Global Left Midweek — August 26, 2026
Portside
Elections galore
Elections galore
Elections galore
Cockroach Solidarity From Abroad: Rebuild an Inclusive, Secular, Democratic India, Brick by Brick
The Wire (India)
The cockroach youth uprising has already pushed through collective fear, and changed what Indians of all ages believe is possible.
The Latest Front in Stephen Miller’s Personal War
The New York Times
How Stephen Miller’s personal and political war on the 14th Amendment conflicts with the larger Reconstruction story and the vision of an egalitarian society for all who claim this nation.
“Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” From U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany
Democracy Now!
Award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her latest feature film, Origin, which explores discrimination in the United States and beyond through a dramatization of the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
Friday Nite Videos | January 26, 2024
Portside
The Verdict Is In: Trump Must Pay $$$. Animation: Trump Asserts Absolute Immunity. UAW Endorses President Biden. Origin | Movie. Have You Been to Jail for Justice? | Song.
Origin | Movie
A docudrama based on the life and work of author Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns, Origin). Now in theaters.
books
Lower-Caste Life in India Is Illustrated in a New Short-Story Collection
Jacobin
Dalit activist and writer Gogu Shyamala’s debut collection of short stories, Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But . . . , explores caste, tradition, and exploitation in contemporary India without romanticism.
At the brink of a new world system: imperialism, race and caste
MR Online
It is thus imperative upon us to look at the concept of race more closely, understand its link with imperialism and critically examine any comparisons with the system of caste. One can do no better than to turn to Oliver Cromwell Cox.
books
Caste, Race — And Class
New Left Review
New York Times Pulitzer writer Isabel Wilkerson was widely applauded for two books on caste, using racial discrimination analysis that flourished in 1940s academia. But does her U.S. model explain other forms of discrimination internationally?
Media Bits and Bytes - Going Global
Portside
The media narrative on Cuba, what happens when Big Tech and governments collide, and more buzz
Spread the word