Kaveh Rostamkhani – Erfan Kouchari At nearly 104 degrees Fahrenheit and 80% humidity, Bandar Abbas was already an open-air sauna at 5 a.m., as fishers unloaded their fresh catch of shrimp and fish at the city’s wholesale fish market, right at the wharf. The intense tang of rotten fish residue was unbearable. Elias Rahimi, like… Read More Life in Iran’s War-Torn South on the Strait of Hormuz
Dear readers, in a note above an earlier post, Electoral Inquisition, I mentioned the outstanding features of our ruling establishment: it uses democracy to destroy democracy it demands eternal power in the name of the people – defined as those who agree with it it seeks the ‘look’ of legitimacy by subjugating the autonomy of… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
The historic wave of labour unrest that swept India Zaen Alkazi {ONE} MORNINGS ARE TYPICALLY RUSHED at Hosiery Complex NOIDA, a prominent industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. In the urban village of Yakubpur, thousands of migrant workers wake up in small and windowless rooms, rented from local Gurjar farmers, and get ready for work. They… Read More Striking Back
When a workers’ protest is branded a conspiracy, who pays for it, and who walks free? http://www.reporters-collective.in It has been nearly six months since the workers’ protest in Noida. While our lives have moved on, many workers and activists detained on mere suspicion by the police remain behind bars. A quick recap for those who… Read More The Government Agents of violence in Noida
The life of the hugely influential ‘people’s historian’ is explored in a wide-ranging new book that brings in everything from wars to civil rights to Matt Damon When times got tough for Zinn: “… he was able to live through these times when he was also able to lecture in the classroom, about all sorts… Read More The incredible life of historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps By Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán, Eliezer Budasoff Translated from Spanish by John Gibler For the past five years, Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán and Eliezer Budasoff have been investigating forced labour camps run by drug cartels in the Sierra Tarahumara mountains in the Mexican state… Read More ‘We Were Simply Animals’
Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger in Jerusalem A Palestinian driver bringing food aid from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) into Gaza has been killed by an Israeli soldier “in a field execution”, according to witnesses and the local truckers’ association, which said it may suspend operations in protest. Ahmad Esleem was shot in the head on… Read More IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza
SHARMISTHA SHIVHARE – Published: 26 Jun 2026 On 14 June 2026, a Dalit man was killed, allegedly for refusing to massage a coworker’s feet, in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. The setting of the crime scene was an informal get-together of four coworkers at one of the coworker’s residences in Civil lines. On refusing to massage his coworkers… Read More Lalitpur Killing Shows Caste Violence Is Sustained Through Everyday Humiliation
The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today Guardian Editorial Reflecting on the genesis of his most famous work, Carlo Ginzburg wrote that by immersing himself in the trial of a 16th-century miller burned by the Roman Inquisition, he turned a possible… Read More Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders
The deaths of three Indian seafarers in a US strike on a commercial oil tanker has prompted public fury in India, and added new friction to an already strained phase between New Delhi and Washington. On Wednesday morning, the M/T Settebello was transiting the Sea of Oman, laden with Iranian oil, when a US aircraft… Read More Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran / 3 भारतीयों की हत्या! मोदी कर रहे धन्यवाद.. ट्रम्प के पास कौनसा सीक्रेट?
