America: Millions Lose Jobs, While Billionaires Grow Richer – Two Articles
While 41 Million People Lost Jobs Due to Covid-19, US Billionaires have enormously profited from the pandemic.
As the First Year of Modi 2.0 Ends, It’s Clear that Democracy has Been Quarantined
If there is one thing we’ve learned about Modi, it is that he never learns from his mistakes. The current crisis is the product of his cult of personality and the only response he is capable of is to double down on his worst impulses.
Thank You, Rioters
Riots can spread and radicalise social movements.
Capitalism | COVID19 | Economy | Print Edition | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Forget “Looting”; Capitalism Is the Real Robbery
As protesters are being accused of “looting” and “rioting” in Minneapolis or anywhere else, we need to reflect on the systematic robbery of Black America.
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COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism
As the world enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, we are seeing the emergence of catastrophe capitalism as the structural crisis of the system takes on planetary dimensions.
Shelve the Central Vista Project
The government is using the lockdown as an opportunity to clear many controversial projects, one such being the Central Vista Project. Despite its wastefulness, Modi is bent on promoting it as it fulfills a key RSS agenda.
Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theories: Two Articles
Trump administration’s zeal in shifting attention from its own bungling of the Covid-19 crisis to putting the blame on China is weakening the global fight against the pandemic.
Essential Workers & Billionaires: A Tale of Two Pandemics
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.
Why is the Government Underestimating GDP Loss Due to the Lockdown?
While the government is trying to play down the economic loss due to the pandemic, it is certain that the economy will shrink sizeably in 2020-21.
The Murderous Pseudoscience of “Herd Immunity”
Containing the pandemic requires an investment in social infrastructure that the capitalist class is not willing to make. And so its idealogues are arguing in favour of letting the disease spread …