Will Diluting Labour Laws in India Attract More Private Investment?
The argument that weakening labour protection attracts more private investment is both analytically flawed and empirically invalid.
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An Inquiry in to the Anti-Muslim Violence in Northeast Delhi by a Team of Doctors that Visited the Affected Area.
Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum An Inquiry in to the Anti-Muslim Violence in Northeast Delhi by a Team of Doctors that Visited the Affected Area. Members of the medical team1: Dr Vikas Bajpai – Assistant Professor, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Ph: 9717820427). Dr Harjit Bhatti – Former…
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What’s Wrong With the Republicans? Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion
Rebecca Gordon On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on his weekly podcast, Carl Bernstein. It was Bernstein, with fellow Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, whose reporting broke open the story of how the Committee to Re-elect the…
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Capitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil constitutes the basis of the capitalist mode of production. —Karl Marx(1) “The power of abstraction,” Karl Marx noted, is absolutely crucial to the theoretical analysis of historical systems, as exemplified by his critique…
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Murder Like It’s 1495: U.S.-Backed Counterinsurgency in the Philippines
Nick Alexandrov Two men, soldiers probably, noticed Bai Leah Tumbalang. This was last August. She was in Valencia City, in the Philippine province of Bukidnon. The men drew near on their motorcycle, followed her, then pulled up to shoot her in the forehead. She died immediately. But her death was not random, not…
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France has Once Again Entered a Phase of Large-Scale Social Confrontation
Léon Crémieux A year ago, in November 2018, it was the Yellow Jacket movement that broke out on roundabouts and city streets across the country. Provoked by the government’s decision to introduce a new fuel tax, the movement very quickly highlighted the need for an increase in buying power, particularly the minimum wage, the…
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Ayodhya’s Forgotten Mahant and His Message of Peace
Valay Singh As the 26th death anniversary of Baba Lal Das approaches, his memory stands virtually erased from Ayodhya. On November 16, 1993, Lal Das, a strident opponent of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, was shot dead in the middle of the night in Ranipur Chattar village, just 20 km from…
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The Imperialism of Finance Capital and ‘Trade Wars’
Jacky Muniello and Soy Migrante interview Prabhat Patnaik Hegemony of Global Finance What is your first impression about the ‘trade wars’ initiated by Trump? Is this a serious policy shift or is there something else that we need to be aware of? I believe that the whole discussion …
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Ludhiana is Where the Heart Still Beats, Simple Tales of Humanity and Brotherhood
Ishmeet Nagpal Recently I read about a heart-warming story from my birthplace Ludhiana (Punjab) about Sikh residents of village Hedon Bet who refuse to let anyone demolish the 100 year old Mosque in their village despite having no Muslim residents. The village elders stated that the Mosque is the house of God and no…
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China Breaks the Western Debt Stranglehold on the World
Peter Koenig The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. Up to the mid-20th Century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. In Latin America, though much of the sub-Continent was “freed” from Spain and Portugal in the 19th Century…
