PrSF backs Gilgit-Baltistan’s fight against resource capture
News Desk Islamabad: The Progressive Students Federation (PrSF), a Left-wing student body has expressed ‘unwavering solidarity’ with the ongoing resistance
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Capitalism
The neoliberal environmentalism-I
Corporate giants use clever tactics to quickly make massive profits, but they don’t realize the climate crisis is caused by their rapacious exploitation of land use, water use, and fossil fuel, and their endless quest for profiteering is seizing our ability to breathe clean air.
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Private charity: just another scam for 1% rich
We were told that the generosity of the rich would make up for cuts to government services. But those at the top are increasingly using dubious “charitable” ventures as vehicles for profit and influence. Institute for Policy Studies’ report Gilded Giving 2022: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy, charitable giving is more dominated than ever by those at the top of the income and wealth pyramid.
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Communist Manifesto shows why capitalism won’t last forever
By Nadia Urbinati The Communist Manifesto, first published on this day in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the
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Globalization isn’t the problem — capitalism is
The Right has hijacked the vision of a life beyond neoliberal globalization. It’s time for a new progressive internationalism, one that puts solidarity and justice over corporate profits.
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Book review: The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan
The book, titled The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons is an interpretation of the contemporary global economic and political scenario and opportunities for revolutionary politics as an alternative.
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Uberisation of farmlands
In the name of saving the climate, big technological and agriculture firms and corporations will uberise farmlands
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A world without hunger
There is nothing more obscene than the existence of hunger, the terrible indignity of working hard but being without the means for sustenance.
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‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Resisting power structures that keep colonialism alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past. by LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE
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How capitalism drives cancel culture
Beware of splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. by Helen Lewis Tumbrels are rattling through the streets
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Decolonising aid, again
‘The unfinished business of decolonisation is the original sin of the modern aid industry.’ by Paul Currion This year calls
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Native Americans shut down pipeline
There is a lesson for the people of Gilgit-Baltistan to learn in the remarkable victory of a native American tribe
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Charity won’t fix inequality. Only structural change will
Swiss activist Loukina Tille, Swedish climate change activists Greta Thunberg and Isabelle Axelsson attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting
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Development and games of empire
Scholars debunk neoliberal development concept; offer pluriversality and inclusive development concept by Fayyaz Baqir We are at a
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