NATO is at war against Russia
The imperialist war alliance NATO is already engaged in a war against Russia. The war front’s name is Ukraine. Soldiers and specialists, obviously military personnel, from a number of NATO-countries…
Farooque Chowdhury
Truth “dies”. Truth braves. Assange goes home
Truth defies power and denies dying. Truth survives surmounting odds and obstacles. Despite this trajectory of truth, sometimes, truth appears dying – a short phenomenon in life. Julian Assange’s journey…
Rano’s relentless battle
Rano, Haidar Akbar Khan Rano, lives not in memory only. It’s his path to battles in the field of class war that enlivens every day, every moment. His is a…
T G Jacob’s questions on people’s politics in India – Part II
A few pieces of rock T G Jacob’s comment – “communists all over the world have failed to evolve an alternative system of development even after revolutions” in the “nature…
T G Jacob’s questions on people’s politics in India – Part I
Was it possible, a hypothetical question, by the dominating interests in this subcontinent to press on their politics without mobilizing people since the colonial days? Not, at all. The dominating…
Eco-socialism, Saral Sarkar’s Writings
Eco-Socialism or “Green” Capitalism?, Collected Writings of Saral Sarkar, Explanations, Elaborations and Interventions, Vols. I and II present most of Saral Sarkar’s political and political-economic essays and articles written in…
Successful labor organizing takes time; take no shortcuts and study your adversary carefully: Interview with Michael D. Yates on Labor – Organization, Negotiation, and Education
by Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates The following is the concluding part of Michael D. Yates’s four-part interview with Farooque Chowdhury: Farooque Chowdhury: In your organizing work, in your union support work, as a…
Interview with Michael D Yates on Labor — Organization, Negotiation, and Education: Begin by Asking Questions about One’s Own Life Circumstances (Part 3)
by Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates The following is the third of four parts of Michael D. Yates’s interview with Farooque Chowdhury: Farooque Chowdhury: What advice in terms of studying can you give to…
Propaganda against workers and unions is widespread, and the entire climate is anti-labor: Michael D. Yates
by Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates Interview of Michael D. Yates, on labor – organization negotiation education The following is the second of four parts of Michael D. Yates’s interview with Farooque…
First encounters with capital, in coal mining town, on campus: Interview of Michael D Yates, on labor – organization, negotiation education
by Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates The emancipation of labor is one of the foremost questions in all exploitative societies and societies in transition. Labor itself demands looking at…
Imperialist sanction: A shard of history, NGOs, resistance [Part 3]
While studying conflicts, Ray Dalio found: “[I]n most cases, before there is a shooting war, there is a mix of escalating economic, technological, geopolitical, and capital wars.”1 The study found,…
Class war in an imperialist economy: Condition of the poor in the bourgeois democracy
Someone may be in confusion – what the country’s political system is – a kingdom or a republic? Whatever the political system’s nomenclature suggests, it’s bloody sure that the system…
COP28: Lick your wounds
Fossil fuel or no-fossil fuel – what to do? Let mercury rise or drop it down – how far the mercury’s liberty should go? To the people, the answers are…
Bangladesh, Genocide, Kissinger
December 16. The Bangladesh people celebrate the day as Victory Day – a victory through vanquishing the armed forces of the neo-colonial state of Pakistan. The people tore down the…
Bicycle: The rider is its engine
The issue – bicycle – seems strange and absurd, but fact, and easy to observe, but, often goes unnoticed. “A bicycle is a machine most compatible with human beings-its rider.…
Imperialist sanction, an instrument of coercion, and shrouded with lies
Imperialist sanctions stand as instrument of coercion, and is shrouded with lies. In recent years, using the measure of sanction has turned out as a standard response to international controversies.…
The Time report on Ukraine tells a lot of facts that the Kiev regime and its friends denied for long
Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky is facing difficult time, as bitter facts are being told by his friends. Prominent U.S. magazine Time said: It is only getting harder. Zelensky can feel…
Sanctions, imperialist substitute for military power
Sanction is an old weapon. Warring parties are using the weapon since ages. Today, Lords of the World, the Empire, almost rampantly use this weapon – sanction – to further…
