Indian Women are Sold & Resold for Marriage, Sexual Slavery, Child-Bearing, Cheap Labour
On the continuing abuse and exploitation of women and minor girls from impoverished eastern states trafficked to fill the gap in states with a skewed sex ratio.
When It Rains, It Pours Misery
As extreme rains, alternating with prolonged dry spells, wreak havoc on the kharif crop, small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha are facing acute distress that will only get worse in the months ahead.
Africa Confronts the Food, Fertilizer, and Climate Crisis
Interview with economist Timothy A. Wise on the need for Africa to reduce dependence on fossil-fuel-based fertilizer, which has been heavily promoted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, a project of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations.
Capitalism | COVID19 | Economy | Online Blog
As Gig Economy Grows, Its Toll on Workers Mounts
Not only is the gig economy devastating its workers, but there are ongoing efforts to expand the model to nearly all American workplaces. It is estimated that 36 percent of the US workforce are gig, contract, freelance and temporary workers. And the numbers are only growing.
Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
U.S.-supplied weaponry has fuelled conflicts, enabled human-rights violations, and helped destabilize not just individual countries but entire regions.
Millions Suffer as Junk Food Industry Rakes in Profit
A recent study found that increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. And Brazilians consume far less of these products than countries with high incomes, implying the impact would be higher in richer nations.
Why Foxconn Workers in China Walked Off the Job
In late October, rumours about mass infections of COVID-19 led to workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou jumping over factory walls to escape and head home. Eli Friedman talks about the history of Foxconn’s treatment of workers in China, and says that the exodus is a form of collective action in the absence of independent unions.
When Will Climate Change Become the Crucial Issue in American Elections?
The perilous heating of this planet is the topic that will, sooner or later, leave all others in the dust. New cold wars and hot wars will make no sense whatsoever in such a future. Either attention to climate change will leave all else in the dust or climate change itself will leave us all in the dust!
Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
“You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train”: Remembering the People’s Historian Howard Zinn at 100
Remembering the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August.
Africa | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
“We Didn’t Import Our Revolution”
The first English translation of this interview. Thomas Sankara (1949-1987), who is sometimes referred to as the “African Che Guevara,” was the socialist leader of the Burkinabé Revolution from 1983 until his assassination in 1987.