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Retail prices of petrol and diesel have gone up even as global crude prices dampened, and the dollar-rupee exchange rate remained relatively stable. All told, more than half the price consumers pay per litre of fuel goes to tax, of which the lion’s share goes to the central government.
The rise in India’s forex reserves is no cause for celebration. Rather it points to effects of the economic contraction induced by the pandemic and the new vulnerabilities that the circumstances accompanying the pandemic have generated.
Interview with Silke Pérez, a member of the Association of Rural Workers, on the past and present of the Sandinista Revolution and the challenges that lie ahead this year which sees the country head to the polls for presidential elections.
It is the economic model imposed by the USA on Central America since the 19th century that has displaced millions of Central Americans from their homes. It is the fundamental cause of what, in the USA, is so often referred to as the “crisis” of immigration.
Which nations have the worst gender inequality, according to the United Nations? A list of staunch pals of the USA.
Hale was charged in 2019 during the Trump administration after leaking the top secret documents to a reporter.
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
Even though Marx did not write a great deal on gender, and did not develop a systematic theory of gender and the family, it was, for him, an essential category for understanding the division of labor, production, and society in general.
Annabhau’s writings are about the struggles and qualities of the marginalized sections of society. He wanted to fuse Ambedkarism and Marxism. It is regrettable that Hindi translations of his works are not available even 50 years after his death.
K. Veeramani is perhaps the senior most of the leaders of revolutionary Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement. In this wide-ranging conversation, he gives extensive details of the background of formation of Self Respect Movement.
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