Twilit towns: A review of Transition Town Movement
Crises One can identify the present time as The Age of Crises. “The world system is riddled with crisis.”1 Crises in the areas of finance and banking, and environment-ecology have…
The emergence of Bangladesh: Dynamics of people’s cultural and political struggles – Part III
Dynamics Contradictions in the East Pakistan society determined the trajectory of dynamics of socio-cultural-political struggle in the land. The contradictions were in (1) rural, (2) urban, (3) industrial, and (4)…
The emergence of Bangladesh: Dynamics of people’s cultural and political struggles _ Part II
Struggle As in most societies and lands, the people in Bangladesh also unceasingly confronted dominant powers – its ruling system, economy, politics, ideology and organization. The struggle began at the…
The emergence of Bangladesh: Dynamics of people’s cultural and political struggles – Part I
Contradictions don’t spare life, individual or collective, or class.[1] And, people’s life, spanning survival and struggles, don’t sit immobile. So, there’s dynamics in people’s struggle that moves on the matrix…
“Making a thriller from grain”
Grain is an old tool, weapon is the appropriate term, of imperialism. Once, the weapon was widely used by imperialism; and the weapon was used against countries in the Southern…
Idalia, captions, Cuba, and MSM
Recent tropical Storm Idalia’s destruction in and the toll it has taken from parts of the U.S. are now well reported in the US media. International news agencies also covered…
Fried fish and flying cheels: It’s not a fantasy
Fantasies are fantasies. But, Credible Fantasies aren’t fantasies. These move around and act within a reality. The characters in the Credible Fantasies by T Vijayendra are real, from reBal life.…
Simple Comment: Fitch Downgrades US Debt Rating
On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings, one of the leading three US credit rating agencies, announced: US’ long-term foreign-currency issuer defaulting rating would be downgraded. Among other factors pushing this downgrading, Fitch…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 5: Sketch of a jab and resistance]
The mainstream abstains from discussing two aspects of the partition, a dagger-act: the harm to people's struggle for a democratic, dignified life free from injustice and exploitation, and resistance by…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 4: Two opposing forces]
Two class forces were standing opposed to each other in the land: on the one hand, there was the force of the exploiting classes – the landed and capitalist classes,…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 3: No map?]
How the colonial masters left this land? Two descriptions below tell their exit. Yasmin Khan writes in The Great Partition: The making of India and Pakistan: “[There were no] maps…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 2: Uncontrolled dominion]
V P Menon, as he told about himself in The Transfer of Power in India, “[i]n one capacity or other, from 1917 […] was continuously associated with the constitutional development…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least -Part 1: Flame and Fraternity
The area this article covers is this sub-continent’s partition and Bengal’s bifurcation. To be specific, it looks at a part of people’s journey forward in this land, which carries historic…
Defiant Cuba celebrates May Day
Defiant Cuba celebrates May Day. An AFP report (“Communist Cuba celebrates Worker's Day, four days late”), datelined May 5, 2023, said: “Cuba finally celebrated May Day on Friday, four days…
An exposure of labor and violence: A May Day article
Violence against labor is as old as capital dominating labor. The tool – violence – is older than the rise of capitalism. Capitalism has sharpened the tool: made it more…
Labor in market, and the mainstream economics
Market and labor in market are crucial questions both to capital and labor. The questions have been discussed and answered by economists, from the mainstream, and also from the camp…
Tale of two workers or workers’ tale
What are workers? Are they human beings? Do they have only a bundle of muscles but, no brains? How do they feel and how do they think? Do they think…
Bhagat Singh: Life and legend
It was, to quote King James Version, “[a] time to be born, and a time to die; [….] A time to love, and a time […] of war […]” It…
Ukraine conflict, after a year
Over the last few weeks, February 24, 2023 was the most observed day on geopolitical stage. The famous, and posing as dignified, MSM ceaselessly predicted and propagated: Russia is going…
Work – slavery in exploiting economy
Work is easy. Work is difficult. Work shows a lot. Work hides a lot. Work creates. Work destroys. Work is painless. Work is dreadful. Work brings victory. Work is slavish.…
Who believes the Nord Stream sabotage denial?
