PRAGOTI

Ertugrul Ahmet Tonak (Professor of Economics, Istanbul Bilgi University) interviews Vijay Prashad (Professor of International Studies, Trinity College) about the Turkish edition of his book, Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (LeftWord, 2012): Arap Bahari, Libya Kisi (Yordam Kitap, 2012). The interview first appeared in Turkish in Birgün, a leftist daily newspaper.

Stanly Johny reviews Arab Spring, Libyan Winter for Pragoti.

In the backdrop of the economic crisis which continues unabated in the US and Europe, interest in the work of Karl Marx is witnessing a revival. The three volumes of Capital is Marx’s masterpiece, which contains his political economy critique of capitalism. In order to make sense of what is happening to capitalism today, it is worthwhile to revisit and engage with the issues raised by Capital.

Acres of news space has been devoted to the finding and the ultimate killing of wanted fugitive and global terrorist, Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Everywhere the same question is being asked - how did the Pakistan security apparatus manage to keep the most wanted terrorist in safe haven in an area close to its capital hoodwinking seekers from the United States for nearly a decade. But the more important question seems to be seldom asked - what on earth was the Pakistan security establishment's calculus in providing safe haven at all to the likes of Osama Bin Laden?

In the wake of the latest wikileaks' cables release in The Hindu, Manmohan Singh has no more moral right to continue as the country's prime minister and so do the rest of the pack of thieves masquerading as cabinet ministers and political leaders in the Congress and the UPA.