Why Trump Caved to China and Huawei

Why Trump Caved to China and Huawei

Everything about the trade war between the United States and China is bewildering. The world’s two largest economies entered a titanic struggle with harsh words and high tariffs, sending shudders through the global economy. Hundreds of billions of dollars of goods on either side stood before tariff walls that seemed unbreachable. Truces would come out…

Socialist Party Holds Fifth National Biennial Conference

Socialist Party Holds Fifth National Biennial Conference

Press Release Pannalal Surana, President, SPI Summary of Resolutions Passed at the Conference: i) The Party urges the citizens to become fearless and not to be lured by petty allurement. It exhorts the people to mobilise to persuade the election commission to use paper ballot instead of EVM. It also demands electoral reforms like mentioning…

S. Raghunandana Declines Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

S. Raghunandana Declines Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Eminent theatre director from Karnataka S. Raghunandana on July 17 declined the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2018, a day after it was announced, in protest against incidents of “mob lynching in the name of God and religion” and the frequent attempts to stifle dissenting views of public intellectuals and activists. Full Text of S…

Massive Protests in Puerto Rico Seek an End to Colonisation

Massive Protests in Puerto Rico Seek an End to Colonisation

  The people of Puerto Rico have had enough. Over the past couple of days, the Boriquen people on the island and across the diaspora have been mobilising en masse to demand the resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló, and strengthening calls for the decolonisation of the island. Today (July 17), in San Juan, organisations have…

India’s College Students, Teachers Must Now Learn the Art of Unlearning
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India’s College Students, Teachers Must Now Learn the Art of Unlearning

Avijit Pathak “Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction,” said Ivan Illich. It is not easy to remain secure with power. The intoxication of power breeds insecurity. And hence, it is not surprising that each regime of power has its own discourse of education through which…

A Mountain That Will Not Bow Down to Corporate Loot

A Mountain That Will Not Bow Down to Corporate Loot

Shobha R. On May 15, Dadi Kadraka, an activist with the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (the Niyamgiri Protection Council or NSS) which has put up a relentless fight against the corporate destruction of the Dongria Kondhs’ revered god Niyamraja, was arrested from the Muniguda market in Rayagada. Human rights groups and local activists have condemned Kadraka’s…

India Opens its Own Onshore Financial Centre
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India Opens its Own Onshore Financial Centre

Neeti Biyani and Sakshi Rai   Income and wealth inequality in India is deepening. The current regime, despite its promises to tackle black money, has chosen a contradictory course of action which has bolstered financial secrecy in the country, further widening already existing structural inequalities. The extent of income and wealth inequality in India is…

40th Anniversary of the Sandinista Victory—But So Much More

40th Anniversary of the Sandinista Victory—But So Much More

Jorge Capelán and Stephen Sefton Forty years ago in 1979, a huge majority of Nicaraguans led by the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) overthrew the cruelest dictatorship in the Americas, a close ally of the United States. Ever since then, the US government has worked to destroy the FSLN. For forty years they have…