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Can Biden Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?
Remembering Patrice Lumumba, Marielle Franco and Chico Mendes, and news of new year struggles in four continents
Fascism, fascization, and antifascism 2021. Reports and analyses, with urgent words from Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad and Alain Badiou.
A year of agony and uproar
Rebellion in 2020 – The fury only grows
The Arab revolution, South African nation-building, peasants unite in India, Amazon workers strike, and much more
Furious farmers storm India and Peru, and more news and analysis from four continents
The protests in Punjab are happening at a time when the agrarian economy is under stress. With increasing uncertainty, previously antagonistic groups across classes, castes & gender are coming closer, building a broader base for the agitation & beyon
From how the Green Revolution actually harmed farmers from Punjab and Haryana to what needs to be done now, farmers seem pretty well-versed with their agriculture. New farm laws are feared to be leading to a ‘corporatisation’ of rural India.
People making power, challenges to center-left heads of state, new developments in Nigeria and Namibia, Engels at 200, and more
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