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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Violence, force and coercion — exemplified in the widespread use of slave labor, imperialist conquests of peoples around the world and ruthless extraction of natural resources — pervades the entire history of capitalism.
Our collective redemption lies in the acknowledgement of this sickness.
Piketty shows that the richest 1 percent has concentrated such a phenomenal amount of tangible and intangible assets that a tax policy targeting the richest 1 percent, 2.5 percent, or even 10 percent would provide substantial means for breaking with neoliberalism.
Throughout his adult life, Martin Luther King Jr believed in striking down not only racial apartheid but class exploitation. That twin commitment was embodied in his final effort: the often-forgotten Poor People’s Campaign.
While there have been measures of universal support in the US following the pandemic, i.e. to every household, no such measures have been adopted in India despite the pleadings of a host of economists, civil society organisations, and political parties.
While the public infrastructure in place under the PDS and NFSA has come to the rescue in this situation of dire need, data reveals that the stock of food grains distributed during the pandemic constituted a small proportion of the stocks available for distribution in the central pool.
In ‘Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth’, Audrey Truschke sifts popular imagination on the ruler’s personal and political life from historical realities.
Cybersecurity threats are emerging as one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. and its NATO allies have turned down every attempt within the UN framework for banning cyberweapons.
Danny Shaw, a City University of New York (CUNY) academic, slept, ate and marched with militants from the Fort National neighbourhood’s popular organisation Mouvement de Liberté d’Égalité des Haitiens pour la Fraternité in late February and early March.
Engels observed that because of the environmental and epidemiological conditions in the working class districts, disease and mortality rates are high there. He called it social murder. The current COVID-19 pandemic is related to social murder in several ways.
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