The Collapse of Zionism
More than 120 years since its inception, could the Zionist project in Palestine – the idea of imposing a Jewish state on an Arab, Muslim and Middle Eastern country – be facing the prospect of collapse?
Escalating Heat, Boiling Questions
There is an increasingly urgent need for questioning existing climate change adaptation measures.
A World of Inequality
A central feature of neo-liberal capitalism, which has ruled the global economy since the 1990s, is to deepen and widen inequalities. It makes a tiny minority indecently richer while leaving the majority in the lurch.
Homelessness a Permanent Feature in the USA; Housing a Right in Cuba – 2 Articles
‘Housing, Not Handcuffs: The Moral Response to Homelessness’: The city of Grants Pass, Oregon, USA has outlawed resting or sleeping anywhere on public property with so much as a blanket to survive in cold weather, even when no beds in shelters were available. Also: ‘I Witnessed an Alternative to the U.S. Homelessness Crisis in Socialist Cuba’.
Neo-Liberalism has Increased Mass Poverty
The Niti Aayog in a press release earlier this year claimed near zero poverty for India by 2022-23, affecting only 5 per cent of the population. The hard data on nutritional intake show however that hunger has risen greatly over the last three decades.
From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants
Migrants are often unable to cast their votes due to systemic exclusions and economic constraints. This has made them invisible as a vote-bank and heightened their marginalisation.
The Nehru Development Model
The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy as interpreted on the basis of an alternative framework constitutes, to this day, the core of any genuine anti-imperialist and pro-people development strategy in an economy such as India’s.
The Dialectics of Constituted and Communal Power: A Conversation with Ángel Prado
The main spokesperson of El Maizal Commune in Venezuela is trying to put institutional power at the service of the commune.
The Economic Situation in 2023-24, Part 2: India’s Appalling Unemployment Crisis
This three part series takes a look at the economic situation in the country in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi Government regarding the state of the economy. In the second part of this series, we take a look at the unprecedented unemployment crisis gripping the country.
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The Economic Situation in 2023–24, Part 3: India’s Grim Poverty Situation
In this third part of our review of the economic situation of the country in early 2024, we take a look at India’s poverty levels, and the hunger and malnutrition situation in the country.