Amazon, ‘Economic Terrorism’ and the Destruction of Livelihoods
Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods.
Revealed: the True Extent of America’s Food Monopolies, and Who Pays the Price
An investigation into the shocking scale of big food corporations’ market dominance and political power, and its consequences for the people.
Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
I am tired of being told that this world I was handed is irrevocably broken. I understand that the climate leaders from generations past are tired too, and that the decades of work have disheartened some. The youth climate movement deserves hope and optimism regardless.
A New India Where Replacing ‘Aligarh’ With ‘Harigarh’ Is More Gratifying Than Social Change
Changing the names of streets, towns and districts is the easiest way of asserting power. It does not bring prosperity.
Capitalism Is Making You Lonely
Long before the coronavirus pandemic, we were amid a growing crisis of loneliness. The problem isn’t social media, popular culture, or city living — it’s capitalism.
Leaked Report of the IPCC Reveals that the Growth Model of Capitalism Is Unsustainable
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe.
Neo-liberalism and Nationhood
There are crucial differences between the anti-colonial nationalism of the third world countries and European bourgeois nationalism. That is why the third world countries adopted a dirigeste capitalist development strategy, that insulated peasant agriculture from domestic and foreign capitalists. Neoliberalism is undermining this.
Richard Lewontin: Race Science for the People
We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.
Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.
Imagine a Nation Like This
Imagine a nation so reactionary and racist that “Black Lives Matter” is considered a “radical slogan” inside its borders. Imagine a nation so economically unequal that its top one-thousandth has more wealth than its bottom 90 percent…