How Ambedkar Makes Us Richer
The Dalit feminist writer, Urmila Pawar, sums things up in her foreword by saying, “The more we see him (Dr. Ambedkar) in the round, the richer we become,” a point that can be made about no leader alive today.
Socialist Pedro Castillo Sworn in as the President of Peru
José Pedro Castillo, a 51-year-old teacher of a rural school, assumed the charge of the presidency of Peru on July 28. This is the first time that Peru will be ruled by a peasant, a person who belongs to a sector that has been oppressed for so many centuries.
News from ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers Launch ‘Mission UP’
Amidst Rain, Kisan Sansad Takes on Contract Farming; Women Farmers Hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers to Campaign Against BJP in Upcoming Polls.
Interview with Angela Rangad – an Activist Whose 10-Day Dharna Forced Govt to Yield
Angela Rangad’s extraordinary solo protest ended with the Meghalaya government calling her for consultations on better implementation of the Chief Minister’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme.
How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her People’s Struggle for Independence
The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. This loving obituary written by one of Trask’s mentees explores her powerful legacy.
Haiti and Cuba in the Caribbean’s Hour of Crisis
What unites the West Indian islands is not language and culture, but the wretchedness of slavery, rooted in an oppressive plantation economy. Both Haiti and Cuba are products of this ‘peculiarity’, the one being bold enough to break the shackles in 1804, and the other able to follow a 150 years later.
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In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune
A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.
Hemingway and Latin America
It was in Cuba that Hemingway wrote his iconic novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. That book won him the Nobel Prize in October 1954. “This is one prize that belongs to Cuba, because my work was conceived and created in Cuba,” he said.
Farmers’ Movement Organises First Kisan Sansad; Farmers’ Tractor March – Three Articles
Starting Thursday, about 200 protestors will participate in the farmers’ parliament at Jantar Mantar, which will take place on each working day of the Parliament until the ongoing Monsoon Session ends. Also – Farmers’ tractor marches in UP.
Mobilizing Against the Corporate Hijack of Agriculture by UNFSS
The UN Food Systems Summit, including a ‘pre-summit’, is facilitating global corporatisation of agriculture. To mobilise against it, more than 300 global organisations of small-scale food producers, researchers and indigenous peoples are organising a protest pre-summit.