The Political Economy of CPSE Disinvestment: Has National Wealth Been Put on a Distress Sale?
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The Political Economy of CPSE Disinvestment: Has National Wealth Been Put on a Distress Sale?

The sweeping disinvestment policy announced by the NDA government in December 2021 has put most of the national wealth on a distress sale. The few oligarchs who fund the political parties are waiting with their war chests of funds ready to buy the Central Public Sector Enterprises for a song.

It’s 75 Years Since the Historic Royal Indian Navy Revolt Shook the British Empire
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It’s 75 Years Since the Historic Royal Indian Navy Revolt Shook the British Empire

On February 18, 1946, a group of naval ratings mutinied at the shore establishment and naval base HMIS Talwar, which triggered an insurrection against the British Empire involving other Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians.

Islamophobia Is Taking its Most Lethal Form in India: Noam Chomsky
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Islamophobia Is Taking its Most Lethal Form in India: Noam Chomsky

Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, was “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy”.

Capital versus Commons, Part 5: Against Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back
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Capital versus Commons, Part 5: Against Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back

Fifth and last part of a long article that discusses how the commons in England were gradually driven out of existence, the small farms engrossed, the land enclosed, and the commoners forcibly removed. This part discusses the mass resistance to privatization and dispossession.