Cease Your Destruction, Cargill!
Letter to the Cargill-MacMillan family: In every region where Cargill operates, you are destroying the environment and driving out or threatening the communities who live there.
The Little-Known Radical History of Gambia
The fire was once aflame and blazing in this small country. May its memory serve as a spark to rekindle its embers.
Self-Respect and Socialism
One of the earliest propagandists of socialism from the non-Left camp in southern India was the patriarch of the Dravidian movement, E.V.R. Periyar. The choice Periyar made then changed the course of history and politics in Tamil Nadu.
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
Humanity in this moment faces two major crises: one ecological, growing more acute with every planetary boundary passed; the other social, leading to deprivation and despair across the globe. An effective ecosocialist approach to these crises must aim to resolve both in a single stroke
“Domestic Debt Restructuring in Sri Lanka: Forcing the Poor to Pay the Debt of the Rich”
The IMF programme in Sri Lanka is devastating the common people of Sri Lanka, especially the most vulnerable and marginalised among them.
China | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Maldives Explores Life Outside Indo-Pacific
A massive western media barrage was to be expected caricaturing the election result of the runoff in the Maldives presidential poll in binary terms as China’s “gain” being India’s “loss”. Both assumptions about Muizzu are deeply flawed.
Capitalism | Economy | Online Blog | USA
Poverty in the USA – 2 Articles; Also: Poverty Is a Natural By-Product of Capitalism
New US poverty data show a record jump in poverty. Poverty always increases when capitalism is in crisis. Also: “The U.S. is a Nation of Savage Inequality”.
China’s Health and Health Care in the “New Era”
What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China’s health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.
Degrowth – How Anti-Worker Would it Be?
Many of the accusations against degrowth have been answered. One accusation still seems to lack an adequate response: Is the US working class inherently anti-degrowth because it would mean a massive loss of jobs?
Revolutions Begin With ‘No’. And This Journey Starts with Asking Questions
It has never been easy to ask questions in human history. Those who have questioned have been persecuted, hounded, punished and even killed. Science has progressed because of the courage people had to say no. Philosophical movements and religions, too, began with questioning.