On 17 September 2022, there was an unexpected sectarian confrontation in the English city of Leicester.1 Several hundred young Hindu men, many masked, marched through streets primarily inhabited by Muslims and chanted slogans associated with the chauvinism of a ultra-right… Continue Reading
The World Trade Organisation has stated that the Covid-19 pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetime.1 As with any deep crisis, the effects will weigh heaviest on the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly in the Global South.… Continue Reading
The election to India’s Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) ended on 23 May 2019 with the stunning success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies. The BJP is a pro-business and Hindu-nationalist party. It bagged 303… Continue Reading
A review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press, 2016), £15 Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced… Continue Reading
Editor’s introduction “A spectre is haunting South Asia—the spectre of Maoism,” the Financial Times rather melodramatically announced in April 2006, reporting that the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, had described Maoist guerrillas as “the single greatest threat to Indian national… Continue Reading
“The saint has left our shores, I sincerely hope forever”.1 Jan Christiaan Smuts, a future South African prime minister, uttered these words in 1914. The saint was none other than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on his way home to India after… Continue Reading