By Rainer Forst
On June 18, Jürgen Habermas, who has had a lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences at Goethe University, turns 95, and our academic community, of which he is still an active member, sends its warmest...
In the realm of intellectual pursuits, scholars often leave an enduring imprint, even silently, on the socio-cultural landscape that transcends their mortal existence. One such exemplary soul who departed from our midst a quarter of a century ago was...
In the complex realm of contemporary Russia, social life has become a challenging cauldron of ideas, dissent, and resistance. Under the regime of President Vladimir Putin, the nation’s intellectual circles have traversed a disturbing path, marked by a delicate...
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD
June 25 is the 92nd birth anniversary of the almost forgotten Mandal Messiah
On June 25, a celebration meeting of V. P. Singh’s 92 birth anniversary meeting has been planned by several pro-social justice organisations at the...
Image credit Francisco Anzola via Flickr CC BY 2.0.
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
In the extensive mythologizing of Nelson...
“Fascism is generating a social condition of fear and dreadful silence,” according to former Rajya Sabha MP and leader of Loktantrik Janata Dal. He was inaugurating the sesquicentennial anniversary (150th birthday) of Vakkom Moulavi, social reformer and founder of ‘Swadeshabhimani,’...
By Mahdi Blaine
Photo Credit: Dubdem on Flickr CC BY 2.0.
As a child in the 1960s, my mother would routinely pass a secondary school on her way home in downtown Algiers named Lycée Frantz Fanon. To her, the name was...
By David Barsamian – Noam ChomskyCover for the book Notes on Resistance by Noam Chomsky and David BarsamianDavid Barsamian: What we are facing is often described as unprecedented — a pandemic, climate catastrophe and, always lurking off center stage,...
Kodiyeri’s stature as a political leader surpassed all other qualifications. His organisational skill was amazing and the party work was his metier. Indeed, the massive gathering to pay last respects to him in his home town was a vindication of his immense popularity and undisputed valour and appeal.
Michael Sergeyevich Gorbachev, MSB hereafter, the last president of the Soviet Union died on August 30, in Moscow. He was born on March 2 1931. President Putin of Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, paid his respects...
