Nepal’s People Resist U.S. Anti-China Alliance
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Nepal’s People Resist U.S. Anti-China Alliance

Continuous protests shook the length and breadth of mountainous Nepal in September as the U.S. pushed again to chain this Asian country of 28 million people to its anti-China alliance through the Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC).

The Politician-Scholar: Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery
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The Politician-Scholar: Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery

Eric Williams’ groundbreaking ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ placed slavery at the heart of the rise of capitalism and the British Empire. But in his subsequent career as a politician – he became the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago – Williams was hardly seen as an avatar of radicalism.

Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence

In an age when violence turns into a spectacle, mass shootings become normalized, and violence becomes the primary language of politics, it becomes all the more difficult and yet necessary to remember the horror and legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Robbing the Soil – Part 2: Systematic Theft of Communal Property
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Robbing the Soil – Part 2: Systematic Theft of Communal Property

The second part of this series discusses how in two great waves of social change, landlords and capitalist farmers conquered the field for capitalist agriculture, incorporated the soil into capital, and created for the urban industries the necessary supplies of free and rightless proletarians.

Farmers Prepare for Historic Bandh on Sept 27 – Four Articles
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Farmers Prepare for Historic Bandh on Sept 27 – Four Articles

Ground Down by Hardship, Farmers Ready for Historic Bandh on Sept 27; Mass Mobilisation of Farmers in UP for Bharat Bandh; Reports from Punjab and Odisha; Farmers’ Protest Spreads to Avadh and Purvanchal.

High Demand for MGNREGA Is a Ringing Fire Alarm
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High Demand for MGNREGA Is a Ringing Fire Alarm

As per official MGNREGA data, in 2020-21, the year of the corona pandemic, a record 17.51 million new job cards were issued. Rising demand for low paying labour work under MGNREGA points to the failure of our policy makers to provide suitable jobs.