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  • Security personnel detain a protestor during a march towards Parliament on July 20. Photo: PTI.

    Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and dangerous

    Originally published: The Wire on July 22, 2026 (more by The Wire)  |

    Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

  • Arundhathi Roy accepts the PEN Pinter Prize 2024 while holding a portrait of British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, named this year’s Writer of Courage, with whom she shared the award. El-Fattah remains imprisoned and arbitrarily detained in Egypt. Photo courtesy English PEN.

    Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that is Palestine’

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 13, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension)  |

    The full text of her PEN Pinter Prize acceptance speech.

  • Arundhati Roy. Image Courtesy: Flickr

    “People must realize that reality is not what is shown on tv”

    Originally published: NewsClicks.in on September 16, 2024 (more by NewsClicks.in)  |

    The collusion of the mainstream media with this regime has drawn a screen over the real situation our country is in.

  • A Palestinian boy at the site of Israeli strikes on a mosque and houses, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 25. | Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ Reuters

    Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again

    Originally published: Scroll.in on March 7, 2024 (more by Scroll.in)  |

    The millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the U.S. are the hope for the future of the world..

  • Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal Bill: Interview with Arundhati Roy

    Arundhati Roy and Sagarika Ghose

      “These NGOs funded by the World Bank, Ford, and so on — why are they participating, mediating what public policy should be? . . .  The World Bank runs 600 anti-corruption programs just in places like Sub-Saharan Africa.  Why is the World Bank that interested in anti-corruption?  I looked at five of the major […]

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Arundhati Roy

    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Arundhati Roy

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Arundhati Roy

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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