WHEN industrial capitalism was developing in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the new machine-made goods had displaced many artisan producers, giving rise to the Luddite movement against the introduction of machines. With increased unemployment, there was an increase in the relative magnitude of poverty, as Eric Hobsbawm had argued in a debate with another historian R.M. Hartwell. But then things improved later on in the course of...
THE US-Israel war against Iran is a continuation of a war that the US and Israel have launched in West Asia against any country or organised resistance to their neo-colonial policies. However, Iran’s resistance, along with Hezbollah’s ability to fight Israel’s “expansion” into Lebanon, has created a new dynamic in the region for the first time. It has not...
On June 13, Karnataka’s home minister Priyank Kharge sent a letter to RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat asking him to reveal its ‘legal status, registration, office bearers, funding, expenditure, taxation and permissions for public activities.’ This drew two bizarre responses. One was from Bhagwat himself, who even while saying that he doesn’t need to respond to the letter, declared that "Hindu Dharma is not registered. Many things are not registered,” and that the...
IN recent years, a concerted political effort has been made to establish June 20 as ‘West Bengal Day’ and to project Syama Prasad Mookerjee as the founder of West Bengal. Political appropriation of history is not new, but any historical event must be understood in its full context. Therefore, examining the validity of the narrative surrounding June 20 is essential.
Football is a poor people’s sport kidnapped by the rich. The ongoing FIFA World Cup (WC), jointly hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, is a prime example of it. All that FIFA, the governing body for global football, seems to be concerned with is how to make more money. This is the biggest WC in history. The last WC had 32 teams. This one has 48. The number of matches has gone up from 64 to 104. Not only does this mean that there are more...
THE Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had reached its political limits. Washington and Tel Aviv presented their illegal war of aggression as a necessary response to Iran’s nuclear energy programme, missile capabilities, and regional alliances. Yet behind this language of...
On 19th June 2026, major trade unions of Mumbai held a militant joint demonstration at the Collectors office at Bandra Kurla Complex in the vicinity of the US Consulate, to protest against the murder of three Indian sailors by the US military missile strike on a civilian cargo ship in international waters near Iran. The participating unions included the CITU, AITUC, INTUC, AICCTU, FSUI, and TUCI.
...Six Members of Parliament of the Shiv Sena (UBT) in Maharashtra have defected and joined the Shinde Sena. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) had supported all six of these MPs during the elections as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (INDIA) bloc on the issues of protecting democracy, secularism, and the Constitution. CPI(M) workers and mass organisations across the state campaigned vigorously against the...
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) extends its support to the nationwide protest actions being organised on 1 July 2026 by the Joint Platform of Rural Workers’ Organisations against the proposed replacement of MGNREGA by the VB-GRAMG Scheme and in defence of the Right to Work for rural households. MGNREGA has been one of the most significant legislative measures providing employment security and income support to rural...
For a few decades now, a project called the ‘Indian Knowledge System’ (IKS) has sought to integrate traditional Indian wisdom into modern educational curricula. There is a legitimate quest to reclaim India’s indigenous intellectual history and to elevate an informal cultural aspiration into a part of education — but the IKS of today is not it.
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