The road to sovereignty: reading Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones
The New Comrade pays respectful tribute to Sayyid Qutub on the occasion of 60th anniversary of his maryrdom on August 29, 2026 Sayyid Qutb’s ‘Milestones’ (‘Ma’alim fi at-Tariq’) — first published in Arabic in Cairo in 1964 by Dar al-Shorouq — is one of the most consequential works of Islamic political thought produced in the […]
Satan Bibi: The Memoir that sanctifies ethnic cleansing
Benjamin Netanyahu’s autobiography, Bibi: My Story, is not merely a memoir of political survival; it is a monumental testament to the victory of the particular over the universal in the 21st century CE. It serves as the definitive textual rebuttal to the ethical lineage of Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Isaac Deutscher, and Edward Said. Where […]
India’s procedural coup: lesson in subversion
In the global vocabulary of political science, the concept of a power grab evokes vivid and unmistakable images: tanks rolling through city streets, presidential palaces being stormed, and generals proclaiming martial law on national television. It is traditionally understood as an event, a violent rupture in the political fabric, an overt and extra-constitutional seizure of […]