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Courtesy: News Click Joan Robinson, the well-known economist, had drawn attention to a fundamental difference between foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector and in a sector that extracted an exhaustible resource, such as a mineral product. This difference can be illustrated with an example. Suppose in both sectors profits worth Rs 100 are…
Samir Amin It is not by chance that the very title of this contribution links the return of fascism on the political scene with the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Fascism is not synonymous with an authoritarian police regime that rejects the uncertainties of parliamentary electoral democracy. Fascism is a particular political response to the challenges…
Cecilia Nowell The chambers of the state legislature in Oaxaca, Mexico, exploded with shouts of joy and rage on September 25 as the region voted to decriminalise first-trimester abortions in a 24–10 vote. In the gallery, Catholic protesters chanted, “Assassins! Assassins!” while awaiting the vote. But when the decision was announced, feminist activists, clad in…
Courtesy: Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current The state of emergency, transfer of the government to the city of Guayaquil, absurd accusations of interference by Venezuela, military deployment, curfew, assassinations at the hands of the security forces—all this did not deter the workers, women, students, teachers, professionals, peasants and indigenous people of Ecuador, the ‘drones’, as…
Pankaj Mishra In 2015, in South Africa, where Mohandas Gandhi lived from 1893 to 1914, a statue of him was defaced by protesters. The following year, the University of Ghana agreed to remove Gandhi’s statue from its campus, after an online campaign with the (misspelled) hashtag #Ghandimustfall charged the Indian leader with racism against black…
John Bellamy Foster The following is a transcript of a talk delivered by Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for the Econvergence Conference held in Portland, Oregon on October 2, 2009. It may be hard, but I want you to try to think back a decade, actually slightly less than a decade. In 2000, we…
Jonathan White There is understandably a lot of public discussion around the issue of what’s increasingly called precarious work. For some, this is evidence of the emergence of something qualitatively new in our economy. A fundamental shift has happened, the argument goes, toward a ‘gig economy’ in which a whole set of assumptions about the…
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), protested in Delhi University against the inclusion of “objectionable material on the RSS” that portrayed them in a bad light. Terming some of the content of the syllabus of history, political science, English and sociology desciplines as “anti-RSS”, ABVP staged a…
Colin Todhunter Mad cow disease is a fatal epidemic neurological syndrome created by the agricultural industry, farmers and food processors. In 1987, an epidemic of a fatal neurological disease in cows suddenly appeared in Britain. Cows became uncoordinated, staggered around, collapsed and finally died. The disease was called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) because there were…
Pankaj Mishra (This article has been edited by us for reasons of space. The full article can be read on Janata blog.) In 2015, in South Africa, where Mohandas Gandhi lived from 1893 to 1914, a statue of him was defaced by protesters. The following year, the University of Ghana agreed to remove Gandhi’s statue…
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