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31 March, by Sumanta Banerjee
Revisiting Ayodhya: A Multi-Religious Historical Site Turned into The Capital of a Majoritarian Hindu Religious Empire
Now that the foundation stone for the building of the Rama temple has been laid at his birthplace in Ayodhya, it is time to recall the history of Rama’s birth. The present hype over the occasion (...) -
31 March, by Pierre Beaudet and Paulos Tesfagiorgis
Ethiopia: Between Famine and Military Stalemate
During the liberation war from the mid-seventies to the early 1990s, Paulos Tesfagiorgis was head of the Eritrean Relief Agency (ERA), the central organism that organized the provision of goods (...) -
31 March, by Susan Spronk
The Struggle for Water Justice is a Struggle for Gender and Racial Justice
The essay is published in honour of World Water Day, which has been held every year on March 22 since 1993. The goal of this day is to celebrate water and raise awareness of the 2.2 billion (...) -
31 March, by Wolfgang Streeck
Accelerating Decay
Spring is in the air, and Brussels should be buzzing with activity. Remember von der Leyen’s Next Generation EU (NGEU for short), the €750 billion ‘Corona recovery fund’ borrowed from the owners of (...) -
31 March, by World Beyond War
Stop Fueling War in Yemen
On March 26, Members of anti-war organizations World BEYOND War, Labour Against the Arms Trade, and People for Peace London blocked railway tracks near General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, a (...) -
27 February, by Vinod Mubayi
Impact of the Farmers Agitation on India’s International Image
India’s current image in most of the mainstream western media is that of an authoritarian state: a state unwilling to tolerate any dissent or criticism of its actions and policies; a state that (...) -
21 February, by Donald Cuccioletta
The Systemic Capitalist Crisis and the Advent of Neo-fascism
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown without a doubt how the capitalist class has not responded and cannot respond to the devastating consequences produced by the corona virus across our (...) -
19 February, by Yanis Varoufakis
In Defence of Ken Loach
So, it’s come to that: Ken Loach is now the target of a character assassination campaign waged by those who will stop at nothing to shield the apartheid policies of Israel. Their message to people (...) -
19 February, by Sam Gindin
Living Socialism Today: Remembering Leo Panitch
Standing outside a conference with a group of devotees, a famous political scientist brags that there’s only two people in the world he’s afraid of: his mother and Leo Panitch. To anyone who knows (...) -
18 February, by Sumanta Banerjee
Humour in the Time of COVID-19
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote his novel `Love in the Time of Cholera’ in 1985. It ends with the tale of a couple of elderly lovers persuading the captain of the ship by which they were travelling (...)