Limits to Supply Chain Resilience: A Monopoly Capital Critique
Global supply chains represent the latest phase of organized capitalist expansion and exploitation, and the resilience agenda aims to fortify these relations.
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Africa | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Slavery Did Not End in 1865
For more than a century after the Civil War, the treatment of Black Americans was so horrific that it is easy to see why these atrocities were left out of textbooks.
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Africa | Online Blog | Science
‘On the Origins of Human Speech and Language’ Shows How it All Began on the African Continent
The transformation of modern humans from a ‘non-speaking’ to a ‘speaking’ species took place as our hunter-gatherer ancestors migrated out of Africa.
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Freedom
A poem.
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‘They Can Exploit Only Bhagat Singh’s Emotional Quotient, Not the Ideological Quotient’
Professor Jagmohan Singh is one of the prominent conscience-keepers of our times. He is also Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s nephew. Naren Singh Rao spoke to him about Bhagat Singh’s ideological legacy and the current concerns regarding his appropriation by the Hindu Right.
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What Is the Rs 20,000 Crore Figure Rahul Gandhi Spoke of in Adani’s ‘Shell Companies’?
A Financial Times report claimed “offshore companies linked to the Adanis” invested at least $2.6 billion in the group between 2017 and 2022. Also: The way Rahul Gandhi has been hounded over the last month shows that the BJP is unnerved. However, Gandhi has refused to buckle under pressure.
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At Mahapanchayat in Delhi, Farmers Vow to Build Bigger ‘Andolan’ for Democracy
With the general elections a year away, farmers’ unions say they will build more pressure on the government to resolve their issues and ‘will take their movement to its logical end’.
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MGNREGA Flounders in Fund Crunch and Tech Trap Squeeze
Mandatory digital attendance has led to 10% decline in work. Also: Press Release by the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.
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Gigs, Scams, Ghost Work: India Tech Sector’s Dark Side
With few jobs, India’s youth are turning to the gig economy, scam call centres and AI microwork – for low wages and few protections.
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In Moscow, Xi and Putin Bury Pax Americana
What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta. This is the first time in arguably five centuries that no political leader from the west is setting the global agenda. It’s Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin that are now running the multilateral, multipolar show.
