Left-wing politics
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Tariq Ali on the Resistance..
Omar Ali reposts a mock press release he says he wrote over twenty years ago, forecasting an Islamic-socialist revolution in Pakistan, as a comment on a recent tweet by Tariq…
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Does India have a “once in a millennium chance”?
Omar Ali argues India has a rare chance to become a developed power because of its capable people, intact cultural strengths and the inherited machinery of the Raj, and that…
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Dr Manzur Ejaz. 1949-2025
An obituary of Dr Manzur Ejaz (1949-2025), Punjabi writer and Marxist activist who died in Virginia. It records his belief that defending the Punjabi language is central to working-class politics,…
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Browncast Episode 115: Sean P. McCarthy, Come the Revolution!
A BrownCast episode in which Razib talks to Sean P. McCarthy of the economic or ‘Dirtbag’ Left, who mocks the woke Left online but holds serious views challenging what he…
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Browncast Episode 93: Camilo Gomez, Peruvian Left-libertarian
BrownCast episode 93 with Camilo Gomez, a left-libertarian intellectual and activist based in Lima, Peru, in a wide-ranging conversation on politics and ideas, hosted during a month the podcast says…
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The Indian cultural Left is in India, but not of India
Razib Khan argues that Arundhati Roy should be understood as part of a global English-speaking cultural Left, not as typical of India or the Islamic world, where Left politics persists…
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Episode 62: Leighton Woodhouse, the Left, identity, and 2020
A Brown Pundits podcast episode in conversation with Leighton Woodhouse of the Extremely Offline podcast, discussing the Left, identity politics and the future of American politics ahead of the 2020…
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Brown power now!
The author argues that brown Americans now hold real power on the Democratic Left, naming Saikat Chakrabarti, Faiz Shakir, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal and Neera Tanden, and says he hopes…
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Indian Female Academics of the Left
Attending a Cambridge talk on decolonisation, the author observes that Indian women in humanities are at the vanguard of the left, and argues left-liberal Indians have become de-Hindufied in ways…
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Global alliances and wheels within wheels
Taking Adam Webb’s thesis of non-Western revival against global liberalism as a lens, the author notes Western leftist protests against a Hindu nationalist meeting in Chicago, and an ex-Muslim activist’s…
