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The situation of Dalits in India is akin to the African-Americans in the US in a number of ways; however there are no protests in India similar to the outrage witnessed there.
The Corona Pandemic and subsequent lockdown in Philippines have been used by the President Duterte to push for passage of Anti Terrorism Bill, to intimidate civil society and curb any resistance – very similar to what the NDA is doing in India.
Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped capitalism make the effects of its cyclical downturns socially tolerable.
Chomsky talks about the unprecedented scope and scale of the protests against the police murder of George Floyd, and why Donald Trump’s refusal to act to stop the impending catastrophe of climate change makes him “the worst criminal in human history.”
John Bellamy Foster [The following was published as part of roundtable in answer to the question: What is the main lesson that environmental movements should carry forward from the coronavirus pandemic? —Ed.] In his classic ecological work, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Frederick Engels observed that “in nature…
Sankara Narayanan There is a general tendency to name anyone questioning the activities of the armed forces engaged in war with an enemy nation as anti-national. This labelling also extends to the reporting of commission and omission of the armed forces operating against native Indian combatants in conflict zones such as Jammu & Kashmir, North-East…
It poses a grave threat to the fundamental right to quality education for all India’s children that is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Beijing saw a threat in New Delhi’s steady improvement of borderland infrastructure and renewed Indian claims on disputed territory.
India’s dependence on imperialist China in the economic field is so complex and deep-rooted that the call for boycott of Chinese products is going to be well-nigh impossible to implement in the immediate future.
NAPM condems Centre’s announcement of auction of coal blocks for commercial mining, saying it will destroy bio-diverse rich, adivasi heartlands; UN Chief also calls upon countries to make investments in non-polluting energy sources.
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