Revival or Continuing Depression in the Rural Areas? – Pt. 2
The absolute number of persons ‘employed’ in agriculture in 2019-20 rose a massive 17.3 per cent over the figure for 2018-19. But this is not a sign of prosperity but hardship.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog
Urdu Is So Popular with Indians – Why do Hindutva Backers Hate it So Much: 2 Articles
From Love Songs to Kurta Ads, Urdu Is Popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva Backers Hate it So Much?; Who Says Urdu Is a Muslim Language?
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Communalism | Culture | Economy | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog
Please Study Political Science – But Not Just to Sit for UPSC Exams
Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
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Taliban Is the Winner at Moscow Conference
The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the Taliban officials on Wednesday has produced an outcome that by far exceeds expectations. It is also clear – the Biden administration has lost the plot.
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Why do Bosses Keep Trying to Kill Us?
Bosses are constantly trying to find new ways—and holding on tight to old ways—to kill us. The struggle between life and health, on the one hand, and profit, on the other, is one of the defining features of work and life under capitalism.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
Why Record Numbers of Workers are Quitting and Striking
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs – because they have had enough. The resignations ought to be viewed hand in hand with another powerful current: a growing willingness by unionized workers to go on strike.
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The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We Upend the Art World’s Notion of What’s Good and What’s Right’
The art world rebels have spent 35 years fighting against sexism and inequality in the art world, and they have only just begun.
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The Killing of Gaddafi 10 Years Ago Has Resulted in the Death of the Nation of Libya and the Destruction of its People
There is nothing the West hates more than an Arab leader who opposes imperialism, Zionism and wants his country, and other Arab and African countries, to be self-sufficient. That is why NATO murdered Gaddafi.
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An Unrealized Political Possibility: Remembering the Grenada Revolution
The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world that a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible.
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Robbing the Soil, Part 3: Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
The third part of a series of articles on early capitalism and agriculture in England. This part discusses the protestant reformers who opposed the growing drive for privatization of land in the mid-1500s.
