Poverty and Homelessness in America – Three Articles
American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines; The Death Penalty for Homelessness; Baskets and Tents.
History Is Calling Us! Unite in Struggle to Defend the Values of the Freedom Struggle
Why this call? People of India today face the onslaught on the basic values of the Constitution from a regime that is determined to impose a socio-political system of Hindutva chauvinism on the multicultural, multi-religious, multilingual society thus violating the constitutional commitment to equality of all citizens.
The Deplorable Work Conditions Behind Harrods’ $7,000 ‘Ambootia Snow Mist’ Darjeeling Tea
The story of tea is a story of interconnected continents and expanding systems of capitalist and imperialist exploitation stretching their tendrils across the globe over the course of hundreds of years—and the people bearing the brunt of it all have always been the workers on the plantations.
‘Be Your Own Boss!’: The Myth of Unemployment as Opportunity
There is a myth in capitalism that anybody and everybody—with the necessary drive and ambition—can make a go of starting their own business. Statistically, that is just not the case.
Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People? Part 6: Cut in Social Sector Expenditures, Transfers to States
Despite the already abysmally low social sector expenditures of the country, the Centre has made huge cuts in its spending on the people to compensate for the huge increase in capex (and the meagre increase in budget outlay).
UP Urban Bodies’ Elections: BJP Faltering in Small Towns
59% of Nagar Palika Parishad members and 67% of Nagar Panchayat members are independents.
The Passing of Bhaskar Save: What the ‘Green Revolution’ did for India
Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the ‘Gandhi of natural farming’. In 2006 he published an open letter on the disastrous effects of green revolution for India – socially, economically and ecologically. We reproduce this letter here.
Online Blog | Racism | USA
Grand Theft Capital: The Increasing Exploitation and Robbery of the U.S. Working Class
While outright expropriation, or robbery, is always present in capitalism, as an external basis of its existence, the inner dynamic of the system arises from the exploitation of labor power, a more hidden form of robbery.
The US Debt Ceiling Debate
Raising taxes on the rich, whether through the corporate profit tax or through a wealth tax, should be the obvious way of raising resources to finance government expenditure. But both Biden administration and the Republicans leave out this alternative in the current debate on US debt ceiling.
Capitalism | China | Economy | Online Blog
Why China Can’t Pull the World Out of a New Great Depression
The prospect of the Chinese economy being a growth locomotive to lift the rest of the world from looming depression is virtually nil at this point. The massive BRI is mired in massive loans to countries unable to service the debt. Attempts to boost domestic China growth by relying on a consumer boom are also presently doomed.