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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Millions of working-class families in the United States are so poor they can’t afford to shop at grocery stores any more. They’re buying food at 99 cent stores instead.
The iPhone is a technological wonder. Yet, how many of us users ever ask what are the conditions under which these iPhones are produced? What are these conditions doing to China’s workers, who assemble such wonderful instruments?
A review of three important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form, including questions related to job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment.
With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. However, the Chinese are acutely aware that with Western investment comes inequality. This interview examines the steps Beijing is beginning to take to tackle this.
Continuous protests shook the length and breadth of mountainous Nepal in September as the U.S. pushed again to chain this Asian country of 28 million people to its anti-China alliance through the Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC).
Eric Williams’ groundbreaking ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ placed slavery at the heart of the rise of capitalism and the British Empire. But in his subsequent career as a politician – he became the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago – Williams was hardly seen as an avatar of radicalism.
In an age when violence turns into a spectacle, mass shootings become normalized, and violence becomes the primary language of politics, it becomes all the more difficult and yet necessary to remember the horror and legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The second part of this series discusses how in two great waves of social change, landlords and capitalist farmers conquered the field for capitalist agriculture, incorporated the soil into capital, and created for the urban industries the necessary supplies of free and rightless proletarians.
Book Review: Purushottam Agrawal, ‘Akath Kahani Prem ki: Kabir ki kavita aur unka samay’.
Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory.
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