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‘Eugene V. Debs: Perseverance in the Face of Power’; and: ‘Who Was Eugene Debs?’: Zohran Mamdani’s quoting of Eugene Debs in his recent victory speech (for mayor of New York City) should awaken interest in the man who gained a name for himself as “Mr. Socialism.”
The stock market may be booming and the AI hype is still exploding, but the rest of the economy is not so buoyant; and there appear to be cockroaches eating into the clean running of the world of debt.
‘France in Crisis: An Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise’; ‘Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward’: Seven years of Macronist neoliberalism have created the conditions for either genuine left-wing transformation or authoritarian breakthrough.
‘On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule’; ‘Massive No Kings Rallies Express Rising Discontent with Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda’; ‘Seven Million Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Nationwide. Next Up, Massive Disruptions Backed by Unions?’; ‘What’s Next After the Historic No Kings Protest?’
‘India’s American Dream in Tatters’: The last couple of months have exposed the humiliating realities of the subordinate alliance that India has been gradually sliding into with the U.S. over the last three decades. Also: ‘India’s Russian Oil Saga is Indeed Ending’.
India’s large capitalists and India’s people are both facing problems at present. These problems appear to be direct opposites of each other; but in fact they are two faces of the same phenomenon. In the first part of this article, we described the financial situation of the corporate sector. In the second part, we described the financial situation of the people. In this third part, we link the two.
The central bank once spent billions defending the rupee. Now it watches it fall, saving ammunition for when Trump’s real assault begins.
The eigth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the Modi Government’s NEP-2020 on India’s higher education system.
‘Micro Loans are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress’: Despite the fact that the poor today are cash starved and are desperate for loans to make their ends meet, our credit apparatus and banking system seem to have forsaken them. Also: ‘Debts to Death: How Microfinance Companies are Crushing the Poor in Bihar’.
‘A Geopolitical Analysis of the Imperialist Buildup Against Venezuela: A Conversation with Ana Esther Ceceña’; ‘15 Million Venezuelans Enlist to Defend Their Country Amid U.S. Threats’; ‘Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina’; ‘From Baghdad to Caracas: a Washington Manual on Sanctions and War’.
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