Bengal The Story Behind the Arrest of Activists Objecting to Deocha Pachami Coal Mine
While the protest meeting itself was peaceful and without police presence, trouble started as the protesters returned home and nine people were arrested.
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Withdraw the Proposed Coal Mining Project by Adani at Gondalpura, Jharkhand
If the coal project moves ahead despite the villagers’ resistance, it will decimate villages, farmlands and forests, and pollute the Badmahi river, an important lifeline of the region. It will also have severe climatic impacts over time, including erratic crop cycles and unseasonal rains.
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Navigating Our Humanity: Four Lessons from Ukraine
Even when the West expresses genuine human solidarity with Ukraine, we cannot overlook its racist context and Europe-centric bias. The West’s solidarity is reserved for whoever is willing to join its bloc, and is not found when violence is directed against non-Europeans.
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Russia and Ukraine: Notes From Berlin
I am against killing and destruction. I will therefore join in a march for peace – but not in step with the greedy, violence-hungry forces who have taken up the Ukraine issue to pursue their own disastrous goals.
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War Torn: Continental Drifters and the Nationless Nation
The number of people displaced by war, general violence, or human-rights violations last year swelled to a staggering 84 million, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. If they formed their own country, it would be the 17th largest in the world, slightly bigger than Iran or Germany.
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Submission to the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights
This submission comes at a crucial juncture in Pakistan’s socio-economic history. The Imran Khan government was elected on the manifesto to fight corruption and debt burden. However, it has miserably failed to arrest the galloping public debt and its adverse impacts on the working classes.
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Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn’s Political Assassination
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article dissects various aspects of this campaign.
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Climate Change Is Altering the Dynamics of the Indian Ocean in Enormous Ways
Heatwaves in the waters are reducing monsoonal rains over central India, while the rapid warming of the ocean’s northern portions is intensifying cyclones.
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Socialist Planning Could Reverse Sobering Findings in New UN Climate Report
We need a socialist planned economy that can implement a long term plan to make the transformations that are needed for our very survival: a rapid transition off fossil fuels and a restoration of ecosystems to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, restore the water cycle and cool the climate.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
The Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others that sprung up in response to Hugo Chávez’s call to build communes as “the basic cells of socialism.”
