Farmers’ Agitation: Two Ground Reports
There is great determination and clarity of thought among the farmers camping at Delhi’s borders about how India is being sold to corporate interests.
The Pillage of Resources: A Glimpse into the Lives and Labor of Marginalized Women
Lives of women dependent on natural resources, such as land, forests, rivers, and mountains, are being tossed asunder by the appropriation and expropriation of these resources by corporations and the state.
Farmers’ Stir Lays Bare Unjust Economic Policy
The continuing drought in framing farmer-friendly policies has to end. The farmers’ march should be seen as a wake-up call to make appropriate policy corrections to set the historic imbalances right, and thereby bring back the pride in farming.
Agrarian Crisis Is a Social Crisis Now
The founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India discusses the demands that should be discussed in the special session of Parliament the farmers are demanding.
Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’
In their quest for making more profits, global agribusiness giants are destroying farmer livelihoods, environment and health under the bogus claim of ‘feeding the world’. Also: a report on shocking levels of land inequality in the world.
‘Africans Rising’ Demands Debt Cancellation, Reparations from England
The Africans Rising organization unfurled an enormous open letter to the Queen on England on the UK House of Parliament, demanding debt cancellation and reparations for centuries of exploitation through slavery, colonialism and imperialism.
Nationwide General Strike on 26 November to See Participation of 25 Crore Workers and Farmers
The general strike of November 26 may not only be one of the biggest and most effective strikes to have taken place in the last several years; the farmers’ march to Delhi, planned to coincide with the strike, would take this protest into hitherto uncharted territory.
Standing by a Radical Chávez
Rafael Uzcátegui, a historical figure in Venezuela’s popular movements, who was key to the forming of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative [APR], talks about the APR’s revolutionary project, while analyzing the government’s “neoliberal” turn.
Several States Rejected Centre’s ‘Historic’ MSP Increase, Demanded Higher Prices
In September, amid protests against the controversial new agricultural laws, the Modi government announced the MSP for six rabi crops. Official documents show that several states, including BJP-ruled ones, said the increase was minor.
Remembering Engels’ Thoughts on Science and Socialism on His Bicentenary
While studying capitalism, Engels studied science and history of science.