How Caste Oppression Is Institutionalised in India’s Sanitation Jobs
Despite modernisation, waste management remains one of the most underpaid and dangerous jobs in the country.
How Bengali Civil Society Stood Up Against the BJP
From a people’s campaign on ‘No Vote To BJP’ to a music video by a galaxy of artists against the party’s ‘ideology of hatred’, the civil society in Bengal had a powerful impact in the recent polls.
Zambia Is the Tip of the Tail of the Global Dog
On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president. The incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, is facing a strong challenge from Fred M’membe, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party Zambia.
Class Struggle Built the Welfare State
The welfare state wasn’t created by enlightened dialogue or “sensible” moderate politics. It was a concession won by workers against bosses through decades of struggle.
The Imperialist Origins of Saudi Arabia
Why does the West, supposedly a global promoter of democracy, support Saudi Arabia, a monarchy? The answer lies in a historical process whereby Saudi Arabia was propped up by major powers as an outpost of imperialist interests and a bulwark against revolutionary ideologies.
Thomas Piketty and Karl Marx: Two Totally Different Visions of Capital
Piketty’s definition corresponds with those found in standard economic textbooks. However, they are wrong. Capital is a social relationship that enables a minority (the richest 1%), to get richer by exploiting the labour of others.
Free Hidme Markam
1,000 + activists, academics, concerned citizens from 20+ states in India and across the globe write to Chief Minister Chhattisgarh. Call for immediate release of Hidme Markam and end state excesses on Adivasis in Bastar.
The “Innocence” of Early Capitalism is Another Fantastical Myth
Violence, force and coercion — exemplified in the widespread use of slave labor, imperialist conquests of peoples around the world and ruthless extraction of natural resources — pervades the entire history of capitalism.
Tax the Rich; They are Paying Very Little Taxes; Warren Unveils Tax on Billionaires – Three Articles
Let’s actually tax the rich?; New Study: ultra-wealthy are paying even less taxes than you think; To help fund Covid recovery and redress inequality, Warren unveils wealth tax on ‘ultra-millionaires’ and billionaires.
“Poor Rich Haiti” or How Imperialists and Local Oligarchy have Sought to Destroy Agriculture in Haiti
An exploration of the reconstruction of Haiti after 2010, focussed mainly on the the destruction of peasant farming, to the benefit of western corporations and their allies in Haiti.