The Revolutionary Answers of C.L.R. James
Drawing lessons from the works of Trinidadian socialist and revolutionary C.L.R. James, the author argues that anti-racist organising needs to be at the centre of the struggle against capitalism.
Caste and the Delusion of “Merit” in Indian Higher Education
The biggest beneficiaries of structural inequalities everywhere tend to be least aware of them, and wish not to be reminded of them – this is true for the IITians in India too, who are wilfully blind to their caste privilege.
Latin America Heads for a Great Confrontation with Imperialism
In the lands whose original names were desecrated by European invaders, and which are now called ‘Latin America,’ the forces of empire are approaching a reckoning with the forces of indigenous and proletarian resistance.
Swami Agnivesh – The Man Who Sought to Retrieve the Colour Bhagwa from Opportunists: Three Obituaries
He devoted his life to India’s most marginalised and to the cause of secularism.
Wealth Inequality Rising in the World – As Marx had Foreseen Would Happen in Capitalism
A very small elite owns the means of production and finance and that is how they usurp the lion’s share and more of the wealth and income.
A “New” Democracy?
We are witnessing the transformation of the regime of democracy, that had brought us the promise of liberté, egalité, fraternité political, social and economic, to its very opposite: the highest concentration of economic, political and therefore social powers ever in history.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part One: Corrosive Seas
Scientists call them a ‘deadly trio.’ If acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable.
U.S.-NATO Hands Off Belarus!
Six years after the USA helped to engineer a right-wing takeover of Ukraine using mass protests, another former Soviet republic — Belarus — is now in the gunsights of Washington and the European Union.
Wealth of the Billionaires has been Surging During the Pandemic, It’s Time for a Wealth Tax – Two Articles
It is time to levy an emergency wealth tax on billionaire profiteers and direct the funds to offset the cost of the nation’s health-care costs.
COVID, Livelihoods, and Deadlihoods
Are we going to take the more difficult path of a transformative recovery that takes us towards livelihoods, or are we going to stagger back into some semblance of pre-COVIDness, characterized by deadlihoods?