Engels Still Lives at 200
Engels’ theoretical work was able to widen the battlefield for Marxism, entering terrains in which Marx did not get involved – or rather, in which he was nourished by the writings of his friend.
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For a United Front Against the Payment of Public and Private Illegitimate Debts
We call on the countries of the South to exercise their right and to suspend the payment of their debt by invoking three arguments that are so pertinent and legitimate at this point of time …
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India’s Farewell to ASEAN as it Boards RCEP Train
The ASEAN is boarding the RCEP train all set to depart and India is stranded while its two other QUAD partners – Japan and Australia – are on board and can be seen in the dining car holding Chinese chopsticks.
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Europe and the Pandemic
Toussant talks about whether the present economic crisis is due to the Covid-19 pandemic, on the role of the IMF, on the consequences for states and people, and the role of progressive forces.
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America’s Labor Crisis
One of the most important aspects of this crisis is the U.S. economy’s diminishing capacity to provide employment.
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Advertising vs. Democracy
Kilbourne’s work shows how the corporate imperative to boost consumption by generating ever more specious and evanescent pseudo-needs corrupts and distorts society. An interview with her about the influence of advertising culture on politics.
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How the Green Revolution Is Harming Africa
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations World Food Programme, declaring that it wanted “to turn the eyes of the world toward the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger.” Those numbers are now greater than ever – and the dysfunctional global…
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Controlling Epidemics? The WHO Had the Answer 40 Years Ago
Today, everyone agrees that the best way to deal with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. The WHO had proposed this at the Alma Ata International Conference in 1978.
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The United States Is Not a Democracy
The United States boasts one of the most farcical democratic systems to have been invented. The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population. Its Supreme Court, conservative by nature and…
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Western Civilization?
Western imperialism was, and is, a society marked by the commission of barbaric acts and those in the West who still claim it as high civilization are apologists for the society they benefit from materially.
