Women Thwarted At Every Step in Search of Justice Even as Gender Crimes Spike
4,28,278 cases of crimes against women were registered across India in 2021. However, the on-ground situation is worse than anyone’s expectations.
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Extractivism in the Anthropocene
In the Anthropocene, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
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Peace Is Not Our Profession: The Madness of Nuclear Warfare, Alive and Well in America
Collectively, it seems that we may be on the verge of returning to a nightmarish past, where we lived in fear of a nuclear war that would kill us all, the tall and the small, and especially the smallest among us, our children, who really are our future.
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Surrounded: An Ethnography of New Colonialism
A recent study put the pillage of Africa at $152 trillion dollars lost between 1960-2010 from just unequal exchange. Yet why are Africans content to celebrate small things such as black faces in office, some native capitalists, associations with former colonisers, football, and the penetration of European consumer ostentation?
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The Foxconn Uprising in Zhengzhou
Foxconn’s case is extraordinary because it is an extreme case in which the contradiction between capital accumulation and people’s social reproduction has led to a massive crisis. It is also ordinary because such a contradiction, is a built-in feature of our current global capitalist system
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Xi of Arabia and the Petroyuan Drive
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era. But it’s more complicated than that.
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Workers Suffer High Levels of Stress and Alienation; and Workplace Accidents – 3 Articles
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace Report 2022 reveals high levels of alienation and stress faced by workers; 120 million occupational accidents, of which 2.1 lakh are fatal accidents, occur annually at workplaces worldwide; Also: WHO-ILO Report: Work-related Causes Kill 2 Million People Globally Each Year.
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Seeking Relief from Oppression, Peruvians Resist Castillo Removal and Wait
Peru’s rightwing-dominated Congress has removed President Castillo from office. He has been arrested and is now in prison. Ordinary Peruvians have mobilized throughout Peru, blockaded over 100 highways, occupied five airports, and held rallies in various cities, protesting against his removal.
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I Witnessed the Truth about Nicaragua
The author went on a 10 day journey, and witnessed the reality of modern agriculture in Nicaragua and also celebrations commemorating the 43rd anniversary of their revolution. She writes about her experience.
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Shelley’s Revolutionary Poetry
Shelley was probably the greatest English Romantic poet. The critic Harold Bloom described him as “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem”. But he was much more than that: he was also a passionate revolutionary.
