Sucheta De is a former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Student Union President and current President of the All India Students Association (AISA).
She spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly in April, 2018 about the reactionary policies of the Modi government against women, students and the poor.
Interviewer: Tony Iltis, for 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Sorry to Bother You
Written & directed by Boots Riley
In cinemas now
This review includes mild spoilers.
As an Australian living abroad, incidents of Australians being racist and/or misogynistisic that attract attention from international media outlets are frequently forwarded to me in anticipation of a seething refrain.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus offers up eight new books as recommended reading for ecosocialists. Inclusion does not imply agreement with a book鈥檚 contents.
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By Okbazghi Yohannes
Monthly Review Press, 2018
Edited by John McDonnell
Verso, 2018
This book is a valuable collection of 16 short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, coming up with progressive solutions which a Jeremy Corbyn-led government could usher in.
It is edited by and has an introduction by Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor John McDonnell, a long-time socialist and close collaborator of Corbyn鈥檚. He says: 鈥淲e are seeking nothing less than to build a society that is radically fairer, more democratic and more sustainable, in which the wealth of society is shared by all.鈥
Rock & Roll Harbour
Exhibition by The Shop Gallery
112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Thurs聽January 3 鈥 Wed Jan 9
Peter Gow is the people鈥檚聽artist.
His ouvre is driven by his down-to-earth, inner-city environment such as boathouses and the heritage-listed Sydney Harbour Bridge in various attitudes, all of which feature prominently in this聽exhibition.
Gow is a qualified electrician and聽builder as well, very handy for making the frames in his spare time that embrace his聽art.
Disaster Capitalism
Written by Antony聽Loewenstein聽
Directed by Thor Neureiter
Disaster Capitalism is a groundbreaking documentary film about Bougainville, Haiti and Afghanistan, revealing the dark underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. The film offers important insights into a secret multi-billion dollar world by investigating how aid money is actually spent 鈥 or misspent.
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
Directed by Lorna Tucker
In cinemas
In the 1970s, punks astounded Britain with their T-shirts worn inside out and torn clothes with safety pins.
Vivienne Westwood was the person responsible for most of that look.聽Not only did she tear clothing apart, she lived a similar life.
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist is a raw, unpredictable and unapologetic documentary about the punk icon and fashion designer.聽
Watching it was a whirlwind. At times I was smiling, others I felt frustration.
Legal experts and human rights advocates have denounced the聽 25.
When it comes to the infrastructure of genocide, you could illustrate it using almost any photo of a school, house, shop or village in the West Bank. You could bookmark a Google maps page of a particular West Bank town 鈥 then look again in three or six months time and note the destruction wrought.
This is one way of keeping track of the demolitions of Palestinian homes and Israel鈥檚 attempts to impose an 鈥淚sraeli only鈥 identity on the landscape.
A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates one motivating force behind migrant caravans leaving Guatemala and Honduras to reach the United States.
UC geography professor Tomasz Stepinski has turned high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency into one of the most detailed looks so far at how people are reshaping the planet.
Stepinski said: 鈥淩ight now there are caravans of people walking to the United States. Many of them are coming from Guatemala.鈥
Organised under the banners of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and All India Agricultural Workers鈥 Union (AIAWU) of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),聽聽from Singur towards Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal, on November 27.
The march culminated in front of聽Governor Raj Bhavan鈥檚 house聽the next day to demand cultivable lands be returned to the farmers.
Looking at elections in the United States, deeper trends in the population can be difficult to discern as the choices are between two capitalist parties that are both staunch defenders of capitalist rule and US imperialism.
There are no mass workers鈥 parties of any stripe. If there were, we may be in a better position to understand the relation of class forces.