Modi Government’s Biggest Scam: Privatisation of LIC
It is going to have disastrous consequences for the crores of policy holders of the LIC; it is also going to adversely affect the Indian economy.
When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich
The insurrection in Brasília emerged from the same dynamic that produced the coup in Peru: wherein ‘centrist’ political forces are funded and brought to power in the Global South to ensure that their own citizens remain at the rear of the queue, while the wealthy tax-free bondholders of the Global North remain at the front.
While You Count Hours, They Count Billions
The richest 1% of the world now own nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together. These so-called ‘elite’ super-rich accumulated, or to be more precise, looted, nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020.
A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare on Humanity
Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers being forced out of agriculture? Mainly because of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock – the world’s biggest asset management firm – and the economic system they profit from and promote.
Beyond Vietnam and Into Today
In 1967, Martin Luther King publicly denounced not only the US war in Vietnam but the militarism that enabled the war and undermined American society. King’s sermon, delivered on April 4, 1967, was both powerful and prophetic. Its meaning and value exist today as much as they did 55 years ago.
End of Cold War Illusions
The emergence in our time of a New Cold War has naturally raised the question of whether the Old Cold War ever actually ended—or, from today’s perspective, how the New Cold War reemerged out of the embers of the Old.
The Trillion Dollar Silencer
Joan Roelofs’ new book The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States, starts with an important question: “Why is there so much acceptance and so little protest against our government’s illegal and immoral wars and other military operations?”
“News from Nowhere” — Building Communal Life in Venezuela
A look at the Venezuelan communes — a key force in an extended process of national liberation and social emancipation.
Remembering Afghanistan’s Revolutionary Experiment
A look at the achievements of the Saur (April) Revolution in Afghanistan of 1978, before it was overthrown by vicious jihadists backed by imperialist powers.
Requiem for a Dream: 100 Years After the Founding of the USSR
Everything that was criticised about the USSR, including the worst mistakes and unresolved problems of ‘real socialism’, are today the constant in the society we live in, magnified and multiplied many times over by the degeneration of the modern neoliberal capitalist world.