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France has reached a new stage with the 2023 demonstrations. Some are comparing the present situation to 1968. The difference between 1968 and 2023 is that today there are no vanguard parties like the left in 1968, that ultimately betrayed the struggle. The other difference is that …
Thousands of people took to the streets in Nairobi again this week to protest the government of President William Ruto. The protests have been called for by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who has tapped into public anger against rising costs of living.
When it comes to countries in Asia building socialism, not too many think of Laos. This mountainous country sits in the center of Southeast Asia and has lived through French and Japanese colonialism, civil war, and years of military attacks by the United States.
Contrasting images come to mind when it comes to hunger and climate: a world in which a child under age ten dies of hunger every five seconds and the oligarchs of agri-food and finance decide every day who on this planet will die and who will live. This article is about loss of both morality and of thinking.
For decades, the U.S. dollar was the undisputed king of global currencies, but now dramatic changes are happening. Much of the planet is preparing for a future in which the U.S. dollar will be far less important than it is right now.
Lahore teacher and writer Sara Arshad had never attended the Aurat March in Pakistan nor allowed her two daughters to do so, fearing the intense backlash that the feminist protest receives every year. But this Women’s Day, she took the leap of faith with her teens in tow.
April 9 marks the US activist-singer’s 125th birth anniversary. Paul Robeson, son of a formerly enslaved man, was nothing less than amazing. Two articles.
There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past four million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes combinations with other Homo species, spread unevenly across today’s populations—not a neat and linear evolutionary progression.
The report claims that, to maintain a 50:50 chance of warming not exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, CO₂ emissions must be cut to “net-zero” by the “early 2050s.” However, a more rigorous analysis of the report’s data gives a zero CO₂ date of 2040.
The first article in our budget analysis series for this year. We begin our discussion of the Union Budget 2023–24 with a brief discussion of India’s external accounts situation. Amazingly, the budget speech does not contain a single line as regards the country’s external accounts situation.
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