International Women’s Day Has a Radical History Rooted in Socialism
International Women’s Day has a very long progressive history that’s often not well known.
A New Dawn? Can India Reverse Its Staggering Inequality?
How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent schooling, work, and pensions when they age?
The Unifying Project of Constitutional Nationalism, or What Does it Mean to Really Belong?
All of India’s diversities exist because of multilingualism and multiculturalism, and arguably, what binds all of us is “Indianness”, which is the outcome of our allegiance to the Indian Constitution.
Inside India’s Largest Detention Centre: ‘It Is Better to Die Than Live With No Hope’
The Matia transit camp in Lower Assam currently holds 69 ‘foreigners’, along with 300 people arrested as part of the state’s crackdown on child marriage.
Muslim Women’s Identity Amidst Religion and the State
Why does the State always have a protectionist stance toward Muslim women? The Muslim woman has always been a pawn in the hands of the community and now the State.
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Dedicated to God, Brutalised by Men
On paper the devadasi system is banned. Yet, across South India, it continues to cast a long shadow of violence in the lives of Dalit women.
Modi Govt Allowed Adani Coal Deals it Knew Were ‘Inappropriate’
The Indian government granted an extraordinary favour to controversial tycoon Gautam Adani, boosting his coal business, documents reveal.
Women’s Movement in Bakur and Rojava has Made Historic Advances for the Rights of Women
PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s words, “without freedom of women, society cannot be free”, further a deeper understanding of what a true revolution must entail. This can be seen in Rojava, where one can see the enormous beauty of a society in which women are empowered to rule their own lives.
Food Giants Paid $53.5 bn to Shareholders, 345 mn Went Hungry in 2 Years
The world’s biggest food corporations in grain, fertiliser, meat and dairy sectors paid $53.5 billion to shareholders in 2020-22, while the number of people facing food insecurity increased from 135 million in 53 countries to 345 million in 82 countries over the same period.
From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public Debt Today and in the History of Capitalism
This interview helps to understand the part played by debt and its mechanisms in the extraction of resources of the South by the North at an international level, and in the transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich within each society.