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Mass demonstrations in Colombia continue for the third straight week. After defeating the unpopular tax reform that sparked the movement, protesters push new demands. Plus, an article on why the government imposed the tax package and its impact on the people that led to the uprising.
What is happening in India right now is mass murder. The dead demand that mystical veils of inscrutability be ripped from history, for beneath them lie the banally obvious explanation for this carnage: capitalism.
A week after the death of the dictator Idriss Déby, Chad’s military junta and France are confronted with massive mobilizations of the toiling masses.
Besides thousands of lives lost, working people are faced with a dark future as earnings dwindle and a hostile government tries to crush their voices. Also: Press Statement by Joint Platform of India’s Trade Unions – Covid 19 Crises & Govt’s Anti-People Policies.
In the tradition of proletarian internationalism, working women and farmers from Tanzania express their solidarity with the women farmers of India who have been engaged in struggle for the last several months against pro-corporate farming bills of the Modi-led government.
Why Unto the last? Because: No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
A serious explanation of the covid health emergency together with the associated economic slump must involve a scientific critique of the social conditions that allowed the virus to emerge and the pandemic to develop in the way that it did.
While there have been measures of universal support in the US following the pandemic, i.e. to every household, no such measures have been adopted in India despite the pleadings of a host of economists, civil society organisations, and political parties.
The most prominent independent elected socialist in the U.S., Kshama Sawant, recently announced, that she and other members Socialist Alternative would be joining the Democratic Socialists of America. This is the important backdrop to this interview.
The novel was very effective in drawing attention to the injustices faced by displaced farmers in the wake of the great depression and the dust bowl phenomenon. We in India are all too familiar with this overwhelming reality of our times, and this is all the more reason for remembering this story.
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