crisis unfolds before our very[Read More…]

  • From ‘Progress’ to an Economics of Happiness

    From ‘Progress’ to an Economics of Happiness

    20/03/2023 — Helena Norberg-Hodge
  • Linking Climate Action to Decolonization and Degrowth

    Linking Climate Action to Decolonization and Degrowth

    17/03/2023 — Neha Saigal
  • Photo by gideon_wright

    Can there be a long-term solution to Ecological Crisis?

    03/03/2023 — Dr Shama
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Heritage of the Twentieth Century Science for the Twenty First Century

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Heritage of the Twentieth Century Science for the Twenty First Century

    03/03/2023 — T Vijayendra

Resource Crisis

The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis

The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis

03/10/2021 — T Vijayendra

ABSTRACT This is a response to the two sets of articles written by Sajai Jose on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the world’s and India’s hunger crisis. It is in two parts. In the first part it lays the historical background of the response of capital in the face of periodic crises it faces and people’s response to it.[Read More…]

  • Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

    Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

    12/09/2021 — Sean Sweeney
  • The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

    The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

    09/09/2021 — Priti Gulati Cox
  • Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction

    15/06/2021 — Don Fitz
  • Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

    Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

    20/05/2021 — Michael T Klare

Patriarchy

Men, masculinities, and gender equality

Men, masculinities, and gender equality

27/03/2023 — Sada

Both men and women are still imprisoned by patriarchy in the vast majority of our globe. Together, we inhabit a world of social logic where prejudice, injustice, and exploitation taint the relationships of concern, love, and respect between people, groups, and communities. From the streets to the workplace, patriarchy permeates even the most private areas of the house. All around[Read More…]

  • Silent mountains of Uttarakhand

    Silent mountains of Uttarakhand

    10/03/2023 — Priyanka Minj
  • Woman is born with Identity? Or Woman creates her own Identity?

    Woman is born with Identity? Or Woman creates her own Identity?

    08/03/2023 — Dr Shama
  • Woman creates life …. But still without RIGHTS??

    Woman creates life …. But still without RIGHTS??

    08/03/2023 — Orusa Karim
  • Bicycle and Women’s Liberation

    Bicycle and Women’s Liberation

    07/03/2023 — T Vijayendra

Palestine

Selective Outrage in Palestine: The Problem is Not Just Smotrich but Zionism

Selective Outrage in Palestine: The Problem is Not Just Smotrich but Zionism

31/03/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

By his own admission, Israel’s new Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is a “fascist homophobe”. This declaration, which he made on January 16, should be enough to accentuate the violent nature of the new political concoction created by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last December. Though Smotrich is not the only politician in Netanyahu’s cabinet with a track record of violence,[Read More…]

  • Lara Sheehi’s ordeal, like Steven Salaita’s, is not quite over

    Lara Sheehi’s ordeal, like Steven Salaita’s, is not quite over

    29/03/2023 — Rima Najjar
  • From Oslo to Sharm el-Sheik

    From Oslo to Sharm el-Sheik

    26/03/2023 — Jafar M Ramini
  • Palestinians Don’t Exist?

    Palestinians Don’t Exist?

    25/03/2023 — Ellen Isaacs
  • Algeria’s Gas vs. Rightwing Ideology: Will Italy Change Its Position on Jerusalem?

    Algeria’s Gas vs. Rightwing Ideology: Will Italy Change Its Position on Jerusalem?

    21/03/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

South Asia

Is Washington now Khan’s Buddy?

Is Washington now Khan’s Buddy?

26/03/2023 — Junaid S Ahmad

We all know that 95 percent of elite Pakistani politics is mentally challenged fairytales and gossip replete with murmurings that can be cooked up for a good story to sell to the public. The intrigues and power plays of Pakistan’s rulers seem to just drag the country further and further to the abyss. After virtually a year now of the[Read More…]

  • Sri Lanka’s unconvincing response to Universal Periodic Review’s forthright findings

    Sri Lanka’s unconvincing response to Universal Periodic Review’s forthright findings

    23/03/2023 — Thambu Kanagasabai
  • Illiberal Democracy and Anti-modernization waves in south-Asia

    Illiberal Democracy and Anti-modernization waves in south-Asia

    20/03/2023 — Dr Md Afroz
  • To prevent a civil war that is about to happen in Pakistan

    To prevent a civil war that is about to happen in Pakistan

    20/03/2023 — Prof Abdul Jabbar
  • Chaos in Pakistan: Imran Khan Takes on America and its Comprador Elites

