Indonesia, the largest island-nation of South-East Asia, has been witnessing a storm of mass uprise against the new reforms in labour law. In response to the newly introduced labour law …
Author: Debapriya Chakraborty
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No number matters
“Forward march, forward march!”, they said, The ones in States and in Spain.Hoping for a new crimson dawn, On board were 82 men. With bugle calls and martial laws,Reigned terror in …
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Deals behind Trump’s India visit
India recently welcomed the white supremacist from the west in a warm embrace. Flooded with thousands of Indians were the sidewalks of the road that Trump’s convoy passed through, all …
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Nestle, Unilever & The Tragic Tale Of Palm Oil
Every household item like your morning toothpaste, “Colgate-Palmolive”, soap, skincare item, has a brutal and tragic story behind it; courtesy of companies like Nestle and Unilever. Here’s how your favorite …
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Chile: In For A New Reform Or A Path To Transformation?
What started a year back as protests against the brutal killing of a 24 year old activist by the police in Chile has now taken a sharp turn towards a …
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Socialism Conference 2019: The Hunt For True Socialism?
In times of great crisis, these organizations will not leave out socialists even while they drown in their puddle of contaminated and deformed approach to socialism, let alone stand in solidarity with communists. They have a lot to say about trans-national companies not being able to properly venture under socialist regimes with little to share about their exploitative agenda. In these times of great turmoil, the only way to stand for internationalism is to stand for trans-national solidarity among communists all over the world, while Social Democrats suckle on their bourgeois democratic pacifier.
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The International Coalition of Delivery Apps for Exploitation of its ‘Partners’
Imagine a perfect evening all planned and set to order from a food delivery service and you fail to do so. That is the case with some neo-liberal Latin American …
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JET AIRWAY’S LAST BREATH AND THE MALIGNANT CONDITION OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY
What the government has done meanwhile is that it has opened up the Indian aviation industry for more FDI with flexible scopes for private airline companies to run their business here. But such relaxing norms for the corporate would not benefit the unemployed section in the industry who have lost their jobs or open up opportunities for newcomers seeking jobs in this industry.
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Pawns Of Hong Kong And The Fight For Market Rights
China’s failing foreign policies followed by the present situation of unrest in Hong Kong appears to distance the dream of reunification of Hong Kong from reality. As the fight for flexible open trade becomes more and more violent in these regions that currently serve as a tunnel between the rest of the world and China, what seems to be a fight for democracy is revealing itself as an apparent fight for market control between nations.
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A Farmers’ March for Large Corporates?
While the former capital of India and the present one, both, were witnessing a red storm in the form of Kisan rallies for the last couple of days, the calls …