What does Karnataka’s New Bill for Platform-Based Gig Workers Entail?
A critical appraisal and some suggestions on the Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2023.
How a Megadam Disrupts the Flow of Water – and Money
In Northeast India, a controversial hydropower dam moves toward completion – causing great uncertainty for downstream dwellers whose livelihoods depend on the river.
Vizag Steel: A People’s Steel Plant and the Struggle Against Privatisation
Privatising Visakhapatnam Steel undermines the interests of Andhra Pradesh and the larger cause of social justice. For the past four years, the people of Andhra Pradesh and steel plant workers have waged a continuous struggle to protect it.
Serbia Student Revolt – 2 Articles
Last week, a mass protest movement in Serbia brought down the country’s government, inaugurating the biggest challenge to the more than decade-old rule of the authoritarian president, Aleksandar Vučić.
Despite the Genocide, Palestinians Continue to Prove Israel Wrong – 4 Articles
‘The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance against Erasure’; ‘The Life Expectancy of Palestinians Fell by 11.5 years in the First Three Months of the Genocide’; ‘The Western Way of Genocide’; and: ‘In the West Bank, Another “Gaza Genocide” Unfolds’.
It’s the Party, Stupid: Sri Lanka’s Political Turnaround
The new National People’s Power government, with 67% of parliamentary seats, shows every sign of intending to reduce corruption, obey the law, respect expertise, negotiate political solutions to pressing problems and generally rule in accord with the instincts of the educated, middle class professionals who provide so much of its ideological and organisational heft.
The Ayacucho Commune: A Fishing Community on the Orinoco
In this next article of this series of articles on Venezuela’s communes, fisherfolk discuss the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.
Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria
‘After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria’: Sudden regime collapse shows persistence of the Arab revolutions amid challenges from both local and outside forces of imperialism and reaction. Also: ‘The Lion Has Fallen!’
Debt and Austerity – the IMF’s Legacy of Structural Violence in the Global South
In light of the mass anti-austerity protests in Kenya and Argentina in 2024, a historical analysis of the neo-colonial relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and these two countries.
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Trump Is Not as Invincible as He Seems – 2 Articles
Trump’s proposals express the harsh reality that U.S. imperialism is experiencing an inexorable decline. Also: While Trump is making a big show of its power and executing a shock-and-awe blitzkrieg-style assault on working people and democracy with a flood of executive orders, Trump’s government is not as invincible as it might seem.