New Production Strategies: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune – Part II
A flagship commune in Venezuela responds to the US blockade by diversifying its production.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Romanticism and Revolution
During the gloom of the early nineteenth century, Shelley’s rage against injustice and revolutionary ardour burned with an intensity perhaps unmatched in the history of art.
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Re-presenting ‘We, the People’
It is indeed a long walk to freedom. Let’s hope that We, the People take charge and march ahead learning from the past, working in the present, addressing the challenges of the future.
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Less Jobs, Even Lesser Income Crushing People’s Lives; Women Worst Hit – Two Articles
Not only is the jobs situation dire, income from the few jobs that are surviving is falling. And: According to World Bank estimates, India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in the world.
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Workers Continue to Die in Sewers But the State Claims ‘NO DATA’
The Union social justice minister of state Ramdas Athawale recently stated that ‘No deaths have been reported due to manual scavenging’. DASAM condemns the statement made by the Minister and calls for the recognition of the hundreds of lives lost.
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Education under Neoliberal Capitalism
Under the present-day social structure of accumulation, education has been reduced to intellectual labor-power – a commodity whose consumption can potentially produce more value than the commodity itself contains.
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Modi Govt.: Promoting Superstititons, Attacking Scientific Temper – Two Articles
Scientists and Rationalists Respond to IGNOU’s New Astrology Course; ABVP Members Disrupt Webinar on Achievement of Scientific Temper.
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Why Anganwadi and ASHAs are Essential Workers and Not Volunteers
Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers are technically volunteers and therefore paid an honorarium below the minimum wage, but actually they are essential workers, who managed the State’s on-ground pandemic response. Also: 1.93 lakh posts of Anganwadi workers lying vacant across country.
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Two Years Since Abrogation of Article 370: Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir
This executive summary of the third report issued by the Forum details several issues from civilian security to freedom of media, speech and information as well as health, employment, land, demography and identity rights.
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Assam & Mizoram CMs Clashed, But it’s Minorities Who Suffer in the Northeast
It’s the minorities who are used as a shield to advance the majority and the state’s interests and sovereignty.
