Capital versus Commons, Part 4: Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor.
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Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
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Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part I)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
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Capitalism | Economy | Gender Issues | India | Print Edition
World Inequality Report: India Stands Out as a Very Unequal Country
According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the levels of wealth and income inequalities in India are among the worst that prevail in the leading countries of the world.
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Capitalism | Communalism | COVID19 | Fascism | Imperialism | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Print Edition
Democracy Crumbling: How Did India End Up Among Top 3 ‘Backsliders’?
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
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How India’s Govt Is Setting in Place a New Structure for a Dysfunctional Parliament
The government of PM Modi is increasingly bypassing Parliament through executive fiat by promulgating an average of 11 ordinances a year. Legislative scrutiny is at its lowest point: from 70% of bills referred to committees in the previous Lok Sabha to 11% during the current.
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The Fierce Determination of Ordinary People to Build an Extraordinary World
United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9–10, ending on Human Rights Day. In the name of democracy, the U.S. government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate power and further its national interests.
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High Court Delivers ‘Victory’ for Rights of Nature Movement in Ecuador
On December 1, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that mining in a protected forest violates the rights of nature established by the nation’s constitution.
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Nuns Against Nuclear Weapons: Plowshares Protesters have Fought for Disarmament for Over 40 Years, Going to Prison for Peace
Since 1980, there have been over 100 actions in support of nuclear disarmament by Plowshare nuns in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe. The name comes from the Bible: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares … nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