The exposure has been denied by the Empire. But does anyone believe the denial? Not today, none. People across the world have come across such denials many times, and each…
Simple Comment: “Free” press
The on-going imperialist war in Europe is exposing a few facts. These include a section of press – its condition. Estonia is now an example. Newspaper in Estonia The daily…
Simple Comment: Billionaires’ loss
The loss is not that much: Only near to $2trillion; and the US billionaires’ loss was the biggest. A recent report by Forbes said: The billionaires of today’s world have…
The farmers braved the barricade
To loot, or to advance economy, farmers are encountered. Role in economy makes farmers an important question in countries. This sub-continent too can’t ignore the question. Amit Bhaduri examines aspects…
Lula, like a Phoenix
Lula’s electoral return, wining the presidential election, is almost like a Phoenix. The former metal worker turned Union leader turned leading politician with an anti-imperialist brand turned symbol of hope…
Xi’s vision: 21st century is the Asia-Pacific century
The Empire is going to face competition in the Asia-Pacific. It was unimaginable to the Empire years ago. The competition will be tougher. To the Empire, the Asia-Pacific was its…
Climate crisis: Exploitation and justice
The climate crisis question today has turned into the question of exploitation and justice – exploitation by a few, and justice for the entire humanity. The recently released Oxfam report…
Ukraine and the Indian Left: A response to Sumanta Banerjee
The illuminating article in Countercurrents (November 1, 2022) by Mr. Sumanta Banerjee, “Leftist response to the war in Ukraine”, deserves discussion as it focuses on (1) the most burning issue…
Capitals’ moves in the face of climate crisis
Despite scores of scientific study findings warning climate crisis and its consequences at global scale, the world capitalist system is still pressing on with its business of climate destruction. Deniers’…
A time unpredictable
The current time is unpredictable. Competitions and contradictions are reaching to boiling point. The metropolitan center in the world order is experiencing heightened tensions, and consequences, trickling down gradually, are…
Bhagat Singh Ke Saathi: An interview of Prabal Saran Agarwal
Bhagat Singh – a symbol of aspiration of the chained people in this colonized sub-continent. That aspiration was of freedom, dignity, equity and equality. Bhagat Singh – a symbol of…
Lived Stories – travel through a non-rational choice
Incidents are told in simple, straight style, but significant in meaning; and metaphors are there in the Lived Stories. Madhu Bhaduri tells her days as an Indian diplomat in Vienna,…
US citizens say their democracy is failing
A recent poll finds: Many US citizens are not hopeful about the state of democracy in their land, the country that teaches “democracy” around the world. A new poll, results…
Climate crisis, GDP and the working people – Part III: The working people
Identifying the GDP’s limitations help find the losses the working people have to make, untold yet, due to climate crisis, although it’s the working people that bear the most. The…
Climate crisis, GDP and the working people – Part II: GDP
As is known, GDP, dating back to the 1930s, and innovated by Simon Kuznets, appraises the value of goods and services produced in an economy in a given period. At…
Climate crisis, GDP and the working people – Part I: Climate crisis
Climate crisis takes its costs from gross domestic product. A recent study1 finds about a quarter of the countries studied are sensitive to such impact. Climate crisis, negatively affecting economy…
Thou Gorbachev, just like Brutus!
Gorbachev’s was a betrayer’s life. He has physically left this earth, hours back; but has kept kilometer posts of betrayal on a land years ago identified as the Union of…
Nuclear war will eliminate more than 5 billion people – oppose war
More than 5 billion people could starve to death following a nuclear war between the US and Russia, finds a study published on recently in the journal Nature Food. Ash and soot…
This happens there in the US
The Trump-shelter-search incident is a new political occurrence in the US. Then, the interview came. Donald Trump, former US president, during an almost day-long interview with the New York attorney…
Pelosi-play in Taiwan
Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, US House of Representatives, had a play in Taiwan, which in its initial phase was not dignified. The play’s initial phase was like a Hide-and-Seek game:…
Climate expropriation: US caused nearly $2 trillion damages to other countries from 1990 to 2014
U.S.-attributable climate damages. (a) Ensemble mean GDPpc changes in each country attributable to U.S. emissions, over 1990–2014 with territorial emissions accounting and a short-run (contemporaneous) damage function. Missing data (white…
Corbyn case, a piece of democracy
Who opposes democracy? None, but the anti-people, retrogressive forces oppose democracy. They carry on the job sacred to them. Despite wide preference for democracy as a political system, or process,…
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