‘Kisan-Mazdoor Ekta’: A Slogan to Unify Farmers and Labourers – and Break Caste Barriers
The slogan did not evolve in one day and from one particular social group; it was the result of a continuous process which was achieved over days.
50 Years of Dalit Panther: India’s First Aggressive Dalit Youth Movement
Dalit Panther was a spontaneous and aggressive reaction to the atrocities against dalits in Maharashtra. It changed the political landscape of the state and had an undeniable impact on the Dalit politics of India.
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21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. A list of 27 US-backed coups in the first 21 years of this century.
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A Place of Hope in a Time of Spiralling Crisis
The eKhenana occupation in Cato Manor, Durban, is a significant site in the struggle for a South Africa that respects the humanity of all.
Time Is All We Have. We Can’t Let the Boss Take It from Us.
Unions fight for more pay for workers. But workers also need to have time for themselves and their friends and families. Overtime pay and raises can’t replace what we need more than anything else: our time back.
2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again
The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 with major popular electoral victories in Chile, Honduras, and Peru.
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The Blockade as a Double-Edged Sword
Not a day has gone by that the United States has not tried to overturn the Cuban Revolution, through the assassination of its leaders, invasions by proxy forces, preventing it from normal commercial and diplomatic relations, and encouraging social distress in the island to become a counterrevolutionary force.
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Before and Without Marx
The ideas of Marx did not arise out of thin air but grew from the works of many others before him. This article focuses upon the independent thought that developed within the working class which Marx would incorporate into his own conception of the world around him.
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Poetry, Literature and the Russian Revolution
Where society is riven by sharp tensions and conflicts, we can expect a similar fracturing in the world of art. Such was the case during the Russian Revolution of 1917—an event that truly shook the world, not just in politics, but also in art.
What Gandhi, Saint Francis and Pope Francis Have in Common
The three great personalities are united by the silken thread of ‘godward faith and manward love’.