-
Antonio Negri: The Theorist of Autonomia
Umesh Joshi We are not inventors of anything. We are just readers of Marx, and political revolutionary agitators in our time. – Antonio Negri I Antonio Negri, a prominent post-war intellectual of European Marxism, died on December 16th at 90. Negri led many lives in a single lifetime— a militant theorist, a philosopher, an inmate, a…… Read more
-
Unnoticed elephant in the Room: Heightening Taxes, Increasing Cost of Living and Brain Drain in Sri Lanka
Aruna Jayasena Recently surfaced news reports in the post-Aragalaya[1] context rattled off the entire state-run health service of Sri Lanka. It stated that the national health service is on the brink of collapse with imported low-quality medicines and scarcities in essential medical supplies in government hospitals nationwide. The most triggering exposé was the gradual increase of…… Read more
-
Carpenter, Sarah and Shahrzad Mojab (Eds., 2011). Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Sukanya Maity ‘Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning’ is an edited volume by Sarah Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab published in 2011, initiating a dialogue on finding alternative epistemologies based on a Marxian framework. The work was produced during the formative years of of discussions on critical pedagogy as a possibility in academia and hence…… Read more
-
Mayo, Peter (2015) Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism Insights from Gramsci, Routledge: New York
Tathagat Singh In the book “Hegemony and Education Under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci”, Peter Mayo presents an argument for the continued relevance of the thoughts and ideas of Antonio Gramsci, in juxtaposition with Freire, Marx and Lenin, among others, in the age of neoliberalism and intensified globalization. Mayo highlights two key factors contributing to this…… Read more
-
Sri Lanka: They took over the palace – But they lacked an alternative vision
Ravi Kumar Images of masses enjoying the resources of Presidential kitchen and the lifestyle of a leader who had to flee speak a thousand words. The country, meaning the masses, have been hungry, unemployed, without fuel, not able to write exams, go to schools or have basic medicines. They said the economy collapsed. And it…… Read more
-
What is Brewing in Bihar Politics: MLC Elections and the Future
Ravi Kumar Elections to Bihar Legislative Council (called MLC elections) are going to be held and what is intriguing is that the alliance of RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal), Congress and CPI(ML) appears fractured. Congress is contesting alone and CPI(ML) is not contesting while CPI has got one consolation seat from RJD. It’s obvious that the…… Read more