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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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Mike Treen 21 November, 2023 Last month an Australian billionaire property mogul made headlines when he welcomed more “pain” for Australian workers through increasing unemployment to remind them they are lucky to be in a job. Gurner Group chief executive Tim Gurner took aim at “unproductive tradies” for being “paid a lot to do not too much”…
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December 4, 2023 Risk of damage to hospitals from extreme weather has increased by 41% since 1990 Flooding at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), after heavy rains in Bihar, India, 2018 On December 2, XDI Cross Dependency Initiative, an consultancy that specializes in understanding and managing unavoidable climate change, released report that evaluates physical climate…
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Originally published: Project Censored on November 30, 2023 by Steve Macek (more by Project Censored) | (Posted Dec 09, 2023) During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality. In Texas, Suzette Baker was fired from her job…
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Nick Dearden, Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health (Verso 2023), 336pp. Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health’ – book review By John Clarke (Posted Dec 11, 2023) Originally published: Counterfire on December 7, 2023 (more by Counterfire) | Capitalism, Health, Human Rights, InequalityGlobalNewswire, ReviewBig Pharma, Healthcare, Nick Dearden, Pharmanomics With Pharmanomics, Nick Dearden provides a fascinating account of the evolution of Big Pharma…
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Internationalism Today: An Interview with Paweł Wargan What does a progressive foreign policy look like today? How should we understand imperialism? What is at stake in reclaiming an internationalist political horizon for the left? What forms of organization are best adapted for a new international? Given the many contemporary global challenges—such as climate change, far-right…
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