Forest Rights Foster Self-Sustaining Villages in Maharashtra’s Gondia
The recognition of community forest rights has altered the lives of forest villagers of Gondia for the better, increasing employment opportunities and reducing distress migration.
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Power of Patriarchy and the Caste System
The struggle for women’s emancipation cannot be separated from the fight against the hierarchical caste system which both perpetuates and strengthens Brahminical patriarchy in India.
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The Military Situation in the Ukraine
Understanding the war in Ukraine and its future prospects. Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, and specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations…
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NATO Admits it Wants ‘Ukrainians to Keep Dying’ to Bleed Russia, Not Peace
NATO sees Ukrainians as mere cannon fodder in its imperial proxy war on Russia.
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Russia’s Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
Sergey Glazyev, who is Russia’s Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU), answers a series of questions related to the design of a new monetary /financial system via an association between the EAEU and China, bypassing the U.S. dollar.
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Ousted Pakistani Leader was Challenging Investment Treaties that Give Corporations Excessive Power
The reasons for PM Khan’s political downfall are not entirely clear. His economic policies were a mixed bag at best, but he deserves credit for one thing: he’d taken a bold stand against international investment agreements that give transnational corporations excessive power over national governments.
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Mexicans Mobilize in Support of President AMLO’s Electricity Reform; Also – AMLO Wins Recall Referendum
The electricity reform promoted by president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seeks to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. Also: 90% the voters back AMLO to remain in office until the end of his term.
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2022 Election in the Philippines: Repression and Resistance
With national elections approaching in the Philippines on May 9, there has been a rise in human rights abuses, and so the need for international solidarity is more pressing. A report by a US activist who visited Philippines in solidarity with the democratic movement there.
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How Movements can Maintain Their Radical Vision While Winning Practical Reforms
Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
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Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin: Revisiting ‘The Great Dictator’
This month, April 16, marks what would have been the 133rd birthday of one of the most iconic entertainers in modern history, Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era to the late 1970s.
