By Betsey Piette On May 10, Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Congress and lied. He said: “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” This is despite an explosive report given to Blinken in April 2024, from the State Department’s Refugees… Read More The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs
I took on three of the jobs shunned by western workers. Our mini-series reveals the hidden lives of those with no choice Saša Uhlová Migration statistics don’t tell us much about the people who leave their own countries and loved ones to work in poorly paid and physically demanding jobs. A lot of the time,… Read More Who keeps Europe’s wealthy west going? Underpaid, invisible migrants from its east – and I went undercover to find them
“If they (Samsung) had given us a living wage and treated us with respect, we wouldn’t have thought of joining a union,” said one worker outside the factory, who declined to be named fearing reprisal from the company. Production at a key Samsung Electronics plant in southern India was disrupted by hundreds of employees striking… Read More Hundreds of workers strike at major Samsung factory in India
The scale of the silicosis crisis in India is staggering. A report by the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1999 estimated that, apart from 5.4 million construction workers, 3 million workers in other industries were at high risk of silica exposure. These figures are already over two decades old, but exact current estimates are… Read More Choking to Death
By Robert Alvarez Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them, and their relatives, have never been compensated, but new efforts may change that. A former Senate staffer and expert on the US nuclear program looks back at its harmful effects, and how the… Read More Seeking justice for radiation victims of the US nuclear program
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First posted March 10, 2015 The latest issue of Oxford Left Review has a number of engaging articles on the nature and consequences of neoliberalism. Neil Davidson from the University of Glasgow examines the changing social base of neoliberalism, where he explores the shift from vanguard to ‘social’ neoliberalism and the relationship of the latter to the middle… Read More Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in the Lok Sabha on Monday and said the NEET is not a professional examination but a commercial exam. He charged the Modi government treats Agniveers as “use-and-throw labour”. Addressing in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks for the president’s address,… Read More Agniveer ‘use-and-throw labour’ for govt; NEET a commercial exam
An interview with United Faculty for the Common Good ROTUA LUMBANTOBING, GABRIEL WINANT, TODD WOLFSON IN THE PROMISING EARLY DAYS of the Biden Administration, there occurred a moment—brief and soon forgotten—when it seemed like we might have a chance to repair the trainwreck of the higher-ed economy. During the debate on the omnibus social and domestic… Read More Do Much More to Meet This Moment
*PSF stands in solidarity with the teachers and staff at TISS* Statement issued by Progressive Students’ Forum, Date: 29 June 2024 After repeatedly targeting its students and curbing the campus democracy, the present TISS administration, under the BJP-led union government, has unleashed an attack on its employees as well. Recently, it has been learnt that… Read More Condemn the Mass Termination of around 100 Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff at TISS under the Union Government
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