Modi’s Misplaced Priorities: Auctioning Assets to Meet Defence Needs

Modi’s Misplaced Priorities: Auctioning Assets to Meet Defence Needs

B. Arjun Six years back, Prime Minister Modi embarked on selling the “great power” dream to the Indian masses. In 2014, Modi announced his intention to make India a “leading power” in the international order. He assumed that the country was in a perfect position to manage global affairs to serve national interests. Many Rashtriya…

A Blueprint for Protecting and Improving Health in Critical Times

A Blueprint for Protecting and Improving Health in Critical Times

                                                                                                                                                Bharat Dogra While social, economic and technological progress has made possible significant improvements in health to a certain extent and within certain limits, at the same time it cannot and should not be ignored that several regressive factors have also been in at work and in some contexts these have been becoming more dangerous…

Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs: Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession

Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs: Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession

Fred Magdoff Land grabs—whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India—are now in the news constantly.(1) For example, in July 2013 the Colombian ambassador to the United States resigned over his participation in a…

A New Progressive Movement Scores Landslide Local Victories in Colombia
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A New Progressive Movement Scores Landslide Local Victories in Colombia

Will Freeman Editorial note: In October 2019, Colombia held its first local and regional elections since the 2016 signing of the peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended a gruesome half century of civil war. The right wing suffered significant defeats in the local elections. Among the…

Haitians Commemorate Liberator Dessalines with Huge Mobilisations
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Haitians Commemorate Liberator Dessalines with Huge Mobilisations

Courtesy: Green Left Weekly Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Haiti on October 17 to commemorate the national revolutionary and liberator Jean-Jacques Dessalines and to demand the resignation of United States-backed president Jovenel Moïse. Several huge mobilisations occurred across the country demanding an end to Moïse’s anti-people, corrupt and neoliberal government….

Chile and Her History of Western Interference
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Chile and Her History of Western Interference

Peter Koenig Chile is experiencing the largest and most serious political crisis and public unrest throughout Santiago and the country’s major cities, since the return to ‘democracy’ in 1990. A weeklong of fire, teargas and police brutality, left at least 20 people dead, thousands arrested and injured. More than 1.2 million people protested on October…

Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency
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Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency

Courtesy: Telesur On October 24, after counting 99.9% of votes, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia (TSE) declared Evo Morales as the official winner of the presidential elections held in the country on October 20. Morales, of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), received 47.07% of votes and a lead of 10.56% over the second runner,…

The Political Tide Sweeping South America Won’t Accept Predatory Capitalism
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The Political Tide Sweeping South America Won’t Accept Predatory Capitalism

Vijay Prashad The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it was drawn on the walls in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and in a more sober register, it is mentioned in a seminar in Mexico City, Mexico. Elections and protests rattle the continent. The protest by…