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A striking contrast
Reichstag Fire was a crucial event in the conversion of Germany from a liberal democracy into a fascist dictatorship in 1933.
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Dual-use dilemma: AI and the future of protein design
In October 2023, David Baker of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, USA, organised an AI safety summit to assess the risks associated with the malicious utilisation of designer proteins. The focus was on determining the necessity and scope of regulation for protein design and identifying potential hazards.
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The anatomy of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’
Words can be highly deceptive; and Hindu rashtra is a perfect example of this.
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Once more on poverty figures of India
Poverty in short had increased significantly between 2011-12 and 2017-18. After 2017-18 we have had a pandemic, and a lockdown induced by it, from which the economy is just recovering, though unemployment today is higher than before the pandemic.
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Israel is starving Palestinians to death while the world watches
Israel has deliberately slowed the flow of aid to Gaza with hundreds of trucks stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border at a time when over two dozen Palestinian children have died of malnutrition.
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Capitalist trap for scientific advances
There is a paradox at the core of the efflorescence of science that has occurred over the last millennium.
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The descent into barbarism
IN The Junius Pamphlet written from jail in 1915, Rosa Luxemburg had said that the choice before mankind was between barbarism and socialism.
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What the GDP hides
There are well-known problems associated with the concept of gross domestic product as well as with its measurement.
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Lenin: Architect of the Worker-Peasant Alliance
Among the many seminal theoretical contributions made by Lenin to Marxism was his pioneering of the concept of the worker-peasant alliance for a socialist revolution.
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Chip Wars: Breaking the siege
While the sanctions regime has hit Chinese companies, especially Huawei, hard and exposed weak links in China’s chip supply chain, the last year has seen significant progress by Chinese companies.
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The theoretical significance of Lenin’s “Imperialism”
The theoretical position informing “Imperialism” extended Marxism in at least five major ways.
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An education policy for colonizing minds
A pre-requisite for freedom in the third world therefore is to shake off this colonisation of the mind, and to seek truth beyond the distortions of imperialism.
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The vacuity of the free trade argument
The fact that unrestricted trade creates domestic unemployment is quite obvious, and should be especially obvious to third world people who have had the historical experience of deindustrialisation during colonial rule.
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Neo-Liberal falsehoods
The basic theme is to suggest that under neo-liberalism there has been such an acceleration of the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product that the people as a whole have become much better off, and vast masses of them have been lifted out of poverty (one particular enthusiast has even claimed that poverty now afflicts only 2 per cent of the population).
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Western Left and the U.S.-China contradiction
Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry.
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The globalisation of McCarthyism
The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream.
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Remembering Allende and his project ‘Cybersyn’
FIFTY years back, Pinochet’s coup destroyed Allende’s government and the structure of liberal democracy in Chile. Allende died with a machine gun in his hands, defending his attempt to build socialism in Chile against the combined power of the U.S. and the forces of reaction in Chile, including the military.
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Destroying forests for profits: India
THE Modi government, ever solicitous of corporate interests, has launched a plan whereby real estate developers and other corporates will be allowed to destroy large swathes of India’s forest cover for starting projects that rake in profits. It is amending the Forest Conservation Act to remove those forest patches that are not deemed as such by the government from protection under the Act.
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The silences of the Delhi declaration
THE G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute economic crisis of the world economy.
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Believing one’s own false theories
LIBERAL bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments.