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Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be in for a bitter disappointment.
The crises the US people face are severe and the right wing violent backlash is real. To stop the right wing, ghe US left must constitute itself as an independent pole, and not fall in behind attempts to rehabilitate business as usual.
Key provisions of the Modi Government’s farm bills, such as ending government procurement and winding up the FCI, were in fact spelled out in a World Bank document of August 1991.
If you are depressed, dismayed and have lost all hope then join the farmers’ protests. Also: Interviews with farmers protesting against new farm laws across India.
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
The USA and Europe are seeking to transform the agriculture of developing countries like India in accordance with their needs – in effect, they want a re-creation of the economic scenario of the colonial period. Modi govt’s three farm laws are meant to comply with their wishes.
Three academic publishers have asked the Court to block the websites Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, which provide free downloads of research publications and books. Without access to the journals available on these websites for free, it is almost impossible to do quality research..
On top of the existing violence and institutional impediments, this year was particularly taxing for the defenders of land and environment as they had to face double whammy of COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of neoliberalism using the pandemic as an excuse.
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.
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.
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