If, as Gramsci said, the counting of “votes” is the final ceremony of a long process—a process of persuasion and alliance-building—the 2004 Indian elections were an apparent anomaly for the Gramscian schema.The surprise installation...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0143659042000185390#.VCHEAytdV2A Full Citation: ‘From National Bourgeoisies to Rogues, Failures and Bullies: the Contradictions of 21st century imperialism and the unravelling of the Third World’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, no. 1, 2004, 25th Anniversary...
Cultural Studies was a creature of a historical moment which is now past. The onset of the stage of permanent war in the trajectory of US Imperialism-the passing of the preceding phase of Pax...
The Bush administration would like the world to think otherwise, September 11 changed little. A new, more violent world order was already taking shape well before that. But, suffering from a rather sizeable legitimacy...
The Mumbai attacks revealed the real – bad and deteriorating – relations between India and Pakistan. They did not cause them. This 2002 paper now appears prescient from today’s perspective. It examines the sources...
A century of the greatest political confrontations in the history of capitalism has ended in a complete surrender of the left. But the victory has been paradoxical for the victor: triumph has been accompanied...
The bulk of comment on the recent revolt in the Congress Party focuses on the rebel trio’s stated objections. It ignores the elementary political truth that politicians leaving a party to form a new...
The formation of a Hindu nationalist government in May 1998 at the crest of hindutva’s recent electoral surge clearly testifies to the increasingly authoritarian urges of India’s ruling class. Hindutva’s chances of holding state...
Only a few years ago Mrs Thatcher dominated British politics more completely than any other recent British politician. She seemed bent on imposing on British society and economy a thoroughgoing transformation, brooking no opposition,...
Women Against Fundamentalism came into being in the spring of 1989, contemporaneously with apogee of the Rushdie Affair, but not because of it. It started at the instigation of women who, working in refuges...