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A discussion of France’s nefarious neo-colonial practices in Africa – the African people are now fighting back, with Senegal now booting France out of the country after 150 years.
The nuclear threat endangers not only global peace and security but the very continuity of the human species, not to speak of the simple survival of life on Earth. How, you might wonder, could we ever have arrived at such a precarious situation?
‘It’s Time for a New Kind of Political Party. One That Belongs to You’: Full statement by two prominent left-wing British MPs, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, announcing they are setting up a new party; also: ‘Over 600,000 Sign Up for New Left-Wing Party in Britain’.
Chris Gilbert examines Marx’s approach to the commune from the Grundrisse through his late notes and letters on rural communes. After reconstructing the Marxist communal strategy, Gilbert argues that real-world projects in Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil in recent times conform to this overall Marxist approach.
One of the most damaging myths about the global ecological crisis is that humans as such are responsible for it. In reality, the crisis is being driven by our particular economic system, capitalism, and is caused almost entirely by the States and corporations of the Global North (the imperial core), primarily to the benefit of their elites.
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
‘UNRWA Says Israel Turning Gaza into Graveyard of Starving Children’; ‘The New Dark Age’: The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.
‘Bogota Summit Launches Global South’s Legal Intifada Against Israel and US Impunity’; ‘In Colombia, The Hague Group Charges Israel With Genocide’; ‘A Revolutionary Shift is Underway’: Remarks of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory.
For years, the BJP championed non-alignment and strategic autonomy as core to its ‘cultural nationalism’. Now, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have quietly abandoned that legacy, enforcing sweeping policy shifts that will harm the interest of ordinary Indians.
From Odisha to Maharashtra, a quiet purge of Bengali-speaking workers is unfolding—fueled by profiling, detention drives and a near-collapse of constitutional safeguards. Also: ‘Why Bengali Migrant Workers in BJP-Ruled States are Being Asked to Prove They are Indians’.
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