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About Farooque Chowdhury

Farooque Chowdhury is a freelance writer based in Dhaka. His books in English include Micro Credit, Myth Manufactured (ed.), The Age of Crisis, and The Great Financial Crisis, What Next?: Interviews with John Bellamy Foster (ed.), Dhakha: Books (2012), 190 pp.
  • Defiant Cuba Celebrates May Day

    Farooque Chowdhury

    Mainstream reports on this past May Day celebration in Cuba leave out a key element: the imperialist economic and financial blockade.

  • Earth - man

    Environment, human rights and class power

    Originally published: Countercurrent on March 12, 2021 (more by Countercurrent)  |

    Environment is human right, said and resolved a recent UN meet. It’s a reiteration of an already discussed issue–essential to all of the human society.

  • Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel

    Cuba faces looting, whose hands are behind it?

    Farooque Chowdhury

    The Cuba “protest-story” is not a single incident. Similar foreign interference happened in other countries. The Cuba-protest-incident is not going to be last attempt by the Empire.

  • Salinized soil fields in Ethiopia

    Soil ecology and capitalism agriculture: Fred Magdoff interviewed by Farooque Chowdhury

    Fred Magdoff and Farooque Chowdhury

    Ecological and social conditions are mostly ignored in a system in which profit is the goal: Fred Magdoff discusses capitalist agriculture

  • Bangladesh, 2019 - Humanitarian response, Rohingya refugee crisis Children play in the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

    Engagement for environment

    Originally published: New Age on October 15, 2020 (more by New Age)  |

    ALL conscious citizens know the state of the Bangladesh environment. Bangladesh’s courts of law regularly rule in favour of the environment.

  • Eat the Rich Anarchist Sign August 13, 20111 (Photo: Steven Depolo)

    Amidst pandemic, while billions struggle for survival, billionaires’ wealth tops $10 trillion

    Originally published: Frontier Weekly on October 10, 2020 (more by Frontier Weekly)

    Billionaires are “smart” enough. Their wealth now, in this pandemic, tops trillions of dollars.

  • Andre Vitchek

    Andre, friend

    Originally published: Countercurrent on September 23, 2020 (more by Countercurrent)  |

    Andre, your last moments in Karaköy, İstanbul are yet unknown. But, we know you with your actions and stand – anti-imperialist.

  • Can the Working Class Change the World?

    Forging unity within the working class: an interview with Michael D. Yates

    Michael D. Yates and Farooque Chowdhury

    The ruling class always tries to divide the working class. We must make certain that the working class is not divided internally and we can draw on the past to find examples of working-class organizations that have actively worked to generate a cohesive and class-conscious membership.

  • 2 days ago Lovablevibes Hundreds of bodies buried in mass grave on island in New York

    Covid-19 is a sign of our fate if we do not take radical action: Interview of Michael D. Yates

    Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates

    In the backdrop of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Michael D. Yates, decades-long union activist, director of Monthly Review Press and former Associate Editor of Monthly Review magazine, discusses condition of the working people and steps required.

  • John Bellamy Foster

    Catastrophe capitalism: climate change, COVID-19, and economic crisis

    John Bellamy Foster and Farooque Chowdhury

    Obviously, the situation associated with the sudden appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 pandemic is grim all over the world. Both the causes and the consequences are closely related to capitalist social relations.

  • Bolivia

    Imperialist imprint in Bolivia coup

    Farooque Chowdhury

    Imperialist imprint in the just carried out Bolivia coup is visible.

  • Himalayan glaciers

    Himalayan glaciers retreating fast: Cold War spy satellites helped find the fact

    Originally published: Counter Currents on July 5, 2019 (more by Counter Currents)  |

    Glacier melt in the Himalayas today is twice as fast as it was before 2000. With conditions remaining unchanged, the glaciers are likely to lose two-thirds of their total ice.

  • Timir Basu

    ‘Unions must provide political education or labor will find itself more powerless than ever before’—Timir Basu on labor in India

    Farooque Chowdhury and Timir Basu

    The phenomenal growth of the services sector has created a new generation of employees. For these workers, May Day has very little meaning—what they fail to grasp is that they cannot protect their future without knowing their past.

  • Michael D. Yates

    ‘A fully automated society is science fiction’—Michael D. Yates on the state of U.S. labor

    Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates

    Monthly Review Press editor Michael D. Yates reflects on the state of U.S. labor in this special May Day interview conducted by Farooque Chowdhury.

  • Sprinkler irrigation in steep field

    The struggle for a just society is long, requiring action on many fronts

    Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff

    ‘The struggle for a socially just and ecologically sound society requires activity on many fronts. This includes the crucial work of organizing and activist engagement, as well as education about the economic, political, and ecological complexities that exist and why so many of the problems facing humanity are either caused or made worse by capitalism.’

  • Photo credit: Al Jazeera

    John Smith on imperialism (part 4)

    John Smith and Farooque Chowdhury

    “Capitalism/imperialism is extremely proficient at externalizing the costs of its destructiveness, making other peoples and future generations suffer the consequences of its marauding nature but it is not immune from “blow-back” effects. For example, the climate crisis poses a major political challenge to imperialism because it strongly suggests that system change is necessary if we are to avert climate change.”

  • Imperialism: BRICS - ALBA soup

    John Smith on imperialism (part 3)

    John Smith and Farooque Chowdhury

    “The chief constraints confronting imperialism are those that arise from capitalism’s own internal contradictions, and these manifest themselves in the systemic crisis.”

  • Soviet artist Alexander Labas, ‘Wearing a Gas Mask’ (1931).

    John Smith on imperialism (part 2)

    John Smith and Farooque Chowdhury

    With the notable exception of the Monthly Review school, recent studies of financialization by avowedly Marxist and left-Keynesian economists attempt to theorize it in isolation from the transformations that have taken place in the sphere of production, especially the globalization of production processes and their large-scale relocation to low-wage countries.

  • Original Vintage Posters - Propaganda Posters -Marxism Leninism ...

    John Smith on imperialism (part 1)

    John Smith and Farooque Chowdhury

    “The liberal/mainstream notion of imperialism that permeates…bourgeois political opinion proceeds from the elementary observation that the various empires that have existed during the past three millennia share one obvious characteristic, namely territorial conquest accomplished through military force.”

  • Samir Amin stood For People

    Samir Amin stood for people

    Originally published: Counter Currents on August 13, 2018 (more by Counter Currents)  |

    Samir Amin transcends all borders capital creates to divide peoples struggling against exploiters, against all divisive politics, against all sectarian ideologies, which serve imperialism. Samir Amin stands for a modern life for peoples while opposes all backward ideas and ideologies serving exploiters.

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