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Separating electricity from the wires that transmit is a crazy dream of a few market fundamentalists. The Modi government is attempting this failed policy again, and state-owned distribution companies and consumers will suffer.
Amartya Sen in ‘Poverty and Famines’ attributes starvation to many other variables rather than just a decline in availability of food. He uses the failure of exchange entitlements to study famines. We can apply this theory to explain the hunger crisis in India.
2 articles: Profits Before People: The Facebook Papers Expose Tech Giant Greed; and: Internal Documents Show Facebook Wavered in Checking Misinformation, Hate Speech in India: Report.
A survey of what Afghanistan looked like when “global Britain” first showed up on the streets of Kabul, and the nearly two centuries since, could help clear up some muddled thinking about Afghanistan today.
In order for AfricanBlack people in one part of the Horn of Africa to be free, we need the entire region and, frankly, all African peoples to be united. As Pan-Africanists, HOA PALS understands that we have a responsibility to each other as African Black people.
As the pandemic continues to devastate America’s poorest, coalitions of unhoused people are finding inspiration in the powerful history of homeless organizing.
After his unjust incarceration, which was part of the state’s larger counterrevolution against progressive movements in the U.S. and abroad, Mumia continued his work as a militant journalist live from death row. Review of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s book, ‘Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?’
Knowledge, scientific discoveries, and technical processes ought to be common goods of humankind. However, Big Pharma is engaged in private appropriation of knowledge and techniques, notably through patents, enabling it to rake in colossal profits, esp. during the corona pandemic.
There was no heroic adventure in Columbus’ expedition to the Americas, only bloodshed. Columbus Day should not be a celebration.
Women’s work was not only “reproductive”, from the first civilisations it has always been very diverse. However, it was, and it continues to this day to be, moulded by class relations. Exploring the role of women in the ancient world in this fascinating account of life in Mesopotamia.
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