Tag: Global South
Friends in Palestine, Has the Future Arrived?
Palestinian activist G. N. Nithya writes of the horrors of the ever-continuous Nakba.
The Colombian State Is at War with Its People
Laura Correa Ochoa, María Cárdenas, and Tianna S. Paschel argue that Colombia’s sustained assault on protesters this week represents a form of warfare that indigenous and Black communities know all too well.
Turning a Profit from Death
Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya explains why anti-capitalism is central to the struggle against COVID-19 in India and how Narendra Modi is by no means up to the task.
Why Feminism? Why Now?
Loubna Qutami asks what it means to think about Palestinian liberation as a feminist issue?
Mariátegui in Debate
Deni Alfaro Rubbo reviews Mike Gonzalez’s new book, In the Red Corner, about the political ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui.
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”
After the Pandemic Slump, What Next?
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews economist Michael Roberts about global economic prospects after the corona crisis.
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
The Postcolonial Autumn
The old regime of the Green Revolution is dying, while a new, more baleful, cycle of agrarian capitalism is waiting to be born. Aditya Bahl looks at the spectacular groundswell of anticapitalist resistance by farmers and agrarian workers that has emerged in this interregnum.
An Unfinished Epoch of Revolution
Joseph Daher takes stock of the Arab Spring ten years later.