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.
Economy
Dmitry Pozhidaev reviews Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value, by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts, which aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Karl Marx鈥檚 value theory.
While so many struggle to meet rising household bills, Labor refuses to take action to stop the supermarket duopoly from price gouging. Josh Adams reports.
The COVID-19聽pandemic was an accelerant for money-pinching administrative bureaucrats to experiment with eliminating student-teacher classes. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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.
Labor is accusing the Greens of working with the Coalition to stop it from enacting its 鈥淗elp to Buy鈥 scheme.聽The Greens respond it will only help 0.2% of those needing a place to call home and want to negotiate something better.聽Alex Bainbridge reports.
Labor鈥檚 new聽aged-care reform package, with a focus on support at home, is an improvement in some areas, but falls short of what the elderly need.聽Meredith Lawrence听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books for ecosocialists, including a new translation of Marx鈥檚 Capital, the role of animal poo in Earth鈥檚 life support systems, and more.
Progressive International鈥檚 Tanya Singh spoke to Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (People鈥檚 Rights Party, HKP) co-founder Ammar Ali Jan about the challenges of building a new workers鈥 party in Pakistan 鈥 and the HKP鈥檚 recent victories for Lahore鈥檚 most vulnerable workers.
Capitalism has long ceased to provide for the majority, yet its institutions 鈥 government, the RBA and the corporate media 鈥 continue to try to tell us that there is no alternative. Graham Matthews argues that solidarity is key.
In part two of our interview, 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Federico Fuentes speaks to community organiser and Chavista activist Gerardo Rojas about the current state of community organising in the country under the combined impacts of sanctions, opposition political violence and the government鈥檚 shift away from promoting people鈥檚 participation.
Labor faces internal division, advocate fury and community outrage over its Faustian love-in with the gambling industry, which seeks to water down bi-partisan support for advertising bans. Suzanne James reports.
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