In Ecuador, Indigenous-led National Strike Intensifies
Ten days into the strongest challenge yet to President Guillermo Lasso’s government, the protests only appear to be growing.
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Mining Resistance from Alberta to Argentina
A new report: ‘No Reprieve for Life and Territory: COVID-19 and Resistance to the Mining Pandemic’, looks at how governments and mining companies took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to push ahead with destructive mining projects, and the resistance mounted by people.
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The Era of Northern Hegemony Over Mexico Is Coming to an End
As AMLO consolidates his domestic position, he is gradually becoming active in international diplomacy, and taking independent stands on issues like the U.S. blockade of Cuba and its economic war against Venezuela, and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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The United States – the Pacific Bully
The US dominates the Pacific Islands to an extent China can never hope to achieve. With Australia’s support, the US is now engaged in an arms build-up in its Pacific territories and de-facto colonies in a little known boost to its containment of China.
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Capitalism’s World Economic, Political and Social Crises and the Road to Fight Back
The unprecedented globalization and monopoly concentration of capital that characterises capitalism today is driven by the inherent contradictions in the capitalist system itself.
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Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple – Stucke explains why the current proposals to regulate the massive power of these four companies fall short of what’s needed to deal with the threat they pose not only to our individual wellbeing, but to the whole economy — and to democracy itself.
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Let the People Make Their Own History
History has shown that the only way to achieve democracy, dignity and freedom is through mass struggle and organising. The people of Swaziland and Morocco continue to fight.
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Food Insecurity Increases in the U.S. While it Declines in Nicaragua Whose Socialist Government Has Defied U.S. Regime Change Designs
Despite being a wealthy nation, food insecurity in the USA remains high. In contrast, Nicaragua has worked on ending poverty for the last fifteen years. One of the most important strategies has been to develop food security, and today they have reached approximately 90% food security.
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Memoirs Which Recall Several Inspiring Aspects of Social and Ecological Movements
A recent book released on the first death anniversary of Sunderlal Bahuguna, titled Sankalp ke Himalaya, has recalled several inspiring episodes of social and ecological movements in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.
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Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) – Two Obituaries
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive and assimilative character of Urdu till his last breath.