    Chaos in Pakistan: Imran Khan Takes on America and its Comprador Elites

    18/03/2023 — Junaid S Ahmad

Annihilate Caste

Some thoughts on the ongoing debate around the tragic demise of Darshan Solanki

Some thoughts on the ongoing debate around the tragic demise of Darshan Solanki

12/03/2023 — Amit Singh IIT B

The recent death of the first year dalit undergraduate student, Darshan Solanki, has once again raised the question of the caste discrimination and related biases on the IITB campus. The institutions and support system that the Institute has built over the years in order to deal with the mental stress and the caste related discrimination have rightly come under the[Read More…]

  • Re-organising the Bahujan Movement

    Re-organising the Bahujan Movement

    12/03/2023 — Sunil Kashyap
  • Omnipresent Caste

    Omnipresent Caste

    02/03/2023 — Sandeep Pandey
  • Anti-Caste Laws in America: Thwarting Aryan Hatred Against Jesus As Dalit?

    Anti-Caste Laws in America: Thwarting Aryan Hatred Against Jesus As Dalit?

    27/02/2023 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  • Radical Desi declares Kshama Sawant as Person of the Year 2023

    Radical Desi declares Kshama Sawant as Person of the Year 2023

    27/02/2023 — Press Release

Life/Philosophy

In memory of centenary of George Lukacs’s ‘History and Class Consciousness’

In memory of centenary of George Lukacs’s ‘History and Class Consciousness’

01/04/2023 — Harsh Thakor

George Lukacs’s “History and Class Consciousness” is a truly landmark work, and its English translation, after almost fifty years of neglect by English and American publishers, was a major development. This year we commemorate 100 years of this work being published, in year 1923. Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat section of this work, published in 1923, is a[Read More…]

  • History archives in Bikaner and Mumbai

    History archives in Bikaner and Mumbai

    30/03/2023 — Vidyadhar Date
  • In memory of 35th death anniversary of Jaimal Singh Padda

    In memory of 35th death anniversary of Jaimal Singh Padda

    30/03/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • A mural of former Venezuela President Hugo Chavez (1954-2013). The U.S. government and the Venezuelan oligarchy first tried to overthrow Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution in 2002. Nearly twenty years later, they are still at it. (Photo: Univision)

    In memory of Hugo Chavez on 10th death Anniversary

    28/03/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) addresses a crowd in Stuttgart.

    The Contemporary Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg

    26/03/2023 — Marcello Musto

Arts/Literature

A doubtful American Invention

A doubtful American Invention

31/03/2023 — Vidyarthy Chatterjee

“I don’t understand why India looks up to the Oscars… Audience is my Oscar.” – Mira Nair, quoted in The Telegraph, Kolkata, December 1, 2012 On April 23, 1992, a man died. A tall man once blessed with broad shoulders, a headful of dark, well-set hair, and sharply chiseled features; a man who touched several art forms, enriching whatever he[Read More…]

  • “…I want poetry to be detonated like a bomb!” -Nathalie Quintane

    “…I want poetry to be detonated like a bomb!” -Nathalie Quintane

    27/03/2023 — Rupak Bardhan Roy
  • Demystifying   the  halo  around   `Naatu  Naatu’     and  RRR

    Demystifying the halo around `Naatu Naatu’ and RRR

    18/03/2023 — Sumanta Banerjee
  • A Film A Day Won’t Keep the Doctor Away

    A Film A Day Won’t Keep the Doctor Away

    16/03/2023 — Tarini Manchanda
  • “Mother’s Day”

    “Mother’s Day”

    06/03/2023 — Kristin Christman

Book Review

WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler’s Poor Nazi Germany – Chapter 2

WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler’s Poor Nazi Germany – Chapter 2

01/04/2023 — J Jankovsky-Novak alias Jay Janson

Chapter 2 ‘Weaponizing Nazis’   Contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations described as phenomenal and crucial to German military capabilities With the world of the plundering Colonial Powers deep in the chaos of the Great Depression, a disastrous failure of rule by the banks of the capitalist countries, the United States internally threatened by local organizations of socialists, communists,[Read More…]

  • WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler’s Poor Nazi Germany – Chapter 1

    WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler’s Poor Nazi Germany – Chapter 1

    31/03/2023 — J Jankovsky-Novak alias Jay Janson
  • Labor in market, and the mainstream economics

    Labor in market, and the mainstream economics

    26/03/2023 — Farooque Chowdhury
  • Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers

    Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers

    16/03/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Tale of two workers or workers’ tale

    Tale of two workers or workers’ tale

    10/03/2023 — Farooque Chowdhury

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