2025

There are developments in the global economy where established, time-tested models are going for a toss and right inside the heart of global capitalism

Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked to speak as the keynote speaker, I first tried to say this book and what kind of people have India in their hands in the present times and freeing it should be our first goal. Who can do what in the intoxication of power? This is what one feels after reading this book. And how all the (…)

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas;
the singing of carols
and the Christmas tree,
draped in mistletoe
with gifts strung in golden filigree?
Are you dreaming of a white Christmas;
yonder, children lie listless,
with vacant eyes,
wondering what ahead, still lies;
whatever happened to mom and dad;
nothing you can do
can make them less sad.
The bullets, tanks and drones
rain on relentlessly;
in this age we thought
there would be no war,
but this horror,
even our glazed (…)

The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here

(The essay below by Petr Kropotkin first appeared in Freedom 172, December 1902)
In the early beginnings of Freedom, some sixteen years ago, there was in our paper an article, entitled

December 30, 2024
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie

PEOPLE

27 December 2024
That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
by Vincent J. Intondi
Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Series
2023. 152 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4640-0
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Reviewed by Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the (…)