Inequality

The drug trade – and the ‘War on Drugs’ that polices it – unleashes a value chain of suffering on peasant communities in the Global South. You cannot explain such systematic brutality without anger.

Far from tackling the narcotics trade, the War on Drugs has become an imperial tool to discipline defiant governments and advance counterrevolutionary agendas. Campesinos and the working class pay the price, while capital reaps the…

India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s has led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this trend and expand productive employment, industrial policy must address structural issues of dependence and inequality.

India’s neoliberal turn since the 1990s has accelerated deindustrialisation; as the global order shifts, the country’s left must seize any openings to push for autonomous national development.

Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?

Courage to confront and challenge power is necessary. The time of mere criticism is over. The price of cowardice will be the aggravation of the multiple crises. The economic emancipation of the Global South will…

In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and…

This dossier explores the possibilities that the current crisis of global capitalism creates for sovereign regional development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean and the importance of South-South alliances in this struggle.

The situation in China and the nature of socialist development are issues of great consternation amongst the left globally. This newsletter outlines some facts to guide a rational discussion on these matters. As the United…

The second issue assesses the current state and future direction of China’s socialist project, in the context of its complex historical development.

The root of the enormous income and wealth gaps that we are experiencing lies in the logic of polarisation brought about by capitalism as a world system.