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Comprehending the basic parameters of today’s financialized capitalist system is the key to understanding the economic stagnation plaguing the production system as well as the accumulation of wealth by a few.
A tribute to Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, which laid the groundwork for feminism.
Mass workers’ movements transformed much of the world in the twentieth century, but they couldn’t overcome the power of capital. Today, we need a new democratic socialism to remake politics and revive working-class organizing.
The author makes an assessment of the World Bank and its alter ego the IMF and proposes to abolish them as well as the WTO in order to replace them with other global and democratic institutions.
Till now there was an arrangement in the country under which, even though agriculture was crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, the peasantry was kept alive. The three laws brought in by the Modi government are meant to remove this life-line altogether.
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?
In the Brazilian Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST), it is women who organize the day-to-day of the occupations, head up the assemblies in the territories, and participate in the negotiations for land. A discussion with two women leaders of the MTST.
To appreciate what is happening to agriculture and farmers in India, we must first understand how globalisation has subverted the development paradigm.
The entire practice of the kisan agitation constitutes an emphatic rejection of the ‘nationalism’ propagated by the corporate-Hindutva alliance, and a recovery of the real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.
An interview with a key militant of the Chavista collective La Minka, which is part of the continent-wide multi-disciplinary organization Communities in Charge / Latin America Initiative.
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