“Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalises Abortion

“Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalises Abortion

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Cecilia Nowell The chambers of the state legislature in Oaxaca, Mexico, exploded with shouts of joy and rage on September 25 as the region voted to decriminalise first-trimester abortions in a 24–10 vote. In the gallery, Catholic protesters chanted, “Assassins! Assassins!” while awaiting the vote. But when the decision was announced, feminist activists, clad in…

Ecuador is Fighting for All of Latin America

Ecuador is Fighting for All of Latin America

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Courtesy: Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current The state of emergency, transfer of the government to the city of Guayaquil, absurd accusations of interference by Venezuela, military deployment, curfew, assassinations at the hands of the security forces—all this did not deter the workers, women, students, teachers, professionals, peasants and indigenous people of Ecuador, the ‘drones’, as…

The Crisis of Capital

The Crisis of Capital

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John Bellamy Foster The following is a transcript of a talk delivered by Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for the Econvergence Conference held in Portland, Oregon on October 2, 2009. It may be hard, but I want you to try to think back a decade, actually slightly less than a decade. In 2000, we…

Precarious Work and Contemporary Capitalism

Precarious Work and Contemporary Capitalism

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Jonathan White There is understandably a lot of public discussion around the issue of what’s increasingly called precarious work. For some, this is evidence of the emergence of something qualitatively new in our economy. A fundamental shift has happened, the argument goes, toward a ‘gig economy’ in which a whole set of assumptions about the…

What the ABVP doesn’t want you to read: “Maniben alias Bibijaan”

What the ABVP doesn’t want you to read: “Maniben alias Bibijaan”

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Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), protested in Delhi University against the inclusion of “objectionable material on the RSS” that portrayed them in a bad light. Terming some of the content of the syllabus of history, political science, English and sociology desciplines as “anti-RSS”, ABVP staged a…

Absolute Capitalism

Absolute Capitalism

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  John Bellamy Foster This article is based on a keynote address, entitled “Absolute Capitalism: The Neoliberal Project and the Marxian-Polanyian-Foucaultian Critique—Where Do We Go from Here?,” presented to the 2nd Biennial Conference of the Caucus for a New Political Science, February 25, 2019, South Padre Island, Texas. The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote in…

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It’s a Made-Up Label

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It’s a Made-Up Label

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Elizabeth Kolbert In the first half of the 19th century, one of America’s most prominent scientists was a doctor named Samuel Morton. Morton lived in Philadelphia, and he collected skulls. He wasn’t choosy about his suppliers. He accepted skulls scavenged from battlefields and snatched from catacombs. One of his most famous craniums belonged to an…

A Battle Over Meanings: Jayaprakash Narayan, Rammanohar Lohia and the Trajectories of Socialism in Early Independent India

A Battle Over Meanings: Jayaprakash Narayan, Rammanohar Lohia and the Trajectories of Socialism in Early Independent India

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Daniel Kent-Carrasco Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México 1. Introduction In the 1950s and 1960s, the meaning of socialism became a crucial matter for thinkers, politicians and ideologues across the Third World. The goal of socialism was central to a broad transnational movement that sought to alter the balance of geopolitical and…