The BJP’s assault on labour rights exposes real intention behind COVID-19 lockdown

The BJP’s assault on labour rights

The cat was peeping out of the bag for long, but with the the BJP’s assault on labour rights under the garb of fighting COVID-19 menace brought it out.

Right-wing populism’s Orwellian tactics

Right-wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It's radically reconstituting the uneven battlefield to gain hegemony.

Right wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It is radically re-constituting the uneven field of politics on which ideological battles are fought. Right-wing demagogues use a diversified repertoire of rhetorical tools to not only temporarily acquire dominance but to disaggregate frozen beliefs and re-configure them. To analyse this process of re-constitution, this article uses the vocabulary provided by George Orwell in his seminal book “1984”.

Karl Marx at 202: Protect Marxism from the so-called ‘Marxist’ bootleggers

Karl Marx at 202: Protect Marxism from the so-called 'Marxist' bootleggers

Karl Marx is 202 today and after celebrating the bicentenary of his birth two years ago with much hullaballoo, the academic Marxists, who are divorced from the practice of class struggle, do not remember him any more now. They probably even don’t remember (or care) that it’s the bicentenary of Marx’s life-long comrade-in-arms and friend Frederick Engels. … Read more

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