To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers
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To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers

It is possible to push Joe Biden to the “left” on health care, climate, the police, and other issues. That requires understanding the ways that past movements have won concessions from Democratic presidents, and the reasons why we mostly failed to do so with Barack Obama.

Coronavirus Has Been Disastrous, Says Red Cross, But Global Warming Poses Greater Threat
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Coronavirus Has Been Disastrous, Says Red Cross, But Global Warming Poses Greater Threat

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to address it.

India Needs More of Love and Not Hatred: The Falsehood of ‘Love Jihad’
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India Needs More of Love and Not Hatred: The Falsehood of ‘Love Jihad’

We are hurtling towards a morbid claustrophobic talibanized society, the ruins of which are too grave to be redeemed. Let us hope we soon realize that what this country needs in these times of heightened religious polarization is more of love and not hatred.

Nationwide General Strike on 26 November to See Participation of 25 Crore Workers and Farmers
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Nationwide General Strike on 26 November to See Participation of 25 Crore Workers and Farmers

The general strike of November 26 may not only be one of the biggest and most effective strikes to have taken place in the last several years; the farmers’ march to Delhi, planned to coincide with the strike, would take this protest into hitherto uncharted territory.