This book, based on the doctoral thesis of Umar Khalid, activist and scholar detained without trial since September 2020, examines two hundred years of colonial and postcolonial governance in Singhbhum, in what is today the Indian state of Jharkhand. Khalid's central argument is that the British did not destroy indigenous institutions but incorporated and transformed them, intensifying existing hierarchies rather than imposing wholly alien ones. Anand Teltumbde welcomes the book's archival (…)

Thirty years ago, the Taller de Formación Política [Workshop for Political Education or TFP] published the book Water in Puerto Rico: Crisis of Nature or Social Crisis? Many of the problems pointed out in that text have worsened and continue to threaten our society. Many of the criticisms, complaints, and warnings that were made have been confirmed. Unfortunately for the country, everything that was pointed out about the super-aqueduct project has also been borne out. Likewise, the (…)

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old president of Nicaragua, announced on July 19, the anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, that, “There will be no more elections.”. Speaking to a cheering crowd of as many as 100,000 people in the Plaza of the Revolution, Ortega said his government was abolishing elections and political parties to present a U.S. inspired counterrevolution that would bring to power the former dictator Anastasio Somoza's followers. “The history of parties created by the (…)