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Over the last two decades, international agencies and the Indian government have been preparing the ground for takeover of farmer lands by corporate houses. Towards this end, as the first step, the government is trying to establish a system of ‘conclusive titling’ of all land in the country.
A survey of reforms in health policies in India over the past two decades – actually a string of privatisation policies – indicates that we have moved away from and not towards Universal Health Coverage. What then needs to be done?
The 2011 Arab spring should be understood not as an epic mobilisation that ultimately failed but rather as the opening round of a longer-term process to build a new, democratic, equitable world where the people can lead dignified lives.
2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. With Biden coming to power, will the US administration continue its attempts to sabotage the elections? And can Nicaragua once again defend its sovereignty against US and other foreign interference?
Followers of each religion, including Hinduism, have been unpatriotic at one point or another.
The Chilean government has finally agreed to a process of constitutional reform. Though the government is trying to sabotage the process, it’s a historic opportunity, won by millions of Chileans taking to the streets, to step out from the long shadow of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Two committed communards walk us through the political and theoretical genesis of a new communal city being built by El Maizal commune in Venezuela, together with 6 other communes, in a process that “puts the people and not capital in the center of territorial organization.”
Rising inflation is forcing millions of households in India to cut back on food and dip into their savings for essentials. This could wipe out gross household savings, hampering future economic recovery because households would have no money to spend.
The crises the US people face are severe and the right wing violent backlash is real. To stop the right wing, ghe US left must constitute itself as an independent pole, and not fall in behind attempts to rehabilitate business as usual.
Iran’s Revolution is generally understood to have begun on January 7, 1978, and continued until the Shah fled the country on January 16, 1979. The revolution was brewing for decades though …
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