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 (…)

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 (…)

When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come. I always say I became a writer so I wouldn’t have to talk. But, once I started writing about my own personal experiences, I was surprised to receive invitations to speak on (…)

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 (…)

"My eldest aunt was swept away. So was her son, my dai Madhu, and his wife. My other aunt - gone too, they told me. Her grandson Sijan and his wife, caught in the same water. His own son and daughter-in-law, unreachable, unaccounted for. My maternal uncle had gone out that morning to cut grass (…)

"White supremacy, in this sense, has long masqueraded as American exceptionalism, forming the bedrock of U.S. patriotism and national identity." -* “At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there (…)

For too long, we have reduced our political plight in the Arab world to the figure of the authoritarian ruler: he falls, and dictatorship falls with him, supposedly clearing the way—automatically and effortlessly—for freedom, democracy, and justice. Yet our experiences, both past and recent, (…)

Roger Huddle co-founded the group that helped defeat the fascists, while Geoff Brown was the Manchester organiser of the Anti Nazi League. Both spoke to Frankie Murden Frank Murden (FM): What was Britain like when you set up Rock Against Racism (RAR) in 1976? Roger Huddle (RH): There was (…)

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 (…)

The key politico-historical significance of the victory on 25 July 2026, of the mass protests led by Indian youth is that the projected invincibility of Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India, has been blown apart. Prime Minister Modi has been humiliated by the bravery, (…)