Cross-country strikes in China reveal pressure from below
- Zhàn Dòu Zhě 战斗者
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The story of Solapur, India, where housing cooperatives are building a workers’ city
- Tricontinental
Mass housing projects in Solapur, India, prove that the sheer strength of workers’ sustained movements, with the cooperation of governments, can deliver results.
“Earlier we used stay in a small hut in a slum in Shastri Nagar, Solapur ...
Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits
- Julia Carrie Wong - Jon Letman
Attorneys for Facebook’s CEO have filed suits against hundreds of Hawaiians centered around his 700-acre Kauai estate, alarming neighbors
A few days after Christmas, Mark Zuckerberg shared a series of photographs of his family at their $100m, ...
Sexy metal: the missing element in the Korean puzzle
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo knows the importance of rare earth elements, and North Korea has reportedly found one of the world's biggest deposits 150km from Pyongyang; is this another factor behind the recent thaw with the US?
This may not ...
The urgency of bringing Julian Assange home
- John Pilger
This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger to a rally organized by the Socialist Equality Party in Sydney Town Hall Square on Sunday 17 June to demand Julian Assange's safe return to Australia.
Listen to the speech at 42:30
The ...
4 years of Modi in India: This ‘vikas’ has no vision for future
- Vijay Prashad
What vikas means to BJP is that their corporate allies, such as the Adanis*, should be free to make money. Modi’s India cannot imagine a future. It’s rooted in a hideous version of the past
It is impossible to miss the brutality. ...
Erasing Muslim/Kashmiriness of Kathua Victim
- Basharat Ali بشارت علی
Three months after the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl, Aasifa, in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir (J & K), the Indian media and civil society suddenly woke up to demand justice. Some are demanding death penalty for the ...
Anti-rape protests in India show a growing public stand against sexual violence
- Vijay Prashad
The BJP-led government has let horrible crimes go unpunished for too long
Both stories are horrendous. An eight-year-old girl kidnapped in Kathua (Jammu and Kashmir), then sedated and gang-raped before she was killed. A 17-year-old woman raped by ...
The myth of a neo-imperial China
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Silk Road infrastructure projects could bring back a peaceful and prosperous Eurasia
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China’s president for life? Not Xi Jinping, a student of history
- Deng Yuwen 邓聿文
Deng Yuwen says even with the removal of presidential term limits, Xi is too mindful of the lessons of history and the need to win over public opinion to consider holding power till his death
Xi Jinping’s grip on power will last as long as ...
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