An ‘Encounter’ and a Vice-Chancellor
Remembering Professor Mushirul Hasan, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, today is also to mourn the demise of the hopelessly utopian idea of composite culture.
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Capitalism | China | Climate Change | COVID19 | Online Blog
Planet Farm
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. We need to take urgent steps to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
Racial capitalism as a theoretical and analytical framework increases both our explanatory and our predictive power. Black and other racialized workers in the core and periphery are being disproportionately exploited—we must grasp this if we want to save lives.
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Being ‘Hindu’ and Being ‘Secular’: Tamil ‘Secularism’ and Caste Politics
The Hindu right has not been able to take over much of Tamil Nadu’s political space, due to the long-standing propaganda by parties such as the DMK against the caste-based discrimination within Hinduism, which also led to a positive representation of Islam and Muslims.
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Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
On 8 January 2021, JACAFRE published an open letter saying that the three new farm laws will effectively make farmers and small traders of agricultural produce subservient to the interests of a few agrifood and e-commerce giants or will eradicate them completely.
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Covid-19 Lockdown: Impact on Daily Wage Workers – Four Articles
Household incomes in india are yet to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown shock; How daily wage workers in india suffered in the lockdown; COVID-19 laid bare the exploitation that domestic workers face; Lockdown fallout: Distress stalks garment workers in Ludhiana.
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U.S.-NATO Destruction of Libya: Perpetrators have Yet to Face Justice
On March 19 ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under the banner of NATO, which culminated in the killing of Libya’s long-time ruler Muammar Qaddafi and destroyed the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
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Debating China’s Ecological Accomplishments
Despite all of the inevitable contradictions, China stands out in the present planetary emergency in having a leadership that has advanced an ambitious vision of ecological civilization with the strong support of the Chinese population, incorporating this directly into its five-year plans.
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No Bharat Ratna for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Please!
Every year, on the birth anniversary of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia (23 March), demands are made to the government for posthumous conferment of Bharat Ratna on Dr. Lohia. However, it would be an injustice to Lohia’s legacy if the government/ ruling class indeed conferred Bharat Ratna on Lohia.
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Marxism on Oppression
Capitalism breeds oppression. Capitalism atomises workers generally. Workplaces can make workers compete according to skills and results, but also by pitching workplace against workplace. This is one of the secrets allowing capitalists to undermine united working class resistance.
