Pakistan: The IMF’s Conditional Loan and its Cost
Pakistan may have been saved, but not the people.
Corporate Profits Were Biggest Driver of Inflation in Europe, IMF Admits
“Rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than spiking costs of imported energy”, wrote IMF economists this June.
AI Isn’t Likely to Enslave Humanity, But it Could Take Over Many Aspects of Our Lives.
AI won’t blow up the world. But the increasingly uncritical embrace of it, in a variety of narrow contexts, means the gradual erosion of some of humans’ most important skills.
Maternity Entitlements in Freefall
Progress towards universal maternity benefits, sluggish as it was in the first place, has gone into reverse gear in the last few years.
The AMLO Project
Any assessment of AMLO and MORENA must recognize the difficulties of restarting a welfare state with a dilapidated administrative apparatus and reinvigorating a working class that has been all but defeated as a collective agent.
Proletariat of the Proletariat: Women’s Unpaid Labor
“Challenge the sexual division of labor, the naturalization of women’s work in the domestic sphere, and the valorization of productive work over reproductive work,” is the slogan of the World March of Women.
Manipur Needs Politics That Unites: Nandita Haksar
There is a long history of conflict and disagreements between the communities in Manipur. To discuss what these are and also how to emerge out of the current spiral of violence and find longer-lasting solutions for the conflicts, NewsClick speaks to Nandita Haksar, a human rights lawyer.
Wages of Casual Workers and Self-Employed Workers in India
An article in two parts, that examines the trends in real wages of casual workers and self-employed workers in rural and urban India, before the pandemic, during the pandemic and after.
Weaponising History: The Hindutva Communal Project
Those who want a Hindu rashtra as a mirror image of Muslim Pakistan are now imitating how history is taught in Pakistan.
Empty Tables: How It Feels to Be Hungry
Hunger has continued to be an all-American reality decade after decade, in good economies and bad, even though food should be a basic right. It’s a problem that, in possibly the world’s richest country, no one has been able to solve. Why is that?