Delhi Gang Rape and the Feminism of Proletarian Militancy
Pothik Ghosh Demands for harsh and summary punishment for rapists, or for that matter, stringent laws to deal with rape – fuelled as they are by moral outrage – do little else than reinforce the...
View ArticleAnti-Rape Movement: A Horizon beyond Legalism and Sociology
Bhumika Chauhan, Ankit Sharma and Paresh Chandra The project of systemic transformation does not allow one the liberty to pick and choose battles, points of entry, like commodities in the market...
View ArticleOf AAP and the Leftist Chickens
Pothik Ghosh This, indeed, appears to have become a season for homecoming. The chickens that had hitherto ranged freely on the so-called progressive side of the fence are now coming home to roost....
View ArticleNarendra Modi and the Barbarism of Neoliberal Dictatorship
Pothik Ghosh “What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?...
View ArticlePalestine: Beyond Third Worldism
Pothik Ghosh New Delhi’s support for, and solidarity, with the Palestinian liberation struggle stands all but abandoned. That the Indian foreign policy has shifted decisively away from Palestine...
View ArticleIs the transgressive still revolutionary?
Pothik Ghosh “By ‘sex-economic conditions’ we mean more than just the possibility of a… satisfying love life; over and above this we mean everything that is related to pleasure and the joy of life in...
View ArticleThe AAP Crisis: Left and Precarious Politics
Pothik Ghosh and Pratyush Chandra Self-declared radical leftists of this country appear to have mastered rather well the art of making a virtue out of necessity. Unfortunately, that is just about the...
View ArticleFascism or Dictatorship of Neoliberal Capital? The Need for a Correct Line
Pothik Ghosh “While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make...
View ArticleDemonetisation: Maturing Capitalism?
Pratyush Chandra “…it is not a question of the higher or lower degree of development of the social antagonisms that result from the natural laws of capitalist production. It is a question of these laws...
View ArticleSolidarity-givers of India and destiny of the Kashmiri tehreek
Pothik Ghosh “…a free multitude is guided more by hope than fear; a conquered one, more by fear than hope: inasmuch as the former aims at making use of life, the latter but at escaping death.” –...
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