Category: Imperialism
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Defeat the Ruling Class Prop of Post-Modernist Identitarian Thoughts Through Active Ideological Struggle!
Introduction: Imperialism On the Offensive At times when the world imperialist crisis advances towards its apex, revolutionary conditions also objectively emerges in various parts of the world. The capitalists’ failing imperialist economy has given rise to mass hunger, destitution, and deaths due to lack of health facilities, job losses and highly entangled social lives. The…
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Imperialism in the Air: Political Economy of Airports in India
Airports and the ability to fly have always been considered one of the hallmark emblems of so-called development. In the current regime’s bid to march towards what is being branded as ‘New India’, the airport policy requires a key scrutiny in the direction where this supposed development is rapidly taking place. Of particular interest should…
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Political Economy of New Forest Conservation Rules in India
The Indian state has actively supported the encroachment of the imperialist capital in collaboration with feudal elements on the lands of marginalized communities and the natural resources of India. The latest amendment to the rules of the Forest Conservation Act of 1980, called the Forest Conservation Rules 2022, is a legal vehicle to ensure that…
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Hindus vs Muslims: Manufacturing Communal Violence at the Service of Fascism
As elections are about to ramp up in Bangladesh, an old tape that is common in all of South Asia plays its record once again. Stories of violence against the minorities become more and more prominent and political dissent is actively attacked in the garb of preserving “communal harmony.” Currently, members of the Bangladesh Nationalist…
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Imperialism at the Wheels: Re-evaluating the Indian Queer Movement
In 2014, the Indian Supreme Court passed a verdict in favour of recognizing the legal right to gender self-determination, legally recognizing for the first-time rights of transgender persons in the Indian context.1 Subsequently in 2018, the same court overturned various other jurisprudence to declare Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code unconstitutional for its parts…
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Kishau Dam: Another Story of Dispossession
Geographical phenomenon impacts the life far beyond the physical boundaries of geography alone. To understand this, it is important to highlight that the categorisation of subjects into separate disciplines and the notion of specialization of work are predicated on the targets of the modern market based supply and demand economy. This disciplinary division has created…