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• 17 May, by Maxime Combes & Nicolas Haeringer

  The True Price of Oil

  Oil has reached its true price, let’s leave it in its true place: in the ground On April 20, in the United States, the price of a WTI crude barrel (West Texas Intermediate Crude) fell below the (...)
• 14 May, by Anticapitalistas

  Statement by Anticapitalistas

  On 28 March, an internal voting process ended in which Anticapitalistas decided to leave Podemos. Seventy-nine per cent of the membership participated; of these 89 per cent voted in favour, 3 per (...)
• 8 May, by Pritam Singh

  Zeroing in on Responses to Economic Crisis

  After the 2008 financial crisis, the burden of adjustment was passed on to the middle classes and the poor. This time, it will unavoidably fall on the rich whose lifestyles of consumption and (...)
• 1 May, by David Harvey

  We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of Coronavirus

  The crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for us to think again about Marx’s idea of human freedom. As David Harvey writes in Jacobin, emergency steps to get through the (...)
• 1 May, by Tapan Kumar Bose

  COVID-19: Rohingya Refugees in India Are Battling Islamophobia and Starvation

  The refugees will not be covered under the relief measures announced by governments and their settlements are prone to outbreaks if even a single person is infected. Nearly all Rohingya (...)
• 1 May, by Bram Wispelwey and Amaya Al-Orzza

  Underlying Conditions

  At nearly 18 per cent officially, and probably higher, the prevalence of diabetes among Palestinian refugees in the West Bank is one of the highest in the world. The official rate in Gaza is 16 (...)
• 1 May, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Will the Pandemic Be The Wakeup Call?

  Despite the unexpected hundreds of thousands of deaths, people seem to have the same recurrent question: what will the world be like after the Coronavirus pandemic? There will be, I think, two (...)
• 1 May, by Sumanta Banerjee

  Religious Rites in the Time of COVID-19

  It has now been confirmed that one of the primary causes of the global spread of coronavirus is the trend of religious congregations and rituals followed by the faithful all over the world, (...)
• 11 April, by Subhashini Ali

  India’s Untouchability Epidemic Refuses to Stop for Coronavirus

  The world has responded to the Covid-19 crisis by proposing social distancing. But Indian society’s social discrimination still has no cure. Subhashini Ali underlines this with details from recent (...)
• 6 April, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  Corona - Our Debt to Darwin

  CHARLES Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or, if they go ahead, first (...)

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