The Burakumin caste’s history busts the myth of Japanese social harmony Pallavi Aiyar  | 12 Jan, 2024   A scene of Burakumin life from the Edo period THE RECENT, ALMOST preternaturally orderly, evacuation of all 379 people on board a Japan Airlines flight that collided with a smaller plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport appeared to once again…

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara and Moema Viezzer $28.00 – $89.00 Let Me Speak! is a moving testimony from inside the Bolivian tin mines of the 1970s, by a woman whose life was defined by her defiant struggle against those at the very top of the power structure, the Bolivian elite. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila Barrios de…

Prabhat Patnaik 5 January, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published at Think Left. These are notes taken by Audrey Chan from Professor Prabhat Patnaik’s talk at the Socialism 2023 conference, which took place in the KL Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall on the 2nd of December 2023. Capitalism is facing an existential crisis. The crisis of overproduction/underconsumption cannot be…

TOMAS PUEYO JAN 12, 2024 This article will convince you of that nuclear is the best source of energy.1 Don’t read it if you need your mind to remain anti-nuclear. If you are against nuclear, I recommend you to precisely write down your concerns and what it would take for you to be convinced that nuclear…

Genocide as pattern and policy   On January 11, South Africa presented its arguments before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its historic case accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. As proceedings began on Thursday morning, hundreds of people gathered outside the court in The Hague, chanting “Stop, stop genocide” and…