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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.
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    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.

  • Why the attempt to assassinate Maduro?

    Farooque Chowdhury

    While many countries claim to be protect civil rights and democracy, their ties to imperialism ensure silence in such moments. They predictably failed to denounce the assassination attempt, even after signing international agreements defining an attempt on the life of a head of state as a “terrorist act.”

  • Scene from The Young Karl Marx by Raoul Peck

    Marx was born on this day–May 5

    Farooque Chowdhury

    Karl Marx was born, two centuries ago, on this day–May 5. In today’s world, it’s impossible to ignore Marx, the greatest proletarian revolutionary.

  • Over a million Cubans march on May Day 2017

    May Day 2018: Exploitation, NO! Expropriation, NO! Unite for justice!

    John Bellamy Foster and Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff

    In view of the historic May Day, May 1st, analysts from Monthly Review, the famous independent socialist magazine, identify tasks the working classes should press with. The following interviews were conducted in early April with John Bellamy Foster, Professor and Editor of Monthly Review; Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus, and one of Monthly Review’s closest associates; […]

  • Mao Tse-tung [also spelled Mao Zedong]

    Reiterating Mao on December 26, his birth anniversary

    Originally published: Counter Currents on December 26, 2017 (more by Counter Currents)  |

    Reiterating Mao’s teachings is one of the essentials in the area of political education as a new generation is joining people’s struggle.

  • Mural commemorating the Bolivian Revolution

    People are radicalizing the Bolivarian Revolution

    Farooque Chowdhury

    For those confused by the recent headlines on Venezuela, this is a point worth explaining. The so-called ‘peaceful’ ‘pro-democracy’ demonstrators of the opposition had made threats against those who planned to participate in the Constituent Assembly elections, leaving many people fearful to vote in their own communities, particularly those with a strong opposition presence. This fear was not unfounded.

  • Red Salutes

    An interview with Timir Basu on the 50th anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising

    Farooque Chowdhury

    This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the “Naxalite” revolutionary peasant uprising in northern India, named for the locale in which it first appeared, Naxalbari. What follows is an interview with a prominent Bengali intellectual who recalls his youthful foray into the countryside to organize poor peasants.

  • Members of the Bolivarian Militia read Ciudad Caracas newspaper, while waiting for the Constituent Assembly installation

    Stand in solidarity with Venezuela against the threat of imperialist military intervention

    Farooque Chowdhury

    The Right-wing in Venezuela have stated publicly that their tactic is to produce more violence and more chaos, with the hope that wide international media coverage will provoke foreign intervention in the country.

  • Venezuela flag

    People celebrate Constituent Assembly in Caracas

    Farooque Chowdhury and Rosana Silva and William Camacaro

    The political struggle of the people in Venezuela is now passing a crucial phase. Expressing solidarity with the Venezuelan people is a task in this hour of their struggle.

  • Victory of Venezuela over Imperialism

    The disinformation campaign on Venezuela

    Farooque Chowdhury

    The upper classes of Venezuela are trying to regain their lost fiefdom. The program of violence they are implementing, which has rocked Venezuela since April 4, 2017, is part of that effort.

  • Sensors in Urban Spaces

    Surveillance: The mainstream media’s dismay with the tool of coercion

    Farooque Chowdhury

    The article discusses surveillance in today’s capitalist society with a reference to a recent revelation that the German intelligence agency spied upon scores of foreign journalists.

  • Dipankar Chakraborty, Aneek Editor, Passes Away

    Farooque Chowdhury

      Dipankar Chakraborty, the founding editor of the independent left Bangla journal Aneek, passed away on Sunday night.  He was 71.  A cardiac patient, he had suffered a respiratory problem in the evening and died on the way to hospital.  He is survived by his wife, son, daughter, and grandchildren. Always active in people’s movements, […]

  • The People’s Democratic Struggle and the Struggle for the Environment: An Interview with Fred Magdoff

    Farooque Chowdhury

    “The people’ democratic struggle and the struggle for the environment should be intimately tied together.” — Fred Magdoff Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University.  He is a co-author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know […]

  • The Occupy Wall Street Uprising and the U.S. Labor Movement: An Interview with Steve Early, Jon Flanders, Stephanie Luce, and Jim Straub

    Farooque Chowdhury

    The Occupy Wall Street uprising has taken the nation by storm, beginning in the Financial District in Manhattan and then spreading to cities and towns in every part of the country and around the world.  The anger over growing inequality and the political power of the rich that has been bubbling under the surface for […]

  • Strong Unions Are the Best Hope inside Capitalism: Interview with Michael D. Yates

    Farooque Chowdhury

    The San Jose Mine incident in Chile has brought back old questions about labor and capital.  About those questions, raised by the 33 miners’ struggle to survive, I interviewed Michael D. Yates, Associate Editor of Monthly Review.  Yates was for many years professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA.  He is […]

  • After the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession, What Next?

    Farooque Chowdhury

    John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and author of The Great Financial Crisis (2009, with Fred Magdoff) and The Ecological Revolution (2009) — both from Monthly Review Press.  This interview was conducted from Dhaka by Farooque Chowdhury (editor of Micro Credit: Myth Manufactured, 2007) for MRzine and Bangla Monthly Review.  It is part […]

  • The Financial Crisis and Imperialism

    Farooque Chowdhury

    BMR:What is the likely impact of the present financial crisis on geopolitics, especially if the crisis is considered in the context of the energy crisis including the peak oil issue, the food crisis, The Great Hunger, the environmental crisis, and the declining dollar?  Will the world experience war(s) as an effort to survive?  Will monopoly-finance […]

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