Left-wing politics
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Another Angry Voice on Podemos
The author passes on a short Another Angry Voice piece on Spain’s Podemos and its leader Pablo Iglesias, explaining how it grew out of the 15-M protests, with brief doubts…
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The Yellow River turns Red
Recalling the 1938 breaching of Yellow River levees that killed 800,000, the poster argues Mao’s atrocities are only now being appreciated and that much of the academic left, with Arundhati…
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Leaving the Left Behind
The poster relays a defence of Jamal Naqvi’s book Leaving the Left Behind, which confronts fundamentalism, and agrees with its extracts that Pakistan’s left should drop rigid economic dogma and…
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Epicycles of the Elite Left; The Price is Too Damn High..
Arguing that the work of Pankaj Mishra, Arundhati Roy and Tariq Ali carries a real opportunity cost for educated South Asian liberals, the poster blames a mix of Marxism-Leninism, postcolonial…
