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  • Student Uprisings in the Age of Hindutva
    28 September, by Chandni Desai

    Thousands of students filled the streets of India in July 2026 in one of the largest student mobilisations since Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. As students waged their protests, confronting police and the Rapid Action Force (RAF), a paramilitary unit of the Central Reserve Police Force, the youth did not invent a new language of resistance. Leftist students reached for the voices of South Asia’s courageous revolutionaries and poets that had long (…)

  • The Erosion and Possible Demise of Bourgeois Liberal Democracy
    1 October, by Vinod Mubayi

    At the heart of bourgeois liberal democracy there lay a contradiction. In the political sphere, bourgeois democracy promised equality via the familiar slogan One Man/Woman One Vote. In the economic context, however, the capitalist system, under which all bourgeois democracies so far have existed, presages inequality. The societal tensions inherent in this contradiction, historically, have been manageable as long as the gap created by economic inequality remained within socially acceptable (…)

  • Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
    25 September, by Chris Hedges

    By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level - the level of evil.
    Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths - superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation and incapacity for remorse or guilt.
    But is he evil?
    If, as the philosopher Susan Nieman writes, evil is not simply the opposite of good but inimical to it, if (…)

  • We’ll Take Those Odds: The Left and the Polarization of Options
    30 September, by Benjamin Y. Fong and Sam Gindin

    Sam Gindin is one of the most exacting and capacious thinkers on the socialist Left today. With decades of experience in the labour movement as research director for the Canadian Auto Workers (which merged in 2013 with the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union to form Unifor, today the largest private sector union in Canada), his political orientation is grounded in the reality of the contemporary state of organized labour. His perspective is also informed by a careful study of the (…)

  • Beneath the 65-Metre Waste Mountain of Ghazipur: The Realities of India’s Waste Pickers
    13 September, by Nicolas Auger-Chrétien

    Every day, around 11,000 tonnes of waste ends up in Ghazipur, brought in by the constant flow of roughly 500 trucks. Over the years, this has created a massive garbage mountain the area is known for. Yet Ghazipur isn’t only a landfill, dairy farms still exist right beside it. On the site, they use biomining and large excavators to break down old waste and separate it into materials like plastic, sand, and concrete. Nothing is wasted if it can be reused: plastic is sent to cement factories, (…)

  • ‘We Need Convivencia’: Haim Bresheeth Envisions Palestine after Zionism
    28 September, by Thinking Palestine Editors

    Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Žabner argues that only a single democratic state-not partition-can deliver justice, equality and decolonization in Palestine.
    For decades, the two-state solution has dominated international discussions on Palestine. At the Second Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Dublin, Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Žabner dismissed the framework altogether, arguing that it is neither viable nor desirable.
    Instead, he urged audiences to abandon (…)

  • 250 Years of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and US Independence
    13 September, by Ingo Schmidt

    In March 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was published. Four months later, 13 North American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Both events were in the air.
    Economists before Smith had already pondered how to explain the then-observable increase in manufacturing and global trade, and what its consequences would be. Smith could not have foreseen that his Wealth of Nations would become, not long after his death, a kind of manifesto for the rising industrial (…)