Kerala Scheme Shows How to Create Work Opportunities While Caring for the Environment
The urban employment guarantee scheme is not without its problems, but it offers a template to help the poor earn and build greener, sustainable cities.
Manchin or No Manchin, Climate Activism Is Working
Environmental activists and scholars talk about the movements, triumphs and trends they’re most heartened by this year.
The Myth of the Meritorious Doctor: Caste Privilege in the Medical Profession
Reservations are — wrongly — blamed for encouraging mediocrity in the medical profession. The historical record shows that the floundering foundations of the profession were laid by doctors who came ‘purely through merit’.
Chomsky and Pollin: Protests Outside of COP26 Offered More Hope Than the Summit
The conference ended with a disheartening “compromise” deal on the climate. In this interview, leading intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin offer their assessments of what transpired at COP26 and share their views about ways to go forward with the fight against the climate crisis.
The Present in History, 2021
The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective, informed by a socialist understanding of contemporary capitalism—not to reform it, but to abolish it.
Lasting Environmental and Health Impacts of U.S. Chemical Warfare in Southeast Asia – 50 Years on
As part of the Vietnam War, US military sprayed more than 20 million gallons of herbicide on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia – the campaign destroyed five millions acres of forest and untold millions of acres of crops (including rice). It continues to impact these countries till today.
Hearing the Language of Trees
The intelligence of plants has long been a theme of literature, philosophy, and Indigenous narrative. In “White Pine,” excerpted here, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes Indigenous reverence for trees, which are “respected as unique, sovereign beings equal to or exceeding the power of humans.”
Food Sovereignty from the Perspective of the Urban Poor
On the occasion of World Food Day and the 25-year anniversary of the struggle for food sovereignty: Speech by the president of South Africa’s shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, S’bu Zikode to UN Food Systems Summit, September 16, 2021.
Odisha Tribal Activists Opposing Hindalco Bauxite Mining get Death Threats
The Adivasis and Dalit farmers have opposed mining in Mail Parbat due to environmental reasons and religious sentiments.
Reimagining India on Gandhian Lines
In the context of the challenges India is facing in different facets of human life including political, economic, social and religious, Gandhian ideas and principles could serve as a frame of reference when we are reimagining the vision of a better India.