Why the Youth Should Engage with Gandhi
In a world where violence is sanctified and normalised, anyone striving for collective redemption should look to Gandhi.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves.
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The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
One of the founding myths of the contemporary Western world is that fascism was defeated in WWII by liberal democracies, and particularly by the United States. The material record suggests, however, a shockingly different reality.
Toward Delinking: An Alternative Chinese Path Amid the New Cold War
The escalation of the New Cold War offers an opportunity to rethink China’s dependence on an export-orientated economy and speedy financialization.
National Education Policy 2020: A Fall into the Abyss of Neo-colonization
In the new NEP, there has been a quantum leap towards neo-colonization of Indian education via privatization to further corporatization of education.
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Revisiting Dr. Rammanohar Lohia – Examining Certain Distinct Propositions in the Text and the Context
The trilogy – Marx, Gandhi and Socialism; Wheel of History; and Caste System – together constitute an alternative developed by Lohia to the Western philosophical project of socialism.
A Prize Auction
In a world where environmental degradation is threatening to destroy the planet and there is a world economic slump not seen since the 1930s, the Nobel Prize givers recognise the work of two economists on how to make the auctions of commodities, land and services more efficient.
Time’s Most Influential Indigenous Activist: ‘Capitalism Destroys The Whole Planet’
Nemonte Nenquimo, lauded by Leonardo DiCaprio for her work protecting Ecuador’s Amazon, speaks about her life, activism and motherhood.
US-Backed Coup Gov’t Concedes Defeat in Bolivia – But Difficult Road Ahead
Despite the fact that the MAS’ electoral victory looks certain, it is far from clear what sort of resistance they will face from other sources of power. If Arce does indeed come to rule his country, will he receive the Nicolas Maduro treatment?
The Revolutionary Struggle Against Slavery
Racism today is no longer underpinned by slavery. Racial division remains central to the maintenance of bourgeois power in modern capitalism. The struggle that was required to win abolition of slavery has enormous relevance to modern struggles against capitalism.