Mexico: First the Poor
The achievements of the first anti-neoliberal President of Mexico, AMLO, in his first year-and-a-half are striking – but questions are also being raised by explicitly anti-capitalist organisations like the Zapatistas.
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The Burning Question Is Not If Duterte Will Go, But How
Popular support had propped up the Duterte regime and encouraged his arrogance in power. His utter incompetence in handling Covid-19 has eroded his popularity; the question now is not if he will go but how he will leave.
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The USA and Nicaragua Now: An Interview with S. Brian Willson
Brian, a Vietnam war veteran, discusses not only Nicaragua but the broader issues of US foreign policy and racially violent police brutality in the United States.
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The NBA Strike: The Most Important Protest in Team Sports Over the Last 50 Years – Three Articles
This week’s work stoppage in professional sports is the most significant moment of athlete activism in a half century not because it “raised awareness”, but because it exercised labor’s most elemental form of political power: the strike.
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It Is More than 3 Months of Non-Stop Protests in the USA Now – Three Articles
Capping a week of protests, thousands of protestors gathered in Washington D.C., on 28 August to protest yet another police shooting of a black man in Kenosha – the day also marked the 1963 March on Washington.
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“The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism” and We
Lawrence Britt has identified fourteen signs of fascism by analyzing the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Suharto and Pinochet. Do the speeches and actions of PM Modi not remind us of Britt’s characterisation of fascism?
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GST Impasse Threatens India’s Federal Structure; Seven CMs Decry Assault on Federalism – Two Articles
Centre refuses to transfer GST dues to states. Seven chief ministers express concern about the assault on federal structure, misuse of central agencies, financial injustice, etc.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Editor's Picks | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog | Print Edition
Record Contraction in India’s GDP in Q1 FY ‘21: An Act of God, or Incompetence of Leadership – Two Articles
India is the global leader in the new daily cases of COVID-19; it is also the worst performer among all major economies during the pandemic. The reason: not through ‘acts of god’, but incompetence of our Central leadership.
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Saving Nature: Overpopulation Is Not the Primary Problem
In a period of ecological and climate crises, a largely unchallenged view over how to save nature is the misconception that overpopulation is among the primary drivers of the crises.
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Hollywood and the Pentagon are Cheating on the American Public
Long have Hollywood and the Pentagon worked together in what has been called a relationship of “mutual exploitation,” producing war agitprop for the masses.
