Law, Code and Exploitation
Digital capitalism has accelerated the precarisation of work, eroded worker’s rights, expanded previous forms of exploitation and developed new ways of surveilling and controlling workers.
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What You Call Love Is Unpaid Work
Women and girls, an ILO study shows, carry out three quarters of the unpaid care work that is required to maintain families and society. If those who perform unpaid care work received the minimum wage in their respective countries, the wage bill would amount to $11 trillion, 15% of global GDP.
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Why People Flocked to Hitler, and Why the Nazis Believed ‘Here There Is No Why’
Theodore Abel’s ‘Why Hitler Came Into Power’ is a unique and frightening text from within the minds and consciousness of people who went on to become Nazis.
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Maulana Madani and the Flawed Logic of Religious Morality Determining What’s Best for Girls
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind chief is right when he says higher education is the only way to empower the community, but his attempt to link moral behaviour with co-education deserves contempt and outright rejection.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | Socialism | USA
How Ernesto Guevara Became ‘Che’: The Motorcycle Diaries Revisited
In 1951 when Ernesto launched his motorcycle adventure, he wanted to be a swashbuckling hero, not a Marxist revolutionary or a guerrilla fighter. On the road, he became another person. He decided that “the poor” were the “unsung heroes” of Latin America.
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End Is Near: Save India from Climate Catastrophe
Will a rising sea submerge India’s coastal cities and villages in the future? Will climate change affect our monsoon, and the floods and droughts linked to it?
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Farmers Hold National Convention, Announce Bharat Bandh on Sept. 25: Five Articles
The two-day long All India Farmers Convention concluded with a call for Bharat Bandh on Sept 25, 2021; Resolutions passed at the convention; Preparations on for Muzaffarnagar Kisan Mahapanchyat; Karnal lathi-charge; Adani in the Eye of the Storm as Himachal Apple Prices Crash.
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Designed to Kill? Why Go-Ahead for 7 Hydel Projects in Uttarakhand Is Malafide
Will the three ministries – environment, power, jal shakti – who approved these contentious projects, be held accountable for any future ecological disaster?
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Ladakh Stand-off Has Exposed India’s Failed Nuclear Deterrence against China
During the Ladakh stand-off, China not only walked through India’s conventional military capabilities, but also threw its purported nuclear deterrence out of the reckoning.
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A Plea for Liberal Education
I see liberating education as the cultivation of awakened intelligence—not instrumental reasoning. This means the possibility of inner flowering—the integral development of reason and intuition, brain and heart, science and aesthetics, body and soul, and thinking and feeling.
