Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan Until Today: Part 1
This study covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.
Five Years of UP’s Animal Slaughter Ban: Poor Pushed Out of Meat Trade, Meat Out of Meals
UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s closure of abattoirs, meat shops has left butchers without livelihood, animal rearers have been forced to end their business and consumers have been forced to reduce or stop eating meat. Despite an Allahabad high court order, most major UP cities do not have authorised state-run slaughterhouses.
Behind the Antibody Cocktail Rush, Mega Profits for Private Hospitals and Pharma Companies
With a surge in Covid-19 cases, private hospitals in Mumbai are seeing a rise in admissions for the monoclonal antibody treatment, despite many patients not needing it. The hospitals are making large, easy profits on the treatment.
What Is ‘Formalisation’ of the Economy?
The informal sector is not made up of tax dodgers but largely of enterprises struggling to survive. It will take a structural transformation for the informal to become formal. The recent contraction of the informal was only a pandemic-induced shock.
Pitting People against Nature
India’s conservation laws, based on pseudoscience, have criminalised people’s defence against marauding wildlife. Democratically-constituted local bodies empowered to protect nature will be a more just way of nursing our heritage to a healthy state.
Call for Indianisation is a Fallacy, if Not a Fraud on the Constitution
We Indians have never understood the mandate of the Constitution either as one for Indianization or a destruction of legal pluralism and personal laws as long as they are not inconsistent with the composite constitutional value-system. Instead of a call to further constitutionalize, any call to Indianize or decolonize is a fallacy, if not a fraud on the Constitution.
A Historicity of Savarkar’s Rehabilitation Project
An aggressive campaign is under way to rehabilitate VD Savarkar as a legendary Indian nationalist and great freedom fighter who spent 50 years in the Cellular Jail. A comparison of these claims with the writings of Savarkar and record of his activities available in archival records.
The End of Growth? The Capitalist Economy & Ecological Crisis
Socialists should be clear that the cause of the climate crisis is the capitalist system and its incessant drive to accumulate profits, and that the only way to solve the crisis is to struggle for a socialist world where human need, including a sustainable relation to nature, comes before private greed.
Profits Over People: Why Weren’t the Vaccine Manufacturers Nationalized?
During a period of national emergency, the U.S government nationalizes key business sectors. It did so during World War I and II, and in subsequent periods of national crises. So, why has death of 800,000-plus Americans from Covid not pushed the U.S. government to nationalize key pharmaceutical manufactures?
The U.S. Is Intentionally Strangling Venezuela
In the world of high politics, suffering is an instrument of statecraft, and US officials are trying to strangle the Venezuelan Revolution with sanctions. Above all, they fear the radical ambitions of the popular classes, which once transformed Venezuela and may do so again