Ecological Uprising Evicts Transnational Mining Company
The Panamanian socialist describes “the biggest mobilizations we have ever seen in this country”.
Savarkar Did Very Little for India’s Independence
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed that V.D. Savarkar, the Hindutva icon, had written mercy petitions to the British on the basis of advice from Mahatma Gandhi. Dr Vinay Lal, a noted historian, repudiates Rajnath Singh’s claim and also challenges several existing myths.
Zapatistas at 30: Building and Inspiring Autonomy
For decades, the EZLN has informed struggles down and up the continent. Amid climate chaos and endless war, they continue to imagine and create better worlds.
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The Weight of the World and Vikram Harijan’s Shoulders
The Allahabad University professor is battling police cases, varsity raps on his knuckles and volleys of harassment over his comments against the caste structure of Hinduism. But he is unrelenting.
If Capitalism Is ‘Natural,’ Why Was So Much Force Used to Build it?
Review of ‘The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism’ by Ian Angus: On how peasants fought to protect common land and resisted wage labor.
Navigating Caste More Difficult Than Studies for Backward Class Girls
Lack of quality education, facilities, guidance, economic deprivation and gender discrimination ensure that very few women from backward classes reach the threshold of STEM education.
Think #MeToo Didn’t Make a Real Difference? Think Again
With #MeToo, the impacts have been even more varied and expansive than Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter movements, making it an important case study into how mass mobilization can seed change in many different arenas of society.
Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
The question is: why have the otherwise different capitalist and socialist systems of the late 20th and early 21st centuries displayed quite similar formal democracies (apparatuses of voting) and equally similar absences of real democracy? Socialists have developed answers that entailed a significant socialist self-criticism.
Panama’s Massive Environmental Awakening
Beyond the traditional anti-mining movement, the protests have been effective in swaying or crystalizing public opinion against mining, even among some pro-extractive sectors. Indeed, the mobilizations may be labeled paradigm-changing.
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How the Modi Government Is Dismantling India’s Federalism, Politically and Fiscally
States’ access to resources is seemingly conditional on having a “double-engine sarkar”, even as governments’ space for economic policy is shrinking.