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Left Resurgence in Latin America

In this episode of Research Radio we speak to Tathagatan Ravindran about the rising ‘pink tide’ in Latin America based on his papers in EPW titled “ Bolivia at the Crossroads ”, “ Neo-liberal Restoration at the Barrel of a Gun: Dissecting the Racist Coup in Bolivia ”, “ Return of the Left in Bolivia: Social Movements and Popular Power ”, and “ The Left Victory in Colombia: From Resistance to Power ” . He discusses the Left victories and struggles in Latin America and his own experiences of watching these unfold. Subscribe to Research Radio to stay tuned to our entire season. Do listen to our...

Can We Understand Populism Without Calling it Fascist? A Conversation with Nancy Fraser

Vol. 53, Issue No. 22, 02 Jun, 2018
In this conversation, Nancy Fraser explains how the left's agenda of social justice was hijacked by what she calls “progressive neo-liberalism,” while exploring how a nuanced Marxist political economy can guide the left to win back the masses by finding an agenda fitting our times. Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She works on social and political theory, feminist theory, and contemporary French and German thought.​

Ashok Mitra (1928–2018)

Vol. 53, Issue No. 22, 02 Jun, 2018
Subhanil Chowdhury

Ashok Mitra remained arekrakam (of another kind), insisting that the left could only survive and thrive if it does not abandon its ideology and principled politics. This Arekrakam legacy he leaves behind—als0 in the form of the journal he established by the same name—will remain a powerful inspiration for all efforts to resuscitate and rejuvenate the left movement in Bengal and elsewhere.

Diversity, Democracy, and Dissent: A Study on Student Politics in JNU

Vol. 53, Issue No. 11, 17 Mar, 2018
Qualitative and quantitative evidence collected over the last four years (2014–18) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus reaffirms the crucial contribution of the institution’s diverse and democratic base to Indian politics. The authors suggest that JNU promotes a diverse yet inclusive campus, gives space to radical voices not only from the organisational left movement but across the political spectrum, and finally upholds a tradition of dissent which is in line with protecting the rights of free speech and promoting the values of democracy.

Aspiring for Universal Health Coverage through Private Care

Vol. 52, Issue No. 16, 22 Apr, 2017
Bijoya Roy

The National Health Policy 2017 makes a case for expanding private sector participation through collaboration. The policy offers little assurance of providing integrated and universal healthcare.

Is the ‘Pink Tide’ Ebbing?

Vol. 52, Issue No. 6, 11 Feb, 2017
Samyukta Bhupatiraju, Rahul Sirohi

Starting from Hugo Chávez’s electoral victory in 1998 to the resounding victory of the Bolivian indigenous leader Evo Morales in 2006, a sequence of leftist governments with explicitly anti-neo-liberal programmes rose to power in various regions of Latin America. But a little more than a decade later, there are indications that the “pink tide” is beginning to ebb. In Argentina, the centre-right is in power, ending 12 years of left rule. Even in Venezuela and Brazil, recent trends point towards an unmistakable resurgence of right-wing forces. How does one interpret these changes? Does the current crisis mark the end of the Latin American left? While seeking to answer some of these questions, an understanding of the achievements and limitations of the “left turn” in Latin American politics is presented.

Democracy and the Popular Discourse on History

Vol. 51, Issue No. 31, 30 Jul, 2016
Arup Baisya

The people of India are disillusioned. The present phase of neo-liberal capitalism, and the changes that it spells, do not take into account the vertically and horizontally disintegrated working class and the structurally remodelled castes-communities. The Jawaharlal Nehru University debate around the constitutional right to speak only re-emphasises the fact that if we wish to stall the rise of fascism, the past needs to be reconstructed as a paradigm for the future.

Saffron Headway in Kerala

Vol. 51, Issue No. 24, 11 Jun, 2016
E K Santha

The Bharatiya Janata Party's ability to enlist a band of groupings may not have helped the party as much in the lone seat it won--Nemom in Thiruvananthapuram district--from where the party's octogenarian O Rajagopal had been contesting election after election and establishing incremental gains over the years. But it is evident that the party has been able to erode the Congress base and eat into left votes.

Outstanding Chronicle of the Left in India

Vol. 51, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2016
Sumanta Banerjee

The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left by Praful Bidwai, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: HarperCollins, 2015; pp 586, Rs 599.

We are Against Institutional Violence

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Kanhaiya Kumar

This is the near full text of Kanhaiya Kumar's speech on 11 February where addressed a gathering on the JNU campus. The Hindi speech Kumar delivered was translated by JP Yadav of The Telegraph from a recording uploaded on YouTube. 

University and the Nation

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Manash Bhattacharjee

If nationalist sentiments are the only and final prerogative to belong to an academic community, then it must also be reiterated, a university has no business to share these sentiments. The founding figures of JNU knew it and it is upon the entire community of students, teachers and concerned citizens to safeguard the university against such jingoistic versions of nationalism. 

The Last and the First

Vol. 44, Issue No. 50, 12 Dec, 2009
Toral Gajarawala

Aravind Adiga's novel The White Tiger has been criticised for its lack of realism and the caricature of its characters. The novel breaks with realist traditions of representing poverty and backwardness in Indian anglophone literature. Instead it poses a challenge to progressive traditions by framing the main character's revolt in Fanonian terms which challenges both the tradition of leftist movement politics as well as the liberal discourse of rights and privileges. Drawing from the same sources of anger and angst as much of realist literature, Adiga fashions a new voice which is unfamiliar and unsettling in its revolt.

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