Inside the Hellfires of India’s Brick Industry
Brick kiln workers already work under extreme conditions. Heat waves are pushing them to the brink.
Chile: The Pinochet Tsunami
The opposition to Gabriel Boric’s government will control more than 3/5 of the members of the next 51-member Constitutional Council, which will be in charge of defining a new Magna Carta after the failure of the previous attempt hegemonised by the centre-left.
Michael Lebowitz, Presente! (1937–2023)
Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, whose contributions to reviving Karl Marx’s vision of socialism are essential reading for activists.
Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? Part 4: Analysis of Budget Outlay
The Indian economy is in stagflation. Further, the people are facing a colossal unemployment, poverty and hunger crisis. For the economy to have a sustained recovery, it is important that the government greatly increases its expenditure. Has the Budget 2023 done anything towards this?
Khader Adnan, Who Yearned to Live Free, Dies in Israeli Prison
Khader Adnan died after 86 days of refusing food in protest against his detention by Israel. But if Israel broke and finally destroyed Adnan physically, it did not do so spiritually. “Our freedom is the most precious thing we have,” Adnan explained in an essay published in a book.
On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion
Excerpt from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History’, whose paperback edition has just come out.
‘We Lay Like Corpses. Then the Raping Began’: 52 Years on, Bangladesh’s Rape Camp Survivors Speak Out
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told.
The Toxic Legacy of US Foreign Policy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
After 200 years, the time has come to do away with the colonial law of the past that has plagued communities in Latin America and the Caribbean for far too long. It’s time for the abolition of the Monroe Doctrine, the Jones Act, and the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
How the World of Work Is Changing
Globally, employment patterns are changing, including four-day weeks and remote work. Two articles.
Your Smartphone Has a Human Cost
On the tech-fueled “modern-day slavery” in the Congo.