Thousands of small farmers, landless peasants and agricultural workerscame from across Pakistan on October 6 to demand a minimum support price for their produce and an end to corporate farming and land grabs, reports Susan Price.
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Sri Lanka鈥檚 presidential elections represent a historic change in representative politics and mark a new beginning, with many challenges for progressive forces, reports Janaka Biyanwila.
As the climate emergency and extinction crises deepen, there is no choice but to struggle to democratise the economy so that it can be made to serve social needs and ecological sustainability. Peter Boyle reports.
Pakistan鈥檚 February 8 general elections resulted in a split vote, with no party securing a clear national majority, writes Farooq Tariq, offering little hope for positive change, as the incoming government is poised to fast-track neoliberal policies, privatise state institutions and deepen class exploitation.
The International Monetary Fund approved a larger-than-expected conditional loan 鈥 worth US$3 billion聽鈥 for Pakistan, on July 12, reports Farooq Tariq. But ordinary people will pay the cost.
The IMF has debunked the myth that聽heightened inflation means workers聽should accept below-inflation wage rises 鈥 real wage cuts. Neville Spencer reports.
The mass movement in Sri Lanka mobilised more than a million people in revolt against the corrupt government of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Susan Price听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
After nearly two months in self-imposed exile, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka on September 3, reports Janaka Biyanwila.
Thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on August 18 to protest rising living costs and demand the government take action to improve material conditions, reports Ana Zorita.
Capitalism is in crisis and new Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers has offered little by way of analysis and even less optimism, argues William Briggs.听
The war in Ukraine has made an already critical food crisis worse. Fingers point to grain supply shortages, but the problem is far deeper and linked to the economic system that turns food into a profitable commodity, writes William Briggs.
Is Australia a 鈥渓apdog鈥 for the United States or is it also an imperialist power 鈥 albeit smaller 鈥 looking to grow its own interests? Felix Dance looks at the evidence.
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