Farm Laws: Thousands of Farmers Return to Protest Sites After Harvesting Season Ends
Farmer unions put onus on government, say protest will continue till government takes the laws back, but no big action on cards in view of surging pandemic.
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Analysing Mamata Banerjee’s Decisive Victory in Bengal – Four Articles
‘No to BJP, But Yes to What?’: Why Bengal’s Decisive Mandate Reflects Courage; Battle for West Bengal: Mamata Lost but TMC Won, Modi-Shah Duo Humiliated, Left-Congress Washed Out; Key Economic Lessons Learnt from the West Bengal, Kerala Electoral Results
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Time for India to Cancel Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project
France remains desperate to sell its severely troubled EPR nuclear reactors to India, even though its own project at home and at both the sites outside of France have had severe cost and time overruns and continue to face safety issues.
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An Urgent Call for Action by Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Laureates clarion call, issued at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit, implicitly exposes neoliberalism’s driving force of globalisation as a core issue that impacts the planet by reaping riches without any hesitation or concern for the disintegration of ecosystems.
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Chile’s Neoliberal Nightmare, New Constitution, and Daniel Jadue
Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Rocoleta municipality, is a presidential candidate.
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Colombia on the Brink
The defeat of the regressive tax bill is an unprecedented triumph for the youth, the urban poor, and the unions of teachers and health care workers who promoted the uprising.
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Mass Mobilizations in Chad against the Military Junta and French Imperialism
A week after the death of the dictator Idriss Déby, Chad’s military junta and France are confronted with massive mobilizations of the toiling masses.
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The Global Spread of Fascism Is as Real as the Spread of COVID-19
The beast is struggling against its chains in Germany. It has bared its fangs in Washington, D.C. It has shed blood in the Philippines and India. Let us not repeat the mistake of the democracies of the early 20th century of hesitating to call that beast by its name.
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UN Food Summit: Cover for an Agribusiness Coup?
The historic Food Systems Summit being organised by the United Nations later this year has been co-opted by corporate interests who are pushing towards a highly industrialized style of agriculture promoted by supporters of the Green Revolution.
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The IMF Is Using the Debt Crisis to Hollow Out Pakistan’s Sovereignty
Imran Khan’s government came to power in 2018 promising to reorient Pakistan’s economy toward the needs of the population. But faced with a debt crisis it soon dropped its reformist agenda — and now, the IMF is pressuring it to place its State Bank permanently beyond democratic control.
