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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Book Review: ‘Japanese Management, Indian Resistance—The Struggles of Maruti Suzuki Workers.’ This book by Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar must be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India, and also all Japanese people involved with human rights.
The work of Brazilian philosopher-educator Paulo Freire continues to have great relevance in the world today.
Gaddafi’s projects would have liberated the continent from the dominance of Western centres of power and monopoly, transforming global economic structures and inspiring other regions in the Global South to “unite, organize and fight”. And so NATO intervened, to overthrow Gaddafi.
On the 12th commemoration of Fukushima, one must wonder about the human species. Continuing to operate these dangerously deteriorated machines of mass murder while suppressing renewables is the 21st century definition of suicidal insanity.
There was a General Strike in Greece on March 16 for rail safety. An activist in Athens explains why.
The African continent’s refusal to toe the Western line on the New Cold War – its calls for peace negotiations in Ukraine, its reconfiguration of international partners – suggests that a different world order is possible: one in which Africa is no longer beholden to the ‘united West’.
For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s MST has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation of fallow lands. A report from MST land in the state of Paraná, where landless workers have built their own homes, schools, farms, and cooperatives.
In Caracas, an army of self-trained women are working to build their own homes while they transform the reality around them.
Following the collapse of the USSR and European socialism roughly 35 years ago, the US sought to crush Cuba through a merciless blockade. Cuba turned this dangerous situation around, thanks to the efforts of committed revolutionaries like Pedro Ross, who helped found the workers’ parliaments.
Amina S., a French entrepreneur and activist who had to leave France because of the discrimination she faced for wearing the hijab, discusses the intersection of secularism, democracy, cultural nationalism and individual liberty.
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