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ARUNDHATI ROY, BUST, INTERVIEW, COVER STORY

Reading Arundhati Roy politically

Reproduction of Aijaz Ahmad’s article published in Frontline dated August 8, 1997.

Protests outside the Israeli Consulate in New York on April 5.

The Nazification of Israel

By brazenly resorting to Nazi-style rhetoric and methods of persecution in Palestine, Israel, with the consent of the majority of its own people and t

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arriving at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi on October 24, 2019, after the party’s victory in the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections.

Post-democratic state

A historically novel kind of state seems to be arising in many corners of the world, which combines elements derived selectively from the two classic

December 6, 1992: With the destruction of Babri Masjid, the institutionalisation of communalism was firmly entrenched.

India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme Right

This article, written by Aijaz Ahmad in the summer of 2015, was published in the 2016 edition of Socialist Register, which is “‘an annual survey of mo

Red October in retrospect

With the October Revolution, the locus of the revolutionary dynamic began to shift towards the East and more generally towards lands that were struggl

Demonstrators yell slogans during anti-Donald Trump travel ban protests outside Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller

Pre-fascism & the Muslim question

President Donald Trump, backed by the Bannons and the Flynns, will overreach and try to erect a pre-fascist state. Islamophobia and a broad hatred of

The urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is driven through Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, on December 1, 2016 during its four-day journey across the island for the burial in Santiago de Cuba.
A military jeep is taking the ashes of Fidel Castro on a four-day journey across Cuba, with islanders lining the roads to bid farewell to the late communist icon. Castro died at 90 on November 25, 2016 and will be buried in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Sunday. / AFP PHOTO / PEDRO PARDO

Valediction for the Comandante

Fidel Castro’s vision was at the root of what his comrades and then increasingly larger numbers of his compatriots began to aspire for. Fidel, the ori

A Trump supporter celebrates as election returns come in at Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump's election night rally in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Far Right captures imperial homeland

All forces of the Right recognise Donald Trump as a soul mate. On issues of imperial wars, loyalty to Israel and confrontation with Russia and China,

A new Cold War?

What is at stake is not a competition between irreconcilable social systems, as in the Cold War of yesteryear, but a reconfiguration of capitalist pow

A poster with a Nazi swastika printed on a Russian flag and reading 'The colours of the occupiers' has been glued on Independence Square in Kiev on March 12, 2014. Russia will mirror any visa sanctions the European Union imposes on its lawmakers, a senior parliamentarian said Wednesday, as Moscow and the West slug it out diplomatically over the crisis in Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ YURY KIRNICHNY

The ‘Great Game’ in Europe

In its eagerness to complete the encirclement of Russia by turning Ukraine into a forward country for positioning NATO bases, the U.S. is paving the w

South African President Nelson Mandela stands on March 27, 1998 behind the bars of the former cell where he spent 18 of his 27 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island. AFP PHOTO / STEPHEN JAFFE

Of liberation & betrayal

Nelson Mandela’s moral grandeur as a revolutionary and a prisoner stemmed from his universalist vision of equality. It is all the more tragic then tha

An anti-government protester carries a soldier at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 12, 2011. Egyptian protesters turned from toppling a president to rebuilding a country they feel is once again theirs and cleaning up Tahrir Square where many vowed they would stay to hold their new army rulers to account. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY)

Revolution or restoration?

For all their spectacular and performative grandeur, the uprisings of 2011 and 2013 are not revolutionary because they have not paved the way for syst