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Kei Pritsker, Eugene Puryear
Hunger Stalks the United States
18 Sep 2021
The Unity and Survival Program of the Philadelphia Liberation Center provided essential food support to a struggling population as the pandemic wreaked havoc. Their success demonstrates that the…
Newsclick Report
The Long Shadow of Hunger in India
03 Sep 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s ill-conceived and heartless response have left the people of India devastated.
Peoples Dispatch
In 2020, Rise in Number of Those Affected by Chronic Hunger was More Than Last 5 Years Combined
14 Jul 2021
The report underlines the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and conflicts as the major reasons for rising hunger in the world. It asks countries to increase social spending, end conflicts, and…
Girish Phonde
Medicine, the Pandemic and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
14 Jun 2021
It is critical to understand why the poor become victims of any disease or outbreak. Social medicine in Latin America, Guevara’s legacy, provides some answers.
Indira Khurana
Future Trade in Water Bodes Poorly for Earth and its Communities
07 Jan 2021
The decision to bet on water turns it into a tool to exercise social, cultural, economic and territorial control.
Romila Thapar
Altering Ideas of the Self
28 Oct 2020
Travelling across three millennia, Thapar uncovers continually altering ideas of the Self. The Other may be part of this Self, as demonstrated by figures and practices with origins outside the…
Bharat Dogra
Land Reform: A Plant Uprooted Before It Could Bear Fruit
17 Oct 2020
The distressing case of giving up land reform in India even before achieving any real success.
Girish Phonde
Questions All Citizens Should Ask on Bhagat Singh’s Birth Anniversary
28 Sep 2020
Today, 90 years later, his thoughts are relevant to India like never before. Last week, the elected central government rushed 25 bills across Parliament. Some of the bills are similar to laws…
Ramdas Rupavath
For India’s Tribes, Democracy Also Means Resisting Alienation
18 Sep 2020
The present regime wants to accustom people to oppression, including Adivasis, whose votes it needs for a tyranny of the majority.
Peoples Dispatch
Taxing Large Fortunes, a Tool of Social Justice
05 Jun 2020
Many countries who have seen their economies hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic are considering levying a tax on large fortunes to help their struggling economies.