Capital versus Commons, Part 4: Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor.
Chile’s Feminists are the Memory of the Future
In 2019, Chile exploded in a mass uprising against authoritarian neoliberalism. What role did the Chilean feminist movement play in fomenting this revolt?
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Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
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Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part I)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
Retired Govt, Army Officers Recommend Nobel Peace Prize for Samyukt Kisan Morcha
The Kirti Kisan Forum, comprising retired IAS, IPS and Army officers as well as civil society members, noted that the peaceful protests brought about unity among the country’s masses and provided a cause which they could all rally behind.
The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
Nagaland Killings: AFSPA has No Place in a Democratic Country. It Must Go
The very existence of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act undermines constitutional principles such as the right to life and liberty.
Anniversary of Babri Mosque Demolition Reminds of the Egregious Violation of Law and Resolve to Protect Constitution
The political formations and other organisations who were deviously engaged in the destroying Babri Masjid on 6th December 1992 are celebrating the day as Saurya Divas. In doing so they are celebrating the “egregious violation of the rule of law”.
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World Inequality Report: India Stands Out as a Very Unequal Country
According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the levels of wealth and income inequalities in India are among the worst that prevail in the leading countries of the world.