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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Timor-Leste represents a new case in the dawn of the twenty-first century on how the IMF imposed a top-down neoliberal macroeconomic infrastructure and reform project from scratch.
The Tamils of the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) belong to that category of victims of major human rights violations who only few in the world want to acknowledge as victims.
Shelley was probably the greatest English Romantic poet. The critic Harold Bloom described him as “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem”. But he was much more than that: he was also a passionate revolutionary.
Review of P. Sainath’s book, “The Last Heroes, Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom”
The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1994, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government paramilitaries, the betrayals of Mexican presidents and crushing poverty.
From facing social pressures to financial setbacks, women recount the tribulations that followed because they kept their maiden names.
The coup against Pedro Castillo is a major setback for the current wave of progressive governments and movements in Latin America. The coup and the arrest of Castillo are stark reminders that the ruling elites of Latin America will not concede any power without a bitter fight to the end.
Every child in the States is taught that in 1621, Pilgrims and the ‘Indians’ sat down and had a ‘peaceful’ meal. The bloody slaughter that the Indigenous people faced from the newcomers soon after is forgotten. US Indigenous organiser Maria Whitehorse and her group are seeking to correct this unfair history.
Remembering the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August.
Indorca is a factory without bosses in the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. Indorca’s workers carried out a heroic three-year struggle to gain control of the factory after the former owner brought it to a halt. In this interview, Indorca workers talk about their struggle.
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