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About Saheli Chowdhury

Saheli Chowdhury is from West Bengal, India, studying physics for a profession, but with a passion for writing. She is interested in history and popular movements around the world, especially in the Global South. She is a contributor and works for Orinoco Tribune.
  • Donetsk residents march to commemorate the Donetsk People's Republic's declaration of independence from Ukraine, May 11, 2018. (Photo: Sputnik/Igor Maslov)

    Ukrainian communist Dmitri Kovalevich: Ukraine has become a private mercenary company of NATO to fight against its opponents (Interview)

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on May 19, 2024 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    According to Dmitri Kovalevich, the United States controls all decisions in Ukraine, not only military but also economic. “It is not the Ukrainian [military] command that decides where to advance, what to undermine, what to shell; Ukrainian soldiers are acting on the advice of Western instructors,” he said, referring to the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces.

  • Photo composition showing India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (upper right) over a photo of the Indian Supreme Court, a screenshot of the State Bank of India website, and a diagram explaining some implications of the electoral bond scandal. Photo: Metro Vaartha.

    Institutionalized corruption: India’s electoral bonds scandal exposes Modi’s money laundering machine

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on March 27, 2024 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    On February 15, 2024, a five-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India declared in a unanimous verdict that the electoral bond scheme of anonymous corporate donations to political parties was unconstitutional.

  • Graphic for Orinoco Tribune's special interview with Palestinian activist and author Khaled Barakat, available on YouTube. Photo: Orinoco Tribune.

    Special interview with Khaled Barakat: Gaza demands end of genocide, not ‘ceasefire’

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on November 9, 2023 by Saheli Chowdhury (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    Orinoco Tribune interviewed Palestinian activist and author Khaled Barakat about Palestine and the Palestinian struggle in the context of the Israeli occupation’s genocidal aggression against Gaza following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7.

  • Kim Ives Interview

    U.S. sponsoring military intervention in Haiti to stop revolution: Interview with Kim Ives

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on October 20, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The U.S. is organizing and funding a military intervention into Haiti, organized under the auspices of the UN, in order to halt Haiti’s revolutionary process, journalist Kim Ives told Orinoco Tribune in a recent interview.

  • Photo composition showing former Mexican President José López Portillo (left) and the logo of the US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA (right). Photo: SDP Noticias.

    Former president of Mexico revealed as CIA asset

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on April 20, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    Declassified documents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have revealed that former president of Mexico, José López Portillo, who led the country during 1976-1982, was a CIA asset.

  • THE LARGEST SOURCE OF WOMEN’S UNPAID LABOUR IS DOMESTIC WORK.

    Proletariat of the proletariat: Women’s unpaid labor

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on May 1, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The pandemic brought the spotlight on many of the wrongs of capitalism, among them the issue of unpaid labor.

  • Ukrainians wave communist flags near a statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin during an International Worker's Day parade in Donetsk, Ukraine, May 2014. Photo: Marko Djurica/Reuters/File photo.

    Successive Governments in Ukraine have accommodated Nazis to counter Soviet nostalgia: Ukrainian Communist Dmitri Kovalevich (Interview)

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on April 17, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    Dmitri Kovalevich described a range of issues to Orinoco Tribune, including the 2014 coup, Ukrainian President Zelensky’s rise to fame, war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, the economic collapse of the country, and many others.

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  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Saheli Chowdhury

    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”
    Saheli Chowdhury

    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 […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Saheli Chowdhury

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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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

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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