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Pandemic: Covid-19 Pushes the Indian Economy into a Tailspin. Is There a Way Out? India has become the world’s new hotspot of the Covid-19 pandemic as infection cases have surged in recent weeks. On September 7, India overtook Brazil with 4.2 million confirmed cases to become the country with the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world. On September 16, the (...)
In Australia, COVID-19 Has Exposed a Litany of Privatization Disasters The coronavirus pandemic has preyed on weaknesses created by decades of austerity, confirming what socialists have consistently argued: privatization was a disaster.
The link between privatization and the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia’s southeastern state of Victoria is now indisputable. (...)UK: Leicester garment factory bosses banned from running businesses for more than 400 years Insolvency Service data shows more than 50 people banned in cases costing HMRC millions
Directors of clothing manufacturers in Leicester have been struck off for a combined total of more than 400 years in cases costing HMRC millions, data shared with the Guardian reveals.
Details of (...)India: Caste Violence, Hindu Politeness and Rural Peace Castes are not always at war in villages, nor do ex-untouchables face physical violence every day. Caste power also operates through peace and politeness.
Recurring cases of caste violence against Scheduled Castes in rural India bring to the fore the fragile nature of rural peace. As part of (...)WikiLeaks: Defend Assange and Civil Liberties – History, Great Britain, and Julian Assange BELOW ARE THE comments Clifford D. Conner made at a September 8th press conference in front of the British consulate in New York City. Conner is an historian and author of Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution and The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump. The court in (...)
Spanish State: Anticapitalistas leave Podemos On 14 May 2020, Anticapitalistas, a founding component of Podemos and historical current of the radical left in the Spanish state linked to the Fourth International, announced its departure from Podemos. In reality, this decision was taken on 28 March when, in an internal consultation process (...)
Spanish state: Radiance and sunset of Podemos - reasons for a farewell The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have (...)
When Chinese Eat Grass Last year during the height of the trade war with the US, it was reported that a top Chinese official vowed that China would continue to defend its interests even if this required Chinese people to eat grass instead of rice for a year.
The trade war dealt a blow to exports, one of the three (...)Spanish state: a revived Eurocommunism vs centrist populism A few days after the public announcement [on 17 January] that an agreement had been reached between the Mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, and Íñigo Errejón around the platform Más Madrid for the forthcoming municipal elections, as well as the scathing response from Pablo Iglesias (not to mention (...)
Spanish State: Podemos Manifesto – Turning outrage into political change This is a rush translation of the manifesto titled Mover ficha, which literally means to move a piece on a board game, as in chess, but which might best be translated as Making a move. It is from the new political initiative in Spain called Podemos, literally We can, or We can do it. I will (...)
European Union Parliament to Philippines: Drop charges vs Maria Ressa The European Parliament on Thursday, September 17, approved a resolution urging the Philippine government to drop all charges against Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa, former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr, and the news website’s other staff.
European lawmakers also call on the (...)How the ‘Lion Rock Spirit’ crushed Hong Kong’s calls for strikes ’Liberate Hong Kong, The Revolution of Our Times’ is not just any chant; it is an idea rooted in a decolonial politics.
In the four months of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement as of November 2019, people could often only be mobilized to take to the streets on the weekends. The local movement (...)Authoritarianism Is on the Rise in Sri Lanka Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, have been implicated in egregious human rights violations against Tamils in the country, including accusations of crimes against humanity and genocide. Yet rather than being held accountable, the (...)
Philippines: Is Duterte a ‘post-modern’ Marcos? Reflecting on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Possessed” (1871), the French writer Albert Camus argued that the biggest challenge of our times is increasingly the “inability to believe” in any grand Truth.
Set in mid-19th century Russia, the novel explores the dangers of mindless nihilism and blind (...)India: The Myth of Mainstream On the dangerous trajectory of state institutions and popular media in India.
Every other day or so, it seems, news from India confirms our worst fears about the state of journalism and free speech in the country. Indeed, given the growing body of evidence, particularly since the ascendancy of (...)Iran’s secular shift : new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline.
Reliable large-scale data on (...)India: ‘Let Not Despair Imprison Our Words’: Remembering Ali Sardar Jafri, 20 Years On The Sardar of Progressive poetry, who gave it new facets with his powerful imagery, preferred to recite verses on the battlefield of existence than seek gratification.
Har cheez bhula di jaayegi Yaadon ke haseen butkhane se Har cheez utha di jaayegi Phir koi nahin yeh poochhega Sardar kahan (...)Cisco Case Shows Indians Still Take Caste Where They Go How discrimination is integrated into the daily lives of the Indian diaspora still needs to be understood.
What happens to caste when Indians migrate to Western countries? Do their feelings of being born superior or inferior, their belief in the purity-pollution ethic, just melt away? The (...)India: Ilina As We Knew Her: A Tribute From WSS Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) deeply mourns the passing away of Ilina Sen on August 9 in Kolkata. Ilina, 69, was a feminist activist, teacher, researcher and writer passionately involved with the women’s movement in India.
Women against Sexual Violence and State (...)India: The Shadow of Haren Pandya’s Case Lies Long Over Justice Arun Mishra To say that the Supreme Court’s verdict of contempt of court against Prashant Bhushan has shocked civil society in India would be an understatement. There has been an outpouring of dismay and anger in which even attorney general K.K. Venugopal has joined. Most of the protest has focussed on the (...)
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